Archives 2016

On behalf of all the GMAC Instructors and Assistants, we’d like to take the opportunity to thank you all for another great year.  2016 has been an extremely busy year, filled with various events, competitions, lots of courses and seminars.  Its kept us all on our toes at times.  But we’ve loved sharing every minute of it all with you all, as well as the extended GMAC family, parents and carers.

Personally we’d like to thank the instructors who’ve put so much in to the classes this year, continually working hard, pushing the students to get the best from them.  We’ve seen every single student achieve something this year, and we look forward to working hard to achieve even more in 2017.

We as always thank you for your continued support, and wish you all a very happy and safe holiday with family and friends.

Merry Christmas & A Very Prosperous New Year when it comes!!  We’ll see you all refreshed and raring to go in January!

Mr. & Mrs. McIlvaney and family

Earlier in the month we also had the promotions of our Kickboxers;

Congratulations to the following students:

 
Promoted to Yellow Stripe

John Doherty, Drew McCrory, Nathan Willis, Megan Crosby, Mark Burns, Katie Drummond, Derek Walker, Emma Walker, Kheelan Condon, Brian Dowell & Natalia Knap

 

Promoted to Yellow Belt

Kayleigh Sprott, Jack Clemens, Brian Keenan, Eddie Christie, Adrian Knap, Ravinder Panesar, Chloe Kidd, Oliwia Loza & Aidan Soave

 

Promoted to Green Stipe

Ben McSeveney, Rhys Keenan, Ben Melrose, Ewa Malwinska, Sophie Niezbecka, Jack Robertson & Dale McQuade

 

Promoted to Green Belt

Jamie Burns, Audrey McQuade, Ethan McEwan & Reno Christie

 

Promoted to Blue Stripe

Grier Gilmour

 

Promoted to Blue Belt

John Mitchell, Scott Goodman, Gary Todd & Lorna Geoghans

Congratulations to the following students promoted after the recent grading on 10th December:

 

Promoted to 9th Kup (White Belt/Yellow Tag):

Melissa Robertson, Luke Lawrie, Alex Baban, Fernando Baban, Cara Dolan and Jillian Edwardson

 

Promoted to 8th Kup (Yellow Belt):

Blair Steel

 

Promoted to 5th Kup (Green Belt/Blue Tag):

Despina Athanasiadou & Scott Crookston

 

Promoted to 4th Kup (Blue Belt):

Jacolin Brown

 

Promoted to 2nd Kup (Red Belt):

Ryan McMenemy, Niamh Kellechan & Joshua Miller

 

Promoted to 1st Kup (Red Belt/Black Tags):

Dominic Burns

 

 

Congratulations to all!

 

We held our last Little Ninja & Kickin Kid Grading’s of 2016 on Saturday 10th December.  Congratulations to the following student’s who promoted to the next belt.

 

LITTLE NINJA’S

 

Nifty Ninja (Yellow Belt):  

Danyal Haq, Junaid Abbas, Logan Ciupek, Samuel Ayinde, Hayden Casey, Alexis Shaw & Rhys Fraser

Speedy Ninja (Orange Belt):

Lewis Devine, Ross Devine, Lewis Watt, Ayden Le Roux, Kayla Walker, Jessica Halloran, Jane Marshall & Ryan McCallum

Cool Ninja (Green Belt):

Reni Lawson, Rosa Ameno, Cooper Wood, Cormac Feeney, Isla Harper, Adam Murray , Harry Murray & Kayden Hutchison

Super Ninja (Blue Belt):

Jacob Christison, Jakub Krug & Ewan Tait

Top Ninja (Purple Belt):

William Marshall, Tyler McMillan, Aaron Spiers, Jay Fraser, Harris Stewart & Millie Love

 

KICKIN KIDS

Quick Kicker (Yellow Belt):

Weronika Bartosik & Sharon Shaw

Speed Kicker (Orange Belt):

Zara Sattar & Nathan Pavitt

Super Kicker (Blue Belt):

Eva Rintoul

Top Kicker (Purple Belt):

Eilidh Watts & Sami Save-Kimmings

Ace Kicker (Brown Belt):

Adam Weir

 

And promoting into the Taekwon-Do programme:

7th Kup:

Dylan Rodden & Josh Dunsmore

6th Kup (Champion Kicker):  

Sophie Hunter

 
Congratulations to all

Our Uddingston Gym will be closed over the Christmas & New Year Holiday’s as follows:

Please note some classes will be merged together, due to expected numbers attending during the Christmas period.

 

Christmas / New Year Timetable

Tuesday 20th December:

Our Livingston Gym will be closed over the Christmas & New Year Holiday’s as follows:

Please note some classes will be merged together, due to expected numbers attending during the Christmas period.

 

Christmas / New Year Timetable

Saturday 17th December:  ITF Kids Christmas Party 10.30am – 11.15am

Monday 19th December:  Little Ninja’s & Kickin Kids Christmas Party 6pm – 7pm.  Adult TKD & Junior Kickboxing merged 7pm – 8pm

Tuesday 20th December:  Little Ninja’s & Kickin Kids Christmas Party 6pm – 7pm.  Junior TKD Party 7-8pm.  Adult Kickboxing 8pm-9pm

Wednesday 21st December:  GYM CLOSED FOR HOLIDAY’S

Saturday 7th January 2017:  GYM RE-OPEN’S.   ITF Kids classes resume 10.30am – 11.15am

Monday 9th January 2017:  All classes as normal

Tuesday 10th January 2017:  All classes as normal 

Our Wishaw Gym’s will be closed over the Christmas & New Year Holiday’s as follows:

Please note some classes will be merged together, due to expected numbers attending during the Christmas period.

 

Christmas / New Year Timetable

Gowkthraple Classes (Tuesday evening’s):

There will be no classes throughout December.  These will resume from January 2017.

 

Volunteer Centre Classes:

Monday 19th December:  Last Classes of 2016.

 

Monday 9th January:  Classes resume as normal.

Saturday 26th November saw us host our 3rd Annual Awards Night, once again in the Colville Park Club, Motherwell.

What a fabulous evening celebrating the achievements of 2016! It was our biggest one yet!!

2016 certainly has been busy year, a successful year and a memorable year. Thank you to all who came along to celebrate the students achievements throughout this past year. 

After a run down of the years events on the evening, which included details of the competition wins throughout 2016, we did count that GMAC students entered no less than 22 tournaments in 2016, almost 1 every second weekend!  (We certainly were a busy bunch this year). Mr. McIlvaney asked the question “How many medals did we win over the year?”  

Well now we’ve counted, it took some time …..excluding our inter club competitions, we won a grand total of 105 Gold, 129 Silver and 133 Bronze medals in 12 months….WOW!!!

 

 

As most of the awards have now been handed out to those who couldn’t make it on the evening, we’ve now collated the full list of winners and runners up, detailed below:

 

STUDENTS CHOICE AWARDS

ITF Kids

Winner:  Sanaya Panesar.  

Runner’s Up:  Connor Campbell & Max Watson

 

Little Ninja’s

Winners:  Livingston Class 1 – Connor McCullagh

                Livingston Class 2 – Harris Stewart

                Wishaw – Ethan Massey

                Uddingston – Isla Harper

Runner’s Up:  Connor Shepherd (LC1), Kayla Walker (LC1), Nickolas Brown (LC2), Declan Bowman (LC2), Zander McLean (W), Charlotte Daly (W), Keeva Lynch (U) and Alexis Shaw (U)

 

Kickin Kid’s

Winners:  Livingston Class 1 – Mhairi Crookston

                Livingston Class 2 – Josh Dunsmore

                Wishaw – Callum Durie

                Uddingston – Sharon Shaw

Runner’s Up:  Kera McLeish (LC1), Aiden McDaid (LC1), Megan Doherty (LC2), Sydney Farrell (LC2), Kiana Munro (LC2), Sam Jones (W), Declan McAvoy (W), Kenzie Hailstones (U) and Owen Gallacher (U)

 

Junior Taekwon-Do

Winners:  Livingston – Donatella Fargnoli

                Wishaw – Hayden McAvoy

                Uddingston – Callum Geoghans

                Tollcross – Caitlin Hughes

Runner’s Up:  Connor Hall (L), Bethan Turner (L), Kyle Lynch (L), Anton McMenemy (W), Josh Miller (W), Ben Melrose (U), Lewis Gilchrist (U), Ryan Thomson (T) and Kimberley Gill (T)

 

 

Senior Taekwon-Do

Winners:  Livingston – Jason Munro

                Wishaw – Ellie Weir

                Uddingston – John Melrose

Runner’s Up:  Jacolin Brown (L), Gary McAlister (L), Cerys Turner (L), Ross Cowan (W), Gary McAvoy (W), Jamie Thomson (U) and Callum Gilchrist (U)

 

Junior Kickboxing

Winners:  Livingston – Ethan McEwan

                Uddingston – Nathan Willis

Runner’s Up:  Dale McQuade (L), Sophie Niezbecka (L), Megan Crosbie (U) and Ben Melrose (U)

 

Senior Kickboxing

Winners:  Livingston – Ewa Malwinska

                Uddingston – Scott Goodman

Runner’s Up:  Emma Walker (L), Dorota Ungeheuer-Loza (L), Colin Cupples (U) and Lorna Geoghans (U)

 

 

STUDENTS OF THE YEAR AWARDS (Instructor’s Choice)

ITF Kids

Winner:  Holly Rees-Nicol

Runner’s Up:  Ziva Lewicka and Dylan Turnbull

 

Little Ninja’s

Winners:  Livingston Class 1 – Lewis Watt

                Livingston Class 2 – Jakub Krug

                Wishaw – Alex Nisbet

                Uddingston – Conolyn Lynch

Runner’s Up:  Rosa Ameno (LC1), Jessica Halloran (LC1), Jacob Christison (LC2), Jonathan Maciver (LC2), Jamie Coombes (W), Ethan Massey (W), Ellie Menzies (U) and Harry Kirk (U)

 

Kickin Kid’s

Winners:  Livingston Class 1 – Eilidh Watts

                Livingston Class 2 – Roshan Haq

                Wishaw – Declan McAvoy

                Uddingston – Ben McSeveney

Runner’s Up:  Chloe Jervis (LC1), Sami Save-Kimmings (LC1), Kaity Weir (W), Dylan McMaster (W), Arran Harper (U) and Daniel Hedges Jnr (U)

 

Junior Taekwon-Do

Winners:  Livingston – Kyle Lynch

                Wishaw – Anton McMenemy

                Uddingston – Lewis Gilchrist

Runner’s Up:  Adrian Lewicki (L), Betahn Turner (L), Ross Kellechan (W), Jaimie Singleton (W), Callum Geoghans (U) and Ben Melrose (U)

 

Senior Taekwon-Do

Winners:  Livingston – Nicola Hamilton

                Wishaw – Gary McAvoy

                Uddingston – Colin Cupples

                Tollcross – Lauren Watson

Runner’s Up:  Desoina Athanasiadou (L), Ciaran Livingstone (L), James Murphy (W), Ethan McKenna (W), Graham Brown (U), Daniel Hedges (U), John Rafferty (T) and Robert Parsons (T)

 

Junior Kickboxing

Winners:  Livingston – Aidan Soave

                Uddingston – Ben Melrose

Runner’s Up:  Olivia Loza (L), Jack Robertson (L), Ben McSeveney (U) and Rhys Keenan (U)

 

Senior Kickboxing

Winners:  Livingston – Audrey McQuade

                Uddingston – Lorna Geoghans

Runner’s Up:  Eddie Christie (L), Adrian Knap (L), Gary Todd (U) and Brian Keenan (U)

 

TENET AWARDS

 

 

Sam Jones – Indomitable Spirit

Ryan McMenemy – Indomitable Spirit

Isa Haq – Indomitable Spirit

Cerys Turner – Indomitable Spirit

 

 

BLACK BELT PROMOTIONS 2016

 

1st DEGREE:

Anton McMenemy, Hayden McAvoy, Ciaran Livingstone, Bethan Turner, Donatella Fargnoli & Ross Cowan

 

2nd DEGREE

Ethan McKenna, Melissa Brown, Megan Brown, James Murphy & Gary McAvoy

 

3rd DEGREE

Jason Munro 

 

COMPETITOR OF THE YEAR

 

JUNIOR’S (12 & under)

Uddingston – Ben McSeveney (18 points)

Tollcross – Caitlin Hughes (27 points)

Livingston – Kieran Farrell & Kyle Lynch (both 30 points)

Wishaw – Nathan Cowan (47 points)

 

TEEN’S (13 – 17 years)

Livingston – Jay Jervis (40 points)

Wishaw – Jaimie Singleton (65 points)

 

ADULTS (18 years & over)

Tollcross – Robert Parsons (11 points)

Uddingston – Graham Brown (25 points)

Livingston – Despina Athanasiadou (33 points)

Wishaw – Megan Brown (40 points)

 

 

Congratulations to all the award winners and runners up, you all achieved so much this past year. Congratulations also to each and every student, as you all continually work hard to achieve your goals. We are all proud of your efforts.