Archives June 2019

During the summer holidays we run a condensed timetable at the Livingston gym.  Details of which are attached below.

Please note at the moment the Kickboxing class times have still to be confirmed, however the ITF Kids, Little Ninja’s, Kickin’ Kids, ASN and Taekwon-Do will run as per details attached.

We understand that during the holidays you will of course have day trips etc, and at times may miss your normal training sessions, we are very flexible and if you can’t make it one night and wish to catch up another night to suit we are more than happy for you to do so.

If your off on holiday or even a day trip over the summer holidays please don’t forget to send us a picture to our Facebook page of your “Summer Side Kick” and we’ll share them with the page.

Our other venue’s classes are running as normal.

During the school summer holiday’s, we are holding two Kids Camp’s for our students (siblings are welcome along too). These will run as follows:

• Week 1: Monday 29th / Tuesday 30th / Wednesday 31st July
• Week 2: Wednesday 7th / Thursday 8th / Friday 9th August

Details have been emailed out to students, and application forms can be collected at your next class. Please speak with an instructor if you are interested in your child/children attending.

Saturday 8th June saw a pre-test for those looking to sit the next promotional grading later in the year. Thank you to guest examiner Master Denholm for overseeing the pre-test, which saw the candidates perform 9 nine patterns, as well as step sparring, self-defence, technical kicking & board breaking.  
They were also put through their paces with sparring against multiple opponents ranging from 2vs1, up to 4vs1 for those aiming to promote to 4th Degree. The senior grades were also given a new element to the testing, to teach and explain thoroughly a technical element of TKD to the other candidates, in this instance step sparring.

Results and feedback will be emailed out in the coming days

We held our second inter club competition of the year today, which saw 98 competitors take part in three disciplines; Pattern, Sparring and Special Technique. 

Our competitors aged 8 & under kicked it off first at 10am, after a short introduction and welcome from Mr McIlvaney, they got down to the business of striving to earn themselves some new medals competing against their peers. With the under 8’s finishing 20 mins ahead of schedule the umpires took a well deserved short break and a refuel of coffee, before commencing with the 9-13 age group. We must also mention Mrs Dickson who umpired all day today even though it was her “21st 😉 birthday” today!! We took the opportunity of course for a rendition of HBTY and a cake 🎂, before the second half of today’s competition, and finishing on schedule at 2.30pm 😁

Well done to everyone who took part today, it was a pleasure to watch you all perform to the best of your ability, whilst at all times encouraging team mates and new friends along the way. Whether you won a medal or not today you should be as proud of yourself and we as instructors are of you all. Top effort

We’d also like to thank our senior coloured belts and black belts who gave up their day to help out and encourage you all today. Big 🙌🙌 shout out to you all, as without everyone working together as a team events like these are not possible:

Mr. Andrew Chesworth, Mr. John Munro, Mr. Chris Dickson, Mrs. Kerris Dickson, Mr. Iain O’Hare, Miss. Megan Brown, Mr. Gary McAvoy, Mr. James Murphy, Mrs. Lorna Singleton, Ms. Des Athanasiadou, Mr. Scott Crooks, Miss. Donatella Fargnoli, Miss Jaimie Singleton, Ariana McCarthy, Sam Jones, Lennon McAvoy, Stuart Coombes, Stephanie Peden, Elle Weir, Nali Rahim and Kieran Farrell. Great Job!

And of course to our fundraising team of Lynne Hunter and Chelsea Graham for all your efforts today. 

Winners of the 100 square were:

• 1st Prize Sophie Hunter
• 2nd Prize Ella Jamieson

Congratulations!

Gallery can be found here.