In a culture that seems to glorify violence in everything from music to video games and television shows, the idea of enrolling your child in martial arts training classes doesn’t always seem like a good one. While martial arts-centered action films seem to be filled to the brim with violent behaviour and gory injuries, you may be surprised to learn that martial arts’ training is actually very beneficial to kids. Like so many other things that Hollywood doesn’t always get rig

Sunday 19th March 2017, we took a road trip to Hatfield in Hertfordshire to compete in the South East Taekwondo championships. We had a team of 16 competitors. It was the first competition for Terri Goodman, who managed to get a silver medal in the sparring. Max Groeger-Wilson fought amazingly well to win his first National level competition. Liam Wise made a welcome return to competition with a stunning performance to take Gold. Kado Bateman stays ahead of all the other

Sunday 5th March saw all the Junior Tygers in their freshly pressed uniforms showing their skill and power in our latest grading. Students from the Sittingbourne and Faversham Taekwondo club came together at the Sittingbourne Dojang to prove they were worthy of the next belt in the progression. They had to kick, punch block and count in Korean in order to pass the mark. The Tygers is an introductory stage of martial arts and they follow a different syllabus to the older Ta