Six National Taekwon-Do Champions!
On the 13th and 14th of August 2011 the International Taekwon –Do Foundation of New Zealand held its National Championships at the North Shore Events Centre.
International Taekwon –Do Foundation of New Zealand (ITFNZ) is one of NZ’s largest Martial Arts associations with its Nationals being its premier event of the year.
Six regional teams came together, made up of 60 clubs nationwide to challenge for this title. Dynamic Martial Arts, based in Silverdale, had 9 members as part of this team along with our Taekwon-Do instructor Gary Sawyer being an assistant coach to the regional team.
Our regional team, Auckland North, came 2nd by just a few points however for Dynamic Martial Arts the results were outstanding. Each one of our students brought home a medal and six of them were GOLD!
We now proudly have six Taekwon-Do National Champions. Jessie- May Kelly and Jacob Kelly, brother and sister, made their family double holders when they both received National titles. Merlin Woodhouse, Johnny Pelvin, Cory Ogg and Jacob Hartner brought home the rest. Elliot Pederson, James Wright and Anthony Waith also achieved bronze so the entire team got a placing
The outstanding effort put in by the coach and students meant that, as one of the smaller clubs at Nationals, Dynamic Martial Arts is now ranked 8th nationally and 3rd regionally.
As if the training were not full on enough, Cory Ogg and Jacob Hartner travelled to Te Kuiti to take part in a full contact fight one week before Nationals.