Read about more of the LLTKD events listed below.

TASIS International Day Demonstration
Summer Training Camp
Grand Master Park Hae Man's Seminar
Kingston University Colours Awards
Chungdokwan National Championships 2009
2009 BSTF Student Nationals
TCGB Corner Juding Course

Upcoming Events

• BTCB Nationals, 30th - 31st January, Manchester
• Swedish Open, 13th - 14th February
• Hungary Training Camp - 2nd - 8th August

TASIS Demonstration

We took part in the TASIS International Day by giving the parents, teachers and children a sample of what we do in class. We only had two weeks to prepare, but to the 'Eye of the Tiger' music we gave the audience a Taekwondo taster. As the demo went on the rain got heavier and heavier, but that didn't stop our TASIS Tigers!

Warm up stretching, practicing middle-section punch and then a jumping front kick by Danny to break a board.

Why are they lying on the floor? Because Johnathan has jumped over them to side kick a board.

Zach demonstrating a spectacular breaking technique - and excellent photography from Daniel's family to catch the middle section of the board flying out of Master Lawrence's hands!

Summer Training Camp, Hungary 2009

This was the 3rd year that Master Lawrence took a team of LLTKD students to the Universum Taekwondo Summer Taekwondo Training Camp. As ever, the camp was enjoyed by all. This year, additional teams from Austria and Greece were in attendance as well as a large contingent of UK university students and Hungarians. The camp is an excellent opportunity for students of Taekwondo to have 7 days of training morning, noon and night and to practice with over 100 other students.

It's not all hard work though, Budapest is a very economical city to visit and benefits from the thermal bathes in the city. Something gladly welcomed in the 35 degrees heat!

Back row: Master Lawrence, Andrew, Master Patakfálvy, Master Támas, Master Suh.
Middle row: Mike, Lee, Sean, Grand, Michaela, James, Kerry, Lindsey.
Front row: Rob, Ed, Evans, Kavita, Op.

Grand Master Park Hae Man's Seminar

Grand Master Park visited the Chungdokwan GB association and while he was here delivered two seminars, with one at Kingston University.

Sean took some good pictures, managing to cature Raymond executing a nice front kick!

Kingston University Colours Sports Dinner and Awards

KUTKD did unexpectedly and exceptionally well at the 2009 Colours Awards Dinner held at Twickenham rugby club on 27th March. All 20+ club members who were at the ball were delighted to see the club receive recognition for all the hard work and effort that the students have put in. Let's see if we can repeat the success next year.

From left to right, back row: Evans, Mani, Kerry, Tyrone, Stavros, Tatevik, Master Lawrence, Lindsey, James, Raymond, Fiona's friend & Fiona, Rashid.
Front row: Tony, Michael and Koushk.

Kingston University Taekwondo came away with awards for:

• Club of the Year - for all the medals won from the competitions attended. We managed to beat off the traditional clubs such as rugby, football, netball and hockey to win!
  
• Coach of the Year - for Master Lawrence (and it's about time too!).
  
• Full Colours - Anthony Ofori - for all his hard work in building the club and his successes in competitions.
  
• Half Colours - Michael Nathan-Pepple & Koushk aka Ryan - for their help and support in running the club over the last year, and competition successes.

TCGB National Championships, Bracknell, March

Well done to all those who donned their doboks to compete in Bracknell at the TCGB National Championships. It was a long day, although at least the journey home wasn't as far as from Durham!

Team LLTKD improved considerably on last year's results and narrowly missed third place in the Kyorgi team competition having won 7 gold, 7 silver and 8 bronze medals. An excellent result, well done!

BSTF Student Championships, Durham, February

The Kingston University students really showed their mettle by travelling over night by bus to Durham before competing in the 2009 University championships in Durham. The event was well run and attended and the team did exceptionally well considering their lack of sleep. Well Done Kingston Tigers!

TCGB Corner Judging Course, January

12 members of LLTKD attended the Corner Judging course run by International Referee Mr Chris Codling and held at Kingston University. The course was useful to all attendees, from those interested in officiating to those keen on competing. The course provided uptodate information and clarification to the rules, which is useful to all participants particularly if you're interested in sparring - if you don't know the rules, you can't get round them!