Fantastic results from our team competing at the OMA Regional Championships on Sunday!

We had experienced students taking part, as well as new competitors having a go. It looks like we have plenty of new champions in the making!

A special mention to Joseph, who fought like a champ and just missed out on the medals by a single point

Thank you to all our coaches for looking after the team: Deb, Rob, Alan, Connor, Callum and Nicole. And thanks to our awesome cheering squad for their support!

Finally, thanks to OMA for putting on a great tournament. We look forward to the next one!

RESULTS: October 2022 OMA Regional Championships

CONGRATULATIONS to our club’s newest black belt: Rodrigo Hizmeri, 1st Dan!

Since he joined us, Rod has been a dedicated student who has worked really hard to improve his taekwondo abilities. It’s been a pleasure to watch him develop his confidence and skills, which he demonstrated very well at today’s GTI Black Belt Grading. We’re really pleased with all the effort he’s put in, and very proud to welcome him to the black belt club

Well done, Rod! Hard work pays off

Well done to all students who attended the grading earlier this month. Everyone passed!

The next grading is scheduled for Saturday 10th December.

Well done to Eloise, Olly & Owen for their awesome performances at the GTI National Open tournament on 25th September!

Well done, team! Amazing results. Super proud of you all!

RESULTS: 2022 GTI National Open

Well done to our team of fighters who took part in the GTI Charity 100 Rounds of Sparring today!

Despite the crazy heatwave, our team sweated and slogged their way through all 100 rounds! Well done to Alan, Callum, Connor, Owen, Olly, Stef & Jaiden!

Thanks so much to everyone who’s generously sponsored our team so far! We currently have over £700 in online donations, with more offline donations still to come! If you can spare a few quid for Bowel Cancer UK, there’s still time to donate via our Justgiving page 🙂

CONGRATULATIONS to all our recent graders!

The next grading is scheduled for Saturday 10th September.

Another proud day for the club! We’re pleased to announce that two of our hardworking students were successful at the April 2022 GTI Black Belt Grading and have been promoted to 1st Degree!

Massive congratulations to:
Malika Nafees, 1st Degree Black Belt.
Saad Jaffery, 1st Degree Black Belt.

Malika and Saad have worked very hard over the years, and especially over the last couple of years (despite the pandemic!). We’re really proud of how they’ve committed themselves to their black belt training in preparation for today. Black belts are earned, not given; and these two have definitely earned theirs.

Welcome to the Black Belt club, Malika & Saad! Very well deserved!

Well done to our awesome students who were in action at the BUTL University World Championships last weekend!

On day one, all three of our colour belt competitors – Alan, Harry & Athika – fought incredibly well against strong opponents and did the club proud. We’re pleased to report that, after several tough matches and a final round that went on forever, Athika won a well-deserved gold in her sparring category, becoming University Taekwondo World Champion!

On day two, we had three students competing; and all three gave impressive performances to bring home the medals!

Callum won bronze in patterns, in a really impressive category. He then went on to beat some tough opponents in the sparring event, winning gold to become University Taekwondo World Champion!

Alan stepped up to the black belt sparring category for the first time. Despite being in obvious pain and having to stop several times with a knee injury, he fought like a tiger and won a hard-earned but well-deserved silver medal!

Sandra won a bronze medal in her patterns event. She also impressed the coaches and fought really well to take the bronze medal in sparring!

Thanks to Connor and Callum for doing a great job of coaching our fighters, and to everyone who came along to support them. Thank you to Mr Ross Sharman and the team at BUTL for all their hard work, and for being so helpful. We’ll done on a successful and enjoyable competition!

RESULTS: 2022 BUTL University World Championships

Great results from our three students competing at the ITC Northern Open on 20th March! 3 x gold and 2 x bronze medals!

Well done, lads! And thanks very much to Connor for stepping up to coach.

Thanks to the ITC organisers for a great day.

RESULTS: 2022 ITC Northern Open

CONGRATULATIONS to all students who took part in last week’s grading. Everyone passed! 

Well done, everyone! We’re really proud of your hard work.

Thank you to our senior grades who helped out on the day.