Last Sunday's English championships were a great success despite the terrible weather conditions. Special congratulations to all the instructors and students who came all the way down from Scotland to brave the weather and be first at the venue to lay the carpets. Well Done! The TAGB committee also w...
I would like to start my blog this week by wishing our TAGB instructor Mr. Adrian Woods a speedy recovery from his sudden illness, Get Well Soon Adrian and best wishes from all of us and on a happier note, I would like to congratulate TAGB instructors Ms Jill Pearce and her son Daniel on their recen...
I have been ut of the country for the past 10 days, hence no blogg, but back at it again now. Its my first pre black belt training session for the South East Area this Saturdain in Dorking, which I am looking forward to. For the English championships a week on Sunday we have introudced staggered start...
Master Sergiew has just returned from Russia where he ran a very successful officials course in Moscow for the Russian federation who will be attending our world championships in July. I received the Australia squad's registration this week, they will be bringing a team of 20 from good old Oz to comp...
Unfortunately the snow has returned in some area's this week, I hope it did not disrupt your classes too much. The South Midlands championships went ahead last week-end in Hereford as planned, much to Master Atkin's relief. Grand master Choi has informed me that the tae kwon do pioneers have had a me...
The next issue of martial arts illustrated magazine will carry a nice article on the last British championships plus an article on the British Tae Kwon Do Council and its aims and achievements for the future. This week I have been busy going through some of my old photographs to be used in my book '...
I have spent quite a bit of time on the phone this last week, chatting to Grandmaster C.K. Choi in Vancouver about his new book, it is called Traditional martial arts philosophy for the body mind and spirit. He tells me that his goal in writing this book was to present the elements of good character...
