Haidong Gumdo New Zealand

The 2024 version of the HGNZ Nationals was held in Tauranga on the 8th of September. The tournament was a nice relaxed martial arts experience with some visitors from Australia helping to boost the number of competitors.
After the tournament a grading was held for the 2nd Gumdo practitioners.
A successful day.

Kings Birthday training session

If you aren’t working on Monday, do you want to do a 3 hour Gumdo session devoted to training only the Yedo Patterns?
The time will be 9am to 12noon. We will start at Yedo 9 and work backwards.
The session is open to all Gumdo practitioners. For those of you who do not know the Yedos, - you can follow along.

Day 2 of the Leaders course.
Today we have been working on the less tradiional aspects of Haidong Gumdo - sparring, papercutting and "exploring the hitting of ping pngs balls". All these skill drills are designed to improve body positioning, spatial movement, awareness, and hand-eye co-ordination.

Master Garry recieves a new ranking from Oceania President Grandmaster Oh.

Master Garry recieved his 5th Dan certificate from Grandmaster Oh. Master Garry had undergone his 5th Dan testing in July, 2023. It is a great honour for Haiding Gumd New Zealand to have a 5th dan within our organisation.

World Champs- Korea July 2024

Sword Seminar

What are you doing from March 12th to March 14th 2024?

How does a sword training camp sound? I hope it fits with everybody’s schedule for next year. If it doesn't, make it fit!

Group training will be with Oceania President, Grand Master Jung Il Oh (Brisbane, Australia). From there we will split into a beginners group and an intermediate group, where the focus on specifics requires.

We are planning for 2025 to be able to hold a Seniors group as well, culminating in a Black Belt grading for that group.
Format will be:

Beginners (first timers) with Master Garry (focus on)
• Long patterns 1 – 3
• Short patterns 1 – 3
• Arranged Sparring 1 – 3
• Paper cutting
• Bamboo cutting

Intermediate (retunees) with Grand Master Oh (focus on)
• Long Patterns 4 – 7
• Short patterns 4 – 7
• Arranged sparring 1 – 7
• Paper cutting
• Bamboo cutting

Details
• New uniform $120NZD
• New training sword (wooden) $70NZD
• New students – $400 (includes new sword and uniform)
• Returning/Existing students – $200

For contact - [email protected]

Great Haidong Gumdo tournament - best in 3 years in New Zealand. Wait, It was the first in three years.
Congratulations to all those who took part - I hope you enjoyed the day as much as I did.
Next year - 1st September! Be there!--

We are stoked to bring to Tauranga this September 🥋🌊

This is going to be an action-packed day of in New Zealand’s fastest growing city 🗡🌆

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