December 2013

TKD Impact Open Championships Report

The competition was held on the 7th December in Brighton and with five competitors from our club entering we were the least represented of the many TKD schools at this year’s event. Despite this two of our competitors still managed to get a medal each.

In the 13-17yrs category Lewis Mott won a Silver medal for sparring and Josh Hickingbotham also won a Silver medal for sparring in the u13's.

Our other competitors Lauren Parrott, Richard Hickingbotham and Emily Hayes showed good integrity and indomitable spirit putting in good performances and the scoring was very close.

Well done to all who competed and many thanks to their parents, family and friends for supporting those who took part, also to Emily Hayes who represented us as one of the Black Belt officials as well as taking part.

November 2013

 

88th IIC in Oostende, Belgium

Mr Nick Sargeant accompanied Master Donato Nardizzi to Belgium to attend the 88th International Instructors Course.

There are only few Taekwon-Do events, which can gather participants from twenty one countries at one place. Some of them are World Cup or World Championships or European Championships. But one of such events was the 88th International Instructor Course held on 22-24th November 2013 in Oostende, Belgium. 236 participants from 21 countries took part in the IIC: Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, England, Finland, France, Luxembourg, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Belgium.

Colour Belt Grading

Master Nardizzi held a coloured Belt grading on 30th November and all of our students who attended were successful in passing to their next grade. So congratulations to Lauren, Lewis & George who all passed to Red belt, Joe who passed to Blue belt, Jamie who passed to Green belt, Evie who passed to Green tag and to Liam who passed to Yellow tag.

September 2013

Colour Belt Grading

Master Nardizzi held a coloured Belt grading on 22nd September and all of our students who attended were successful in passing to their next grade. So congratulations to Toby who passed to Green belt and to Leonie, lewis & Hal who all passed to Yellow belt.

August 2013

 

Master Willy Van de Mortel and Mr Tomasz Barada Seminar Report

On the weekend of the 8th and 9th of June, Emily Hayes and Nick Sargeant took the opportunity of some training with Mr Tomasz Barada from Slovenia, a 6th degree Black belt and many times World and European sparring champion and Mr Barada’s coach, Master Willy Van Der Mortel a 7th degree Black belt from Holland. Both instructor’s taught an intense, high energy seminar, sharing drills and strategies that have made them the best in the World in sparring. An amazing seminar full useful tips for anyone who is serious about their sparring.


See Gallery for more pictures and video

July 2013

Impact Junior Blackbelt Competition

Congratulations to Emily Hayes who reached Silver medal position for sparring & special technique in the Impact Junior Blackbelt Competition.

Emily just missed out to a 17yr old opponent (3yrs older) in both categories.

Impact Colour Belt Open Championships Report

With only four competitors from our club entering we were the least represented of the many TKD schools at this year’s event. Despite this two of our competitors still managed to get a medal each.

In the 13-17yrs category Lewis Mott repeated his Bronze medal position in patterns for the third year in a row by narrowly beating Lauren Parrott also from our club.

Lauren went on to get a Bronze medal in sparring with a good performance against some tough opposition.

Our two under 13’s Youcef Cherifi & Hanin Cherifi were hoping for something in sparring but it was to no avail.

Well done to all who competed and many thanks to their parents, family and friends for supporting those who took part, also to Emily Hayes who represented us as one of the Black Belt officials.

June 2013

Impact Colour Belt Open Championships

Taekwon-Do Impact Open Colourbelt Championships for individuals at the University of Brighton Sports Centre, Village Way, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9PH on Saturday 29th June 2013.


The competition is open to colour belts Yellow Belt to Black Tags. It is split into 3 age categories: Under 13’s; 13-17 yrs, and 18+yrs. The events are Sparring, Patterns, Special Technique (Under 13’s and 13-17yrs), Power (18+yrs only).


Schedule

9:00am Under 13’s Registration

10:00am Under 13’s Competition Start

12.00pm 13-17yrs Registration

1.00pm 13-17yrs Competition Start

2.00pm 18+ yrs Registration

2.30pm 18+yrs Competition Start

5:00pm Competition Finish

Sparring seminar

Master Willy van de Mortel VII Dan

Mr Tomasz Barada

Sparring seminar

8th & 9th June 2013

 

The seminar is open to all ITF England members with a valid license and insurance.

All ITF practitioners are warmly welcome, please contact us for details.


The seminar will be held at the University of Brighton Sports Centre, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9PH 



May 2013

Colour Belt Grading

Master Nardizzi held a coloured Belt grading on 11th May and both of our students who attended were successful in passing to their next grade. So congratulations to Richard who passed to Black tag and George who passed to Red tag.

March 2013

Taekwon-Do Impact Mini Tournament

Under 13′s yellow/green belts Mini Tournament

Saturday 9th March

Impact Academy, Croydon

Colour Belt Grading

Master Nardizzi held a coloured Belt grading on 16th March and all four of our students who attended were successful in passing to their next grade. So congratulations to Josh who passed to Black tag, Kamel who passed to Blue belt and also Jessica and Jamie who passed to Green tag.


The next grading will be on saturday 11th May.

February 2013

Taekwon-Do Impact Instructors Foundation Course

Conducted by Master Russell Dennis 7th Degree

(Open to all 1st Kup and above)

Sunday 24th February

9.00am to 4.00pm

Impact Academy
Innes Yard
Croydon CR0 1BX

Crawley & Burgess Hill Patterns competition

The schools patterns competition took place on 2nd February and had a good turn out with all the students putting a lot of effort into refining their techniques. Well done to all those who took part in the competition and special thanks to the judges.

See Gallery for more pictures

January 2013

Colour Belt Grading

Master Nardizzi held a coloured Belt grading on 26th January and four of our students who attended were successful in passing to their next grade. So congratulations to Jenil and Filoni who passed to Blue belt and also Will and Toby who passed to Green tag.



January 2013

25th – 27th January 2013

 

International Instructor Course - Ireland

The course will be conducted by the ITF Technical Committee;

Grandmaster Hector Marano 9th Degree

Grandmaster Willem Jacob Bos 9th Degree

Grandmaster Ung Kim Lan 9th Degree.

 

 

http://www.taekwondo.ie/

Colour Belt Grading

The next Colour Belt Grading is set for 4.45 pm Saturday 26th January at Balfour Junior School, Balfour Road, Brighton. This will be held in the Sports Hall.

December 2012

Master Nardizzi is re-elected as President of ITF-England

 

Master Nardizzi was re-elected as President of ITF-England in the election of ITF-England officers at the AGM on 18th November. Two other TKD Impact masters were also elected. Master Kim Anderson became Vice-President and Master Russell Dennis became Technical Director. They will serve 2 years in office and will be working to promote the development of Taekwon-Do in this country.

 

Master Nardizzi said 'I am very pleased to be re-elected. During my first two years of office from 2010-2012, we, the Board of Directors, worked hard to re-structure ITF-England to be a well organised and democratic association. We voted in a new Charter and Bylaws based on freedom and fairness, which will bring stability into the organisation. Having achieved that, we are now in a position to move the association forward. There are many instructors in England working outside the framework of the ITF. One of our aims is to bring them back to the ITF and get them to realise that ITF-England is a well structured organisation that is based on true Taekwon-Do principles and is focused on being a service to it's members rather than being a political tool to manipulate its members, as is often seen in organisations like this.'

 

The new Board of Directors of ITF England are:

President - Master Donato Nardizzi (TKD Impact)

Vice President - Master Kim Anderson (TKD Impact)

Secretary - Mrs Patricia Gray (TAE)

Treasurer - Mr Ken Chesterman (Vision TKD)

Technical Director - Master Russell Dennis (TKD Impact)

Tournament Director - Mr Nick Symmonds (Total TKD)

Ethics & Discipline Director - Mr Paul Cook (TAE)