Assistant Instructors
For the time being, Oliver Charles (3^rd Dan) and Roger Husbands (1^st Dan) will be the daily instructors of the Tottenham Branch. This is due to both of them wanting more experience and involvement in being a Taekwondo Instructors. This coincides with the main Instructor, Mr Biodun Sean Onipede, being extremely busy at work and struggling with teaching taekwondo 4 evenings a week. The feedback from student is they are doing a good job and I suppose the students also enjoy the change. Note that Mr Husbands is a fully qualified Instructor and trained with Mr Onipede back in the days, and Mr Charles is a 3rd Dan and former GTI Competitor of the Year. 

C Henryanto
Catherine has won another tournament last weekend. Sadly due to a coloured belt grading over the weekend, the NLTKD had to spend more time with the coloured belts, but Catherine has kept herself fit and had the support of the GTI squad. Special thanks to Chris Davis of the GTI Squad who was ringside with Catherine in her fight. The GTI squad is there for student to take the training to the next level.

GTI National Open
The next GTI tournament is on Sunday 8th of July in Cheltenham. See poster below. Parents, please try and take your kid to the event. With all the best training in the world, unless the student actually attend tournaments, the student cannot reach their potential. This is true for any sport. Catherine is a great champion to a large part due to her parents efforts

I am going to repeat a story here that I mentioned in class today

When I originally join the NLTKD under Mr Albert Williamson-Taylor, I vividly remember one lesson where I (a yellow or green belt) had to spar a guy called Anthony Harris (Black belt). I was not sparring him but getting a thorough beating. After about a third of the sparring bout, I wanted to walk out of the hall, by two thirds of the way though, I was totally demoralised but Anthony Harris shouted at me to “keep fighting”. I wanted to rush him and wrestle him to the ground, but he was too good and glad the beating was over.

I wanted to stop training Taekwondo, but did not want to give up either. Anthony Harris told me in the middle of the beating to “keep fighting” so I decided to dig deep and train harder and better. I learnt a very important lesson from Anthony Harris. Anyone can beat up a weaker opponent, but the real test is fighting some better than you. 

You need to prepare to fight someone better than you. If you are a current student and you are demoralised and upset at getting beat up by another student in class, I know how you feel. Dig deep, get in the trenches, and hang in there. Train harder to be fitter, stronger, more flexible and get more experienced.

Now, outside of Taekwondo, there will be times you feel beaten by school, work or just life in general, and want to give up. Again you grit your teeth and keep fighting on. I have won numerous tournaments but have always learnt more from defeat than victory.

In time, you may not be the best fighter or win, but you will have “no fear”. And that is the main criteria for being a NLTKD black belt.

2017 GTI British Open Taekwondo Championship

The NLTKD strongly encourages all student, regardless or whether they win or loose to enter tournaments particularly GTI event. This tournament is on Sunday 5 November at 9:00–17:00 at Leisure at Cheltenham Tommy Taylors Lane GL50 4RN Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
Enter online at www.gti.wiredma.com

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Nicolas Henryanto has been selected by the GTI to compete at the Open World Championships in Rimini, Italy  in June World Championships this summer . Nicolas has been a member of our club, NLTKD since 2010 and the talented 13 year was selected by GTI Squad Coach, Mr Jasper Chow.

As part of his selection, the GTI will sponsor Nicholas for half of his travel,hotel and tournament entry fees. Our club, the NLTKD will raise the balance of his cost with internal fund-raising and donations. Membership of the NLTKD offer opportunities for students to compete both nationally and internationally .

Any existing NTLKD student who would like to compete at the highest international level needs to attend as many GTI tournaments as possible and let me know so I can get you into the GTI Squad.

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We are attempting to raise £400 for Nicholas to go to the event. if you would like to sponsor him,  you may give me cash in class or use the link below to donate by Paypal