• When: Wednesday, February 10th, 6:00pm
• Where: KCF8 (King's College)
• Description: We will be watching two movies. One will be martial arts related and one will be just for fun. We will bring along a few movies and decide on the night. Feel free to bring snacks and refreshments.

We are offering TKD branded hoodies again. The deadline to place your orders is 26/2/2010. If you would like to get Kukri gear, it is currently on sale in the hub. If you buy whatever you like, and hand it to a committee member by 8/2/2010, we will get our club logo printed on the back. You can even get your name on it, if you like.

Hope everybody survived their exams alright. Training has started up again at the usual times! If you are new to Taekwon-Do please feel free to join any of our sessions to find out more about our club and Taekwon-Do. We will also be at the Refresher's Fayre on Tuesday, 3/2/2010 in Elphinstone Hall. We are planning quite a few events for this term as well, so make sure you check the events section and the forum regularly. The grading dates for 2010 are up now as well.

Sorry to disappoint,but there will not be any training during the Christmas holidays, as the University is closed. Training will resume again during the first exam week, so that is Monday, 18/01/2010. AUTKD wishes everybody lovely holidays and shall see you again in 2010! Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!

• When: Wednesday, 16th December, 9.30pm
• Where: Liquid
• Description: The Sports Union Christmas night out. The entry fee of 2 Pounds is returned to the club, so the more members go, the more money our club gets. It is one of the best nights you can have in Liquid. Iris has armbands, which get you the reduced entry. We will meet in Archie's at 8pm.

Check out this week's Gaudie for an article on the British Open Taekwon-Do Championships, written by our instructor, Thierry Mamer. Check it out here:

• Article about the British Open Championships in the Gaudie in December 2009

On Saturday 5th December, our school attended a grading exam held by Mr Murdoch VI in Peterhead. We showed up in force, as we had 9 students attending. In fact the minibus we were given was not even large enough to carry everyone and thanks go to Mr Scheer, who helped transporting our students to Peterhead.

Students that were grading:

• Issatay Omarov, promoted to 9th kup
• Ewa Skorzewska, promoted to 9th kup
• Andrew Lock, promoted to 9th kup with an A level pass
• Nicky Hunter, promoted to 8th kup
• Richard Midgley, promoted to 8th kup
• Michael Schlafli, promoted to 6th kup with an A level pass
• Iris Krammer, promoted to 2nd kup
• Hallur Simonsen, pregraded for 1st kup
• Gordon Pfeffers, pregraded for Blackbelt

Well done everyone, especially our new batch of beginners (10th kups & 9th kups). The Blackbelts present on the day were well impressed.

Special praises go to Andrew Lock and Michael Schlafli who both won a grading award.

To all our new members, I would highly recommend that you join our Forum, as that allows us to keep you updated on all events we are having, also you can ask questions, or if you fancy a night out, simply post it on there and you will probably find some people to join you. Some simply use it to rant…

So, we were at the British UKTA Championships 2009 last weekend (November 7th) and we got our asses kicked, while also kicking some ass in return.

The standard was really high and nobody got anything for free.

I uploaded all the action from this competition onto one youtube playlist: British UKTA Championships 2009 youtube playlist

Competitors:

• Kris Carbis - who got bronze in Sparring
• Hallur Simonson - who got gold in Special Technique and Silver in Destruction
• Iris Krammer
• Tej
• Stuart Rogers - who got Silver in Patterns

Well done, even those that didn't win anything.

An article about our club was published in the Gaudie in November. Check it out here:

• Article in the Gaudie on 3rd November 2009

The Sports Ball will be held on Wednesday, February 9th this year. The club has a few tickets available to our members. They are 40 Pounds each and include transport to and from the venue, three-course meal, and a ceilidh. If you are interested in joining us, please speak to Iris by 16/11/09.

Please put in your orders for hoodies, etc by Monday, November 2nd. If you need an order form, they can be downloaded from the documents section on this site, or see Iris after class. Money and order forms to be handed to Iris too.

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