Warrior TKD News: 7 March

Dear Members,

The Event of the Year is BACK!
Back for the second year running is our massively successful Warrior tournament fun day!

This event is designed for EVERYONE from all Warrior Taekwon-Do branches, no matter your age, rank, or skill level. We want to give all Warrior members the chance to experience competition in a fun, safe and low pressure environment. This will be our main Warrior event for the year, and we want all members in attendance!

When: Saturday 9 April, 8.30am registration and 9am start
Where: Warrior Taekwon-Do HQ, 198 Marua Rd, Ellerslie
How much: $20 pay on the day (cash)
What:
- There will be four competition events:
o Patterns
o Sparring
o Special technique high kick
o Breaking or Power punch for kids
- Members are split into four divisions:
o Peewees (Kub, minis, kids up to 10)
o Juniors (10-13)
o Teens (14-17)
o Adults
- Competitors will always get multiple rounds in each event, no matter of their result. This way they're guaranteed to get great value out of the day and multiple chances to practice.
- Further divisions will be made for rank, size, weight & gender where necessary. No matter your or your child's ability, they will have a safe and fun competition.

We know you'll love this event and will want to register straight away! Look out for our pre-registration forms at the entrance to the dojang or register now online HERE.

Road to Regionals Short Course
Road to Regionals is a short course for Warrior Taekwon-Do students interested in training seriously toward the Auckland North Regional Tournament which will be held at the AMI Netball Centre in St Johns in May and developing their tournament skills.

Training will be on Saturday mornings at 10.30am at Warrior Training Zone, 198 Marua Rd, Ellerslie beginning mid-March and covers different disciplines in each session (see schedule on website page  http://www.warriortkd.co.nz/road-to-regionals-short-course.html). Participants must be ranked at least yellow belt and at this stage it is open to kids and teens, but we will open up the course to adults if we have enough adult expressions of interest which you can also register through the website link. Participants can register in advance for all 9 sessions at the special price of $80 or for individual sessions at $15 each.

REGISTER FOR THE SHORT COURSE NOW

This is your opportunity to work with world experts in all of the competition events including:

Roisin Giles - 2nd Degree Black Belt (NZ)
Current patterns World Champion
2014 Oceania Champion in power breaking
Former WAKO Kickboxing National Champion

Kara Timmer - 3rd Degree Black Belt (NZ)
Current power breaking World Champion
Current team specialty World Champion

Kavita Jaduram - 2nd Degree Black Belt (NZ)
2014 Oceania Champion in patterns
2014 Oceania Champion in specialty

Brenda Contti - 3rd Degree Black Belt (Argentina)
National Champion in sparring (Argentina)
Pan American Champion in sparring
2011 World Champion in team sparring

We're really excited to be able to offer this course to you and have had enquiries from students of other clubs interested in coming - but this is for you Warrior students only, so make the most of this opportunity to develop under the tutelage of a high calibre coaching team!

Have a great training week!

Best wishes,



Rachel Bates
Centre Manager