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Black Belt Grading Success
New Black Belts
After 4 years of training it was the time for Lily, Emily, Celyn and Ankush to grade for their Black Belts. We travelled down to Daventry to take part in the TAGB Black Belt Grading.
After a tough grading on the Saturday morning in front of the grading panel of 5 9th Dan Grandmasters they had to wait until the Monday morning to hear the results!
I was very pleased to tell them they were all successful in their grading and we have 4 new Black Belts at the club.
Congratulations everyone!
Home Nations Grand Prix
Huge success for our club members
What a day we had at the Arnold Schwarzenegger Sports Festival UK. Four of our club members were chosen to represent Team Wales at the tournament at the NEC in Birmingham. After months of hard training and weekly trips down to Welsh Squad training in Cardiff Mike Pritchard, Lewis Byles, Elinor Bonnett and Freya Roberts Howie were chosen.
They had to compete in Team patterns, Sparring and Board Breaking for the adults against teams from England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Mike with the mens team won Gold, Lewis with the boys team also won Gold, Freya and the girls team won Silver and Elinor and the ladies team won Bronze.
What a great day and achievement by them all and Team Wales. Here are the members of our club pictured with instructor Gareth Pritchard, who was officiating on the day.
Black Belt Grading Success
New 2nd Dan at the Academy!
On Saturday June 12th Alys Davies Abbott travelled down to the National Taekwondo Headquarters in Cardiff to grade for her 2nd Dan.
She has trained really hard for this and demonstrated skills on the day to impress the grading examination panel and passed the grading with flying colours.
So we are very pleased to announce that we now have a new 2nd Dan at the academy!
Huge congratulations to Alys.
Pictured here with Chief Instructor Gareth Pritchard who has been promoted to 6th Dan Master grade.
T.A.G.B. Online Welsh Championships Success
Great success for our club!
On Saturday February 6th, a number of our students competed in this tournament.
There were competitors from all T.A.G.B. clubs in Wales.
After some outstanding performances I am delighted to announce the medallists as follows with 8 new Welsh Champions :-
Gold - Autumn Robertson - Girls White Belts
Gold - Layla Young - Girls Green Belts
Gold - Lily Green - Girls Red Belts
Gold - Lewis Byles - Boys Black Belts
Gold - Amy Jones - Ladies White Belts
Gold - Penny Griffiths - Ladies Blue Belts
Gold - Ian Jones - Mens Blue Belts
Gold - Mark Butler - Mens Black Belts
Silver - Ankush Upadhyaya - Boys Red Belts
Silver - Brynly Fleetwood - Boys Black Belts
Silver - Hayley Evans - Ladies Green Belts
Silver - Abbie Pritchard - Ladies Black Belts
Bronze - Sam Evans - Boys White Belts
Bronze - Ruby Covell - Girls Yellow Belts
Bronze - Zohan Ibrahim - Boys Yellow Belts
Bronze - Seren Thomas - Girls Green Belts
Bronze - Jeff Jones - Boys Blue Belts
Bronze - Celyn McLaren - Ladies Red Belts
Bronze - Freya Roberts Howie - Girls Black Belts
Congratulations to you and of course to all that competed. You have done yourselves and the club very proud.
Black Belt Success!
Huge Congratulations
Extra Special Celebration
Huge Congratulations
It has been a very difficult year but we have continued our training throughout. These students have waited all year to take their Black Belt Grading and in October at Cardiff they got their chance. Very well done to Abbie Pritchard 2nd Dan, Oliver Thomas 1st Dan, Harry Lodge 1st Dan and Brynly Fleetwood 1st Dan
Brilliant!
Extra Special Celebration
Huge Congratulations
Also huge congratulations to Freya Roberts-Howie and Jonathan Webster who are now also 1st Dan Black Belts.
Pictured here with Master Peros 8th Dan.
Extra Special Celebration
Extra Special Celebration
Extra Special Celebration
Not only has Freya achieved her Black Belt but she is also our youngest ever student to do this beating a 14 year record.
If this was not enough she was awarded 'Best In Grading' by our association. This means out of everyone that graded that day the Master examiners decided Freya deserved the award for the best performance! A huge achievement at such a young age.
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Welsh Squad Training with Master Peros
Every Sunday there is Welsh Squad training with Master Peros (Welsh Team Coach) at his academy in Cardiff. These sessions are open to all ages and all grades. No dobok required just training bottoms and a t-shirt, your sparring equipment and a drink of water for the much needed drink break!
These sessions are fantastic to learn the latest techniques and to improve your sparring from one the best taekwondo coaches in the world and maybe you could even earn a place on the Welsh Team!
Training time is 10am - 12pm at The Taekwondo Centre, 194b Cowbridge Road East Cardiff CF5 1GW
Coloured Belt Grading Dates 2022
Make a note of the following dates, all gradings at our Academy in Prestatyn:-
March 12th
June 18th
September 24th
December 10th
Please arrive for your grading in plenty of time :-
PLEASE NOTE IF YOU ARE REQUIRED TO SPAR DURING YOUR GRADING ALL STUDENTS MUST BE IN THEIR FULL TAGB SPARRING EQUIPMENT TO START THEIR GRADING!