Lisa elected to LCCC Sport Committee as Taekwondo
Representative
Well done to the Lisa Nicholson, Carryduff Club, who was re-elected to the Lisburn Castlereagh Sport's Forum for a third year.
Lisa is there to ensure Taekwondo has a voice and is not lost amongst the 'big' sports.
Valley & Carryduff FUNdamental Class Assessments
Well done to the Carryduff & Valley FUNdamental Taekwondo students who passed their assessments held on 29th May in the Valley Leisure Centre, Newtownabbey.
JAMES @ GB POOMSAE SQUAD TRAINING
James trained with GB Poomsae squad at 10 Acres Lane Sports Complex, home of GB Taekwondo.
Five hours of intense training made it hot and sweaty. It was just as hot outside where it was 28 C in Manchester.
UTA Northen Ireland FORMAL
Great night had by all at the UTA NI Formal, held in Clayton Hotel, Belfast.
After a lovely meal we got down to some serious boogying and generally having good clean fun!
GREAT PERFORMANCES AT CHAMPION OPEN
Well done to the guys and girls competing as part of the UTA Northern Ireland team down in Dublin at the 1st Champion international open.
Great performances & results
Matthew - gold,
Lucy- gold
Rheanna - silver
Olivia- sliver (2nd place to her sister Lucy when they met in the final)
ENYA KITTED OUT FOR JUNIOR OLYMPICS SELECTIONS IN TUNSIA
Enya looking good in her Irish Team tracksuit before heading out to Tunsia for selction fights for the Junior Olympics. We wish her and the other Irish National Team players all the best!
James with GB Team at 2018 German Open, Hamburg
Congratulations to James Nicholson, GB under 14yrs Male Cadet Team, who came away with a Bronze in his team event. Unfortunately a medal in the individual event eluded him after making a wobble, which you can't do at this very high level.
Congratulations goes to the Team GB's poomsae squad who placed 4th overall in the competition
JAMES RE-SELECTED TO GB POOMSAE SQUAD


Based on his performance at the 2017 British Poomsae Championships held in Nottingham at the weekend, James (left) was delighted to receive his written invitation to be re-selected to the GB Poomsae Squad Performance Programme. This allows him to compete at the Lille International in France and the German Open in Hamburg, which are selection competitions for the world championships in Taipei.
James got off to a good start in the Dan U14 individuals; s...tarting off with 29 players he went through the semi-finals in 4th place and into the finals where he finished a respectable 6th place in a very tough category against his other GB Team members; but a strong performance saw him retain his GB Squad place.
James was next up in his pairs with his partner Victoria. Another tough category with 21 pairs starting off. The two got through the first cut and finished 10th place overall.
James then competed strongly in his team with Joshua and Thomas event picking up a well deserved bronze
2 GOLD, 2 SILVER, 1 BRONZE South Dublin
Well done to Enya (Gold), Etan (Bronze) and Rehanna (Silver) on some splended performances at the South Dublin Open.
Enya's match was stopped against Irish Team member after the 20 points gap was reached with Enya dominating the fight. So brilliant performance. Poor Rehanna trying to get over an illness ran out of steam in the 3rd round of the final and lost her points lead to get the silver. Ethan made a great come back... in the later stages of his semi-final fight but just couldn't quite make it
The Welcome House.
Olivia and Lucy Bell competing to-day came away with a Gold and Sliver respectively. Unfortunately it could not be 2 golds because the 2 twin sisters where in the same weight category and met each other in the final, put on an exhibition match, which ended 22-21 to Olivia!
Carryduff at Commonwealth Games Baton Relay
Carryduff Taekwondo Club was represented when the Queen’s Baton Relay came to Lisburn finishing its last leg of Northern Ireland and as part of visiting all the Commonwealth countries around the world in the lead up to the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games in April 2018.
The kids from Carryduff and Lisburn clubs put on an impressive kicking display with coaches Lisa and Bertie Nicholson. The gathering all said how impressed they were with the kids.
It was good for the kids to hold the baton, which was unexpected, and also to meet with Dame Mary Peters.
James GB Squad training
James, seen pictured with his GB Poomsae under 14 yrs coaches: Mr. Chan Sau (L) and Master Sang Young Park at the recent GB Poomsae Squad training held in Sunderland University.
It was great for James to train along other high calibre players and to meet his new coaches.
James will be heading off again in a couple of weeks to the GB Poomsae training camp in Manchester
Getting the FUNdamentals right at class assessment
It was very pleasing to see the improvements made buy the kids from the FUNdamental Taekwondo classes from Valley and Carryduff Taekwondo Clus at the grading assessment held on Sunday 4th June in the Valley Leisure Centre.
We had 2 assessments: one group going from white belt to orange stripe and the second more advanced group moving from orange stripe to purple stripe.
The assessment was based on the syllabus for yellow stripe, which the guys and girls are edging towards. However the class is not about gradings per say, but allowing the kids to have fun through Taekwondo training and sorting out those motor skills, basic self defence and discipline so they can hit the 'mats' running when they are old enough for the main class training.