The 2010 British Poomsae Championships will be taking place at the Sheffield Institute of Sport on the 27th and 28th March. 

Building on the huge success of last years championships the competition will be split into two days, with Dan grades on the Saturday and KUP grades on the Sunday. As with last year the both competitions will be officiated by the top judges in the UK and for the Dan grade competition there will be several WTF International Referees ensuring the highest quality competition available.

With the KUP grade competition so successful last year there have been new divisions introduced this year to cater for the younger players with a new Mini Pewee (8 years and under) category added.

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Dan Grades Saturday March 27th

Kup Grades Sunday March 28th

On Sunday 21st February Milton Keynes Taekwondo Academy played host to a National Poomsae Judging course. The course held at Yardley Gobion Recreation Centre was conducted by Grandmaster Shin for and on behalf of the British Taekwondo Control Board (BTCB).

The course, which included a practical test as well as theory, was well attended by members of several different clubs from around the country, including 7 of our own members. Chris Woods, Thomas Mearns, Stuart Facey, Jim Moore and Chelsea Moore, who were taking the course for the first time; Alison Ellerton and Steven Busby who attended for a refresher course.

The club now has 10 members who hold a recognised national judging qualification, they will all be able to gain valuable experience at our forthcoming inter club competition on 6th March ready, not only, for judging at the National Poomsae Championships at the end of March, but more importantly judging at our big competition on 8th May.

Well done to all those who completed the course and happy judging!

The UTF British Masters 14th Open Taekwondo Championship was the first competitive appearance for the MKUTA Academy  in 2010 where they were joined by many national and international teams. The competition was in two parts, Kyrugi (sparring) and Poomsae (patterns). The MKUTA head Coach C Cesar was honoured to be invited as Poomsae Competition Director giving him overall responsibility for coordinating Poomsae judges and the allocations of the compulsory patterns for all Dan grades.

 In the judging he was accompanied by MKUTA students Allison Ellerton, senior student of the year 2009, Lucia Rapanotti and Mitchell Connolly, junior student of the year 2009. Three students took part competitively in the patterns; Dan grades Alison Ellerton and Sarah Hunt winning gold and silver respectively in their categories while Kup grade Steve Ferns won gold in his category.

In the Kyrugi competition the Academy only had one player, Richard Mearns, coached by Mitchell Connolly. After an exciting fight in which Richard showed the skills he has learnt in his many years of training he added a second silver medal to the Academy’s magnificent success.

Click here to see some photos from the day.