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Rererees Course Change
Dear TNZ Members,
The dates for the Christchurch TNZ Referee Certification Course have been changed to 1st and 2nd November 2008.
Please note this in your calendars and advise your members of this date change.
Regards,
Matt Ransom
Secretary General
Taekwondo NZ
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Awards Three TNZ
Officials were recently recognised for their outstanding service to Taekwondo
and it's development in New
Zealand. Technical Director Master Ik Jin
Choi, and National Poomsae Team Coach Master Ivan Kim received Commendation
Diplomas from the World Kukkiwon Headquarters, while New Zealand Team
Doctor Bren Dorman received a citation from the World Taekwondo Federation.
TNZ President
Grandmaster Kim took the opportunity to present the recipients with these
commendations at the recent Referee and Judge Certification Course held in
Rotorua.
Master Choi is a
founding Technical Committee member for TNZ and has officiated at many of our
selection events and Poomsae competitions. He is also very active behind
the scenes in the development of Taekwondo. Master Ivan Kim is the first
TNZ National Team Poomsae Coach and has run Poomsae seminars throughout New Zealand
to further promote Poomsae competition and he coached the first full New
Zealand National Poomsae Team at the 2007 Hamnadang and World Poomsae
Championships. Doctor Bren Dorman has been actively involved as Team Doctor for
both our Junior and Senior Representative Teams and has provided his services
at our tournaments as the Event Doctor. Bren was also one of the NZ management
team members behind the success of our three Olympians who were recently
selected to represent New Zealand
at the Olympics to be held in Beijing
later this year.
TNZ congratulates
all three recipients and fully appreciates and thanks them all for their many
long years of service to Taekwondo in this country and for their efforts on
both a national and international level to further development Taekwondo for
New Zealanders.
| Referee Certification
Taekwondo
New Zealand ran the first of it's TNZ Referee Certification Development
programme courses in Rotorua over the weekend of July 12th and 13th.
There were over 25 participants from many of TNZ's member organisations
representing a wide range of rank and experience as members took
advantage of this great opportunity to upskill and become certified
referees and judges.
The
course presenters were two of TNZ's WTF International Referee's,
Masters Vijay Chhika and Greg O'Brien. They provided a comprehensive
two-day course that consisted of both theory and practical components
for the participants who were kept busy right through with great
interaction between all those present.
TNZ
President Grandmaster Tae Kyung Kim and Senior Vice-President
Grandmaster Han Hyoun Lee, Technical Director Master Ik Jin Choi,
National Poomsae Team Coach Master Ivan Kim, and TNZ Secretary General
Master Matt Ransom all attended and met with participants, with
everybody in attendance taking the opportunity to
renew acquaintances and meet new people.
The
Saturday evening saw the participants and officials take a break from
the busy course to enjoy dinner together with great Karaoke
entertainment provided by Ara Cho, Vijay Chhika, Greg O'Brien and Matt
Ransom to name but a few!
Overall,
the first TNZ Referee Certification Development programme course was a
resounding success and TNZ would like to again extend it's thanks to
Masters Vijay Chhika and Greg O'Brien for running a well organised and
informative weekend which will see many new referees and judges coming
through the ranks as well as many of our experienced officials being
upskilled. Also, a big thanks to Grandmaster Han Hyoun Lee and his
members for arranging the venue and catering and hosting a great
weekend.
We
encourage all eligible TNZ members to attend the two remaining TNZ
Referee Certification Development programme courses to be held in
September and November.
Programme summary, course details and registration form
Registrations and payments should be made on the morning of the first day of the course at 9.00am.
Cost: $50.00.
| Olympic Team Korean Open Results
Taekwondo
New Zealand’s three Olympic athletes; Logan Campbell, Matthew Beach and
Robyn Cheong, competed at their final preparatory international
tournament, the Korean Classic Open which was held from on July 1st to
6th in Seoul, South Korea.
Logan
and Matthew both overcame tough competition to take gold medals.
Robyn unfortunately lost to a player from a Korean University team by
decision after a golden point round concluded with no player scoring.
The
team was accompanied by the New Zealand National Coach, Master Oh and
the current New Zealand feather weight champion, Vaughn Scott.
Vaughn has previously represented New Zealand at the WTF World Junior
Championships. Although Vaughn joined the Korea trip just to gain
experience, he still succeeded in taking gold in what is his first
major international tournament in the adult division.
The
trip consisted of training and sparring with various High Schools,
Universities and clubs and concluded with the team competing in the
Korean Open.
Logan
Campbell knocked out his 1st Korean opponent in the 2nd round of his
1st match with a devastating front leg kick. He then went on to
beat a competitor from England, an Olympian from Japan and finally a
competitor from Hong Kong in the final to take the gold medal for the
light weight division.
Vaughn
Scott secured a bye for the 1st round. The player Vaughn was then
supposed to play in the 2nd round did not show up. In his 3rd
round of competition he beat a much taller player from England. This
secured him a spot in the final, which against a player from Spain. The
match started fairly evenly but after building a decent lead in the 2nd
round, Vaughn was able to reach a 7 point margin in the 3rd round to
take gold in the welter weight division.
The
final player for the NZ team was Matthew Beach who, after securing a
bye for the 1st round, drew a Canadian for his second fight. A close
1st round quickly changed pace after a head shot from Matthew and he
met the 7 point margin early in the 3rd round. Matthew then fought an
Australian for the final in a match that also began very slowly. In the
3rd round, Matt countered with a strong right leg kick to the head and
gained a standing 8 count. The match ended shortly afterwards when the
7 point margin was met which gave Matthew gold for the heavy weight
division.
This
was TNZ’s Olympic athletes second overseas preparatory event for 2008,
after competing in Europe in May. At the Alscae Open in France,
Matthew took a gold medal. Logan and Robyn both came up against
players from Senegal who will be in their divisions at the Olympics for
their final match, and both came away with silver, with Logan also
being awarded the player of the tournament after loosing by just 1
point.
All
three also entered the Spanish Open in the Olympic Division event with
Matthew and Robyn both taking bronze medals – Robin winning hers after
a close contest leading to a golden point round.
All
three TNZ Olympic athletes are on track to peak for Olympic
competition, after this strong demonstration of the effectiveness of
their build up and preparation to date.
See the TNZ Olympic athletes page
| SPARC Funding for Olympic Athletes
Taekwondo
New Zealand is pleased to announce that SPARC has granted a total of
$20,000 in a discretionary grant application from TNZ for direct
athlete support to Matthew Beach and Logan Campbell towards their
competing at the Beijing Olympic Games. A futher $20,000 was also
granted to Robin Cheong under the SPARC Performance Enhancement
Grant which TNZ applied for to support Robin. The grant has been
backdated to the completion of Robin's top 16 placing at the World
Championships and is incorporated to include her competing at the
Beijing Olympic Games. TNZ
also applied for funding support of our Olympic Coach, Master Jin Keun
Oh under the SPARC Coach Performance Enhancement Grant. The sum of
$4500.00 has been granted by SPARC for Master Oh to use in his
preparation for the coaching of our three Olympic Athletes and for his
participation as an official at the Beijing Olympic Games. Master Oh
has also recently attended the WTF Coaching Seminar for the Beijing
Olympic Games in Korea. TNZ
President, Grandmaster Kim was delighted to present cheques to Matthew
Beach, Logan Campbell and Master Oh at a recent dinner function to
recognise our Olympic representatives in Auckland during June. Robin
Cheong is currently in Korea training and is being joined this week by
Matthew, Logan and Master Oh to compete at the Korean Open.
Grandmaster Kim, TNZ president presents funding cheques to Logan Campbell, Matt Beach, and Master Oh
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Olympic Coach Seminar
National
Team Head Coach Master Oh attended the special training seminar held by
the WTF for Olympic Coaches held in Busan, South Korea. There
were around 100 participants from 50 countries in attendance.
From the WTF website
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WTF Junior World Championships
NZ Team Manager, Master Michael Hannah reports on the New Zealand Team's time away at the 2008 WTF Junior World Championships;
The
New Zealand Team travelled to Izmir, Turkey to attend the 7th World
Junior Taekwondo Championships. The team arrived in good spirits with
one athlete carrying a minor injury and another unwell with a throat
infection. Both were well looked after by the NZ Team Medical Staff and
were able to compete. The team was: -
Song Bae
Randy Javier
Malcolm Holmes
Amir Ansari-Pour
Yeong Kim
Dallas Carr
Lyteshar Drewery
Sonnja Grubmayr
Master Michael Hannah - NZ Team Manager
Master Jin Keun Oh - NZ Team Coach
Dr Bren Dorman - NZ Team Doctor
Jan Dorman - Female Team Medical Support
Phil Bolstad - NZ Team Trainer
4th of May
The
team arrived in a slightly jet-lagged state at midnight on the Sunday
night. After the usual hotel chaos of booking in a group it was off to
bed for the team while management sorted arrangements for travel the
next day for team registration.
5th of May
Registration
day. The NZ management team made sure that we had the whole team and
all documentation at the ready when the doors opened. To understand
registration there were at least 90 countries to register all at once
so it was very hectic. Registration is done at four different desks and
finally photographs. The only Turkish words we knew were hello and
thank you, which can make it very entertaining when you are trying to
correct spelling etc.
6th May
Team
training was held at our hotel followed by the weigh-in for Song.
The rest of the day was free for the team to step out into the huge
shopping Bazaar or take in the local sights followed by a team dinner.
The
weigh-in's were also a big learning curve for our junior members as up
to 90 athletes can be weighed in for one division at any one time.
7th May (Competition Day 1)
The
warm up room was the size of a basketball court. It was being used by
close to 500 athletes all warming up, team chants, the sounds of pads
being smashed and yells from athletes and coaches in numerous
languages. Plus officials with loud hailers trying to find
fighters and retrieve body shields and helmets. Song was faced
with a two hour delay after warming up and being issued with his pads.
Once on the mat he started out strongly with numerous attacks.
His opponent then started to score off the counters and was up 4 nil by
the end of the second. By the end of the third round it was six
nil. The fighting this day did not finish to after midnight and
the finals were held the next day.
8th of May (Competition Day 2)
Next
up was Randy who drew Israel. This was a very close fight with both
scoring clean points and at the end of three rounds it was 2-2.
Unfortunately it was not to be our day and Randy lost on golden point.
But this was a good performance.
9th of May (Competition Day 3)
Yeong
was the first of three Kiwis to compete on Day 3 and was unlucky not to
be in front after the first round when the referee stopped the fight to
question why a head kick did not score. At the end of the second
round it was 1-2. But with some smart fight management on Yeong's
behalf it was 1 - 1 after his opponent was given two warnings with 5
seconds to go in the 3rd round. Yeong then scored with a head
kick to win 3-1 and gain the first win for New Zealand. His next
opponent was Russia and he lost 6-1. But this was still a great
achievement and the 3rd win for New Zealand at the Junior World
Championships in the last two years.
Sonnja drew a
fighter from the very strong team of Belarus and lost 7 nil after
Belarus was scoring on the counters. Sonnja was playing catch-up
after the first round and trying to score with head kicks to reduce the
margin. Malcolm was our last fighter of the day and was up
against Greece losing 3 - 1 in a very good contest. Both Sonnja
and Malcolm still performed with great spirit for New Zealand.
10th of May (Competition Day 4)
Amir
was our first fighter up for the day against Ireland and he scored
strongly on the counters racing away to an 8-1 victory! His next
opponent did not show up and he was through to the top 16 and matched
against the eventually 3rd placed Canadian. This was a close
fight and could have gone either way with Canada finally winning 2-0
after Amir lost a point after two warnings.
Lyteshar was matched
up against USA and the first two rounds were very close before USA shot
ahead in the third with some head kicks to win 7-1.
11th of May (Competition Day 5)
Dallas
was our last fighter up and he received a very favourable draw which
saw him through to the top 16 and up against a very skilled Canadian
who had a huge reach advantage. Dallas countered this by staying
in close and jamming finishing behind the Canadian 3-1.
Overall
this is the best result for a New Zealand team at the Junior World
Championships. Two wins and one loss on golden point, plus two were
ranked in the top 16. Three of this team, if they continue to train and
perform, will be able to attend the next World Championships in Mexico
and build on the experiences they have learnt at this event.
That
night, TNZ President Grandmaster Kim treated the NZ Team and Officials
to a farewell dinner followed by speeches and karaoke singing along at
the hotel and in true Kiwi fashion we even had the locals involved and
some of the Hotel Staff singing Beatles numbers with a Turkish accent
which everyone enjoyed.
12th of May
Time
to start the long flight home for some and this started at 4pm local
time. 2 hours later they were on a 2 hr 30min flight to Munich. 3hrs
30mins on the ground then a 11hour 30 minute flight to Hong Kong, 3
hours in Hong Kong and then a 10 and half hour flight to Auckland.
Living in the most beautiful country in the world is great but it
really takes a lot out of you when it comes to travel!
Amir (B) vs Canada |
Dallas (R) vs Canada |
Yeong (R) vs Russia |
Song (R) vs KSA |
Malcolm (B) vs Greece |
the team |
Sonnya (B) vs Belarus |
Lyteshar and Master Oh |
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WTF News
At the General Assembly in Cesme, Turkey on 6 May the WTF unanimously adopted the 2009 World Anti-Doping
Code, becaming the second International Sports
Federation to do so. The code will be implemented on January 1, 2009.
At the meeting the WTF also voiced support for the International Olympic Committee’s Youth Olympic Games, which
will be first held in Singapore in 2010.
Locations
for upcoming events were decided with Turkey hosting the 3rd
WTF World Taekwondo Poomsae Championships in December this year.
Azerbaijan will host the 2009 WTF World Cup Taekwondo Team
Championships, and Mexico won the right to host the 2010 WTF World
Junior Taekwondo Championships.
From the WTF website
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