Lyall Bay Taekwon-Do

First of our 5th birthday celebrations kicked off last night with a combined session with Miramar & Legacy clubs. Huge thanks to our guest instructor Master Ward, 7th Dan from Spirit Newlands, for coming along and taking patterns and self-defence with us, as well a fun Q&A with our juniors. Lots of learning and fun had by all 🥋 👊

Happy birthday to us! Lyall Bay Taekwon-Do turned 5 years old this week, and what a ride it's been! Huge thanks to all of our students and supporters for helping us get to where we are today. From our opening night with 20+ registered on the spot, coupled with months and months of learning 4 direction punch and block to now having inherited a 1st Dan (and now a possible 2nd Dan) and having 2 members still with us today that have shown they have the perseverance to go the distance and become black belts (spoiler, one of them is currently red belt, 2nd Gup) as well as having every colour of the syllabus under one roof. I want to thank you all for making our club the awesome place and amazing bunch of people that inspire me to keep turning up and trying to push to the best you can be. You're all champions in my book and all have the potential to and dedication required to call yourselves true Taekwon-Do practitioners. I can't wait to continue this ride with you and see where the next 5 years and beyond takes us. Taekwon! 🥋👊

Merry Christmas everyone! Hope you have a great day filled with fun and family 🎅🎄

2024 Award Winners (absent)
Congratulations to many of our other award winners who were unfortunately not able to make prize giving tonight.🏆🎉🥋👊
Best Overall Senior - Tabitha Marsden
Best overall Junior(s) - Kahu Williams & Jonah Marsden
Student Choice Award - Larson Kadesi
Most attendance for 2024 (92 lessons) - Hunter Aitchison
I'll get trophies and certificates to you as soon as possible 👏

Congratulations to this years award winners:
Best overall Mini-Kid - Nina Revell
Tenet Award for Perseverance - Jacob Williams
Most Improved Student - Cohen Collins
2nd Most attendance for 2024 (91 lessons) - Harper Kana

Big milestone today! Lyall Bay has its first ever red belt! 🎉👏 Next stop Black! Extra proud of this one ❤️🥋👊

Well done to our latest gradees. Lots of new goals for 2025 🥋👊

Some of our students working hard for their next belt at the final grading for the year last night. Great work team! 🥋👊

A couple of timelapses from our beach training on Thursday night. Very cool! 😎

The results are in! Well done to our recent gradees who smashed it on the weekend. Lyall Bay has a new yellow belt, a new green belt and a new blue belt. 2 A passes, 2 regulars from Miramar and 1 very proud instructor 🥋👊

Some of our awesome Wellington instructors with Masters Raukaura and Ward 🥋👊

Well done to our gradees who gave it everything and represented Lyall Bay at the regional grading today. Long day but solid effort team. Super proud instructor! 🥋👊