ScotiaTKD

Scotland national sparring training open to all ages and grades. Every Sunday.

Venue Armadale Academy Under 12,s 10-11.30am – £5 13 and over 11.30-3.30 – £10
Great chance to improve sparring from beginner to black belt with the official Scotland coaching team.
Attire is t-shirt and dobok bottoms, bring plenty of water.

Mr Condies classe’s on Friday, Saturday and Monday will not be on due to the easter holidays.

The 2nd Goodwill Scottish Championships will be held on Saurday 2nd June 2012 at

Meadowbank Sports Centre, 139 London Road, Edinburgh, EH7 6AE

Open to Coloured and Black Belts, 9am Start

Quiz night/ family disco Saturday 14th of April, This event will be held in Overtown Bowling Club (Near Wishaw) from7pm till12 midnight.  The cost will be £5.00 per person and this will include pie and beans.

Any raffle prizes which could be donated would be greatly appreciated.

The first week in March started with a bang as it was Scotia TKD first Interclub. 342 competitors all competing in patterns, sparring,  special technique and team patterns.  What a busy day with 8 rings running constantly. The standard was very high and competitive and a thank you to Mr Gilmour for his attendance with his students, and also a big thank you to Mr Mathewson who travelled down from Aberdeen with his students to make the day extra special.  All the results will be posted  very soon.

T-UK students have been training very hard lately with the Scottish National ITF team to try and represent Scotland at the forthcoming ITF European championships being held in Slovenia in April.  I am very proud to announce the results.  The following students will be travelling to Slovenia to compete.

Stewart Walker                  Individual 3^rd Degree Patterns and Scotland Adult Male team

India Isles                           Individual Light weight Sparring and Scotland Adult female team

Lewis Walker                     Individual Heavy weight Junior Sparring and Scotland Junior Male team

Ross Cavinue                     Scotland adult Male Team

Andrew Millar                   Scotland Adult Male Team

Lewis Walker                     Scotland Junior Male Team

Megan Smillie                   Scotland Junior female Team

Sunday 26th February was a momentous occasion for Mr Condie and T-UK as Scotland was hosting its first Back Belt Grading.  T-UK had six candidates sitting their 1^st Degree Black Belts and one candidate testing for 2^nd Degree.  The grading started at 10am sharp with each student being interviewed, and being questioned on their views of tkd, future, thesis and TKD history.  This gave our President a chance to know a lot more about each students character and passion for our art.  A quick change into dobok for the students and the test began.  Each member performed every pattern up to and including their grade and then had to perform each technique one move at a time explaining the Korean terminology and application.  Once the patterns section of the grading was finished, each candidate was tested on step sparring, technical kicking, free sparring ( 1 v 1, 2 v 1, 3 v 1), self-defence, special technique, destruction and theory. The grading took five and a half hours to complete and everyone gave tremendous effort and were truly tested mentally and physically.  The grading panel of Mr Archer VI, Mr Condie IV, and guest Mr Gilmour V, were extremely pleased with everyone’s effort.  Scotland T-UK are pleased to announce results of test

Mr Kenneth Ferguson to 2^nd Degree

Mr Steven Ferguson to 1^st Degree

Miss Lauren Bryce to 1^st Degree

Miss Nicola Foley to 1^st Degree

Mr Colin Cupples to 1^st Degree

Mr Simon Denholm to 1^st Degree

There were also junior star testing on the day, results

Promoted to 1^st Degree 1 star

Megan Cordner

Kimberely Baird

Euan Smith

Promoted to 1^st Degree 2 star

Megan Smillie

Amy Thomson

Sarah Thomson

Liam King

T-UK will be hosting one BB grading test per year in Scotland.

February and March have been extremely busy for Taekwon-Do UK in Scotland.  We have had our Scotia TKD fighters winning Kickboxing titles to add to their growing list of achievements  to gain valuable experience in the ring and preparing us for bigger TKD events approaching fast.

February also saw T-UK hold its 2^nd technical course and self-defence course too.  Mr Archer VI took time away from his busy schedule to deliver a first class technical seminar covering all aspects of tkd.  Mr Archer has amazingly attended and gained valuable knowledge at 3 International Instructors course within the past 9 months, and it was brilliant to share with the Scottish contingent.  Mr Archer was assisted by Mr Condie who were delighted by the 50 plus turnout by eager Black belts.  All students on the course received the most up to date tkd manual and had an open forum at the end to ask as many questions as possible.  It was such a relief to clear up so many areas including step sparring , technique and application and a great day was had by all.

The same afternoon was our self- defence course, this training session had more candidates than the technical course which proves our new syllabus is second to none and is enjoyable and interesting to students.  Mr Archer and Mr Condie went through pass over drills, take downs, grabs, locks, limb destruction, knife defence and ground work.  Great participation from members and once again all received their own manuals for reference.  Our self-defence program has been compiled by the expert eye of Mark Davies and the T-Uk executive.  Mr Archer was pleased with the students performance and at the end of an 8 hour training session it was time to call it a day.

Saturday 25th February 2012

Taekwon-do uk – Scottish Technical Course

9am – 1pm

Open to blue belt and above, all ages welcome,  £30

Self Defence Course

1.30pm – 5.00pm

Instructors free of charge, Open to all grades, £15
Venue: Carluke lifestyles centre
Glenafeoch road
Carluke
ML8 4DS

All blackbelts should be in attendance or a letter given to Mr Archer out of courtesy.

Blackbelt grading test Sunday 26th February Scotia TKD Academy 9.30am registration 10am start. Candidates should attend in official clothing with a clean dobok, sparring gear and pen. All breaking wood and bricks will be supplied at test, Good luck.