This week has been a busy one for me with three gradings and today (Wednesday) I have to attend a TOL/BTC meeting in Manchester. We have been invited to two championships next year, one in Canada and one in the USA. On Saturday I will be a guest at Mark Farnham's 50th birthday celebrations in Kings Ly...
A big thanks are due to Master Donnelly who stood in for me and did a seminar last Saturday for Master Saunders up in the Wirrall at his academy, I am told everyone loved it who took part. I could not have had anyone better to replace me after all he was part of the world masters demonstration team ...
The Midlands championships went off really well at the week-end at Worcester Arena. We did not have the carpet down this time and it worked better. The whole competition was over by 2 p.m. For the British in November we will bring in the jigsaw mats and the arena are opening up their other hall right...
The magazine Martial Arts Illustrated is now on the shelves and has a great article about the Clash of the Titans event. the TAGB will be sending out free copies to instructors with their orders from TKDP and the young lady on the front cover was part of the TAGB demo team, so a nice reward for her ...
Sorry there was no blog last week, but I was on holiday in Dorset, thats if you can call it a holiday as we took 6 grandchildren with us, aged from 3-14 years old, so it was pretty hard work and when I got back home I flew to the Republic of Ireland and back on Sunday to do the black belt grading fo...
The Welsh Championships went off well at the weekend. There were 900 competitors taking part and it was all done by 3 p.m. Our Social media people are doing a terrific job, there were 400 tournament packages down loaded prior to the event and the website had over 3,000 hits over the weekend. The resu...
This Sunday is the Welsh championships in Cardiff and it looks like it is going to be a beautiful week-end. We will be making the presentations of the best in black belt grading aways plus the senior black belt promotions. The CK Choi sparring dvd is now on sale and will be available on the promotion...
