By It’s been a busy month for Bridgnorth Tae Kwon-Do. Seven students have passed a colour belt grading, under the scrutiny of 7th Degree Black Belt, Master Cockburn. The students, mostly beginners who have been training for a couple of months, were tested on line work, patterns, self defence, kicks, punches
Kick-boxing experience for Bridgnorth’s top martial artists!
Our most successful students on the competitive side of Tae Kwon-Do, Dean and Luke, have had another busy weekend! They competed yesterday at the Kwon Slam, a kick-boxing competition in Solihull. The contact was very heavy and the aim of the game was to gain experience. This was something that
GTI Best School cup is in Bridgnorth!
Our two National Squad members competed again this weekend, this time at the LTSI South East Open, and came home with a bronze each for sparring. There were over 400 competitors and around 30 clubs, so this was another huge achievement! What’s really fantastic is that GTI won the Best
Theory theory theory…
The focus at home at the moment is definitely on theory! Mr Plant has his 4th Degree Black Belt grading coming up soon and has his nose in his theory books! Bridgnorth Tae Kwon-Do members have a colour belt grading on March 14th and a Black Belt grading on April
Outclassed?
The sparring master class with Master Tony Sewell was a bug success! We’ve had great feedback from everyone who took part, and we thoroughly enjoyed it ourselves. The parents who watched all commented on Master Sewell’s excellent manner towards the children to get them engaged and keep them in check
Sparring master class
We have an event coming up… February 7th, 2-4pm at Highley Severn Centre: Sparring Master Class with three times undefeated World Champion (in heavy weight sparring) Master Tony ‘Ice-Man’ Sewell! Miss it, miss out!
Festive break
I hope everyone is enjoying the festive break and having a good rest! We are really looking forward to getting back into training in the New Year, and there’s plenty to look forward to with new merchandise, a National competition and a Master Sewell’s sparring master class all by the
Happy birthday to us!
Bridgnorth Tae Kwon-Do is the original and longest running Tae Kwon-Do club in Bridgnorth, but we (Gary Plant and Anna Bradford) took over on 1st December 2012. So we have just celebrated our second birthday! We’ve had two amazing years, and something of a baptism of fire since we took
New members
We’ve been busy settling in our new recruits (age 9 and 57). This is the thing we live most about Tae Kwon-Do, it appeals to so many different people. It caters for young people, for adults, men and women alike! It really has more to do with attitude than anything
Keeping busy
There’s lots going on at Bridgnorth Tae Kwon-Do at the moment! Chris and I are learning our new patterns now that we are Second Degree Black Belts. The promotion to 2nd Dan seems to have spurred a few other students on and there are plenty of black belts who intend