NLTKD had 19 students attend the GTI English Taekwondo Championships held on 27 February 2011. Many of our younger students were on their mid-term holidays so not as many students as we would normally have attended the competition. Also many students were competing in the same category therefore knocking each other out, but was all good. My hero of the day was young Drew Clark. Results can be found at LINK
Scholarship Scheme
The NLTKD has now started a Scholarship scheme to support talented individuals wishing to train, or to continue training with partial to full reduction of their training fees. We have a limited number of Scholarship places available and those selected are expected to show a high and continuing commitment to their Taekwondo training and to supporting club activities. Email pat©nltkd.com for more information
YouTube, Facebook and Twitter
Years ago, we had a guest instructor, Oscar Garcia from Venezuela for 6 months. He was a WTF Taekwondo Black belt and before he left he made our first promo video. It was a bit cheesy but was appreciated. Then James Spencer joined us. He was awesome at patterns. He made a few videos from tournaments before he moved away.
Our grading examiner, Master Sewell, has been famous for his sparring but footage of him fighting is rare. I went to his house and found a rare nugget of him and his brother sparring. All these videos have been uploaded to YouTube, and I have now created a webpage on our website for all our videos on our website
The NLTKD Facebook group page has been deleted. Everyone should join the GTI Facebook group instead and follow us on Twitter at @GlobalTaekwon and get all the latest updates from the GTI
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NLTKD has reopened
NLTKD has reopened after the Christmas break. The advanced classes at the Epicenter , Leytonstone is looking very full and space in the hall is getting tight after the promotion of a few students. We might have to restart dedicated Black Belt classes again. We still have a few vacancies available for beginners at Leytonstone and lots of space at Tottenham branches.
I discovered that I forgot to add pictures from the British Championships 2009, to our website a few old faces there.
I have not got any from the British Championships 2010 though we entered over 20 students. I did find this nice picture of Roger
2010 Xmas party; reopen on Thursday 06 January 2011
Today we held our Annual Christmas party but it turned out into a snowball fight for the kids till they ran out of ammo. Taekwondo training is tough and standards are raising next year and the party is my way of thanking all students and to chill all together. The party marks the end of Taekwondo training for the year till Thursday 06 January 2010
Winter Coloured Belt Grading – December 2010
40+ students were supposed to grade today. Worse snowfall in 25 years caused massive disruption to both roads and public transport. A 20 minute journey to the grading hall took me 1.30 hours. Many were struck for longer preventing 10+ students from attending.
All students that did attend PASSED while we will reschedule another grading for the second week in January for those who could not make it today. Special thanks goes out the Mr Slater who braved the weather driving down from Essex and Mr Houlihan who helped with the grading while I took the constant stream of phone calls from stressed out students caught in the snow.