Well done to both GTUK England and Scotland Squads.
The GTUK now have New World Champions, with loads of Gold, Silver and Bronze Medals throughout the categories!
Be inspired Beccles Taekwondo Students!
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We will keep you posted of the GTUK successes at this years
Beccles and Bungay Taekwon-do Students took part in their 2nd Grading of the year at Bungay High School on Sunday 14th June.
All students were graded on their individual belt syllabuses, which included patterns, techniques, step sparring, self defence, sparring, destruction, and a test of their knowledge in both English and Korean.
GTUK Examiner Mr Steve King VI degree was very pleased with the progress of all students, and said that the standards were very high, he congratulated them on their 100% pass rate, with many being mums and dads successfully grading alongside their children, and noted that “it was fantastic to see so many new members signing up to ‘have a go’ at this martial art”.
Also a special well done to the students from the Beccles Free School enrichment scheme who gained their first belts!
This is a great time to start this family orientated sport, giving new members time to learn the 1st belt syllabus in readiness for the October grading, it takes 4 years to learn the full syllabus and become a 1st Degree Black Belt student.
If you would like to come and have a go the first session is always free, see our web sites for more details:
Mr and Mrs Bedingfield II Degree Instructors
www.beccles-taekwondo.co.uk
Mr Clinton Gillett V Degree Instructor
www.bungay-taekwondo.co.uk
Well done to all the GTUK East competitors for taking part in last weekends UITF British Open, and especially to BecclesTaekwondo’s Jason Drake on his 2 silver medals!
Twenty competitors from Bungay and Beccles Taekwondo clubs travelled to the heart of England in order to compete in this year’s British Open Taekwondo championships at the weekend and despite huge categories and some very heavy contact they came away with a stunning 21 medals!
Gordon Perkis and Kerry Norfolk achieved fantastic double gold medals for sparring and patterns whilst Amanda Linford achieved gold for patterns and silver for sparring, Lucy Thurbon fought superbly for her gold in sparring and bronze in patterns.
Jason Drake (from Beccles Club), and Jade Howgate achieved double silver medals in their divisions.
Tegan Brown performed superbly in order to be awarded silver for sparring and bronze for patterns, whilst Amber Swanston, Liam Everett and Jacob Burden fought really hard for their bronze medals. Colby Aldrich was really unlucky to come 4th in his category after many rounds of hard competition.
The event culminated in Club instructor Clinton Gillett, fighting assistant instructor Martin Sloan in the final of the Veteran middle weight Black belt male sparring with Clinton winning on points.
Martin therefore gained silver for sparring and bronze for patterns with Clinton getting the gold for sparring and a bronze for patterns in the international category.
Thomas Adams, Jake Swanston, Bailey Aldrich, Christian Everett, Jayden Howgate, Ben Burden and Harry Norfolk were fabulous competitors but missed out on the medals in this instance.
The clubs are gearing up for the summer grading in June but there is still an opportunity to get started in this dynamic sport and details can be found on the clubs websites.
Congratulations to Master Richard Auciello on passing his 7th degree and becoming a Master.
Also congratulations to Mr Darren Holmes on passing his 6th degree.
The GTUK is very lucky to have 2 such inspirational senior instructors.
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Now’s the time to start training hard, learn your Korean and
please attend as many classes as you can before the grading.
Mr King VI, Grandmaster Oldham IX, Mr Clinton Gillett V
From all at Beccles Taekwondo we wish to say a Big Congratulations to Mr Gillett on passing his ITF 5th Degree examination in front of Grandmaster Oldham and senior instructors.
This is a huge achievement and we are all very proud of Mr Gillett who is the senior instructor for GTUK East, East Jee-Goo and the Bungay Taekwondo Club.
Clinton Gillett completed a tough international grading examination under the watchful eye of several masters and Grandmaster Oldham in Coventry at the weekend in order to be awarded his 5th Dan in Taekwondo.
The test included the 3 patterns for the grade, step sparring sequences, full contact self-defence, 2 onto 1 sparring, Korean theory and destruction (including power tests for jumping kicks, foot and hand techniques on both sides, where he unfortunately cracked a bone in his wrist early in the grading but chose to carry on regardless) Grandmaster Oldham praised his thesis on ‘Moral Culture’ and said that “his standards and attitude are exceptional”.
There has to be a minimum time in between grading examinations at this level and it is over 5 years since he passed his 4th Dan so Clinton is delighted to gain this international award and will receive his certificate from Korea within the next month.
***Instructors – please distribute to your students***
The GTUK is co-hosting this event, which is being held as a warm up competition in the run up to the II UITF World Championships, held in Hatfield over 10th-12th July, 2015.
The championships are open to both Coloured and Black Belt students with categories of patterns, sparring, power and special technique. Power & Special Technique is open to Black Belt Junior, Senior & Veteran Categories.
A FREE! Course for UITF-UK officials will be held on the day for all new and existing Umpires and Referees. Black Belts – Please Fill the online form and submit to register for the UITF-UK Umpires Course which will take place after the British Open Championships 16th May 2015, 6.00pm till 9.00pm. This course will set the standards required for the for coming UITF World Championships in U.K.
Coloured belt divisions are £15 to enter.
Black belt divisions are £20 to enter.
Spectators tickets are available for £5 per ticket.
All payments are made at point of registration online.
Online registration is available via http://www.uitf-uk.com/. Registration will be open until 8th May 2015, after which no further entries will be accepted. A passport photo is required to be uploaded for use for entry to the championships. **Please ensure this is an up to date appropriate, passport style photograph, that is clear and easily identifiable. Poor quality images may be rejected.**
ITF rules will be in place.
The divisions are split as detailed below:-
Coloured Belts
*Divisions aim to be split by Yellow, Green, Blue, Red.
Then by the following age categories for patterns, (Sparring in brackets)
Cadet Boys Under 12 – Sparring (<120cms, <140cms, <160cms, >160cms)
Cadet Girls Under 12 – Sparring (<120cms, <140cms, <160cms, >160cms)
Junior Males 13-17yrs – Sparring (<58kg, <63kg, <70kg, >70kg)
Junior Female 13-17yrs – Sparring (<48kg, <53kg, <60kg, >60kg)
Males 18-35yrs – Sparring (<63kg, <71kg, <80kg, >80kg)
Females 18-35yrs – Sparring (<58kg, <63kg, <70kg, >70kg)
Veteran Male 36yrs+ – Sparring (<73kg, <90kg, >90kg)
Veteran Female 36yrs+ – Sparring (<61kg, <75kg, >75kg)
Black Belts
*Pattern divisions aim to be split by grades and the following ages. (Sparring in brackets)
Cadet Boys Under 12 – Sparring (<120cms, <140cms, <160cms, >160cms)
Cadet Girls Under 12 – Sparring (<120cms, <140cms, <160cms, >160cms)
Junior Males 13-17yrs – Sparring (<52kg, <58kg, <63kg, <71kg, <80kg, >80kg)
Junior Female 13-17yrs – Sparring (<42kgs, <48kg, <53kg, <60kg, >60kg)
Males 18-35yrs – Sparring (<58kg, <63kg, <71kg, <80kg, >80kg)
Females 18-35yrs – Sparring (<52kg, <58kg, <63kg, <70kg, >70kg)
Veteran Male 36yrs+ – Sparring (<73kg, <90kg, >90kg)
Veteran Female 36yrs+ – Sparring (<61kg, <75kg, >75kg)
*Please be advised it is at the organisers discretion to change divisions where necessary and appropriate.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask…
Kind regards
Mrs J Auciello
Well done to all Beccles and Bungay Taekwondo students who graded at the weekend.
Forty students from Beccles and Bungay Taekwondo clubs gathered at Bungay High School at the weekend to complete a 4 hour grading examination watched over by Steve King 6th Degree and Clinton Gillett 4th Degree and standards were very high.
Patterns, techniques, sparring, self-defence and destruction had to be demonstrated by each student as appropriate and this was then rounded off with Korean Theory questions.
Nerves were very evident but everyone performed well in the end in order to be awarded their next belt grading and Steve King said “the quality of instruction by Sue and Nidge Bedingfield has meant that Beccles students have made fabulous progress, Clinton Gillett and Martin Sloan have demonstrated great consistency with their teaching to enable all Bungay students to meet and indeed surpass their own standards” The clubs have a week off over Easter and then will be actively recruiting for new members to start this family friendly martial art so please contact Clinton on 07970664965 or Sue on [email protected].