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Spectacular Taekwon-Do Display in Cabra |
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Students at Grandmaster Howard’s Taekwon-Do School in Cabra wowed a packed hall of spectators at their annual January martial arts demonstration. The Taekwon-Do students aged from 6 to 73 years demonstrated all aspects of the Korean martial art. The younger children showed off the jumping, kicking and flexibility, while the higher grades impressed the audience with the vast array of self-defence moves and spectacular kicks. Some of the students said afterwards that ‘The highlight of the evening was when the black belts smashed their way through piles of timber, tiles and bricks.’ Grandmaster Howard rounded off the night with an impressive knife-hand strike into tiles. The event was to launch the Taekwon-Do school’s new beginners’ classes held every Tuesday and Thursday at 8 pm in the Cabra Parkside Community Centre (The Bogies),Ratoath Rd, Cabra.
The videos from the Demonstration are now available on the site at: http://www.masterhoward.com/index.php/gallery/taekwon-do-demonstration-videos.html
For further information see our classes section |
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Merry Christmas & Happy New Year |
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Happy Christmas to all the members of Grandmaster Howard’s Taekwon-Do School and to their families. The last class was Tuesday 20th December and we start back training on Tuesday the 3rd of January 2012. The Friday Tigers class will start back the 6th of January. We’ll be having a New Year Demonstration on Tuesday 24th January and starting Adult and Teenagers beginners classes on Tuesday 31st of January. Have a great Christmas and we’ll see you in the new year.
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Presentations to Grandmaster Howard |
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In recognition of his promotion to 9th degree and his dedication to Taekwon-Do the students of GM Howard’s Dojang presented Grandmaster Howard with a beautiful piece of engraved glass. The glass had a picture of GM Howard in the centre and it was surrounded by the place and year of all his black belt promotions, from 1st degree (Oxford 1971) to 9th degree (Pyongyang 2011). Grandmaster Howard was genuinely surprised and delighted when he received the award from the students.
Also on the night, Senior Master Anthony Phelan (RITA Vice-President) officially presented GM Howard with an embroidered IX degree black belt. Senior master Phelan said ‘Traditionally Grandmaster Howard would present his new 1st degree black belts with their first black belt. But his instructor First Grandmaster Rhee lives in Glasgow, so behalf of the RITA and the Cabra students I’d like to present you with this embroidered 9th degree black belt.’
The Cabra members would like to thank Mr Tobin from Carrick on Suir for organizing the embroidery |
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Grading Success |
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Congratulations to all the beginners who passed their first grading under ITF Examiner Senior Master Anthony Phelan (8th degree). All the beginners were successfully promoted to 9th kup (yellow tag). SM Phelan was very pleased with the standard and gave some useful advice and tips to each member grading. Two members from the main class were also promoted; Arno Denne to 1st kup (black tag) and Greg Costello to 6th kup (green belt).
Full list of results below.
Arno Denne 1st kup
Greg Costello 6th kup
Tommy McCluskey 9th kup
Rory Callan 9th kup
Kevin Dunne 9th kup
Alex Petrisor 9th kup
Judy Chen 9th kup
Katie Callan 9th kup
Simon Palmer 9th kup
Aodh O’Leary 9th kup |
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Success at ITF-Irish Open for Cabra Students |
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Grandmaster Howard’s students had success at the ITF-Irish Open Taekwon-Do Championships in Tallaght recently, when they took
home 4 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze between them.
In the black belt division; Mr Leon McSherry took silver in the 3rd/4th degree pattern, while Mr Adam Fox smashed a total of
10 boards to take the gold in the Power event.
In the colour belt sections; Alex Nowak swept the board with gold in patterns, sparring and special technique, while
Laura O’Donoghue took home a bronze in her sparring event.
Well done to all those who took part. The next event is the ITF-Ireland Cup on the 31st March 2012 in Cork city. Hopefully
we’ll have a large number of competitors from the our dojang.
Full results and some video clips on the RITA site www.rita-ift.org and facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Republic-of-Ireland-Taekwon-Do-Association/271416736224523 |
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Students at Grandmaster Howard’s Taekwon-Do School in Cabra wowed a packed hall of spectators at their annual January martial arts demonstration. The Taekwon-Do students aged from 6 to 73 years demonstrated all aspects of the Korean martial art. The younger children showed off the jumping, kicking and flexibility, while the higher grades impressed the audience with the vast array of self-defence moves and spectacular kicks. Some of the students said afterwards that ‘The highlight of the evening was when the black belts smashed their way through piles of timber, tiles and bricks.’ Grandmaster Howard rounded off the night with an impressive knife-hand strike into tiles. The event was to launch the Taekwon-Do school’s new beginners’ classes held every Tuesday and Thursday at 8 pm in the Cabra Parkside Community Centre (The Bogies),Ratoath Rd, Cabra.
The videos from the Demonstration are now available on the site at: http://www.masterhoward.com/index.php/gallery/taekwon-do-demonstration-videos.html
For further information see our classes section
Happy Christmas to all the members of Grandmaster Howard’s Taekwon-Do School and to their families. The last class was Tuesday 20th December and we start back training on Tuesday the 3rd of January 2012. The Friday Tigers class will start back the 6th of January. We’ll be having a New Year Demonstration on Tuesday 24th January and starting Adult and Teenagers beginners classes on Tuesday 31st of January. Have a great Christmas and we’ll see you in the new year.
In recognition of his promotion to 9th degree and his dedication to Taekwon-Do the students of GM Howard’s Dojang presented Grandmaster Howard with a beautiful piece of engraved glass. The glass had a picture of GM Howard in the centre and it was surrounded by the place and year of all his black belt promotions, from 1st degree (Oxford 1971) to 9th degree (Pyongyang 2011). Grandmaster Howard was genuinely surprised and delighted when he received the award from the students.
Also on the night, Senior Master Anthony Phelan (RITA Vice-President) officially presented GM Howard with an embroidered IX degree black belt. Senior master Phelan said ‘Traditionally Grandmaster Howard would present his new 1st degree black belts with their first black belt. But his instructor First Grandmaster Rhee lives in Glasgow, so behalf of the RITA and the Cabra students I’d like to present you with this embroidered 9th degree black belt.’
The Cabra members would like to thank Mr Tobin from Carrick on Suir for organizing the embroidery
Congratulations to all the beginners who passed their first grading under ITF Examiner Senior Master Anthony Phelan (8th degree). All the beginners were successfully promoted to 9th kup (yellow tag). SM Phelan was very pleased with the standard and gave some useful advice and tips to each member grading. Two members from the main class were also promoted; Arno Denne to 1st kup (black tag) and Greg Costello to 6th kup (green belt).
Full list of results below.
Arno Denne 1st kup
Greg Costello 6th kup
Tommy McCluskey 9th kup
Rory Callan 9th kup
Kevin Dunne 9th kup
Alex Petrisor 9th kup
Judy Chen 9th kup
Katie Callan 9th kup
Simon Palmer 9th kup
Aodh O’Leary 9th kup
Grandmaster Howard’s students had success at the ITF-Irish Open Taekwon-Do Championships in Tallaght recently, when they took
home 4 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze between them.
In the black belt division; Mr Leon McSherry took silver in the 3rd/4th degree pattern, while Mr Adam Fox smashed a total of
10 boards to take the gold in the Power event.
In the colour belt sections; Alex Nowak swept the board with gold in patterns, sparring and special technique, while
Laura O’Donoghue took home a bronze in her sparring event.
Well done to all those who took part. The next event is the ITF-Ireland Cup on the 31st March 2012 in Cork city. Hopefully
we’ll have a large number of competitors from the our dojang.
Full results and some video clips on the RITA site www.rita-ift.org and facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Republic-of-Ireland-Taekwon-Do-Association/271416736224523