We have pleasure in inviting you and your students to our first competition of the year; the GTI English Open Championships in Cheltenham on Sunday 19th February. This will be held at the Leisure @ Cheltenham Sports Centre which has both cafeteria and swimming pool facilities. Please click the above poster for cost and venue details.
Download and print poster for your school noticeboards
Facebook Event, click here to join and share

As normal there will be both point-stop and continuous sparring categories, patterns, board breaking, and high jumping front kick competition. This is also the last event for the Black Belt Competitor of the Year hopefuls to gain points for the 2011/12 awards.

To Take Part:
Download and fill in the Individual Competition Entry Form then hand the completed entry forms to your school instructor

GTI Instructors - please collect all your student entries and then download and fill in the G8 GTI Competition Block Entry Form.
Non-GTI Schools - please collect all your student entries and then download and fill in the Non GTI Competition Block Entry Form

Sent all to:
Postal entries (Instructor cheques only please): Mr. S. McGinley, 4 Woodcrest, Bicton Heath, Shrewsbury SY3 5EU - Tel: 07963 065229
Email entries (Please attach forms when emailing with payment made on the door): tournaments©gti-taekwondo.com
(NB. Instructors should retain the G10 forms for 14 days after the event)
Closing date for entries is Wednesday 15th Feb.

Also:

• 22 January - Photos from January 2012 Squad Training added
  
• 16 January - Updated Instructor's Enquiry page
  
• 15 January - Click here for what we think is A Guide to what the belt colours truly represent
  
• 14 January - Website colour theme temporarily changed, simply just for a change, old colour back in a week.

The GTI would like to wish all GTI friends and colleagues a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.



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Also

• 29 December 2011 - Students from the Cornwall Tae Kwon-Do schools in Camborne, HMS Seahawk (RNAS Culdrose), Newquay and Truro took to the beach for their annual 'blow out the cobwebs' Christmas training session. The martial artists were joined by numerous dog walkers and surfers on Newquay's Towan Beach on Tuesday 27th December as they displayed Tae Kwon-Do's impressive range of hand and kicking techniques. And following the tradition of previous years, the session ended in the sea, with students dodging the surfers to take their Christmas dip!
  
  Liam Broderick, who organised this event states, 'this is the 25th year that we've held this special training session in Newquay and I would like to congratulate everyone that took part on their courageous spirit as they braved the winter weather and rough seas! This is the end to a particularly successful year for the Global Tae Kwon-Do International schools in Cornwall, with students gaining lots of new belts and winning many trophies at local and national competitions but more importantly they have raised over £1,400 for the Help for Heroes and Children in Need charities, a superb effort! As we go into 2012 we are looking forward to another great year and are very excited about Olympic Tae Kwon-Do coming to the UK for the first time. I would like to wish our students and supporters a Happy New Year and look forward to meeting lots of new beginners in January 2012!'
  
  Cornwall Tae Kwon-Do offers free training for the whole of January. For details please contact Liam Broderick on 07855 734984 or visit www.cornwall-taekwondo.com or Cornwall Taekwondo on Facebook.
  
  Click here for pictures and see youtube for videos
  
  
  
  
• 17 December 2011 - Congratulations to all 62 students of GTI North London (www.NLTKD.com) who took todays grading and passed. Thanks to Examiner Mr Gordon Slater for the marathon 6 hour of grading. Click here for pictures and here for youtube video
  
  
  
  
• GTI is now on Google+ come visit us
  
• Video from Mr Jason Burgess. (GTI Wells) on Patterns application from this years GTI Seminar.

Regarding the recent GTI British championships held in Cheltenham on Sunday 13th November 2011.

I would like to say many thanks for the well run tournament, especially to all the corner judges and referees.
It’s refreshing to attend a TKD tournament or any other kind of tournament without there being bias to outsiders who attend.

With this in mind and on behalf of me, my students and my spectators please pass this on to all the people concerned.

Many thanks;
Yours in Taekwon-Do
Master Ron Thomas President of the Taekwondo Association Europe

Tournament Results
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more pictures at



We have pleasure in inviting you and your students to our GTI British Open Championships in Cheltenham on Sunday 13th November. This will be held at the Leisure @ Cheltenham venue with a 9.30a.m. start. Please see the attached poster for costs and full venue details. Download and print poster for your school noticeboards

Competition Categories
As normal there will be both point-stop and continuous sparring categories, patterns, and board breaking. The jumping high front kick competition will also be making a return.

Point-Stop Rule Change
Please remind any competitors and officials about the following rule changes in point-stop sparring that were introduced at the last competition. The continuous sparring rules of "Travelling" (i.e. Stepping out of Area: one- point deduction every second occasion the competitor’s foot goes wholly outside the line) and a one- point deduction for each "Loss of Balance" will now also apply to point-stop sparring.

We Need Your Support
As always we need your ongoing support to provide an ample number of officials to ensure the day runs smoothly, so please encourage any officials in your School to attend. If you have any black belts or senior coloured belt grades who aren't yet a trainee or qualified official but would like to assist then they would be most welcome. There are plenty of non-officiating tasks with which they can help and this in turn frees up officials to get on with the judging. For more information contact tournaments©gti-taekwondo.com

To Take Part:
Download and fill in the Individual Competition Entry Form then hand the completed entry forms to your school instructor

GTI Instructors - please collect all your student entries and then download and fill in the G8 GTI Competition Block Entry Form.
Non-GTI Schools - please collect all your student entries and then download and fill in the Non GTI Competition Block Entry Form

Sent all to:
Postal entries (Instructor cheques only please): Mr. S. McGinley, 4 Woodcrest, Bicton Heath, Shrewsbury SY3 5EU - Tel: 07963 065229
Email entries (Please scan and attach completed forms when emailing. Payment is collected on the door): tournaments©gti-taekwondo.com

Closing date for entries is Friday 11th November.

Also:
New Master Sewell video:

Henk Meijer is a Dutch taekwondo coach and former Olympic taekwondo competitor. He was the men's World ITF and WTF heavyweight champion at the 7th World Taekwondo Championships in 1985, becoming the first non-Korean to win a world title in taekwondo in South Korea. He was Olympic taekwondo coach for the Netherlands at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics, and was later national taekwondo coach for France in February 2010.

GTI Team Coach, Jasper Chow, has scheduled another date for squad training. he has also put forward his vision for the new GTI squad. Instructors, please download, print and give to students.

Master Sewell has uploaded a few more of his videos, with one video highlighting his jumping reverse turning kicks, remember he competed as a heavyweight. See Master Sewell's video page

New GTI Oxford club’s website, http://www.wotkd.co.uk/ is now live.