SLTKD at the World Championships

STEPHEN LAMBERTH'S TAE KWON DO SCHOOLS SET TO TAKE WORLD STAGE

BIRMINGHAM HOSTS INTERNATIONAL TAEKWONDO CHAMPIONSHIPS

Over 2000 hopefuls, from every continent of the world will vie for titles in the largest Taekwondo Championship the UK has ever seen!

Birmingham Arena— Saturday 21st & Sunday 22nd July 2018 - 9am start

Hosted by the Taekwondo Association of Great Britain (TAGB), 22 countries will be sending their competitors forward to compete in an exciting selection of events in the Taekwondo World Championship. The two-day tournament will see some of the world’s best fighters, patterns technicians and destruction champions come together to battle it out for the title of World Champion. There are also the amateur coloured belt divisions where people of all ages and abilities can also try their skill alongside the great champions!

From your local TAGB Schools in Ringwood, Verwood, Fordingbridge and Ferndown people will be competing in this exciting event.

William McGregor and Benjamin Coe are local young men who will be participating in this prestigious event. William and Benjamin both train at Stephen Lamberth's Tae Kwon Do School's in Ringwood, Ferndown, Verwood and Fordingbridge. They both have won trophies at English; British and Welsh Championships for their patterns and sparring abilities.

They both have good chances of winning trophies this time around as these gentlemen are talented martial artists.

Both competing in the artistic side of Tae Kwon Do which is patterns. Set movements done against an imaginary opponent; the idea of these sets are that they look strong, powerful, precise and artistic. The moves should be delivered with the utmost precision and accuracy. It is open to a panel of judges to mark the pattterns and the highest scores win.

Both are also entering the continuous sparring section which is where they face off against another fighter and fight continuously for a 2 minute round.

The winner is indicated at the end of the bout and goes forwward to the next round.

These gentlemen could face any fighter in their division from any country in the world. Best of luck guys, we are proud of what you do win or lose. The fighting is spectacular to watch at any level as it is proper Tae Kwon-Do being shown.

Instructor Stephen Lamberth said “All our members have really raised their game this year. I’m excited to see what they can achieve! We wish the best to all competitors and hope that the public will join us at the Arena Birmingham to support us on the day.”

The event will take place at Birmingham Arena over the weekend of 21-22^nd July. Tickets can be purchased on the door on either day or in advance through the Arena Birmingham Ticket Booking Office.

We have families who compete in the Championships together.
Local man who over comes his disability to achieve his dream of getting his first belt success.
We have students from the age of 4 years old upto any age achieving and succeeding at our SL TKD Self Defence School's.
A man who at 58 strives still to improve as a master technician of taekwondo despite not beginning till later in life.
William Mcgregor has devoted years of training hard to be in this position, and now competes on a regular basis.
Benjamin Coe who’s been getting up at 6am to train before school and pushing himself every training session he attends.
Instructor Stephen Lamberth will be refereeing on the day and looking forward to congratulating his students win or lose. We have nearly 300 students within our clubs and I am so proud of each and everyone of them. The supporting parents, husbands and wives along with other family members who also play such a major part in this Happy Family Club. Let's hope for even more success within these wonderful collection of Self Defence clubs.

PLEASE COME AND VISIT US:

The club will be training hard this week in the run up to the event. If you can spare a reporter and/or photographer to come to the club you can get some really good pictures and speak with our amazing competitors. We would also like to invite you back after the competition to talk about the experience and show off any medals that may be achieved.

If you are not able to attend then please contact me and I will happily send over plenty of exciting news, pictures and videos from the weekend. I can also arrange interviews, before or after with winners and inspiring local people from the weekend.

Photograph shows Students training and practiscing the fighting within a class environment.