Feast Tae Kwon Do - Morrinsville

Yet another great FTKD grading day last Saturday in Morrinsville. Everyone showed up with enthusiasm and, as usual, a whole bunch of nerves. We managed to get through it all with the usual cuts, bruises, and aches and pains. but no one really feels those until the next day. With it now over, now its time to move on to new patterns and to improve on the techniques that everyone has developed over the previous months. Now also presents a great opportunity for new students to join the team and have a full 3-4 months before the next grading in November.

Patterns - a sequence of moves that are used in both defense and attack. But they have more meaning than just the “doing”. They are tributes to events, people, locations, etc. in Korean history. The names, numbers of movements or the sequence of the movements relate to those items of Korean cultural significance

The students work hard to make sure they are precise and improve with every set, every move complete before moving to the next.

As instructors, we use patterns as a way of observing the progression of the students. We can see how their balance, centre of gravity, technique, muscle control and other physical movements have progressed since they started their training. Mental training is also used when doing patterns. Focus and concentration are large when trying to stay in time with the others in your gup.

Black belt trainings are held monthly and are over seen by Grand Master John Feast.

These sessions offer student a more intense training in preparation to grade to black belt while also giving black belts more knowledge and perfecting techniques to pass on to present and future students.

These trainings are hard and push students both mentally and physically.

What you put in you will get back 10 fold.

Meet Liam.

Liam is one of our newer and younger members at FTKD. He recently sat his first grading and did very well moving to his yellow tip belt.

Liam is very enthusiastic and eager to learn and hopes to follow in his family footsteps as an excellent martial artist.

Meet Victor.

Victor graded to black belt at the end of 2025 and is proving to be a great up and coming instructor. He takes time with students to help them develop and learn the art. Aside from that, he also pushes himself in every class to be the best he can be.

Victor is passionate about learning and teaching students how to use the katana.

Meet Charlie.

Charlie has recently completed his second grading and proving to be a strong student, he prides himself in learning the moves and perfecting them.

Charlie is dedicated to FTKD and a very promising student that will go a long way.

Meet Rebecca.

Rebecca joined Feast TKD in 2024. Her pure determination and drive is powerful to watch. She is one of the most motivated students and is always pushing herself.

Her weapon of choice is the nunchucks which she recently displayed when grading to her brown belt at the end of last month. At 26 years old, she is one of the older students in the class and is now hoping to test for her first dan black belt come the end of the year.