A number of updates have been added to the calendar of events recently for 2016/2017.

Please check regularly for details and the latest information.

Should you require to add details of events please email Mr. Condie or Mrs. McIlvaney.

Dear Masters, Instructors/Coaches,

We have the pleasure of inviting you, on behalf of the Irish Taekwon-Do Association, to the Irish Cup “ITA National Championships”, which will be held in The University of Limerick, Sports Arena, on the weekend of the 12th and 13th of November 2016. This competition will include pattern and sparring for all grades, special technique for all blue belts and above from aged 11 upward and power test for black belts. Saturday 12th November is for all black belts as well as colour belts of cadet (14 -17 years), senior (18 to 34 years) as well as veteran (35 years+) categories and is open to yellow belts and above. Those 35 years and older may choose to enter the senior or veteran category. Veterans will compete separately for pattern and sparring divisions only (please make sure to email the weights of your veterans that are sparring in case we need to split categories).

Sunday 13th November is for the junior colour belt categories and is open to yellow belt to black tag aged 7 to 13yrs. Please note all black belts have now moved to Saturday regardless of age.

Please email your entries to entries@taekwondo.ie no later than Saturday, the 5^th of November. Please note that this is a pre-registration only event. No club entries will be accepted after the 5^th of November. All entries should be made using the Irish Cup “ITA National Championships” excel spreadsheet. Entries will be confirmed by return of email (within 24 hours). If you have not received a confirmation email, your entries have not yet been received. Completed hardcopy forms should be brought on the day of the event. Please remember that accurate information is the responsibility of the instructor. When submitting your competitor entries you must also send your umpire and coach list or the form will be returned to you as incomplete.

Sparring for Cadet and Senior Black Belts will be run using a pool & requalification system, guaranteeing more bouts for all competitors in those categories.

Please note we have added a new “Sudden Death Champion” event for black belts, with prize money for the winner. See info below.

First, second and joint third place in each section shall receive an award, except for black belt categories of 4 competitors where there will be a 3^rd place playoff. Additionally all juniors up to 10 years to green tag who are not placed will receive a commemorative medal.

Looking forward to seeing you at this event,

Master Mark Buckley VII Dan              Mr. Stephen Ryan VI Dan

ITA Tournament Director                    ITA Tournament Coordinator

On behalf of the ITA Tournament & Umpire Committee

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Dear Masters and Instructors,

It is with great pleasure that you and your students are invited to the 8^th Annual TAE Senior/Junior Championships, to be held on Saturday 19^th November 2016 in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Please find attached all relevant documentation and instructions for this event.

The closing date for entries for this competition is 5^th November 2016 and all school entry forms and payment must be received by this date.

We look forward to working with you all and thank you in advance for your support.

Yours in Taekwon-Do,

Mrs. Patricia Gray,

Secretary

TAE (Taekwon-Do Association of England)

Web: www.tkdengland.com

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Over the weekend of 6th & 7th August, we were lucky enough to host in Scotland, Master Jedut 8th Degree from Poland, world renowned coach, member of the AETF Board of Directors and friend.

Master Jedut has visited Scotland on many occasions in previous years (2003/2010/2011/2013/2016) all hosted at GMAC Martial Arts gym in Livingston.  With each seminar, so much is packed in to it, that it’s impossible not to go away, having learned multiple new ways to practice sparring exercises, kicking and technique for Patterns and basic movements. This year was to be no different…

During his short time in Scotland, Master Jedut took both a seminar for children under 12, and one for teens & adults.  Both were packed full of exciting new ideas and outlooks, varying pad-work exercises, and footwork drills but were mostly focused on sparring drills.

During both seminars the 50 plus participants, as well as Master Jedut himself, were so full of energy and enthusiasm that they ran on in order to include more Taekwon-Do.  The day started at 10am with 1 hour 30 minutes training for children (this turned in to 1 hour 50 mins), with the Teens & Adults beginning at 12, and continuing on just over two hours after its scheduled stop at 4pm, eventually finishing at 6.15pm.

On behalf of GMAC and my students, I would firstly like to thanks Master Jedut for taking the time during his very busy summer schedule to come to Scotland.  The week previously he was guest at the ITA Summer camp in Ireland, and first thing on the Monday morning, he headed south to conduct a series of seminars across England.  A final thank you to those who came along and took part.

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The 2016 North East Challenge Cup (7th NECC) was hosted by Northern Taekwon-Do Academies (NTA) at the Aberdeen Sports Village, Aberdeen on Saturday 3rd September. This was the second year that this event was held at this International Venue. 2016 also boasted its largest participants with 315 Competitors in 121 active divisions, 38 Umpires, 36 Coaches with around 200 Supporters cheering them on. Taking part this year were 19 groups, schools and clubs competing in Pattern, Sparring, Pre-Arranged Free Sparring, Power Test and Special Technique. The Tournament was held over seven rings with one additional emergency ring for Special Technique on standby.

It was very nice to see old friends again from Inverness, Nairn, Forres, Buckie, Whitburn and new ones from Monaghan TKD in Glasgow, and United Taekwon-Do from the Central Belt. Also returning to the event was Mr Brett Stronach with his team from the North East of England.

With the introductions completed at 09:45, the tournament began with Pattern for under 9’s, Power test for Adults kup grades and Special Technique for Teen kup grades. The tournament was well contested with strong divisions in the under 9 and 9-12 categories.

The tournament continued right up until most of the under 9’s completed their sparring and all patterns for kup grades had been concluded. The Umpires broke for lunch of home-made soup and sandwiches to prepare them for the long afternoon session.

At around 15:00 the arena was changed down to three matted areas as many of the Umpires were blackbelt competitors. The teens red/black belt divisions were very well attended and this provided a good training run for those going to the World Cup in October.

The atmosphere throughout the day was friendly but competitive and the Umpires were kept happy by filter coffee on tap along with a selection of tasties.

The event closed at 18:45 and a host of helpers cleared the hall and stored all equipment within the hour, so it was off home us and a wave cheerio to all the travellers from up North and down South.

Northern Taekwon-Do Academies would like to thank everyone for their support and look forward to next year.

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Dear Masters, Instructors and plaque holders,

ITF Scotland Board of Directors

 Dear Masters and Instructors,

2016 – North East Challenge Cup

It is with great pleasure that you and your students are invited to the 2016 North East Challenge Cup on Saturday 3rd September 2016 at the Aberdeen Sports Village, Linksfield Rd, Aberdeen AB24 5RU, 01224 438900.

Tournament will start at 09:00 with opening address and awarding of junior participation medals.

This competition is open to Taekwon-Do students only. There will be four individual and one team event contested, Patterns, Sparring Special Technique, Power Test and Pre-Arranged Free Sparring. 

This championships is open to all students white belt and above and will be split into six age groups Juniors up to 8yrs; 9-12yrs, Teens 13-14; 15-17yrs, Adults 18-35yrs and 36yrs and over.

The competition will be run as per ITF rules but with some small amendments to accommodate age and competitor level.

We will endeavour to separate competitors from the same school competing against each other in initial rounds, thus improving the experience of all students. Juniors will be divided initially by age, then grade and height criteria. Teens and Adults will be categorised initially by age, then grade and weight. The weight division’s upper and lower limits will established according to the weight spread of the entries.

Please ensure, for the safety of the sparring competitors, that weights are checked and personally verified by the responsible instructor before forwarding them for processing. Please note that by sending through your entry form your agreeing to the tournaments conditions. 

Entry forms should be part of this invitation so if they are not present please let me know by email and I will forward them on. Please return the official school entry form by Sunday 28th August to mgw@mwba.info 

(Please check all details before sending to ensure that registration runs as smooth as possible)

We look forward to your entries and to another great tournament,

Yours in TKD and on behalf of NTA

Master Gordon Wallace VIII

Tournament Director

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1st RADIX UK COURSE 

The weekend of 11 & 12 June, in Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire in Scotland witnessed the first RadiX seminar held in the UK by Sabum Robert Boer VI Degree from the Netherlands and Sabum Roy Rolstad V Degree from Norway.

It was decided to hold the course away from the hustle of Aberdeen city to the seaside town of Stonehaven which sits in a small fishing harbour bay under the shadow of Dunottar Castle. Both Sabums enjoyed the stunning castle views and of course, the Scottish summer breeze.

The course opened on Saturday morning with the traditional welcome and the course outline was prepared:

“The word Radix means “root” (of a plant) or “the smallest meaningful unit” (of a language). It refers to the goal of our project: to research the roots and the tactical treasures of the ITF Tul to recover and develop techniques that have meaningful self-defence application” 

After some thought provoking discussion about the reasons why we choose to defend ourselves and how we must draw on the hidden reserve of our survival instincts, we did just that and initially explored the first principles of the returning hand “Dang Gi Son” and the most basic techniques we learn in Chon-Ji. I never seen so many people gripped by Chon-Ji!! The examples shown allowed for greater thought in how we teach fundamental movement to junior and very young students. The legend of Dan Gun followed and Sonkal Daebi Makgi transferred into a very successful entry form and the continuous motion techniques form excellent release and strike. The philosophy was very interesting as the shapes we make hundreds and hundreds of times should be put to good use in other ways as it makes perfect sense to utilise this muscle memory and not learn new actions for other applications.

After the applications in this area came the cycle of learning scenarios through fun exercises and importance of reflex actions, awareness and keeping your hands up.

Do-San followed, as did Won Hyo and beauty of this practice was that the fundamental movements we know so well, now allows the remembering of the various familiar techniques for restraint and counter-striking.

After a quick lunch of home-made soup, coffee and sandwiches, Joong Gun and Toi Gye followed which was very interesting and showed why the various types of movements in these patterns transfer so readily into wrist, head locks and take downs. The first day finished with a group photo and our heads were full of new ideas.

Day Two and the morning session was taken up with a theory section in how brain patterns function, increased heart rates through stress and the effects of this stress on physical performance. This stress and

the ability to react positively with surprise and a little pain was put into practice with an exercise in face slapping. Needless to say the outcome of Master Wallace and Mr Boydell pairing up for this was fairly predictable! The afternoon followed with some recapping on previous applications and scenarios, then the blackbelts had a final session using the more advanced movements from Kwang Gae.

The day closed with the instructors of NTA having an evening meal at a local harbour side restaurant and before we said our farewells a couple of 10-year-old Aberlour malt whisky were savoured in true Scottish fashion.

To sum up, the instructors and students had a tremendous time taking part in a completely different format for our fundamental movements and it was refreshing to see so much energy from students practicing their pattern movements in a

truly new light.

We look forward to our next one which we are planning for 2017. Thank you Sabums Robert and Roy.

On behalf of Northern Taekwon-Do Academies

Master Gordon Wallace VIII

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NAME GRADE/RANK SCHOOL COUNTRY 

GORDON WALLACE VIII NTA SCOTLAND

DAVID McNAIRN VII NTA SCOTLAND

MARK BOYDELL V NTA SCOTLAND

GREGORY PERMUY V AXA ANGUILLA

ROY MOORE IV IND TKD SCOTLAND

JACQUI WALLACE III NTA SCOTLAND

NGAIRE BOYDELL III NTA SCOTLAND

BRIAN PENMAN III I-KICK SCOTLAND

MICHAEL WORTMAN II TKD GELSENKIRCHEN GERMANY

KATRINA CARR II NTA SCOTLAND

SEBASTIAN BLAHOUT I TKD GELSENKIRCHEN GERMANY

CATRIONA STEELE I NTA SCOTLAND

RAFAEL CHAVARRIA I NTA SCOTLAND

JODIE BOYDELL I NTA SCOTLAND

JAMES CRAIK I NTA SCOTLAND

KL DAVIDSON I NTA SCOTLAND

ERIN LOGAN I NTA SCOTLAND

AMY CRAIG I NTA SCOTLAND

ETHAN BOYDELL 1st Kup NTA SCOTLAND

OWEN GLENNIE 1st Kup NTA SCOTLAND

NEIL GRANT 1st Kup NTA SCOTLAND

JOSEPH MOWATT 1st Kup NTA SCOTLAND

PHILIP MOWATT 1st Kup NTA SCOTLAND

JACK SHAW 1st Kup NTA SCOTLAND

ALEX CATTENACH 2nd Kup NTA SCOTLAND

KYLE CATTENACH 2nd Kup NTA SCOTLAND

AIDAN COULL 2nd Kup NTA SCOTLAND

ROWAN NILSSEN 2nd Kup NTA SCOTLAND

WADE STEELE 2nd Kup NTA SCOTLAND

TERRY FAWCETT 2nd Kup NTA SCOTLAND

BEN JAMIESON 2nd Kup NTA SCOTLAND

CAMPBELL OAG 2nd Kup NTA SCOTLAND

TAMSIN MUNRO 3rd Kup NTA SCOTLAND

PAULL COULL 4th Kup NTA SCOTLAND

HEATHER HOPKINS 4th Kup NTA SCOTLAND

MONTY BALFOUR-P 8th Kup NTA SCOTLAND

IAIN LEES 9th Kup NTA SCOTLAND

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Radix Report

The 25th ITF IUC took place in the Citywest Hotel & Convention Centre, Dublin on June 4th & 5th hosted by the Irish Taekwon-Do Association (ITA), NA for the ITF and AETF in Ireland and hosts of the 2017 ITF World Championships in the same venue. 138 participants attended the course from 24 countries, including 9 members from ITF Scotland.

The course was an opportunity to up skill umpiring knowledge and practice ahead of the upcoming ITF World events; ITF World Cup in Budapest in October 2016 and ITF World Championships in Dublin Ireland in October 2017. The ITF Umpire committee conducted the course, with the presence of the ITF Tournament committee, as well as ITF Director Grandmaster Bos and ITF Technical committee member Grandmaster Lan giving their guidance.

Members of the AETF umpire committee were also present on the course.

ITF Delegates leading the IUC:

Master Alberto Katz VIII Dan Chairman of ITF Umpire Committee
Grandmaster Ung Kim Lan IX Dan ITF Technical committee member
Grandmaster Wim Bos IX Dan ITF Director
Master Giovanni Ceccenato VII Dan ITF Tournament Committee
Master Reuben Suarez VIII Dan ITF Umpire Committee
Master Kurt Ottesen VII Dan ITF Umpire Committee
Master Coos van den Heuvel VIII Dan Chairman of ITF Tournament Committee
Master Harry Vones VIII Dan ITF Tournament Committee
Master Gordon Wallace VIII Dan ITF Umpire Committee

On arrival at the IUC all participants were given a free IUC t-shirt and poster of the event as a memento. The ITF IUC took place over two days. On day one the course leaders gave an in depth analysis of the scoring procedures and rules for ITF patterns and sparring and practical workshops and discussions allowing the participants time to put their skills to work. The day finished with the distribution of the IUC examination, which needed to be completed by all participants as part of their certification. Day two consisted of ring councils scoring live matches in patterns and sparring and using the ITF electronic scoring system. Video analysis was also used throughout the course with footage of top-level athletes from ITF world championships as a tool for learning, discussion etc.

On the Saturday evening of the IUC approx. 100 of the IUC participants enjoyed the banquet with live traditional Irish folk band entertaining the guests and creating a very lively and enjoyable atmosphere.

ITF Scotland Participants

Master Gordon Wallace 8th Degree

Master David McNairn 7th Degree

Mr. John McIlvaney 6th Degree

Mr. Garry Shaw 6th Degree

Mrs. Jackie Timoney 5th Degree

Mrs. Gillian McIlvaney 4th Degree

Mr. Ronnie Dewhurst 4th Degree

Mr. John Munro 4th Degree

Mrs. Jacqui Wallace 3rd Degree