Archives 2017

16 competitors from GMAC attended the WKA Scottish Championships on Saturday 11th February held at Ravenscraig Sports Facility in Motherwell.  The team all fought hard and came away with an impressive 7 Gold, 6 Silver and 3 Bronze medals.

Gold :-

Light Contact Sparring
Iain O’Hare
Megan Brown
Ewa Malwinska
Jay Jervis

Points Fighting
Jay Jervis
Kyle Lynch

Patterns
Kerris Dickson

Silver :-

Light Contact Sparring
Hayden McAvoy
Steven Mair
Jamie Burns
John Docherty

Point Fighting
Olivia Loza

Patterns
Ben McSeveney

Bronze :-

Light Contact Sparring
Brian Dowell
Olivia Loza

Point Fighting
Sarah Curtis

Also attended but did not medal place Natalia Knap and Katie Drummond.

Just prior to Christmas, ITF Scotland held their selection event for the European Championships being held 20th – 23rd April in Sofia, Bulgaria. 

We would like to congratulate the following students from GMAC who will be representing Scotland on the biggest of European Taekwon-Do Stages this April.

Hayden McAvoy (1st Degree)  

Junior Male 1st Degree Pattern, Junior Male Sparring -50kg & Junior Male Team

Jay Jervis (1st Degree)

Junior Male Sparring -68kg, Junior Male Power  &  Junior Male Team

Lauren Watson (1st Degree)

Junior Female Sparring -65kg 

Kieran Cain (1st Degree)

Senior Male 1st Degree Pattern & Senior Male Team

Iain O’Hare (2nd Degree)

Senior Male Sparring -70kg & Senior Male Team

Megan Brown (2nd Degree)

Senior Female Sparring -56kg & Senior Female Team

Sarah Curtis (2nd Degree)

Senior Female Special Technique & Senior Female Team

Jason Munro (3rd Degree)

Senior Male 3rd Degree Pattern & Senior Male Team

The first graduation of the year was held on 4th February, for our youngest students in our ITF Kids Class, they’ve been working extremely hard since their last graduation last October.  We were very impressed by their effort, especially with their Korean Words!

ITF Kids promoted as follows;

Yellow Stripe;

Catherine Maciver, Antonia Horvath & Marcel Kawczyk

Blue Stripe;

Max Watson

Red Stripe;

Daniel Piekarski & Ziva Lewicka

Black Stripe;

Alfie Sher, Jake Sher & Sanaya Panesar

Congratulations to all our kids who promoted. 

Theres another ITF Kids grading on 18th February for those who missed this one, details have been given to those eligible.

A reminder that our Uddingston classes will be closed for one week holiday from Saturday 21st to Saturday 28th January 2017.  

All classes will resume as normal from Sunday 29th.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused.  

We have changed the layout of our website, streamlining the page, and making it even more user friendly.  

In the coming weeks further content will be added, alongside a number of updated pictures.  

Please check regularly for all the latest information regarding classes etc.  

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We have published our 2017 calendar of events for the first half of the year.  

Our next events are:

11th/12th Feb – Cork Open Championships

18th Feb – Grading Day

ITF Kids Graduation (date tbc)

Please check regularly for the latest details.

Dear Grand Master, Masters and Instructors,

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