The New Zealand Open was a very successful event for our club.  All team members did well with gold medals going to Ryan Howard, Michael Beinat and silver to Matthew Wansink.  A link to the gallery and complete day by day summary of events follows:-

New Zeland picture gallery

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Sports Taekwondo Australia has released a national competition schedule for Poomsae and sparring running from May through the Oceania Championships in December. Also included in the schedule is a series of OTU/STA Referee and Judging seminars to be conducted in conjunction with STA State Open tournaments.
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The 1st Gradings for the year where held over the last 2 Wednesdays in March.
The club now has;

• 15 New Yellow Belts
• 6 New Blue Belts
• 1 new Red Belt.

Everyone did really well and the group that went for Blue Belt stood out and was the best group we have had for a long time.

A big thank you to Michelle and Courtney for the help they gave during the gradings.

The first Gisborne Sparring competition took place on Sunday the 7th of March. It was a great day for all participants and their family and friends. A special thank you to Members from the Fighting Lyons, Taekwondo Plus, Koryo and Gisborne Taekwondo for making this day the success that it was.

A number of forms have been updated which include:-

• Updated membership fees can be found on the Membership Fee page
• Updated syllabus forms on the Syllabus page
• The club oath has been added to the Forms page