February – 2010 Newsletter
Perseverance:
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go” – TS Eliot
Welcome Back!
A big thank you to all the students and parents for a great 2009 year!
This year will be one of our biggest years yet! We will be celebrating our 5th Year Anniversary at the end of the year and we will be kick starting this year with The Tamaki Cup Challenge – a new intra-club competition that will take place once every month to compete for the Tamaki Cup – congratulations to those students selected as Team captains. Also, we will see seven of our black stripes training hard over the next few months for their upcoming black belt grading in May.
Get ready Tamaki for another year of gradings, tournaments, seminars and community events!!
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Reflecting on 2009…
• Auckland Regionals – Tamaki Mt Wellington placed 4th at the Auckland Regional Tournament, and won three Regional titles – Bjarne Morris (Best Overall Blue-belt), Mervin Tibay (Best Overall Yellow-belt) and Jasmine-Lei Thach (Best Overall White-belt).
• Grading Promotions – Co-head Instructor, Ms Chanthie Thach, was successfully promoted to 3rd Degree Black-belt (A pass) at the last Auckland May grading. Congratulations to Daniel Ying who double graded at the last coloured belt grading from 9th gup to 7th gup.
• First Tamaki Camp – FUNtastic Camp at Clark’s beach with senior guest instructors Mr Ian and Mrs Lena Walton (4th Dan) from Wellington and Mrs Sonya Robinson (3rd Dan) Auckland Regional Director.
• Panmure Christmas Parade – Tamaki participated in this event and won the Best New Entrant Award.
• World Vision Club Sponsorship – We raised over $600 for our sponsor child, Rosalind! Awesome effort!
• 2009 Prize Winners – Kids Class: Caryne Tee (Best Overall/Best Attendance), Jia Tee (Best Attendance), Matthew Enriquez (Tenets Award) and Ryan Nguyen (Most Improved). Adults Class: Bjarne Morris (Best Overall), Damon Williams (Best Attendance), Casey Dunstan (Tenets Award) and Leon Wang (Most Improved).
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Anticipating 2010…
• Black Belt Grading – Bjarne Morris, Angad Nayyar, Shivneel and Krishneel Nand, Damon Williams, Jackson Taylor and Leon Wang will be grading to their 1st Degree black belt in May. Please give them heaps of support over the next few months!
• The Tamaki Cup Challenge – The Club will be split into four teams and will be led by your senior instructors/students. Monthly competitions will consist of individual as well as team patterns, sparring, power, specialty and team building competitions.
• Community Projects – It is important that as Taekwon-Do practitioners we continue to practice the Do, and this year we will be developing projects dedicated to Grandmaster Tran to help build our Mt Wellington community. The black stripes will be conducting a youth seminar at our Do-Jang in the next few months – watch this space!
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TAMAKI TOURNAMENT SQUAD
If you have a keen interest in tournaments and would like to compete in the upcoming tournaments, we will be starting a new tournament training class starting soon on Sundays from 2:45pm – 4pm.
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Key Events/Dates
Auckland Regionals Sunday 11th April – Mahurangi
Coloured Belt Grading Examiner: Mr Tolley – Meadowbank Tuesday 13th April – 6:30pm start
Peewee Grading Monday 19th April – 5:30 – 6:30pm
Black Belt Grading Weekend of May 1st and 2nd 2010 Watch this space!
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