No classes in Oundle 21st July
Class with Master Jacobsen Sunday 20th July (Papers will be there bring trophies)
New classes in Huntingdon "LA Dragon Academy" booked and starts 22nd July week. Thursdays 4.30pm - 5.30pm & Sundays 4.00pm - 5.00pm
New Yoga classes Yaxley public hall 7.30pm - 8.30pm Wednesdays starting 16th July
No Yoga or TSD classes in Sawtry 29th July.
1/ Champs Feedback
Dear Mark, Arthur and Kieran.
On behalf of the Tiger Gym I would like to thank you for an excellent day on Saturday 12th. I know that all my students enjoyed themselves immensely and were all saying how good they had found the event and had made friends from different areas. Some are already talking about South Africa in 2005 !!
Our one casualty, Jeff Mireku, has damaged his ligament and is currently on crutches but hopefully his recovery will be quite swift.
Once again, thank you very much for your invitation and we certainly enjoyed ourselves and hope to be able to participate in many more events with you all.
Tang Soo
Master Brian Edmondson
6th dan Chief Instructor TGI (UK).
Well the Championships are now over.
I would like to take this opportunity to THANK everybody that helped out on the day.
With this help and dedication to Martial Arts, the event went fairly smoothly and hopefully everybody had a good time.
Over the next few weeks the website will be updated photos, please watch this space www.igtsda.co.uk
Look forward to seeing you all at the NEXT World Championships in South Africa 2005, if not before that !
Tang Soo !!
Arthur
Master Adlington,
Just a quick note to thank you and your team, for an enjoyable and well organized IGTSDA 2nd championship. It was an honour and a pleasure to be in the presence of so many TSD Masters, and practitioners from so many countries, all coming together under the name of Tang Soo Do.
Good luck with the 3rd championships.
Tang Soo
Marc Lyle
TGI Coventry
Dear Mark/Arthur,
Many many thanks for the events on Saturday......we had a great time and the students are overwhelmed with their haul of trophies. I understand and can only appreciate what you guys went through to organise the event. On a personnel note I was so impressed with all the competitors and Masters and their attitude....its nice to know that we are all from the same big family even though there are slight differences in some of our forms etc.
Once again Sirs well done for your effort and hard work.
Yours in Tang Soo...
Les Edmondson
Hi Mark great championships!!
I hope you all enjoyed them too, despite all the hassle you had Did you find out how the injured Greek guy was? Hope he recovered ok
It is a shame there were so many difficulties as i thought it was a very exciting day and the standard was exceptional. As always, your senior instructors organised a good day under a huge amount of pressure
Thanks again for the invite
hope to see you soon
Pete O'Toole
Tang soo!
2/ Tang Soo Do Master Class (For all mature TSD Students)
The next Master Class is Saturday 26th July.
The Hall is booked 9am - 3pm (cost £15 unless you are teaching)
Subjects:-
Self-protection - ju jitsu - pressure points - forms break down By Master McCann.
Ki Do - Syllabus presentation - practical energy applications for self-defence and health - Master Adlington and Jacobsen. Includes the ranking Ki Do system and requirements.
Chil Sang forms review- Master Woodiwiss.
IGTSDA - Official Weapons forms presentation - Master Jacobsen and Adlington. If you have a weapon form that is practised by a large number of TSD students and would like it included in the IGTSDA Championships please contact Master Adlington.
Child education and the martial arts - Master De-Vry. Fantastic Junior Dragons concept for our youngest students.
Any other offers?
I have a new blue breaking board so we could do some breaking techniques as well if there is time.
Some of the Black Belts need to do Ki detection for the Dan testing.
3/ Joke
So I said to the Gym instructor "Can you teach me to do the splits?". He said "How flexible are you?". I said "I can't make Tuesdays".
4/ Thanks to everyone that had a positive input to the IGTSDA championships. Lots of hard work accommodating many different cultures and TSD associations. Give yourself a pat on the back!
Small champs 20th September Sawtry Sports centre entry forms on request and in the IGTSDA brochure.
5/ Subtle energy research.
a/ Ionised, energized and Magnetized Water
b/ New gyro theory to explain rooting and up rooting
c/ New energy vessel
d/ New rooting techniques
6/ IGTSDA World Champs 2003
Done and dusted over to Master Eddie Jacobsen........................
Results to follow.
7/ Anger "can cause headaches"
People who bottle up their anger could be putting themselves at risk of headaches, according to US researchers.
Dr Robert Nicholson, from Saint Louis University, studied 422 adults, 171 of whom suffered from headaches. He assessed how angry the participants were, how much they internalised their anger and how severe and frequent their headaches were.
The study revealed that bottling up anger is more likely to cause headaches than depression and anxiety, both of which have been linked to headaches.
However, Dr Nicholson warns that letting your anger out may not always be appropriate. "Yelling at your boss could cost you your job. Making an obscene gesture at a driver who cut you off in traffic could lead to road rage.
"What I would hope to do is help people learn ways to lengthen their fuses so they avoid becoming angry," he said.
Dr Nicholson recommends taking three deep breaths when you are angry as this lowers your internal anger meter. He also recommends identifying the kinds of people, situations and events trigger your anger and says that changing your environment, by going for a five-minute walk or turning the radio up in the car, can help diffuse your feelings.
Telling others how you feel in an assertive, non-confrontational way can make you feel better and lets others know how they have annoyed you. However, if expressing your anger will cause more harm than good in the long run, it is best to vent your rage by telling a friend rather than berating the person who wronged you.
Dr Nicholson also suggests letting go of things beyond your control and recognising that you can only change yourself and responses to others, not what others do to you. Getting angry will not fix the situation and will only make you feel worse, he warns.
Forgiveness is a useful coping strategy but is hard to master, Dr Nicholson says. "Whether the wound is from someone else or is self-inflicted, the greatest power you have is the ability to forgive and let it go. It won't change the past, but neither will being angry."
8/ Cooling heart attack victims "prevents brain damage"
People who have suffered a cardiac arrest and have then been resuscitated have less risk of brain damage if their body temperature is lowered, according to US researchers.
A cardiac arrest results from the heart's lower chambers quivering rapidly and chaotically. Normal rhythm can often be resumed if the heart is quickly treated with an electric shock from a defibrillator.
However, because the oxygen-rich blood is cut off from the brain when the heart stops pumping, people who survive a cardiac arrest lasting more than a few minutes often suffer brain damage.
Experts already know that cooling a person's body before the heart stops, such as during open-heart surgery, can help prevent brain damage.
Now, two studies have shown that cardiac arrest survivors who have their body temperature cooled to below normal after resuscitation are less likely than survivors who were not cooled to sustain neurological damage. An international advisory statement, published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association, recommends that the body temperature be lowered to between 89.6ºF and 93.2ºF. This procedure should be started as soon as possible after successful resuscitation and continued for 12-25 hours.
Jerry Nolan, lead author of the statement, said, "What is so exciting about these new studies is that they showed that even if we cooled the brain after the oxygen supply had been cut off people did better."
In one of the studies, researchers used a special mattress with a cover that blew air over the patient's body and used ice bags if necessary to cool them for 24 hours after they arrived at the critical care unit. In the other, ice packs were applied to the patients' heads and torsos by the paramedics and for more than 12 hours while they were in the hospital.
Brain damage occurs when the blood flow is returned to the brain because it triggers a series of chemical reactions, according to Dr Nolan. This causes significant inflammation in the brain that can last for up to 24 hours.
"Cooling slows down the chemical reactions in the brain, thereby lowering inflammation," Dr Nolan says.
Further research will now be undertaken to determine exactly how best to cool patients, how long they should be chilled, whether paramedics should be taught the procedure and when it is too late to help.
9/ Dates for 2003
July 20th Class with master Jacobsen
July 21st - 26th KIDO training week (Limited places)
July 22nd First Tuesday class in the LA fitness Centre Huntingdon
July 23rd Seminar in Yaxley with Masters Jacobsen and Adlington 6pm - 7.30pm
July 24th Seminar in Rugby with Masters Jacobsen and Adlington 7pm - 9pm.
July 26th - Master Class 9am - 3pm Sawtry (Travellers can come late if needed e.g. 10am)
July 27th First Sunday class in the LA fitness Centre Huntingdon
August 3rd Colour belt test Sawtry
September 9th instructors AMA insurance
September 11th Aberdeen seminar 6pm - 9pm
September 13th & 14th Scotland Boot camp
September 20th Master Adlington's Championships
September 28th London colour belt test & seminar
October 25th Scotland Championships
November 2nd Colour belt test Sawtry
November 9th Black belt test
December 7th Scotland Ki Do Seminar (Christmas party?)
December 14th London colour belt test &seminar
December 21st last class Sawtry