Beccles and Bungay Taekwondo clubs have very active student membership with over a 100 members between them and 35 members successfully completed their 1st grading of 2017 recently.
There were some outstanding performances with Hayden Considine, Alfie Woodcraft, Isaac Slater and Tegan Brown being singled out for particular praise.
The grading was taken by Mr Steve King the area 6th Dan and he said that the quality of student sparring, patterns, techniques and Korean terminology was excellent across the board.
There are 10 members from the Beccles and Bungay Clubs who will be taking their Black Belt examination tests in Coventry on April 1st and we wish them the best of luck.
Photos from Beccles and Bungay Taekwondo Clubs Grading 19th March 2017
Well done to Jason Drake and Dean Harding from Beccles Taekwondo Club
on bringing back medals from the UKGT Open Tournament in Leicester on Sunday 19th March 2017
Jason won Silver for Black belt Sparring.
Dean won Bronze for Patterns and Gold for Sparring in the Black Tag category.
The Eastern Area Taekwondo Inter-Club tournament took place in Wellingborough this year and Bungay Taekwondo Club with support from Beccles Taekwondo Club battled to a very creditable 3rd place in the region with some great individual performances which was excellent considering the competition was so fierce.
24 medals in total were achieved by 18 fighters in all age groups, pee wees (under 12) included silver for Jayden Howgate in his patterns division and silver for Jack Sutton in his sparring division.
Juniors (13-17) achieved a great haul of medals with Tegan Brown’s and Christian Everett’s golds for patterns and silvers for sparring being a real highlight, whilst Ewan Lutz gained gold for sparring and bronze for patterns, James Thurston won silver for patterns and bronze for sparring. Robin De-Berniere-Smart did really well to win silver for sparring and bronze for patterns in his first ever competition whilst Liam Everett won bronze for sparring.
Adults (18-48!) included a great double gold for Jade Howgate in sparring and patterns, gold for Barbara Mazza (Beccles) in the patterns and silver in the sparring and a superb gold for Club Assistant Instructor Martin Sloan in the black belt patterns. Jack Handley achieved a fantastic gold in the black belt sparring and bronze for patterns whilst Jason Drake (Beccles) gained silver for black belt patterns and bronze for sparring. Chloe Florido achieved silver for patterns and sparring in her division.
Several other competitors competed and supported superbly with Isaac Slater battling to 4th place in the pee wee sparring, whilst Findley Mutti, Lewis Flatt and Oliver Lamb all showed true taekwondo spirit but missed out on medals. Steve King The area 6th degree and senior said “Bungay did really well once again and their sense of team spirit and camaraderie is excellent, I am sure they will win the regions one day soon!”
Now is a great time to try out this rewarding Olympic martial art so if you want to get fit for the spring come along to Bungay High School on Tuesday or Thursday evenings from 7pm or contact Clinton Gillett on 01986 892140 for further details. The youngest students in the club are 5 years old and there is no upper age limit, check us out on www.bungay-taekwondo.co.ukor for those in Beccles www.beccles-taekwondo.co.uk