Impact Squad Sessions.

ITF England recently announced a change in the selection procudure for
the England Squad. From now on each association is responsible for
running their own squad training sessions in the beginning of the
season. Later in the season there will be ITF England squad sessions
for those who are selected. It is still unclear if the selection by
ITF England will be made by a competition or by holding a special
selection squad training session.

The dates of our squad training sessions are:

12.00-02.00pm Sunday 28th September 2008 Olympos Centre, Moat Road,
East Grinstead, West Sussex RH19 3LN.
02.00-04.00pm Saturday 25th October 2008 Ashcombe School, Ashcombe
Road, Dorking, Surrey RH4 1LY.
12.00-02.00pm Sunday 16th November 2008 Olympos Centre, Moat Road,
East Grinstead, West Sussex RH19 3LN.
12.00-02.00pm Sunday 7th December 2008 Olympos Centre, Moat Road,
East Grinstead, West Sussex RH19 3LN.

Each session cost £6.00 and they are open to 2nd Kup and above aged 12
and above.

Master Nardizzi will conduct the training sessions with help from
other TKD Impact Instructors.

Seminar at Cams Hill TKD

On 13th September Master Nardizzi, 8th Degree and Chairman of Taekwon-Do Impact conducted a seminar on Dynamic Kicking for the students of Cams Hill Taekwon-Do. The seminar first covered the definition of dynamic kicking and showed that a kick that looks good is not necessarily dynamic and effective.

We then went on to cover several strengthening and stretching exercises specific to certain kicking techniques, we were all shown that even small exercises can make a big difference. The seminar, as always, ran short on time before all the main kicks could be completed so a follow on seminar will be organised in the the coming months.

Thanks go to Master Nardizzi for traveling down to the south coast to conduct this seminar.

11th Summer Camp in Alexandroupolis, Greece

The summer camp was held in the beautiful Greek town of Alexandroupolis on 4th to 10th August, organizing by Master Vasilis Alexandris 8 Dan. Master Alexandris is a General Secretary and Head of Technical Committee of Hellenic Taekwon-do ITF Union. He is a one of the pioneers of Taekwon-Do in Greece from 1972. His assistant was Ioannis G. Zachos 6 Degree who has 2 TKD schools in Alexandroupolis. The official guests were Master Doanto Nardizzi 8 Dan and Rosen Nikolov – 5 Dan - General Secretary of Bulgarian Federation of Traditional Taekwon-Do. The training was held at the 5 star Hotel, Alexander Beach Hotel.

Master Vasilis Alexandris presents Master Nardizzi with a plaque thanking him for the participation of the 11 National Summer Camp.

More that 70 participants and instructors from 14 TKD schools in Greece took part in the Summer Camp.
The training program consisted of two 2 to 3 hour sessions per day. On the first day Master Alexandris show basic techniques (foot and hand techniques). On the second day it was sparring technique in the morning and in the afternoon Master Donato Nardizzi taught Tul (patterns). In patterns the focus was on naturalness of the movements and sine wave. On the other days Master Alexandris paid a lot of attention in teaching the Ho Sin Sul with knife and Street fighting.

Comments:

• Master Donato Nardizzi 8 Dan England: "Thank you for your hospitality in Alexandroupolis. I enjoyed the summer camp very much. Regards Master Donato Nardizzi"
• Ioannis Zachos 6 Dan International TKD Instructor: "I am very happy and proud that Master Alexandris has chosen Alexandroupolis for 11° Taekwon-Do National Summer Camping. It was my pleasure as every time (more that 20 years) to be the assistant to Master Alexandris And I hope to continue to work together."
• Rosen Nikolov 5 Dan Gen. Sec. of BFTT: "I would like to thank for the great hospitality great acceptance of Master Vasilis Alexandris and my big friend Ioannis Zachos and the perfectly performed trainings. For me it will be great pleasure and honor to work for me for further development of Taekwon- do, not only in Greece but also in Bulgaria. It was my big pleasure to take part to 11 National Summer Camp in Alexandroupolis."
• Kalina Tsanova- Zachou 4 Dan (Gen. Sec. of TKD club “Apollon” ): "I would like to thank to Master Alexandris that he chosen our city to made 11 TKD Summer Camp. It was my pleasure to take part to the Camp. At the end of the camp as always everybody got the certificates of participation. The event closed with dinner party. We hope that you will join us on the next 12–th National Summer Camp in Greece."

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