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December 2014
November 2014
Impact League Championship Report
George Gathern & Lauren Parrott entered the Impact League Championship on the 18th Oct’.
George came 2nd in sparring and Lauren came 1st in sparring & special tech’ and 2nd in patterns giving her the highest points total and scooping the Junior Overall Winner trophy… congratulation
to both of them.
Colour Belt Grading
Master Nardizzi held a coloured Belt grading on 29th November and all our students were successful in passing to their next grade. So congratulations to Will who passed to Blue belt, Jessica & Toby who passed to Blue tag, Hal & Lewis who passed to Green belt and Ian, Zach & Hannah who passed to Yellow belt.
October 2014
Instructors Seminar
Nick Sargeant, George Gathern & Lauren Parrott with Master Nardizzi, Master Dennis and the Impact instructors.
September 2014
Colour Belt Grading
Master Nardizzi held a coloured Belt grading on 20th September and our student was successful in passing to her next grade. So congratulations to Lauren who passed to Black tag 1st kup.
Impact League Championship
Colour belt Adults and Teens aged 12 years upwards
on the 18th October
Impact Academy
12 Innes Yard Croydon CR0 1BX
Instructor Seminar
Conducted by Master Nardizzi 8th Degree
(Open to all Red Belts and above)
SATURDAY 4th October
3.00pm to 5.00pm
Impact Academy
Croydon
June 2014
Master Willy van de Mortel VIII Dan & Mr Tomasz Barada
Sparring seminar
May 2014
Master Alexandris Seminar
Emily Hayes and Nick Sargeant with Master Vasilis Alexandris
8th Degree
Colour Belt Grading
Master Nardizzi held a coloured Belt grading on 17th May and all our students were successful in passing to their next grade. So congratulations to Megan, Joe & Filoni who passed to Red tag, Will & Jamie who passed to Blue tag, Hal & Leonie who passed to Green tag and Liam who passed to Yellow belt.
Sparring Seminar
Master Willy van de Mortel VIII Dan
& Mr Tomasz Barada
Sparring seminar
21st & 22nd June 2014
The seminar is open to all ITF 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
April 2014
Crawley & Burgess Hill ITF's prestigious 'Iron Fist' trophy was awarded to Lauren Parrott from Burgess Hill. The trophy is awarded to the person who shows the 'right spirit' and a 'no fear attitude' in competition sparring. Well done Lauren...
Burgess Hill Taekwon-Do students earn their Black Belts
Father & Son, Richard and Joshua Hickingbotham both passed to first degree Black belt and Emily Hayes passed to second degree Black belt in a recent grading held in Brighton.
Richard and his son Joshua who is 11 years old have both been training for about six years and 15 year old Emily for almost ten years.
All were tested for over five hours and had to demonstrate sparring, patterns, power, self defence and an in depth knowledge of Taekwon-Do.
The grading was presided over by
Master Donato Nardizzi 8th degree, president of ITF England.
Effective use of Taekwon-Do as Self Defence,
Stick and Knife Defence
by Master Vasilis Alexandris
8th Degree
Seminar on 4th May 2014
10.30am - 1.30pm Adults and Teens aged 12 years upwards, Colour Belts 8th kup to 1st kup
3.00pm – 6.00pm Adults and Teens
all Black Belt grades.
The seminar will be held at the
Impact Academy
12 Innes Yard Croydon CR0 1BX
March 2014
Colour Belt Grading
Master Nardizzi held a coloured Belt grading on 15th March and our student was successful in passing to his next grade. So congratulations to Lewis who passed to Green tag.
Taekwon-Do Impact Colourbelt Open Championships
Taekwon-Do Impact Colourbelt Open Championships for individuals at the University of Brighton Sports Centre, Village Way, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9PH on Sunday 23rd March 2014.
The competition is open to colour belts Yellow Tags to Black Tags. It is split into three age categories: Under 13’s; 13-17 yrs, 18+yrs. The events are Sparring, Patterns, Special Technique (Under
13’s and 13-17yrs), Power (18+yrs only).
January 2014
Colour Belt Grading
Master Nardizzi held a coloured Belt grading on 25th January and our student was successful in passing to her next grade. So congratulations to Jessica who passed to Green belt.
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.