TEAM ALLOA @ AYR OPEN

Well done to our students who went to the IASKA Ayr Open at the weekend. With every student picking up silverware it was an excellent day for the school.

Juniors Sean McGill and Dylan Christie almost met each other in the final of the tall boys semi-contact after impressive wins through the qualifiers, they were both very unlucky in their semi final matches. Dylan edged the all Alloa third place fight off with the match being decided in sudden death after two tied rounds. Sean won bronze in light continuous and was unlucky to miss out on the final after losing by one point in sudden death of his semi-final match. Mr McGill also picked up a silver medal in the team sparring.

Senior students Callum Murrie and Liam Ross also did well at the weekend. Liam won gold in the semi contact sparring in his first tournament. Callum took a double gold with wins in the semi and light contact sparring – once again affirming Taekwon-Do advantages over Kickboxing. Mr Paterson also jumped on the band wagon and took the gold in the Advance -75kg Sparring.

The Tigers are loose!

The Little Pumas all grew into TKD Tigers on Friday when they received their graduation certificates from Mr Paterson and Mr Hutton. The Kids all took part in the demonstration class before they received their certificates which showed the parents and kids what the fun new classes will be like. The Tigers will start training for their first theme patch on Monday which will be 'Emergency Skills'. This will focus on Fire Safety, Road Safety, Water Safety, Beach Safety, 999 Skills and more! The Tigers will also be working towards their first Tiger Grade, 'Yellow'!

School News

Class Closure

There will be no junior or senior class on Friday 24th July due to the seminar taking place at Mark Huttons Blackbelt Academy


Little PUMA Graduation

To mark the end of the Little puma course and the beginning of the TKD Tiger program all our little puma and tiger students are invited to take part in a demonstration class of the new tiger program. This will be taken by Mr Paterson and Mr Hutton from Glasgow and will show parents and students the amazing aspects of the new course. After this class little puma students will be invited onto the stage to receive a graduation certificate from the old little puma course and formally welcomed as TKD Tigers. All future classes will be TKD Tigers.


Junior and Senior Gradings

There will be a grading on Friday 31st July at the Alloa School of Taekwon-Do

This is open to all students who are ready to grade those students who have been on holiday should attend as many classes as possible before the grading.

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.