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February – 2010 Newsletter

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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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End of Year – 2009 Newsletter

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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 3rd Dan), coloured belt gradings and various tournaments (Auckland Regionals and Peewee InterClub).  At the Auckland Regionals, Tamaki placed 4th 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 17th). A great achievement by all! The date set for the Peewee Grading is Thurs Dec 3rd starting at 6pm – Good luck to all our peewees!!

Panmure Community Christmas Parade & Festival – Sat Dec 5th 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 5th 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 14th 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!

International Instructors Conference

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Title: IIC 2010
Location: Counties Manukau
6-7 March 2010 (new date)

The ITF Technical Committee will once again hold an International Instructors Course (IIC) and senior dan grading in New Zealand – this time in Summer!

The IIC will be conducted by the ITF Technical Committee:

Grand Master Hector Marano (9th degree)
Grand Master Pablo Trajtenberg (9th degree)
Master Wim Bos (8th degree)

This course will be a COMBINED AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZELAND IIC open to red belts and above.

Accompanying the ITF Technical Committee will be Master Alberto Katz, Chairman of the ITF Umpires & Tournament Committee who will conduct an ITF Umpires course on the 8th March.

This will enable members from both New Zealand and Australia to become ITF qualified as umpires (B & A Grade), ahead of the ITF World Champs which are being held in Wellington the following year. Master Katz will also be conducting a training seminar on Friday 5th March 2010 for all to attend.

FULL DETAILS of the venue and costs of the IIC, Umpires Course and Gup Seminar will be announced soon on the itfnz website, itfnz.org.nz.