March 22, 2011

On Saturday March 19th TAO Technical Director Mr. Mike Morningstar was invited by Lighting Taekwon-Do and Mr. Chris Howes to conduct a 5-hour training session.  The first 3 hours of the session was for all levels and covered physical conditioning, kicking, basic movements, self defence and patterns Chon-Ji through Choong-Moo.  The last 2 hours was for Black Belts and covered sparring drills, sparring and patterns from Kwang-Gae to Moon-Moo.

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March 8, 2011

TAO Technical Director Mr. Mike Morningstar recently conducted a 7 hour technical seminar for students and Instructors from Chon-Ji TKD, Oakridge TKD, Thames Valley TKD and Morningstar TKD. Fifty participants from yellow belt to 6th Degree Black Belt attended. The seminar covered stretching, conditioning, basic and advanced kicking drills, patterns, step-sparring and self-defence.

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March 9, 2011

Mr. Winsor and the students of Cabot Taekwon-Do would like to congratulate Mr. DJ Clarke who successfully completed his testing on February 19, 2011 and has received promotion to 2nd Dan. Mr. Clarke was required to complete a physical and written exam in order to be eligible for this testing. The 2nd Dan testing consisted of a series of required exercises, patterns, self-defence, sparring, board breaking and theory. Mr. Clarke did very well in all aspects of the test.

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