Its been a few weeks since my last blog entry so i thought i would just give an update on all the things that has happened recently.

A few weeks ago Master Oldham VIII came and taught the coloured belt classes again which was a great honour. He was originally one of the first 12 black belts in the UK back in the early 60's/70's and has a tremendous amount of knowledge. He actaully had me in front of the whole class performing Toi Gye to highlight how to do certain techniques correctly etc which i was very proud about.

Every now and then new clubs join the GTUK and recently a club joined in the city i work in (50km from where i live) and so i decided to go along to see what they were like. They do a slightly different version of ITF TKD to us and so have been trying to learn the GTUK way as we have a grading coming up (more on that in a bit!) and so for about half of the lesson the instructor had me teaching the green tags to black tags 1/2 step sparring. At the end of the lesson we hada quick Q&A section where they asked me some questions about how we grade etc and i hope i helped them feel and bit more of a part in the GTUK.

This week we had a prelim grading practice for our coming up grading (end of the month!). I am currently going for my Black tag but our instructor thought it would be good to practice our breaks for our black belt. There is me and one other person taking their adult black belt at the next available black belt grading in march (if we are allowed). The breaks we need to perform are a side kick, from rear leg, through 3 inches of wood, reverse punch through 2 inches and a jumping high kick though 1" of wood a foot above our head. I managed to do the side kick 2nd time (i broke my toe 2 weeks ago so tried to take it a little bit too easy), the punch first time and the jumping high kick 2nd time. Even this fair away from the grading if i had done that in the grading for real i would still be in for a good shot at the black belt so that gave me good confidence.

So thats it, a quick round up of my past few weeks TKD training. Lots coming up, like gradings, instructors courses, competitions etc so i am sure i will be weblogging soon!

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