Calendar updated  24/06/2009

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Many thanks to Laura Robertshaw for putting together a  compilation of Stoke Gifford TKD’s events & achievements throughout 2008.

Laura is currently working on a full length DVD version for anyone who is interested in buying to keep as a memento.

CLICK ON ITEMS ABOVE FOR FULL WRITE UP

Congratulations to Miss Burridge & student John Smith for completing a parachute jump for the Chernobyl 2000 Ltd charity.

It couldn’t have been a better day weather wise. (although the spectators were a little chilly!) Miss Burridge & John did a tandem jump from 10,000 feet, both with absolutely no experience.

Miss Burridge would like to thank all at Stoke Gifford who sponsored her helping to raise over £300 for the charity.

Please click on the thumbs up photo above to view further photo’s of the day.

Click below for video of the jump!

 

Congratulations to Stoke Gifford student Billy Smith for his outstanding achievements in Croatia at the ITF European Championships. Billy entered the individual Cup competition & scooped a bronze in the patterns & a gold in the sparring beating 2 Russian's along the way. He was then chosen at the last minute to form part of  a  junior boys England team, and with only an hours practice the team took on a very experienced Italian team in the finals of the patterns. The boys pulled a draw out of the bag & went on to complete a sudden death pattern, the older Italian team held their own & managed a win leaving the boys with a very well deserved silver medal. The boys also went onto win a further  silver in power & 2 bronzes in sparring & special technique.

Mitch Ross of Thornbury Taekwon-do also competed to a very high standard in Croatia, bringing home an individual Silver in Patterns & Bronze in sparring. He was also part of the Senior male team who came away with a gold in patterns, silver in sparring , silver in power & silver in special technique, which meant that the male team achieved the title of  best overall team.

Instructor Miss Burridge also went out to Croatia as Ladies team coach, & helped the ladies team achieve Gold in sparring, silver in patterns & 2 bronzes in power & special technique. These results helped England achieve the best overall Senior country trophy.

Overall an outstanding trip for Stoke Gifford TKD & Team England

Well done everyone !

Please see a list of all students that entered below;

Billy Smith: Gold Patterns, Gold Sparring, Gold Team Sparring Event

Beth Hutton: Bronze Sparring

Rae-Anne Elson

Ben Baker-Attwood: Silver Patterns, Silver Sparring

Jospeh Elson           

Kieran McDermott            

Ben Chapman         

Jo Toon: Bronze Sparring, Bronze Patterns

Kieran Rexworthy

Ollie Robertshaw: Bronze Sparring

Stami Lomvardos: Gold Patterns, Bronze Sparring

Liam Rexworthy: Gold Sparring  

Sarah Baker-Attwood: Silver Patterns, Silver Sparring

Lucie Robertshaw: Bronze Patterns, Silver Sparring

Callum Brown

Please see click here to see how this affects the leader board.

Please click here for more videos from the European Championships

Thanks to all that donated.

1480 vouchers collected!

Please click on the photo above for more pics of the day courtesy of Laura Robertshaw

Congratulations to all the Stoke Gifford TKD ladies that took part in this years Race for Life at the Downs in Bristol.

All the ladies ran in either Stoke Gifford Doboks or T-shirts, & the age ranged from 6 to 69!

The course of 5Km was completed in good time by everybody, with some running to gain a good personal time, while others walked taking in the atmosphere. A special well done goes to Alison May’s mum, Marilyn who has recently recovered from breast cancer this year, & completed the course with energy to spare.

Many photo’s were taken before, during & after the race & will be available to view soon. The group above were also featured on the local news,  the same evening of the race!

Thanks to everybody that has donated.

If you haven’t donated yet then you can still do so by clicking the link above.