Congratulations to Dave Crossland
Warmest congratulations to Dave Crossland who in December was awarded his 3rd Dan, pictured here left with Grandamasters Lindsay Lawrence [left], Mark Biddlecombe and Master King [far right]. And congratulations to Zak and James too who, as pictured right respectively, also graded to 7th and 6th Kup.
GB National Championships
Further to the Taekwondo Chungdokwan GB National Championships held 31st March - 1st April 2012 in Bracknell [Berkshire], which also marked the Association's 30th Anniversary, hence many VIPs from the Taekwondo World attended, such as Great Grandmaster Park Hae Man [10th Dan] and Grandmasters Cheong and Shin, notwithstanding our President Grandmaster Lindsay Lawrence and teams from Hong Kong, Singapore, Iran, Sri Lanka, Holland, France and the Gurkha Regiments, congratulations go to Dave Crossland who came back to Jersey with a Silver medal in the Poomsae section and to Bartosz Zakrzewski who, in the Kyorugi novice section, showed great spirit in being beaten to Bronze.
Island Games
In October 2010, the General Assembly of the Commonwealth Games Federation announced that the Olympic and World Taekwondo Federation sport of Taekwondo has now been added to the list of sports that are eligible for inclusion in future Commonwealth Games programmes.
And in respect of Jersey, the Jersey (Chungdokwan) Taekwondo club, through our affiliation with Taekwondo Chungdokwan GB and the BTCB, as the governing body for WTF Taekwondo in the UK, has constituted BTCB Jersey and has been accepted by the Commonwealth Games Association of Jersey as the official and representative body of the sport of WTF Taekwondo across the Island.
Essentially, as WTF Taekwondo is the only style of Taekwondo permitted to take part in the Olympics and Commonwealth Games, notwithstanding any National, European and World Championships, and moreover as the BTCB is the governing body for WTF Taekwondo in the UK, responsible in turn for selecting teams to compete at international level, then anybody wishing to train in the WTF code, and indeed any budding stars of the future, can therefore only enrol through Jersey (Chungdokwan) Taekwondo.
All we need now – for a clean sweep – is inclusion in the Island Games!
