WKA Kickboxing Fight Night

For the first time the Alloa School of Taekwon-Do entered two students into a kickboxing fight night. The students, Shaun McGill and Andrew Ballentyne were head hunted by the WKA Scotland coach to appear on the bill at the Smith Hotel in Kirkintilloch.

This was an excellent way to boost confidence for the pair who qualified for the WKA Scotland team earlier this year. On the bill were many of the team who will accompany the Alloa pair travelling to Spain in October for the world championships. The bouts were a good indication of the level needed to compete at such a level and will inspire the boys to train hard over the summer. Both the boys were unlucky not to win their bouts, with Shaun losing out to one point in the last second of the bout. However as with all junior competition the experience you gain far more important than the medal.

All the coaches at the school would like to congratulate the boys and wish them luck in their training..

DEMO TEAM

Well Done to all those who participated in last weekend’s Demo at the Dollar Gala, this was a fantastic day and those who took part (at very short notice) proved how good the school and its students are.


We were asked several times what the difference was between our school and other schools in Clackmannanshire. Several parents of students from other 'clubs' couldn’t believe the difference in technical ability, discipline and courtesy.


We are extremely proud of our students and with exciting times ahead of us we know our school shall continue to be the home of the best Taekwon-do students in the wee county.

School Information

The School shall be closed on Friday 6th March to allow the church to use the halls for a special service. This has been on the school notice board for several months.

Training shall resume on Monday 9th March and will focus on preperation for the long awaited grading that has finally been confirmed for Monday 16th March.

Those looking to grade should make themselves known if they havent already.

Team UK Squad Training

THIS SATURDAY 12.45-2.45PM

ST ANDREWS HIGH COATBRIDGE

THIS WILL BE TAKEN BY TEAM UK COACH MR GARRY BRADSHAW

LETS SEE A GOOD TURN OUT

Inter-club Success

Inter-club Success Team Alloa travelled to Glasgow on Saturday to compete at the central Scotland interclub tournament. The Little Pumas, junior and senior students competed against other students from Stirling, Falkirk, Glasgow East, Glasgow South, and Coatbridge.

The Little Puma Class did extremely well we even managed to win a Gold medal at the High kick competition. Everyone else was very unlucky not to have won a medal but will be excited to receive there participation medal next week.

Those who didn’t win this time or haven’t yet been to a competition should know that if you train hard, behave and practise at home you have a great shot at winning at the next competition!!

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Our Junior Class were winning medals left, right and centre ring all day with some great efforts all round. The Boag brothers were unlucky not to have picked up a medal, as was Adian Declan and Harris (who missed out by 1 point!) Rebecca and Katie also were a bit unfortunate not to have a medal.

Kristian, who was attending his first competition put in a great performance at the high kick and took gold. Shaun followed up his impressive display at the WKA Qualifiers to take gold in sparring. Andrew Ballentyne took silver in his sparring category and Gary and David McNaughton devastated the competition to meet in an all Alloa/brother final with Gary edging the Gold. Ryan Davidson put in the performance of the day to take a Set. Gold in High Kick, Silver in Sparring, and Bronze in Patterns.

Our Seniors once again showed that Alloa is the number one class for adults to train with Jez winning Gold, Davie P silver and Calum bronze. Gary McNaughton Snr also managed to secure gold in white belt patterns - a really difficult category. Johnas who was mourning the death of his cat by flying his trousers at half mast was unfortunate not to medal in his second competition.

Scottish Inter-club Tournament

Date: Saturday 21st Febuary

Time: 12.45pm



Venue: St Andrews High School, Coatbridge



The competition is open to all grades.



Little Puma's, Juniors, Adults

WKA Qualifiers - Success for Team Alloa

Eleven students from the Alloa School of Taekwon-Do (PUMA) travelled
to Wishaw on Sunday to compete against kickboxing, karate, kung fu and Taekwon-Do students from all over the country in a bid to qualify for the WKA Scottish Kickboxing Squad.

Last year both instructors qualified for the team - this year 7 adult and 3 juniors competitors joined them hoping to travel to Spain later this year to compete at the WKA World Championships.




Junior Sean McGill put in an excellent performance to qualify for the point sparring section whilst fellow junior Andrew Ballentyne qualified for the same category at a different weight.

Ryan Davidson was unlucky not win his bronze medal playoff, facing opponents that were older, heavier and taller than him he put in an great effort.




From the Adults, Peter Emmerson, Adam Paterson, Johnas and Jez Haslam all qualified in their respective divisions.


The other students were unlucky not to qualify and will be looking to medal at the Scottish interclub championship later this month.

Tournement News

WKA World Championship 2009 - Scottish National Qualifiers

This will take place on the 8th Febuary 2009 in Wishaw, Lanarkshire.

Point Sparring

Light Contact Sparring

Forms (Patterns)

Musical Forms

This tournement is open to all students blue belt and above at your instructors discression.

PUMA British Championship 2008

Eight students from the Alloa School of Taekwon-Do (PUMA) travelled down to Swindon last month to represent the club at the 2008 British Championships.

This year saw the tournament being split into separate colour belt and black belt competitions. Despite this it was still the largest PUMA Competition to date.

Ryan Davidson took home Bronze in an excellent display of sparring against very experienced opponents. Graeme Boag also battled his way to a Bronze medal in the sparring division and has shown great potential at this tournament and at the Scottish Championships earlier this year. Shaun McGill completed the hat trick of Bronze Medals with a fine display of sparring in his first continuous event.

Alastair Boag demonstrated how commitment to training pays off after winning the Alloa Schools only Silver medal. The hard work he put into training saw him upgrade the Bronze he won at the Scottish Championships to Silver at the British.

Other fine performances were given by David McNaughton and Dylan Christie, David who was competing at his first British Championship was unlucky not to finish in the medals. Dylan, who won the championship last year, was also unlucky in his match - a few weeks harder training and it would have been a different story for both the boys.

Two Students from the school returned home from the tournament as British Champions. Gary McNaughton, in his first tournament south of the boarder battled his way to win Gold in the Sparring Division. This was an excellent display and was an improvement on the Silver and Bronze won at the Scottish October.

Andrew Ballentyne continued to show his dominance in his sparring division by adding the British Title to the Scottish title he won in October. He is without doubt a future star in the sport.

The British Championships are the highest level of competition domestically for a colour belt. The Alloa School are extremely proud of their students - medal or no medal. just by taking part you learn valuable experience that will help you in your training and future competitions.

Well Done Everyone!

Christmas Party and Awards

Monday 22nd December

- Mini Competitions
- Prizes
- Games

(Please Wear your Doboks for class photographs)

All Your Friends and Family are welcome to join in the Fun!

Annual Awards

Student of the Year Presentation
Junior Competitor of the Year Presentation