Colour belt grading

Congratulations to the students who were promoted by Master Howard at a recent grading at Grandmaster Howard’s Taekwon-Do School . The grading was held the Cabra parkside community centre, Ratoath road, Dublin 7.

The students ranging in grade from white belt (10^th kup) to blue tag (5^th kup) were tested on their syllabus, including; flexibility, fitness, patterns, fundamental techniques, step-sparring, sparring, breaking and Taekwon-Do theory. Master Howard was happy with the standard and said ‘it is clear that the students were concentrating in class and putting a lot of effort in at home’. ‘As the student move up through the grades more is expected of them. It is not just enough to turn up to class 2 or 3 times a week. Real effort and commitment to improving and fixing their mistakes in required’ he added.

Master Howard complimented Joyce Yu on her O+ promotion to green Belt and he presented the grading award to Emmet O’Rourke for his improvement and response to correction from his instructor Mr Fox. ‘All we can ask is that as students you listen to the instruction and improve’ Master Howard commented.

*Dragons Programme

A minibus of 24 of Grandmaster Howard's students made their way to the IITF Taekwon-Do tournament in Wexford last Saturday. There were representatives for all age groups from under 11 to Veteran. It was the first visit to an IITF Tournament and there were some adjustments to be made for students is the sparring category. All competitiors were committed and represented our school with great success taking home 26 medal in total.

Congratulations to all who took part.

Medals IITF Kup Cup                                 Blue belts patterns juniors
Yellow belts patterns juniors                     Gold-Mihai
Silver-Shane                                            Bronze- Jack
Bronze-Bradley
Bronze-Emmet

Yellow belts patterns junior female           Green belt junior male patterns
Gold - Joyce                                            Bronze-Christopher
Bronze - Sofia

Green belt junior female patterns            Adult male patterns
Bronze -Leah                                          Gold -Lee


Adult male +35 years male patterns        Adult female patterns
Silver-Ruarc                                          Silver -Lisa
                                                           bronze-Brona

Sparring                                               Girls Tallest height u11 yellow
Boys Middle height u11 yellow                Gold-Sofia
Gold-Finn                                             Silver-Seoidin
                                                           Bronze-Joyce

Girls u11 green                                     Adult female sparring
Bronze - Jodie                                       Gold-sparring

Male 15-17 sparring                              Boys 12-14 sparring
Gold- Jack                                            Silver-Emmet
Silver-Mihai                                          Bronze-Eoin

Girls 12-14                                            Adult male sparring
Bronze- Leah                                         Bronze - Ruarc
                                                            Bronze- Lee

Master Robert Howard

Notice to All Students

The grading scheduled to take place on Tuesday 16th September has been moved to the following week and will now take place on Tuesday 23rd September.

Congatulations to the student of Grandmaster Howard's Dojang (pictured above) who successfully completed the recent Child Awareness in Sport Course.