Congratulations to the Students of Grandmaster Howard's Dojang who competed in the St Mark's Team Challenge last weekend. Another successful outing for the students amd many thanks to all at St Mark's for organising the event.
School News
Colour belt grading
Congratulations to the students who were promoted by Master Howard at a recent grading at Grandmaster Howard’s Taekwon-Do School . The grading was held the Cabra parkside community centre, Ratoath road, Dublin 7.
The students ranging in grade from white belt (10th kup) to blue tag (5th kup) were tested on their syllabus, including; flexibility, fitness, patterns, fundamental techniques, step-sparring, sparring, breaking and Taekwon-Do theory. Master Howard was happy with the standard and said ‘it is clear that the students were concentrating in class and putting a lot of effort in at home’. ‘As the student move up through the grades more is expected of them. It is not just enough to turn up to class 2 or 3 times a week. Real effort and commitment to improving and fixing their mistakes in required’ he added.
Master Howard complimented Joyce Yu on her O+ promotion to green Belt and he presented the grading award to Emmet O’Rourke for his improvement and response to correction from his instructor Mr Fox. ‘All we can ask is that as students you listen to the instruction and improve’ Master Howard commented.
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First |
Surname |
Promoted to |
|
Brona |
Kelly |
4th kup |
|
Finn |
Howard |
6th kup |
|
Emmet |
O'Rourke |
6th kup |
|
Joyce |
Yu |
6th kup |
|
Max |
Cleary |
6th kup |
|
Sofia |
Hu |
6th kup |
|
Istvan |
Badics |
7th kup |
|
Marta |
Zajac |
7th kup |
|
Seoidin |
Douglas |
8th kup |
|
Jason |
Kennedy |
9th kup |
|
Kate* |
Harold |
7th kup |
|
Emily* |
Harold |
9th kup |
*Dragons Programme
A minibus of 24 of Grandmaster Howard's students made their way to the IITF Taekwon-Do tournament in Wexford last Saturday. There were representatives for all age groups from under 11 to Veteran. It was the first visit to an IITF Tournament and there were some adjustments to be made for students is the sparring category. All competitiors were committed and represented our school with great success taking home 26 medal in total.
Congratulations to all who took part.
Medals IITF Kup Cup Blue belts patterns juniors
Yellow belts patterns juniors Gold-Mihai
Silver-Shane Bronze- Jack
Bronze-Bradley
Bronze-Emmet
Yellow belts patterns junior female Green belt junior male patterns
Gold - Joyce Bronze-Christopher
Bronze - Sofia
Green belt junior female patterns Adult male patterns
Bronze -Leah Gold -Lee
Adult male +35 years male patterns Adult female patterns
Silver-Ruarc Silver -Lisa
bronze-Brona
Sparring Girls Tallest height u11 yellow
Boys Middle height u11 yellow Gold-Sofia
Gold-Finn Silver-Seoidin
Bronze-Joyce
Girls u11 green Adult female sparring
Bronze - Jodie Gold-sparring
Male 15-17 sparring Boys 12-14 sparring
Gold- Jack Silver-Emmet
Silver-Mihai Bronze-Eoin
Girls 12-14 Adult male sparring
Bronze- Leah Bronze - Ruarc
Bronze- Lee
Master Robert Howard
Notice to All Students
The grading scheduled to take place on Tuesday 16th September has been moved to the following week and will now take place on Tuesday 23rd September.
Congatulations to the student of Grandmaster Howard's Dojang (pictured above) who successfully completed the recent Child Awareness in Sport Course.
