Fortitude Taekwondo Oldham

Congratulations to all four of our competitors today at the T-UK English open - coming back with 6 medals between them 4 gold and 2 silver

North and South Combine to Bring Championship Success! 🥋🏆

Fortitude schools came together on Sunday to compete at the ITFU British Championships, with students representing both the North and South of England.

Three competitors travelled from Fortitude East Grinstead & Oxted, while two represented Fortitude Oldham. Together, they produced an outstanding performance.

🏅 Amber Bayliss (3rd Degree Black Belt)
🥇 Gold – Patterns
🥇 Gold – Sparring

🏅 Oscar Bennett-Blanco (2nd Degree Black Belt)
🥇 Gold – Patterns
🥈 Silver – Sparring

🏅 Louie Saunders (1st Degree Black Belt)
🥇 Gold – Special Technique
🥈 Silver – Sparring
🥉 Bronze – Patterns

🏅 Ava Buckley (3rd Kup)
🥈 Silver – Special Technique
🥉 Bronze – Sparring

🏅 Maliha Mahmood (8th Kup)
🥉 Bronze – Patterns
🥉 Bronze – Sparring

An incredible 11 medals from just 5 competitors!

🥇 4 Gold
🥈 3 Silver
🥉 4 Bronze

A fantastic achievement that reflects the hard work and dedication of the students, both in training and on the day.

A big thank you to our coaching team—Mr Moat, Mrs Bayliss and Mr Saunders—for supporting and guiding the competitors throughout the championships.

Congratulations to everyone involved! 👏🥋

Congratulations to Miss Sarwary who has been promoted to First Degree Black Belt following her grading with Master Hodson VIII and Mrs Hodson VI.

Miss Sarwary trains hard, spars just as hard 😅 and has put in a huge amount of effort into getting ready for this grading.

She joins our growing ranks of female students who are making the grade and showing girl power in full.

Well done, you smashed it 👊👊👊

Congratulations to Mr Edwards who has been promoted to First Degree Black Belt following his grading with Master Hodson VIII and Mrs Hodson VI. He’s worked hard, stayed focused and persevered to reach this level.

As well as his own development he regularly helps assist in classes and support our junior students in their development.

Well done, you smashed it 👊👊👊

Many thanks to Master Hodson VIII and Mrs Hodson VI for coming up to Oldham to deliver another fabulous seminar and well done to everyone who attended and worked hard during the session 👊👊👊

Movement number 2 in Won Hyo is the high inward knifehand strike. It finishes at the chest line and is typically used to strike towards the opponents neck

The belts and their colours all have specific meanings today we explain them to you 👊👊👊