AJS SELF DEFENCE NEWSLETTER

New Members

A warm welcome to;

Ben Cox – Hapkido. Darren Rizzo- Hapkido. Ethan Curmi- Taekwondo

Don’t forget- If you introduce a new student who officially starts, you receive a $20.00 finders fee!!

Club Demonstrations-

We have been invited to the following events;

Vardys Road Public School, 18/09/10- 10.00am

Lynwood Public School, 31/10/10- 11.30am

We will need 10 students to participate and another 4 as support staff (this can be parents to help). We will demonstrate; basic warm up, basic movements, basic kicking, bag kicking, TKD patterns, HKD self defence/ locking, free sparring, padded free sparring (Yashman VS Bam Bam), weapons, board breaking and tile breaking. With Grading coming up we have a very busy month ahead.

FIGHT CLUB- Saturday afternoons, 3 – 4.30pm

We are introducing tournament training on Saturday afternoons. To start, we will focus on the upcoming demonstrations. Once the demonstration is set and practised, we will start concentrating on contact tournament training.

The FIGHT CLUB will be intense training in terms of strength, stamina and defence/ attack drills and tactics. Longer term, we want to introduce our own interclub tournaments on Saturday evenings.

The Demonstration Team will be free, but the FIGHT CLUB tournament training will be an additional $60.00 per month and we will need a passport size photograph (this will cover Taekwondo Australia Combat Accident Insurance). Contact me if you are interested. The Demonstration Team will start on 11/09/10 ready for the demonstration on 18/09/10. FIGHT CLUB starts in October.

COOL LINK- Did you find this from the last newsletter? Tell me what you think!!

Here is a hyperlink to a YouTube listing called “What is Taekwondo”. It takes a short time to load up so be patient. WARNING- there are some rude words in the background music, so either turn up the speakers or turn them down. Either way this is a great video highlight of international competition.

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