Archives December 2013

On Friday 6th December GMAC held an intermediate grading for the youngest students of the academy our TKD Kids classes, who are all 3 and 4 years old.  5 of the students took part in the grading.

We’d like to congratulate the following students;

Promoted to Yellow Stripe;

Jonathan Maciver, Zach Cannon, Anthony Clark, Eilidh Watts & Ruaridh Anderson.

Photo’s can be found on our Facebook page by clicking the link below;

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On the 1st December GMAC held their final Taekwon-Do Grading of 2013.

We’d like to congratulate the following students on their promotion’s.

Promoted to 9th Kup;

Christopher McChesney.

 
Promoted to 8th Kup;

Jonathan Gamble & Robert Parsons.

Promoted to 7th Kup;

Lewis Fern, Ben Melrose, John Melrose, Skye MacGregor & Anna Scott.

Promoted to 6th Kup;

Jacob Ciantar, Natalie Pennycook & Jade Morrison.

Promoted to 5th Kup;

James Hilley, Shelby Bennett & Ross Kellechan.

Promoted to 4th Kup;

Bethan Turner, Scott Glidden, Robin McChesney & Daniel Brown.
Promoted to 3rd Kup;

Kyle McKay.

Promoted to 2nd Kup;

Lauren Watson.

Promoted to 1st Kup;

David Ferguson.

On Sunday 1st December GMAC held their final Little Ninja & Kickin Kid Grading’s of 2013.

We’d like to congratulate the following students on their promotions.

LITTLE NINJA’S

Promoted to Nifty Ninja (Yellow); 

Kevin Williams, Ben Waddell, Ethan Hubbard, Ryan MacTavish, Josh McAlaney & Shay Condron.

Promoted to Speedy Ninja (Orange);

Kyle Walker, Miles Anderson, Owen Phelan & Ruben Pearson.

Promoted to Cool Ninja (Green);

Jack Pllu.

Promoted to Super Ninja (Blue);

Diya Babu, Lois Lord & Sophie Hunter.

Promoted to Top Ninja (Purple);

Callum Houston & Fergus MacColl.

Promoted to Champion Ninja (Completion of Ninja Programme);

Poppy Lord & Lennon McAvoy.

KICKIN’ KIDS

Promoted to Quick Kicker (Yellow);

Alexander Skwierz, Kane Bennett, Madison Harvie & Jamie Adair.

Promoted to Speed Kicker (Orange);

Lee Dunn, Evan Kelman & Beth Shields.

Promoted to Cool Kicker (Green);

Connor Fyfe & Niamh Kellechan.

Promoted to Super Kicker (Blue);

Callum Neill.

Promoted to Top Kicker (Purple);

Kyle Jamieson & Callum Bruce.
Promoted to Ace Kicker (Brown);

Jon Rafferty, Lewis Gilchrist, Carmen McCormick & Kyle Yimaz.

Promoted to Premier Kicker (Red);

Fraser MacColl.

Promoted to 7th Kup (TKD);

Stuart Coombes.

On the 16th November Mr Mark Davies held a seminar for GMAC on Improvised Weapons.  The course was well attended with over 35 participants, with some travelling up from Newcastle to take part.

The afternoon started with a brief information session from Mr Davies regarding the benefits of using everyday items as defence weapons. After this the participants got straight into various confrontational scenarios that they could encounter and how to use some basic self defence knowledge to their advantage.

Mr John Munro kindly offered to be the attacker throughout the day and was put through the wars as Mr Davies demonstrated many simple yet effective ways to deal with standard attacks (at one point Mr Munro ended up knotted up like a pretzel!).

The participants used various tools throughout the day including plastic bottles, dog leads and pens to mention a few and all were very effective as improvised self defence tools.

We’d like to thank Mr Davies for another awesome seminar.   Watch this space for more in 2014.

Photographs taken on the day can be found on our Facebook Gallery page (link below).

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