Our annual Black Belt grading took place on the 18th September 2005. Eleven students were in attendence to take another step up the Taekwon-Do ladder. As usual the atmosphere was very tense as everyone was awaiting their name to be called to perform all the Nicholls disciplines, Traditional ITF Patterns, 1, 2 & 3 Step Sparring, Kick Patterns, Self Defence Patterns, ITF Sparring and Foot Sparring. Pursue one goal, Serve one master & gain a victory in one blow. One love one life. Well done to Cheryl Cooke, Martin Hall, Pherrel Chang & Daniel Hicks.
ITF SENIOR DEGREE GRADING took place on Friday 23rd September. All UKITF members of 3rd Degree and above hoping to achieve their Senior Degree status were in attendance. The grading was over seen by the UKITF Masters Panel consisting of;
Master Nicholls VIII, Master Oldam VIII, Master Hogan VII and
Mr Ogbourne VI.
The grading was of the highest order consisting of Traditional ITF style patterns, 1 Step Sparring, Advanced Self Defence, ITF Sparring and Advanced Breaking with a choice flying kick, Base Breaks on both legs & hand strikes with both hands, all on one or two wooden boards and Korean Terminology and theory papers. The grading took over 4 hours.
Students from The Imperial Taekwon-Do Assosiation were;
Cathrine Divine V, Chris Snow V and Paul Cain IV. All Imperial Students passed their respected Senior Degree grades.
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