TIGERS TAEKWONDO

Saturday, 1 August 2020

TIGERSONLINE POOMSAE COMPETITION club members only

TIGERS ONLINE POOMSAE COMPETITION 2020

(MACLEOD & KINGLAKE)

We’re excited to announce the details of our in-house Poomsae competition.

COMPETITION OVERVIEW & DATES

· Enter by email to gary.j.thorpe@gmail.com

· Video submissions - August 1 to August 28

· Competition viewing September 6, 2020

· Clothing – Full club Dobok, or WT approved competition Dobok.

· Two poomsae required

BELT	PATTERN ONE	PATTERN TWO
White	Basic Pattern	Basic Pattern
Yellow	Basic Pattern	Teageuk IL
Blue	Taegeuk E jang	Taegeuk Sam jang
Red	Taegeuk O jang	Taegeuk Yuk jang
Black	Koryo	Keumgang

COMPETITION FILMING RULES

1. Record your two poomsae continually as one Video, smart phone is OK. Have it mounted or sitting on something so it doesn’t shake.

2. You may record videos indoors or outdoors, following the physical distancing rules in your area.

3. The athlete shall be 100% full body inside the video recording at all times, including the break between poomsae. The camera may be rotated left or right only, no zoom, to facilitate this coverage. (No music)

4. Videos used in any other competitions will NOT be accepted for consideration.

5. The athlete is to face the camera in the start position while recording. The camera must be stationary but may be rotated no more than 45 degrees left and right from its starting point as indicated below.

6. Film your solo performance following our strict rules and guidelines and upload it to YouTube. Name the uploaded video with your name and belt level Make sure the video privacy is set to ‘unlisted’, so that only anyone with the direct URL link can view it. The video cannot be public.

7. Email the YouTube link to Gary Thorpe for judging.

Click here to see example of Ukraine boy at a European comp https://youtu.be/aTaDkinW2TU

This is mine from the 1^st Oceania Online Championships (it took 14 takes to stop falling over)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngdFHAV53EQ

HOW WILL THE COMPETITION BE JUDGED & VIEWED

Senior Black belts within the club will be engaged to judge the competition.

I don’t know what the prizes will be, but we will think of something.

You have until Friday August the 28^th to upload an email me the video link

You have nearly a month to relearn and practice

The competition will be screened virtually live, on Sunday, September 6. I will post a timetable of the screening time when I have an idea of how many competitors we have.

Between August 28 and September 6 they will be judged and collated into their competition groupings, for viewing on September 6.

The first you will know of the results will be when the videos are released and you see the progress score after each competitor. It will appear for all intents and purposes that you are looking at a live competition. (IT issues prevent real live comp)

Also, if you are having difficulty remembering the forms, you are more than welcome to make a Zoom appointment with me for some 1 on 1 instruction as many times as you like.

Any question please contact me on 0407 010 878, or by email gary.j.thorpe@gmail.com

If you know of any former students who use to train with us and should be given the opportunity to reconnect let me know also.

Sunday, 19 July 2020

Tigers Taekwondo and Covid-19

2020 has been well and truly upturned by the current global pandemic. Almost immediately on the back of our Victorian Bushfire Crisis, all our communities were suddenly and directly affected by Covid-19.

Our club chose to close early, some two weeks prior to actual restrictions being imposed, and just when poised to make a careful return we now face more time to wait before we can safely resume training in groups.

The YMCA has been faced with big challenges – staff layoffs and shutdown of operations, and has been working with Tigers Taekwondo to develop a new timetable/roster of classes aimed at providing families with the most opportunities to utilise their existing credit account. We’ve also been working out the details with the YMCA about what needs to be done to ensure a Covid-Safe return to training. More information to follow soon!

Term two felt very long with the required changes and restrictions, and also a sad one with the passing of our Black Belt Elder, Neil Crammer. A special award will be created to be included in our annual club awards to honour Neil’s memory.

Individually we’ve all been facing challenges both work and personal, and some of them not easy at all if they involve loss of family income or health/care issues. There are also the challenges our kids face with online/remote learning and not being able to catch up with training buddies at Taekwondo!

However, Taekwondo teaches us to persevere, and to maintain spirit, to commit to strive and to improve. Tigers Instructor Gary Thorpe has been the greatest example of this since the closure of our classes, winning a silver medal representing Australia in the 1^st Oceana Open Online Poomsae Championships, and another silver in the 1^st Online Daedo European Poomsae Championships!

Now in term three and on the back of Gary’s international successes and experience, he has brought to our club the opportunity for our students to compete in our own, online Poomsae competition! This will be a great way for students to ‘get remembering’ their forms during these extended restrictions, have some fun and send in their best takes! More details will follow soon.

In the meantime we encourage our students to keep stretching and to keep exercising in preparation for a return to training. Martial arts can be a lifelong journey as the path is always there – one must simply be prepared to continue, but also sometimes, to simply wait.

Saturday, 18 July 2020

Online Poomase Competitions

Online Poomase Competitions
We are going to have an intraclub one
Details being worked on now
Standby

1st Oceania Online Poomsae Championships 66+ Final
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quX3fEhMe3k

Ist Robert Schembri
2nd Gary Thorpe
3rd Russell Wood

Sunday, 10 May 2020

Neil Crammer passed away May 9 2020 RIP

Neil Crammer. Elder statesman and Black Belt Graduate at 84 years of age.

Neil came to Tigers Taekwondo at the YMCA in 2007 as a 74 year old novice ready to have a go.

A recent search of the peak body for Taekwondo in Australia records has revealed that when Neil completed his examination for black belt in December 2012 he was the oldest person to have achieved this milestone in the history of the sport in Australia.

It wasn’t as if he had a huge amount of spare time in his hands, as a life member of the Diamond Valley Gem Club, he has to fit in Bowls at the Ivanhoe Bowls Club where he has been a member since 1955, he has to front up with his paintings at Diamond Valley Arts and catch up with the goings on of the Melbourne PC Users Group.

Recently Neil succumbed to one of the scourges of our older population, a heart condition that required bypassed surgery, Neil credits his speedy recovery to the conditioning that he has acquired from Taekwondo, and can be quoted “Taekwondo saved my life”

This man is a credit to his gender and his age, with a real let’s have a “crack” attitude, and we at Tigers Taekwondo have had the privileged to have known him and be educated by him.