Northside Traditional Taekwon-Do

Congratulations to Mackenzie who now stands side by side with her sister, Assistant Instructor Samantha, as 2024's Student of the Year and another worthy participant. Mackenzie has shown her dedication, techniques, attitude and perseverance to earn the coveted award this year. Very well done.

Congratulation Josh on achieving your second degree black belt. Your dedication has shown exactly what it takes to obtain this level. Sensational effort.

Congratulations to Instructor Josh, who placed first in the full contact sparring, first in the full contact points sparring, first in the forms and third in the continuous sparring events at the recent AMAC tournament.

Another awesome achievement.

Another huge effort and big congratulations to all of our Northside Traditional Taekwon-Do students who competed in the National All Styles State Championships last weekend.

Instructor Joshua took out 1st place for the Black Belt open Continuous Sparring event - Another ACT State Champion bred by Northside Traditional Taekwon-Do

Assistant Instructor Sam took 1st in Creative weapons, 1st in Traditional weapons, 1st in Forms, 1st in Points Sparring and 2nd in Continuous Sparring - sensational effort - Another ACT State Champion bred by Northside Traditional Taekwon-Do

Jasper placed 1st in Points Sparring and 2nd in Forms - Another ACT State Champion bred by Northside Traditional Taekwon-Do

Chloe placed 1st in Points Sparring, 3rd in Continuous Sparring and 3rd in Forms - Another ACT State Champion bred by Northside Traditional Taekwon-Do

Lily - 2nd in Points SParring

Max placed 1st in Continuous Sparring, 1st in Forms and 3rd in Points Sparring - Another ACT State Champion bred by Northside Traditional Taekwon-Do

Mackenzie placed 1st in Points Sparring and 3rd in Forms - Another ACT State Champion bred by Northside Traditional Taekwon-Do.

The quality of our students has again shown through in this enormous achievement. Aside from the medals and the crowning of so many State Champions, everyone had a great time, competed in the best spirit and enjoyed the experience.

Congratulations to everyone.

Another tournament and another fantastic effort by Northside Traditional Taekwon-Do.

With a massive 18 medals, an awesome result by everyone, including those where it was their first competition !

Results:
Samantha - 1st place in continuous sparring, 2nd in weapons and 2nd in forms

Mackenzie - 2nd in forms and 1st in points sparring

Aubree - 1st in points sparring and 1st in continuous sparring

Kasper - 2nd in continuous sparring and 2nd in forms

Harper - 1st in forms, 1st in weapons, 1st in points sparring and 2nd in continuous sparring

Patrick - 1st in points sparring

Max - 3rd in points sparring and 3rd in continuous sparring

Tina - 3rd in points sparring

Andrew - Spirit award for continuous sparring.

Looking forward to the next one ! Great work team.

Congratulations to Mackenzie, Kasper, and Ryan. You all performed exceptionally well and you all deserve those new belts. You should all be very proud of what you've achieved and excited to start a new chapter in your martial arts career.

Congratulations to our newest Black Belts. Samantha and Harper were exceptional in their display today and earned their intermediate Black Belts. A great show of technique, discipline, control and humility. Both are great leaders and role models to all.

We are beyond proud of your efforts.

Chief Instructor Adam

Another great NAS tournament on the weekend and another great outcome for Northside Traditional Taekwon-Do.

With some clean sweeps of the boards and everyone from our dojo claiming medals, it was an awesome day.

Zara Capner had a clean sweep with 1st place wins in weapons, forms, points and continuous sparring.

Harper Kaines also maintained victory with 1st places in forms, points and continuous sparring.

Aubree Kaines outdid herself placing 1st in both the continuous and points sparring.

Constantina Portelli shone by coming second in points sparring, 3rd in continuous (with some sizeable opponents) and 3rd in forms.

For Jith's first time in a tournament, he excelled with a 1st in continuous sparring and a 3rd in forms.

It was also Amanda Yu's first attempt in the ring and won hearts with her 2nd place in points sparring and a 3rd place in forms (against a number of competitors).

Jasper Yu also proved he was a challenge with a 1st place in forms.

While everyone from our small dojo who attended outdid themselves, it was me who was a winner, getting to see you all perform at your peak, being humble in your placements and being the recipient of so many comments about your attitude, fortitude, style and grace. It was truly humbling.

Congratulations to you all, very well deserved and thanks for doing the dojo proud.

Chief Instructor Adam

Our first tournament for the year, done.

While only a small contingent this time, Harper and Constantina dominated their events.

Harper placed first in the continuous sparring and second in the weapons division against some significant and experienced competitors. Harper also placed fourth in the forms event.

Constantina placed second in the forms and made a took a phenomenal two first places in the points and continuous sparring events against much bigger, older and more experienced opponents.

Congratulations to you both for your excellent achievements, spirit and representation of our school. As usual, we are all really proud of you both.

Thanks also to Zara for coming along and assisting with the day.

Myself and Black Belt Joshua also spent the day refereeing which was great fun,

With the National titles soon to be coming up, now is the time for everyone to commit to their practice and show what you can do!

Let's try and get a big group going next time!

See you next week.

Chief Instructor Adam