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Taekwon-Do Tigers Grading

Friday 3 pm 22nd June 2012

Homework

Your dobok (Taekwon-Do suit) should be clean and ironed for the grading.

Fundamental Moves

• Parallel Stance Punch
• WS punch stepping forward (4 times)
• WS inner forearm middle block stepping back (4 times)

4 Step

• 4 Step Kick (sitting stance, side kick 4 times to the right, then 4 times to the left

Flexibility

• Leg swings (front, 5 times each leg)
• Stretching (front and side splits)
• Active stretching (holding leg up to pad, front kick and side kick). Hold your leg up and count to 3.

Jumping Techniques

• Jumping Punches
• Flying Front Kick
• Flying Overhead kick

Korean words and Terminology (need to know both English and Korean)
Counting (1-10): (Hana, Dul, Set, Net, Daseot, Yeoseot, Ilgop, Yeodeol, Ahop, Yeol)

Walking Stance – Gunnan Sogi
Sitting stance – Annun Sogi
Parallel stance - Narani Sogi
Punch - Jirugi
Block - Makgi
Fore fist – Ap Joomuk
Inner Forearm – An Palmok
Side Kick – Yop Chagi
Front Kick – Ap Chagi

Learn these goals and your code too.

Taekwon-Do Tiger’s Goals are to
1. Be polite
2. Be respectful
3. Always tell the truth.
4. Try my best.
5. Never give up.

Taekwon-Do Tiger’s Code
1. I will practice the goals of Taekwon-Do.
2. I will respect my teachers and parents
3. I will never misuse Taekwon-Do.
4. I will always do what is right.
5. I will make the world a better place.

4 STEP Kick
Start: sitting ready stance
Moving to the right
1) Bring the left foot to the right foot, lift the right knee, do a right leg side kick with right high punch (left hand on the left hip) land in Sitting Stance
2) Bring the left foot to the right foot, lift the right knee, do a right leg side kick with right high punch (left hand on the left hip) land in Sitting Stance
3) Bring the left foot to the right foot, lift the right knee, do a right leg side kick with right high punch (left hand on the left hip) land in Sitting Stance
4) Bring the left foot to the right foot, lift the right knee, do a right leg side kick with right high punch (left hand on the left hip) land in Sitting Stance
Moving to the left (turn face to the left)
1) Bring the right foot to the left foot, lift the left knee, do a left leg side kick with left high punch (right hand on the right hip) land in Sitting Stance
2) Bring the right foot to the left foot, lift the left knee, do a left leg side kick with left high punch (right hand on the right hip) land in Sitting Stance
3) Bring the right foot to the left foot, lift the left knee, do a left leg side kick with left high punch (right hand on the right hip) land in Sitting Stance
4) Bring the right foot to the left foot, lift the left knee, do a left leg side kick with left high punch (right hand on the right hip) land in Sitting Stance

Try your best to .....
1) have the kicking leg fully straight at the end of the kick
2) pull the top of your foot back so that you kick with the side of your foot
3) turn your standing foot in the opposite direction to your kicking leg
4) do a high punch while kicking and put the other hand on your hip

Congratulations to the ITF Ireland team who had a successful European Championships in Bulgaria with 4 Gold, 2 Silver and 2 Bronze.

Day one started off with Mr Mark Pollock winning Bronze in the Veteran male 3rd dan patterns followed up with Ms Patrice Conaty winning the Gold in the veteran female 1st dan patterns. There was disappointment for Hannah Eade and Roisin O'Neill who lost out in their quarter finals to the eventual winners in Child red belt and Junior black belt pattern divisions. Kia Conaty-Carley also had a great performance in the Red Belt child patterns.

Day two saw Ms Patrice Conaty winning Silver after losing out in Sudden death golden point in the +75kg Veteran Female Sparring Final to England. Mr Mark Pollock went though to semi finals of veteran +90 sparring after a tough match against Czech Republic. Kia and Hannah had tough starts to their International sparring careers with both getting a Russian in the -165cm female child sparring divisions. The more experience Russians won but both Irish girls showed great potential for the future.

Day three had a great start with Mr Pollock moving into the Final against Serbia after his Bulgarian opponent withdrew. He then went on to win in a hard match with the Serbian. This was quickly followed up by another Gold with Lauren Bradshaw showing great skills to beat her Russian opponent in the Final of the 14-15 Female +70kg Sparring. Lauren had earlier won against Greece and Bulgaria to get to the Final. Unfortunately there were no more medals but some brave performances in sparring from Dylan Russell, Roisin O'Neill, Leon Brennan and Lauren Russell. Great experience for the future.

On Day Four Ms Conaty picked up a Bronze in the Female Veteran power division. Ciaran Pollock and Neidin Coulihan were sparring action but lost out to very experienced fighters in the 16-17 +75 kg male sparring and -75 Kg Adult Female Sparring respectively. The new exciting team sparring event of "Power Taekwon-Do" was demonstrated with Russia winning the full contact matches against Croatia and Bulgaria.

Day 5 was a great end to the European Championships with Ms Neidin Coulihan winning the Silver in Female power breaking. Earlier in the day Ms Patrice Conaty won Gold in the Mixed Veteran Self Defence Routine with Mr Adam Fox and Mr Mark Pollock. Mr Pollock then won bronze in the Male Veteran Self Defence with Mr Adam Fox, Dylan Russell and Ciaran Pollock.

Full team selection for the European Championships:

Umpires: Senior Master Francis Barrett, Master Robert Howard and Mr Floyd Keane

National Coach Mr Stephen Doyle

GRANDMASTER HOWARD’S TAEKWON-DO SCHOOL

Presents

Cabra Fun Challenge 2012

Thursday 24th May 2012

7 – 9pm

Special events for boys and girls of the

Taekwon-Do Tigers Friday class. All Spectators Welcome

www.grandmasterhoward.com

Fun Challenge for the Tigers Class

This is a special class to prepare your child for real tournaments in the future. It is a fun event and is designed to encourage your child to practice their Taekwon-Do at home.

Events
1) 4 step – kick (4 times to the right, them 4 times to the left)
Try your best to .....
1) have the kicking leg fully straight at the end of the kick
2) pull the top of your foot back so that you kick with the side of your foot
3) turn your standing foot in the opposite direction to your kicking leg
4) do a high punch while kicking and put the other hand on your hip
2) Stretching routine –15 seconds to impress the judges with your flexibility.
3) Jump over head kick (Nopi chagi) – Jump up as high as you can to kick the pad.
4) Team sparring

Safety Equipment

All children will be sparring and will need to bring their gums shields. Boys will need their groin guards. You child will be put on a team for the team sparring. If they can’t attend please text me to let me know so I can rearrange the team.

Looking forward to seeing you there.

Thanks
Instructor
Master Robert Howard
08/5/12
087-6987624

Grandmaster Howard’s students had success at the ITF-Ireland Cup Taekwon-Do Championships in Cork recently. Grand Master Howards students and instructors left Dublin at 5.30am to travel to Cork. There was a fantastic turn out with 20 students competing in the tournament, taking home 4 gold 3 silver and 7 bronze a fantastic achievement for the school. Congratulations to all students who competed, it was a very successful and enjoyable day and we hope to bring more competitors to the competition in Tallaght in December. The successful competitors in the competition were

Overall Junior
Alex Nowak

9th Kup Patterns
1st Place Jodie Curley
3rd Place Jodie Parsons

Blue Belt 12 - 17 Yrs Patterns
1st Place Alex Nowak

Sparring
Female Yellow - Red Belt 9 - 11 Yrs +146cm
3rd Place Leah Bannon

Male Yellow & Green Belt 15 - 17 Yrs +61kgs
3rd Place Lee Parsons

Special Technique
Male & Female 15 - 17 Yrs Special Technique
1st Place Alex Nowak

Senior
Green Belt Patterns
3rd Place Lisa Parsons

Red Belt Patterns

3rd Place Arno Denne
3rd Place Breda O'Donoghue

Black Belt Patterns III & IV Degree

2nd Place Leon McSherry
3rd Place Adam Fox

Sparring
Female Yellow - Blue Belt +66kgs
2nd Place Lisa Parsons

Power

Male Black Belt Power
1st Place Adam Fox

Veterans
Male Yellow & Green Belt Sparring
2nd Place Derek Brady

Full results are on the RITA site www.rita-ift.org and facebook page https://www.facebook.com/pages/Republic-of-Ireland-Taekwon-Do-Association

Master Howard helps Umpires to see the Point

Our very own Master Robert Howard lead the recent RITA’s National ITF Umpire Course held in Carrick-on-Suir. As well a teaching at the Cabra school Master Howard is chair of the RITA’s Umpire Committee and he led the course with his good friend and fellow masrer, Master Mark O’Donnell from Galway Taekwon-Do School.

The event was hosted by Mr Paul Tobin and the Carrick-on-Suir Taekwon-Do School. In attendance were members from Old Bawn Waterford, Carrick-on-Suir, Fethard and Red Star.

The morning started with a power point presentation on the role and duties of an umpire. Master Howard stressed that fairness and unbiased decision making is the corner stone of being a good umpire. He said ‘You can make mistakes, or not know something, or you can be wrong in your understanding of the rules, but we can fix that. What we can’t fix is a biased umpire. We can’t trust you and the competitors and students can’t trust you.’ He added, ‘that is not the Taekwon-Do way’.

Master O’Donnell continued the presentation with a guide to judging patterns. The trainee umpires got to practice their scoring by watching videos of patterns and using the electronic scoring (clickers) system. They then got to discuss and share their views, and by the end of the session all the umpires’ scores were converging to a common norm.

Mater Howard led the session on Power Breaking and Special Technique and again the umpires got to practice blue flagging or red flagging competitors (on video) breaking with techniques used at RITA competitions.

The afternoon was focussed on sparring. Both corner judging and centre refereeing was covered in detail. It was clear from the corner judging that many of the participants had extensive tournament experience and were well able to award the correct points. There B class umpires were guided in the proper hand signals and ring protocol as well as the main fouls and tricks competitors do. The A class umpires covered the Fight System scoring software and Jury President duties.

The day ended with the two Masters thanking the participants for their openness and willingness to learn. They also thanked Mr Paul Tobin and his member for the use of the great facilities at their full time dojang.

This latest course on the 40^th anniversary of the association means that almost all the RITA’s black belts are now qualified umpires and we should have a fair and high standard of judging at the Cork event. So that’s another reason why the students of GM Howard’s dojang will be up early on Saturday the 31^st of March and getting the bus to the ITF-Ireland Cup in Cork.

Photos of the umpire course are on the RITA’s facebook page.

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.361706767195519.92690.271416736224523&type=1