School News

We have been invited to the Scion Taekwon-Do Open in Cork on the 31^st January 2016. Forms have been given out in class but are available below.

They must be returned to Senior Master Howard by Tuesday 19^th January 2016.

Full information pack available here

Application Form available here

December Grading

Congratulations to all the colour belt students who passed their recent grading under ITF Examiner Senior Master Howard (8^th Degree). The grading was held at the Cabra Parkside Community Sports Centre, Ratoath Road, Dublin 7 and wraps up another successful year of Grandmaster Howard’s Taekwon-Do School. 

A special congratulations to Carl Ronan who received the Grading Award for the best improvement since his last grading.

Next year will also be a busy year for our Dublin Taekwon-Do  as we will hope to see some of our senior grades testing for their black belts under the RITA’s panel of Grandmaster and Senior Masters.

Colourbelt Grading Results below

Congratulations to the members of the colour belt squad who competed in a tournament in Holland this weekend. The twelve competitors took home 11 trophies. One for patterns and ten for sparring. The eleven trophies were made up of  two gold, five silver and four bronze medals.

Congratulation to all competitors and instructors.

Senior Master Robert Howard

Students from Grandmaster Howard’s Taekwon-Do School were well represented on the recent competition for RITA Colour Belt Squad.  The six students form our school were part of a 20 strong team who represented the RITA at the INTA’s National Championships in the National Basketball Arena, Tallaght, Dublin.  The students from our school were; Max Cleary, Finn Howard, Sofia Hu, Eoin McLoughlin, Emmet O’Rourke and Shane Rice,

The six students from Cabra, Castleknock and Navan road, performed well across patterns, sparring and special technique and reaped the rewards of their hard training.  It was nice to see that the students developing and improving and putting their training (with coach Mr Fox) into practice. Senior Master Howard and Mr Leon McSherry were stand-in coaches on the day and helped to steer the young competitors through many rounds and into the medal places. The message of the day was “give a good performance and the medals will follow”.  Some won medals and some didn’t, but the overall the coaches were happy with the performances and effort showed by all the students.

The event attracted 450 competitors from across Ireland and further afield and there was some good talent on display. Big thank you to Senior Master O’Toole, Senior Master Douglas and Mr Jeroen  Wezelman for the warm welcome and well organised competition. Also thanks to Mr McSherry for coaching on the day and the parents for all their support.

Next trip for these students is to The Netherlands for the Open Taekyon toernooi  on the 29^th of November.

Results for GM Howard’s students from the INTA National Championships