We had a Tyger combat and High kick competition for the Junior Tygers (5-8yrs) at Sitttingbourne and Faversham Taekwondo club. We had 13 competitors in total from both clubs. The first event was the high kick, where the Tygers are not allowed to jump but they have to kick a ball attached to a piece of string. They must kick the ball on the way up or down but cannot go up, down then back up again. The height of the ball is based on the height of the competitor. Firstly we

November is our busy grading month. We have gradings for Junior Tygers on Saturday 11th November and the Taekwondo students have a grading on Sunday 12th November 2017. Junior Tygers The highest grades are on first, make sure you have seen the syllabus on the website and have practiced all the moves. There are also words to learn, so practice answering those. Each Tyger gets a score out of 3 for each activity they perform so for Balance white belts have to kick a pad 3 ti

On Saturday 7th October, the TSA Taekwondo team and a few other met at the Beach. The gem of a Beach at Camber Sands in East Sussex. The beach is about an hour away from Sittingbourne and slightly less from Faversham. We have been coming along to this beach to do this type of training for about 6 years now. Nearly 20 people showed up to do the training this time along with one dog. We had the obligatory photo to start the event followed by a gentle run to the lifeguard st

A great day out in Hatfield, Hertfordshire on 1st Oct 2017 as we took a team of 18 competitors along to the latest National Taekwondo competition. This competition is open to any Taekwondo player anywhere in the country so it qualifies as a National Competition. There were just short of 400 competitors in total. We had representatives in all the different categories, adults, cadets, juniors, coloured belts and black belts. We had 3 brand new competitors who had not done a

So, at 49 years young after 35 years of doing Taekwondo it was about time I took my 5th Dan grading. I applied to grade with the PUMA organisation which is an excellent organisation mainly based in t he South West of England but has clubs all over the country. Mr. Harper, our own grading examiner is with PUMA and he helped me with my application when applying to grade. I had to write an essay about "My heroes and why they inspire me". I also had to attend a pre-grading in