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Asia and Kristian Selected for GB Junior Squad

Central Academy now has no less than 4 students on the GB Taekwondo Development Programme. Asia and Kristian took part in 2 day trials at the National Academy in Manchester just before Christmas. Both have just been notified that they were successful and will be training amongst the UK’s top juniors during 2012. They join Jordyn and Naomi who were recently selected for the GB Cadet Squad. All four will be attending regular camps at the Manchester Academy and will be competing at A Class internationals across Europe in the coming months. Congratulations from everyone at Central and good luck in your quest to reach the top!

Angie Promoted to Class 1 Referee

At the BTCB Referee Course in Manchester on 14th & 15th Jan. attended by 83 BTCB referees and judges, Angie became one of only two candidates to be chosen for promotion to Class 1 Centre Referee. Angie is now one of only eight Class 1 Referees in the UK and the only Class 1 in Scotland. With a bit more experience of referring nationally, Angie will be eligible for the WTF International Referee Course. Well done, Angie – congratulations from all at Central.

Black Belts Xmas 2011

Jordyn Smith and Naomi Strathie
Selected for GB National Cadet Squad

Jordyn Smith and Naomi Strathie
Selected for GB National Cadet Squad

“Jordyn and Naomi attended a training camp over the weekend of 12th & 13th November at the National GB Academy in Manchester.
Over 60 of the country’s best cadet players attended camps in the hope of being selected for the GB National Cadet Talent Squad. All were put through their paces and after a series of test matches only 15 to 20 cadets were to be called back for inclusion in the national squad.

Both Jordyn and Naomi won their test matches and impressed the national high performance coaches enough to be selected. They will now be attending training on a regular basis in Manchester with a view to representing GB at the highest level in the future.

Congratulations and well done to the girls. Their hard work and dedication is paying off. They are now on the path to future Olympic Games!”

Congratulations to all our new Black Belts and
Black Belt promotions.

Scottish Representatives in British Team at the European Masters Games

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“BTCB Scotland Report about European Masters Games”

10K Challenge

10K Results
5K Results

6th World Poomsae Championships, Vladivostok

Central Academy’s Angie Bailey achieved Great Britain’s best ever result in the 1st Masters individual female category though not without agony in the semi-finals. She was so close to qualifying for the final with some confident poomsae producing a very high average score but was agonizingly pipped by just 0.01 of a mark for the last of the eight qualification places by home favourites Russia, who went on to take a bronze. Angie, who had a 6th place finish at the European Championships, had to settle for a world ranking of 9th. Finishing ahead of Finland, Mexico, Singapore, Canada, Australia and USA was a great achievement. This goes to show how much Angie has progressed recently through her hard work and dedication. Angie will continue to train hard to improve and will hopefully gain more success at the highest level in the future.

Great Britain Taekwondo Team for the 6th WTF World Taekwondo Poomsae Championships

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British Championships

There is a great report from the British Championships on the BTCB website to read the report
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ANGIE AT EUROPEAN POOMSAE
CHAMPIONSHIPS – ITALY

Angie had a very successful trip to the European Championships. The tournament, held in Genoa, was by
far the biggest and best Europeans to date with 250 athletes from 30 countries. Angie made it through
to the final of the 1st Masters division after performing Chonkwon and Sipjin, finishing ahead of Finland,
Serbia, Austria (Belgian Open Silver Medallist) and France (who went on to win European Bronze).
She performed Pyongwon and Jitae in the final and finished in a very creditable 6th Place. Angie was given
a 0.5 deduction for her finish position in Jitae. The judges had been told not to make any deductions for the
finish position in Keumgang or Jitae but for this error Angie would have been ahead of both Turkey and France
in the fourth place Bronze Medal position. The 6th place finish was however enough to impress the UK Poomsae Committee and Angie has now been selected to represent the UK again, this time at the World Championships in Vladivostok, Russia at the end of July.

Congratulations to Angie. Click on the link below for a flavour of the event.