London testing and seminar March 30th
1/ British Championships feedback
Mark its the first chance I've had to get back to you re TSD championships. May I first thank you for the invite and thanks and congratulations go to the organisers of the day I'm sure all will agree you could not have had a better day with such good natured competition of such high standard.
Its was refreshing to see how others operate and it was a great opportunity to be reintroduced to old friends. So once again thanks for a great day. Hope to be asked back to the next event.
Yours in Tang Soo
Master Robert Woodiwiss
Thanks for the kind words Master Woodiwiss, I would like to take this occasion to formally invite you and yours to the IGTSDA world championships and to be official members IGTSDA .
Master Adlington
2/ Master Class
Venue Sawtry sports centre
Possible date Sunday 27th April, time 10am - 5pm. (Hall is Booked just in case we miss it)
Possible Instructors:-
Master Peter O'Toole
Master Robert Woodiwiss
Master Jan De-Vry
Master Mark Adlington
Master Andy McCann
Master Geoff Keerie
Cost £15 for all for all day.
Funds go to pay for the hall and to the instructors to help pay for their travel expenses.
Possible subjects:-
Run though all forms
Higher forms (after Kongsankun)
Chil Sang forms
Self-protection techniques
KIDO energy techniques for healing and martial applications (In-depth information on Asthma and the common cold)
Yoga stretch
Short talk on the IGTSDA rules and judging requirements
Weapons forms (Bo staff, Nunchaku, and Sword)
Power strikes and 1 inch breaking techniques
Hyung break down using pressure points
Much more..............................................
Please let me know your possible numbers ASAP
(as the hall is not cheap for a 7 hour booking)
3/ The Respected Masters
Dear sir, Thank you very much for your Dragon Academy News letter.Dear sir, It is really quiet important to me .sir, I am really quiet interested to learn this international good will martial art & I am really appreciate to promote and develop this good will art in my nation Nepal.Thank you very much.
I am waiting your favourable response.
sincerely
Soursingh lama
sachin lama meetlama@yahoo.com
Dear Sachin I would like to invite you and your group to the IGTSDA world championships in London 12th July 2003
Best Regards
Master Mark Adlington
4/ DBBAI Weapons forms
After looking at the Weapons at the British Championships and seeing what weapons forms the different coloured belts could cope with can now look to a formal structure.
Proposed:-
Orange belt - Ki Cho Bong Hyung (Simple new bong form for low grades)
Green belt - E Chul Bong Hyung il Bu (First Chuck form)
Brown belt - Practical Bong form one (To be introduced at the world championships seminars)
Red belt - E chul Bong E Bu (Second chuck form)
Blue belt - Practical Bong form two (To be introduced at the world championships seminars)
Black belt - Dan Gum Hyung (To be introduced at the world championships seminars)
2nd Dan - First sword form
3rd Dan Second sword form
Comments please?
5/ Subtle energy research.
a/ Positive and Negative Ki energy transducers (Warning, these are very effective and very common)
b/ Energetics of the moon and its different phases (The problems have now passed)
c/ Egyptian energetics (Ancient energy transducers)
d/
6/ IGTSDA World Champs 2003
After the British Championships last weekend we are now looking at a maximum of 350 competitors for the world champs any more and we will need a bigger venue. A bigger venue this time around is now not a practical option. There are many new instructors and Master instructors interested in the IGTSDA championships so get your entry forms in ASAP or you maybe to late.
The championship venue is outside the £5 congestion charge zone for central London. (Its very easy to get to from the M11)
http://www.londontown.com/
http://www.londontransport.co.uk/tfl/
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/
http://www.londonhotels-discount.com/
http://www.timeout.com/london/
http://www.londontheatre.co.uk/
Team events, please try to have Black Belts in all the teams events if possible and do not make extra teams with coloured belts.
http://www.igtsda.co.uk/ for your world championship update
Entry forms are here!
Team forms for the world championships are free!
As a good will gesture Master Adlington and Mr Fernandez agreed to include this free event at our IGTSDA world championships July next year.
Each country can enter 2 teams.
Junior team X5 students under 16years old. Senior team X5 students 16 years and above.
Any combination of male and female.
Please show us where you are from on the guest map.
http://pub30.bravenet.com/guestmap/show.php?usernum=2522498725&password=&zoom=4&movetox=-900&movetoy=-525
7/ From Master McCann (Wales)
Grandmaster Tom Muncy is confirmed for 6th April - seminar 12.00-3.00. This is an invite only session with an aim to having blackbelts/ blackbelt candidates and instructors only. If you and others will be attending could you confirm this at some point.
andrew.mccann1@ntlworld.com
8/ One for the old blokes (Forwarded by Dave Anderson)
If you were born after 1980, this does not apply to you ... so go away!
Kids of today are wrapped in cotton wool ......... Read on.
If you lived as a child in the 50's, 60's or 70's, looking back,
it's hard to believe that we have lived as long as we have ...
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
Our cots were covered with bright coloured lead-based paint. We had no
childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors, or cupboards, when we rode our
bikes we had no helmets.
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. We would spend
hours building go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to >
find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times we
learned to solve the problem. We would leave home in the morning and play
all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on. No one was
able to reach us all day. No mobile phones. We got cut and broke bones and
broke teeth, and there were no law suits from these accidents. They were
accidents. No one was to blame, but us. Remember accidents?
We had fights and punched each other and got black and blue and learned to
get over it. We ate cakes, bread and butter, and drank cordial, but we were
never overweight ... we were always outside playing. We shared one drink
with four friends, from one bottle and no one died from this.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X-Boxes, video games, 65 channels
on pay TV, video tape movies, surround sound, personal mobile phones,
Personal Computers, Internet chat rooms ... we had friends.
We went outside and found them. We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home
and knocked on the door, or rung the bell, or just walked in and talked to
them. Imagine such a thing. Without asking a parent! By ourselves!
Out there in the cold cruel world! Without a guardian - how did we do it? We
made up games with sticks and tennis balls, and ate worms, and although we
were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes, nor did the
worms live inside us forever. Footy and netball had tryouts and not everyone
made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with
disappointment.....
Some pupils weren't as smart as others so they failed an exam and were held
back to repeat the same year. Tests were not adjusted for any reason.
Our actions were our own. Consequences were expected. No one to hide behind.
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of. They
actually sided with the law - imagine that!
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem
solvers and inventors, ever. The past 50 years has been an explosion of
innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and
responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.
And you're one of them. Congratulations!
Please pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow up as kids,
before lawyers and government regulated our lives ....... for our own
good
9/ Eating fruit "may protect against cancer"
Children who eat plenty of fruit could be protected against developing certain cancers in later life, according to a UK study.
After looking at the health and diet of almost 4,000 people, researchers found that those who ate more fruit when they were younger were less likely to develop cancer as adults.
The team from Bristol University and the Medical Research Council in London used a survey from the 1930s that asked families to complete a food inventory. Using health service records, the researchers managed to trace almost 4,000 men and women who had been children at the time of the original study.
They then noted how many incidences of death and cancer had occurred among the participants up to the end of July 2000. They found 483 cases of cancer, the most common of which were lung and bowel cancers in men, and breast, lung and bowel cancers in women.
After taking into account factors such as age, gender and energy intake, the researchers found that the higher the fruit consumption during childhood, the less likely a person was to develop cancer.
Increasing fruit intake was also associated with lower death rates from all causes, although the evidence for this was not as strong.
The researchers were surprised to discover there was no link between cooked vegetables and cancer risk. They attribute this to the fact that prolonged boiling of vegetables was the norm in the 1930s, a practice which depletes the nutrients in the food.
The study looked at the individual effects of vitamins C, E and beta-carotene, but found little evidence to suggest that specific vitamins were responsible for the seemingly protective properties of fruit.
"No previous longitudinal studies using diet measured during childhood have examined the association of early fruit, vegetable, and antioxidant vitamin intake with later risk of cancer," said the researchers.
"This study shows that childhood fruit consumption may have a long-term protective effect on cancer risk in adulthood."
They added that more research was needed to further investigate the findings of their study, which is published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
10/ Dates for 2003
March 27th seminar/class RAF Waddington 6.30pm - 8.00pm
March 30th London colour belt test & seminar
April 6th Seminar with Grandmaster Tom Muncy (Wales - Master McCann)
April 12th Lost yoga seminar Nottingham £50
April 20th Breaking seminar Sawtry 2pm - 3.30pm
April 27th Master Class Sawtry 10am - 5pm
May 4th Colour belt test Sawtry
May 11th Black belt test (Please let me know your numbers)
May 15th Aberdeen seminar 6pm - 9pm
May 17th MIND seminar 11am - 5pm
June 8th Scotland Ki Do Seminar
June 29th London colour belt test & seminar
July 10th Weapons and Ki Do seminars London
July 10th - 12th World Championships London
August 3rd Colour belt test Sawtry
August 16th-17th Scotland TSD Boot Camp
September 9th instructors AMA insurance
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