20/06/2023
When you realise you have many photos of Mr Grist over the years and think that might be a funny birthday post instead 🤣
Happy birthday Mr Grist - 30 today!! 🎂🥳
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Currently closed (sorry) ITF Taekwon-Do classes in Gateshead and Newcastle.
20/06/2023
When you realise you have many photos of Mr Grist over the years and think that might be a funny birthday post instead 🤣
Happy birthday Mr Grist - 30 today!! 🎂🥳
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How long do I leave him for before I mention the electric pump for the paddleboard works for mattresses? 🤦🏻♀️🤣😉
Class cancellation notice!!
Friday 19th May 2023
Sorry everyone we have to cancel tomorrow night's class - we forgot to mention last week in the class 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
Every other class is on as usual for this week
16/05/2023
Some amazing stretching tonight everyone!! Great work from both classes 😊 well done!! Just HAD to get some photos today 🤯 just wow!
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02/05/2023
Congratulations and well done to all the superstars who passed their gradings this weekend 👊 you were fantastic!!
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Well done and congratulations to all the graders who passed their tests today 🥳👊 thank you to Grand Master Brown and Mrs Brown for travelling up to grade everyone and to Mr Button's student and his parents from Lancaster Taekwondo for travelling up to grade
Well done everyone 👊 only thing is we forgot to take a photo 🤦🏻♀️
Special technique: Rafi 👊
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Special technique: Konstantinos 👊
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23/04/2023
It's a bit of late post but what an absolutely amazing day yesterday at the UKTA North West Championships in Liverpool. Immensely proud of the whole team for their hard work, great attitudes and inspiring performances. Absolutely smashed it!
Medals:
Rafi
🥉Bronze for white belt patterns
🥈Silver for dragon tails
Konstantinos
🥈Silver for white belt patterns
🥈Silver for dragon tails
Adam
🥇Gold for sparring (winning in golden point)
Edison Kwok
🥈Silver for blue belt patterns
🥇Gold for sparring
¡Cancellation notice!
>Saturday 22nd April<
Just to let everyone know, Mr Grist and a few of our many superstars are travelling to Liverpool for a competition this Saturday, so both Saturday classes are cancelled as Mrs Grist is at work and can't cover. Best of luck to the competitors 🤞 for Saturday!! Friday classes are on as usual 👊
12/03/2023
Mr Grist travelled down with some of our hopefuls for a day at the UKTA English Championships and they have all come back with medals - how awesome is that?!?!
Mr Kwok got
🥇gold in sparring,🥇gold in patterns, and 🥇gold in power breaking
Mr Chow got
🥈 Silver in patterns
Mr Keenan got
🥈Silver in patterns, and🥉Bronze in sparring
That's two very proud instructors indeed. You should all be very proud of yourselves too!
Well done to all the competitors who stepped onto the mats today and thank you to the host organisers and all the officials
Class amendments:
Tomorrow (10th March) 6pm-9pm we will be at Newton & Bywell Community Hall and not the Ovingham Reading Rooms as hall is being used for the drama groups performance.
Class on Saturday 18th March will not be on as we are attending a competition, we shall be putting on an extra session (details tbc) to make up for this.