{"id":829,"date":"2013-08-05T00:04:19","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T00:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gmacmartialarts.org.uk\/news\/?p=829"},"modified":"2013-08-05T00:06:54","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T00:06:54","slug":"north-east-challenge-cup-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmacmartialarts.org.uk\/news\/north-east-challenge-cup-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"North East Challenge Cup 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmacmartialarts.org.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2013-NECC-Public-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"832\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.gmacmartialarts.org.uk\/news\/north-east-challenge-cup-2013\/2013-necc-public-poster\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.gmacmartialarts.org.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2013-NECC-Public-Poster.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2371,3143\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Gordon Wallace&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1374759437&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2013 NECC Public Poster\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.gmacmartialarts.org.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2013-NECC-Public-Poster-226x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.gmacmartialarts.org.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2013-NECC-Public-Poster-772x1024.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-832\" alt=\"2013 NECC Public Poster\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gmacmartialarts.org.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2013-NECC-Public-Poster-226x300.jpg\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gmacmartialarts.org.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2013-NECC-Public-Poster-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/www.gmacmartialarts.org.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2013-NECC-Public-Poster-772x1024.jpg 772w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a>Dear Masters and Instructors,<\/p>\n<p><b>2013 &#8211; North East <\/b>Challenge Cup<\/p>\n<p>It is with great pleasure that you and your students are invited to the 2013 North East Challenge Cup on <b>Sunday 15<\/b><b>th <\/b><b>September 2013 <\/b>at Saltire Leisure Centre, 55 Montrose Road, Arbroath DD11 5JN.<\/p>\n<p>This competition is open to Taekwon-do and Korean Kickboxers. There will be four individual and one team event contested, Patterns, Sparring Special Technique, Power Test and <b>new for 2013 Pre-Arranged Free Sparring. <\/b>We hope it is going to be a success as it can only improve our students knowledge and technique.<\/p>\n<p>This championships is open to all students white belt and above and will be split into six age groups <b>Juniors up to 8yrs; 9-12 yrs, Teens 13-14; 15-17yrs, Adults 18-35yrs and 36yrs and over<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>The competition will be run as per ITF rules but with some small amendments to accommodate age and competitor level.<\/p>\n<p>We will endeavour to separate competitors from the same school competing against each other in initial rounds, thus improving the experience of all students. Juniors will be divided initially by age, then grade and height criteria. Teens and Adults will be categorised initially by age then, grade and weight. The weight divisions upper and lower limits will established according to the weight spread of the entries.<\/p>\n<p><b>Please ensure, for the safety of the sparring competitors, that weights are checked and personally verified by the responsible instructor before forwarding them for processing.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>New for 2013 is our double elimination sparring event for teens and adults.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Entry forms should be part of this invitation so if they are not present please let me know by email and I will forward them on.<\/p>\n<p>(Please check all details before sending to ensure that registration runs as smooth as possible)<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to your entries and to another great tournament,<\/p>\n<p>Yours in TKD and on behalf of NTA<\/p>\n<p>Master Gordon Wallace VII<\/p>\n<p><b>Tournament Administrator<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Application forms below<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmacmartialarts.org.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2013-NE-Challenge-Information.pdf\">2013 NE Challenge Information<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmacmartialarts.org.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2013-NE-Challenge-Ind-Entry.xls\">2013 NE Challenge &#8211; Ind Entry<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Masters and Instructors, 2013 &#8211; North East Challenge Cup It is with great pleasure that you and your students are invited to the 2013 North East Challenge Cup on Sunday 15th September 2013 at Saltire Leisure Centre, 55 Montrose Road, Arbroath DD11 5JN. This competition is open to Taekwon-do and Korean Kickboxers. There will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.gmacmartialarts.org.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2013-NECC-Public-Poster.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p38AgV-dn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmacmartialarts.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmacmartialarts.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmacmartialarts.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmacmartialarts.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmacmartialarts.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmacmartialarts.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":833,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmacmartialarts.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions\/833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmacmartialarts.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmacmartialarts.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmacmartialarts.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmacmartialarts.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}