Totally Tae Kwon Do Magazine - Issue 20 - Usadojo

enough for us to give them a very good
welcome to our training every month in
Papendal and that is the concept of it.
Some organisations do send
representatives to our central training to
pick up some new techniques, or they
come to find an explanation for things they
are doing, or they like to bring some extra
training techniques
and they are
always welcome.
The interview
finished, we all
returned to the
e v e n i n g
celebration which
was informal and
light hearted,
much in the same
way Grand Master
Karel carries
himself. The next
morning five
members of
Blarney TaeKwon-
Do took part in a
Black Belt grading
examination with
Grand Master
Karel, Mr. Gary
Brady 6th Degree
from UTI Wales
and Mr. Gerard
Sleijpen 5th
Degree from UTI
Holland.
“The club
members have
worked very hard
to get to this
grading” said Mr.
Niall O’Keeffe 5th
Degree Head
Instructor of Blarney TaeKwon-Do. “The
syllabus is quite extensive.” The
candidates demonstrated all the elements
of TaeKwon-Do shown over the course of
the weekend along with a demonstration of
breaking boards and self defence against
short stick (dan-bong) and mid-range stick
(jung-bong). All the Blarney TaeKwon-Do
members passed their graduation and
gained the following levels of Black Belt:
Mr. Scott Fitzgearld 1st Degree, Mr. Sean
Foley 1st Degree, Mr. Keith Reidy 2nd
Degree, Mr. Jonathan Murphy 2nd Degree
and Mr. Joe Green 3rd Degree. “We are all
very proud of those
who graded at the
weekend camp”
said Mr. Martin
Ryan 4th Degree
Instructor at
Blarney TaeKwon-
Do. He continued
“this has been a
major achievement
for them and the
club.”
Mr. Paul O’Leary is a
4th Degree Black
Belt in TaeKwon-Do
and is the Head
Instructor of Rebel
Martial Arts based in
Cork City, Ireland
and is also a
member of with the
Blarney UTI club in
Blarney, Co. Cork.
Mr. John Vaughan is
a 4th Degree
Instructor at Blarney
UTI. Blarney
TaeKwon-Do is an
official member of
Grand Master van
Orsouw's UTI in
Ireland and is open
to training or helping
all TaeKwon-Do
groups, clubs and
individuals no matter
the style or
background. If you
would like to know more information in Ireland
please check out www.utiblarney.com or email
blarneytkd@gmail.com or call Mr Niall
O’Keeffe, 5th Degree Chief Instructor, on 00
353 86 605 8441. If you are interested in the
UTI internationally then please check out
www.utitaekwondo.com
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