Tamaki Mt Wellington TKD Academy is proud to present…..

“OPEN NIGHT 2010 – Monday 6th September”

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Open Night is a great way to introduce beginners to Taekwon-Do as well as celebrating the art that we practice.

Each class will be preparing a series of demonstrations to be performed on Open Night. Ranging from pre-arranged sparring routines, team patterns, power and special technique breaking involving wooden boards and tile breaks.

Join us for a quick social with drinks and nibbles upstairs from 8pm to 9pm.

Please invite your friends and family to come along. We hope that it will be a fun and entertaining evening.

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“I shall be a champion of freedom and justice” “I shall build a more peaceful world” – Student Oath

Let the games begin!

We are now halfway into 2010 and so far Tamaki has achieved many successes. The highlights being the first ever community demonstration, the Auckland regional tournament and most importantly five of our students being promoted to 1st degree black belt!!
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• Auckland Regionals – Congratulations to our six competitors, who all did very well in their events. Well done to Conor Hill for winning the best overall junior yellow belt award! Results: Conor – Gold in patterns, Bronze in sparring; Luke – Gold in sparring; Damon – Gold in sparring; Sharon – Silver in sparring; Callum – Gold in Sparring; Casey – Bronze in sparring.

• ITFNZ Nationals/Oceania Championships – 3-4 July 2010 – This promises to be an exciting international tournament, this year it will be held in Wellington, our capital city. All the best to our members who will be representing our Auckland North region.

• Grading Promotions – Congratulations to our newly promoted 1st degree black belts – Mr Bjarne Morris, Mr Angad Nayyar, Mr Jackson Taylor, Mr Leon Wang and last but not least Mr Damon Williams. Awesome effort guys!!

• The Tamaki Cup Challenge has commenced on the 24th of May – an exciting and new intra-club competition consisting of four teams (blue, red, green and yellow) battling throughout the year to see who will win the first ever Tamaki Cup competition!

• Panmure King of the Mountain 2010 – Sunday 27th June – An annual fun run which we will be participating in as part of our team challenge – watch this space!
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Tamaki Global Support – a new fundraising initiative that we will be developing to help raise funds for our ChildFund recipient, Rosaline Achando and our newest organisation Save the Children, in which we support a community in Asia. More information coming shortly!
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TAMAKI TOURNAMENT SQUAD
Update: The squad is training with the Auckland North Regional Team – on Sundays from 2pm – 4pm at Auckland Boys Grammar School.
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Fees: Old members, please adjust your payments to ensure that you are on the current fees structure schedule. Please note that the kids class have a “term payment” option – see our treasurer for more details.
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Key Events/Dates

ITFNZ Nationals / Oceanias, July 3rd – 4th, Wellington

Coloured Belt Grading, Examiner: Master Davidson, Tuesday 17th August – 6:30pm start

Peewee Grading, Thursday 19th August – 5:30pm start

World Champs Trials, August 20th – 22nd, Taupo College

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“I shall be a champion of freedom and justice, to build a more peaceful world” – Student Oath

Since 2008, Tamaki Mt Wellington has become a part of the global movement to fight poverty and injustice in the world.  We are providing financial support to a child in East Africa and a community in Asia.

To this date, we have successfully raised over $1000!

But this year we are aiming to double that amount so that more of the impossible can be achieved.

How can you help?

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Our first child sponsor is a young girl living in one of the slums situated in Nairobi, Kenya.  Roseline Achando lives with her parents, brother and sister.  Her family, like many others in the area, are poor and cannot cater for the family effectively.  Her father is unemployed and relies on small manual jobs from factories while her mother is a housewife taking care of the children.  With the lack of income, Roseline and her sibling’s basic needs of education, health, food, and security cannot be satisfied.

But through Child Fund, the organisation that has enabled us to connect with Roseline, and the Mukuru Promotion Centre, the place where Roseline receives benefits (health-care, food etc) from our contribution, we have been able to change her situation contributing to re-shaping and building a solid foundation for her life.

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Starting 2010 – we now sponsor a community in Asia.

More information coming shortly.

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Our ITFNZ organisation is assisting in re-building a village in Papua New Guinea.

We donated our hall for use for the PNG fundraisers.

Please go to our national website for further information on how you can contribute to this cause: www.itfnz.org.nz

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Mr Simione Lo has recently opened a specialised Kempo class

Training Times: Sunday 10:00am – 11:30am

Beginners welcome!

Come and try Kempo for a FREE four week trial! It doesn’t matter whether you are a beginner, or have done a bit before. The classes have been carefully structured to provide a safe and enjoyable atmosphere of all three (beginner, intermediate & advanced) levels.

What is Kempo?

Kempo is one of the oldest Martial Arts systems and is based upon the survival and fighting techniques of five Animals. Those techniques are…

-Tiger : Power

-Crane : Sinew

-Leopard : Strength/Bone

-Snake : Ch’i

-Dragon : Spirit

Each technique has three main functions…

-Self Defense

-Internal Energy Cultivation

-Training the Body and Mind

Who will I be learning from?

The classes are instructed by Mr Lo who has been performing Kempo Kido Karate for at least 10 years. He learnt under Mr Gibbs and wants to give back to the community that supported him in his teenage years.

Monthly Kempo classes are $20 per month or $35 for 2 or more family members. Members of the Tamaki ITF club are entitled to free lessons. If you’re interested come down and talk to us, everyone is welcome!

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March is indeed a very busy month….here are some links to the events happening in March if you are interested in attending these…

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Master Katz Seminar – Auckland
Wednesday March 10, 6:30pm – 8:00pm
81 Gray Avenue, Mangere East, Auckland

Rarely do we get to train with a master from overseas, this is an opportunity not to be missed!!
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‘Get REAL’ (Phase 1) seminar
Saturday March 13, 10am – 5pm
Tamaki Mt Wellington Do jang

Please register online and advise the Instructors of your attendance – as our Club has discounts for these seminars.
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InterClub Tournament
Sunday March 14, 9am – 2:45pm
Tamaki Mt Wellington Do jang

Great for those keen on competitions and if you are able to help out with officiating – the organisers will be grateful for the help!!
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CM Grading Marshalls Workshop
Sunday, March 21, 2010, venue TBC
Workshop for 1st gups and above to learn marshalling skills.

Link: Not yet available. Watch this space!
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CM Youth Tournament
Sunday, Mar 28, 2010, Eastern ITF Pakuranga Dojang
Age groups: 4-10, 11-12, 13-14 years

Link: Not yet available. Watch this space!
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What an awesome year! Congratulations to all the kids class and adult class prizewinners!

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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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Welcome!

This year has been a great success! Tamaki Mount Wellington has done extremely well in many areas including black belt grading (with Ms Chanthie Thach being promoted to 3^rd Dan), coloured belt gradings and various tournaments (Auckland Regionals and Peewee InterClub).  At the Auckland Regionals, Tamaki placed 4^th overall – taking out three of the Best Overall Titles: Best Overall Blue-belt (Bjarne Morris), Best Overall Yellow-belt (Mervin Tibay) and Best Overall White-belt (Jasmine-Lei Thach). We would like to commend everyone for their hard work and dedication this year.  We wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, and look forward to seeing everyone again next year!

New Structure – Kids Class

Ms Thu Thach and Ms Chanthie Thach have taken back the role of Head Instructors of the Kids Class, alongside Assistant Instructors Mr Bjarne Morris and Mr Simone Lo. Peewee Class has officially ceased until further notice.

Coloured Belt Grading & Peewee Grading

Well done to all those students who graded at the last coloured belt grading for the year (Tues Nov 17^th). A great achievement by all! The date set for the Peewee Grading is Thurs Dec 3^rd starting at 6pm – Good luck to all our peewees!!

Panmure Community Christmas Parade & Festival – Sat Dec 5^th 11am

We have been invited to walk in the Christmas Parade (11am – 12pm) after being recognised from our article in the local newspaper.  It will be an exciting event and we encourage everyone to attend! We will be doing a demonstration so if anyone has any great ideas, please let the Instructors know!

End of the Year Function – Mission Bay – Sat Dec 5^th 12:30pm onwards

We will be having a get together after the Parade, to kick a few balls around, go for a swim at the beach and celebrate with a shared BBQ. Children aged 13 years and under will require an accompanying adult for supervision.

Last day of training, Photos & Prize-giving – Mon Dec 14^th 6pm onwards

It is that time of the year again where we acknowledge members of the Academy, unwind and have a big feed.  Nominations for the Adult and Kids Class awards (Best Attendance, Best Overall Student, Best Tenets and Most Improved Student) will be out next week!

Volunteers

We need volunteers to help us organise the Panmure Christmas Parade, End of the Year Function and Prize-giving.  This is open to everyone – students and parents, to help with food, transportation etc.  We need as many hands as possible, please let us know if you are interested!