News Archive

There won't be training during the Easter holidays, though some of us are training with Grey City TKD. Training will resume on Monday, 19/4/2010.

We are planning our annual roadtrip. We will be camping near Loch Laggan. More info is on the forum. Please bring 5 Pound to training by 26/3/2010 to secure your place. Update 28/3/2010: There are still spaces available, so please let Iris know, if you would like to join.

Please note, there will be no training this Sunday, due to Superteams event.

On Saturday 6th March 2010, two of our students took their grading exam held by Mr Murdoch VI in Aberdeen. Both students passed their exam. Students that were grading:

• Ewa Skorzewska, promoted to 8th kup
• Andrew Lock, promoted to 8th kup with an A level pass

Well done!

March 17th is St Patrick's day. We will host a pub crawl through Aberdeen, starting at 7pm in Archie's. Wear something green! If you don't know where this is, just ask a committee member. Feel free to bring your friends along too!

Superteams will be happening on Sunday, 21/3/2010 this year. We are looking to enter a team of 3 girls, 3 guys and one other member. This is a fantastic event, which has included go-carting, swimming, climbing, indoor curling and more in the past. This years events are still secret. If you would like to participate, please get in touch with Kris or Iris. More info is on the forum.

Two competitions are coming up soon. They are open to yellow belts and above. The British University competition will be on Sunday, 28/3/2010 in Canterbury and the Scottish UKTA Open will be on 17/4/2010 in Glasgow. Please see the events section, the forum or facebook for more details and get in touch if you would like to participate. There is also a grading coming up on 6/3/2010, so please see Mr Mamer if you would like to grade. Especially yellow tags are encouraged to grade, so you can participate in the upcoming competitions.

• 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.

Please be aware that you won't be allowed to enter the Sports Village unless you bought Sports Union Membership, which covers your insurance for the entire year for all Sports Clubs. The SU membership is available from the reception at Aberdeen Sports Village Monday to Friday between 4:30 and 7:30pm. You will need to bring along your student ID to buy it.

Training will start Monday, 28/9/09. All our sessions will be held in the Aberdeen Sports Village and Training times are displayed at the right. We recommend that new students wear loose fitting clothing, that allows for a lot of body movement, and also bring along a bottle of water. Training is directed at students of various levels of experience, from beginner to black belt. There are beginners in most classes, so no need to be shy. Our experienced black belt instructors teach a variety of skills and techniques, which help you to progress in your training. Apart from training, we also organise various nights out throughout the year, as well as movie nights, house parties and roadtrips. We participate in competitions and arrange special training seminars. Feel free to contact us for more information. Please note that you need to buy insurance from the Sports Union (available at the Fresher's Fayre) before you are able to train with any sports club. Proof of insurance is needed when entering the Sports Village. The insurance only needs to be bought once and is valid for all clubs for the entire year.

I would like to welcome everybody to the new uni year, which will be starting September 21st. The club will be attending the Fresher's Fayre on Tuesday, 22/8/09 and we will also be on the Fresher's Stage at 1:30pm. You will recognise us easily, as we will be wearing our doboks (that's the training uniforms we wear). Please feel free to approach us, as we are a very friendly bunch. We will also be hosting a Fresher's competition at the Fayre, so make sure you check out our Fresher's stall. We will be announcing our new training times shortly, just waiting on confirmation of our times. I wish you all a good start to the new uni year!

Iris
Club Captain

The club does not train through the summer holidays. Training will commence again in September. Information regarding time and location will be displayed here. Anybody interested in training over the summer can join Mr. Murdoch's Blackbelt School.

New and improved application forms are now available:

• Single Application form for individuals
• Double Application form for organizers

Please use these from now on, they are of better quality, have no wrong date and are labeled “Aberdeen University School”.

We finally managed to organize the order forms for our geek wear this year. Bacause it took us so long we want to get an order in as soon as possible, therefore our first deadline is this Tursday 14th of May. You will be able to order the new University Geek Wear as well as ITF geek wear (which is like our old geek wear). There are seperate order forms:

• Image Scotland for ITF (old) geek wear
• Kukri for new Uni geek wear

So please place your orders, including money (cash or cheque) with me by Thursday, May 14th. We hope that stuff will arrive before term ends (but don't have your hopes too high, in the past it has taken ages, though we have always gotten everything).

The order forms will also be available in class as paper copies.

Grading results from the last grading:

Douglas Dutton had his second Blackbelt pregrading
Martxel Izaguirre graded to 2nd kup
Morag Douglas graded to 6th kup

Our yearly club roadtrip led us to Isle of Mull. We found an awesome spot and did 2 days of wild camping. We had lots of fun and made lots of posing pictures while testing out Dans new camera. Have a look at the photo album of the trip

Last weekend we had another successful grading. The graders were:

Julian Gruendner graded to 2nd kup, A pass
Martxel Izaguirre pregraded to 2nd kup
Iris Krammer graded to 3rd kup, + pass
Elena Pozzi graded to 6th kup, A pass
Daniel Leirer graded to 6th kup, + pass
Morag Douglas graded to 7th kup, A pass
Andrew Wood graded to 7th kup, A pass
Oliver Smith graded to 7th kup, + pass
Magdalena Urbanowska graded to 8th kup, + pass

Congratulations to all graders!

Hallur

Hi folks,

It's been a while since we have been posting news on our homepage. Things have been quiet in December and January as the Christmas holidays have been taking our time, directly followed by exams. However the club has been active all the way through the exams. Earlier this month we attended the re-fresher's faire and from the amount of flyers we handed out and the people we spoke to, I am sure that the awareness of our club is greater than ever.
The club has always been very active and we like to arrange both social and training events for our members. So I would just like to take the opportunity to tell people what we are planning for the next couple of months. Firstly the social events:
Already this Friday we are having a movie night in Kings College. We are going to watch some martial arts related movie and maybe even a martial arts documentary.
Then in three weeks time we are having another "Crazy Hat Cocktail Party". These have been so successful over the years that we just continued to have them. The idea is simple; just bring a crazy hat and some drinks. Then we’ll make cocktails all night, have fun and exchange hats!
Our annual road trip is also coming up. Every year the club arranges a road trip to some scenic location in Scotland. We combine this with some Taekwon-Do training and the results are some amazing pictures and a fun weekend. I can mention a few things we did on our previous roadtrips. Last year some of our members trained on the top of Ben Nevis. The year before that we were at a beautiful beach in Ullapool where we had a Taekwon-Do session. This year we are going to the Isle of Mull. I'm sure it will be a good weekend and we will have many chances to get some cool photos and lots of laughs! And yes, we do also train! For example, next month we have invited one of our old student/instructor, Mr. Walker II, to hold a sparring seminar for our graded members. I am sure that this will be good training for all of us. Especially as the club is planning to join some competitions over the next months!
If you are wondering what else is happening just check out our events section, where you can see all the stuff we are planning to do!

Cheers,

Hallur
Club Captain

Congratulations to Mr. Senff and Mr. Mamer, who both successfully passed their gradings to 2nd Dan. Excellent work!

Iris Krammer

Congratulations to our successful graders: Doug pre-graded for 1st kup, Morag passed her grading to 8th kup with and A-pass, and Oliver passed his grading to 9th kup. Well done!

Iris Krammer

Congratulations to Morag, for her successful grading to 9th kup and for receiving an A-pass as well as the grading trophy. Well done.

Iris Krammer

Hello everyone!

I would like to take this opportunity to welcome all new and returning students to Aberdeen. The Fresher’s week has officially started and I hope that everyone is taking full advantage of all the great offers the pubs have for students.

The Aberdeen University Taekwon-Do club is always very active in the Fresher’s week and I’m sure you’ll see many of us wearing the easily recognisable Taekwon-Do hoodies.
The sports clubs faire is on Wednesday kicking off at 11am and closing at 3pm. As every year, we will have an awesome stall. If you are new to the university you should definitely come by. Have a chat with our members, grab a wonderful cookie baked by our finest members (we can do much more than impressive kicks!) and enter our “back fist strike” competition, where the prices are bottles of booze to the top 3 male and female contenders!
If these aren’t enough of reasons to visit our stall, we have an amazing offer up for grab. You can join our club for only £3 on the Fresher’s faire! That’s a whole year’s membership, which allows you to train, join our countless night outs and movie nights and of course our annual road trip.
And, even more, we are having a pub crawl on Friday. We’re meeting in the Bobbin at 6pm and having some food and an occasional pint before we head downtown. For more information about this visit us at the Fresher’s faire or check the forum.
I hope to see many new and old members at the stall and I’m looking forward meeting all of you!

I also have to apologize that our homepage is not quite finished, meaning the information section is not running yet. But feel free to contact me, or any other committee member if you have any questions about Taekwon-Do. We are also very active on our forum which can be found by clicking on the forum link on the top of this page. Feel free to have a look and even ask some questions if you want.

Let us make this a great year for Taekwon-Do!

Cheers,

Hallur
Club captain

Two great bits for you today: Grading results and Competition results.

In the Scottish Championships we had 5 competitors winning a total of 8 medals, so congratulations to:

Mr Piasek who won a silver for sparring and bronze for patterns, Mr Mamer for his silver in sparring, Hallur Simonsen who grabbed the gold for his special techniques and also a bronze for his patterns, and Michael Barthel who also snatched up a shiny gold from the sparring ring, a silver in special technique and a bronze in his patterns.

Aberdeen came 7th of all the schools in attendance. For such a small team, that is phenomenal!

Further congratulations to our graders:

Mr Senff for successfully passing his 2nd Degree pre-grading, Hallur Simonsen who has graded to 3rd Kup (blue belt with red tags) with an 'A' level pass, and Anna Cura who passed her 8th Kup (yellow belt) grading with an 'A' level pass.

Good job everybody!

Mr Walker

Let me offer my congratulations to yesterday's graders, who, as always, have represented our school wonderfully. Well done to Martxel Izaguirre, who received an 'A' pass for his 3rd Kup; Mr Scheer for successfully passing his second pre-grading examination; and to Iris Krammer who has kept up our school's trend of again receiving the grading award, with her 'A' pass to 4th Kup.

Great job, all three of you!

Mr Walker

There is no official training over sumer.

However some members are still kicking about, and there might be some small sessions in Seaton Park and other places. Just keep an eye on the forum.

Hallur Simonsen

The last training session of the year is on this Thursday the 5th of June.

I hope you enjoyed the year as much as me! And remember to keep up training during the holidays. If you are in Aberdeen over summer there will be unofficial sessions in Seaton park every now and then. Just keep an eye on the forum. We are also able to train with Mr. Murdoch, however this is more expencive than our training. If you are interested in this option, just get in contact with me or any instructor.

Enjoy your summer holiday!

Cheers, Hallur Captain

Just this week it has been banned to have BBQ's and open fires in Seaton Park. Therefore we have to move our BBQ to another location. It will be held on the south side of the mouth of the River Don. We had our last year's BBQ there, and that is a good venue as well. A map of the location can be seen here.

Hallur Simonsen

There will be no Sunday training for the rest of the academic year as exams will be held in Butchart.

The training in Hillhead will continue until June.

Hallur Simonsen

Our club is chosen to be the best sports club of the year!

Reasons being that we have had a very good relationship with the sports union and the club has been running well for the whole year, even though we had the worst training circumstances for the first part of the year. We can thank the committee for getting this price, as they have been working very good together and made this a good year for the club. Thanks guys!

Hallur Simonsen

Congratulations to today's graders: Huw McDonald, promoted to 5th Kup; Gordon Pfeffer promoted to 1st Kup; and not forgetting Mr Scheer himself who has successfully passed his first pregrading for 3rd Dan.

Well done all of you!

Mr Walker

I am happy to announce that our club now has a new black belt among its members. Michal Piasek received his grading results today and successfully promoted to 1st degree black belt. Well done!

Mr Scheer

Yesterday we held the club’s AGM.

It was good to see that so many people turned up and that people are interested about what is happening in the club.

A brand new committee is elected to run the club next year. Some are the same people, but a few new people are onboard. The committee consists of:

Captain: Hallur Simonsen Secretary: Iris Krammer Treasurer: Martxel Izaguirre Safety officer: Elena Pozzi (new) Equipment officer: Mark Tate (new) Publicity officer: Michal Piasek (new) Social secretary I: Julian Gruendner Social secretary II: Mark Tate (new) Webmaster: Andrew Walker

I would like to use the opportunity to welcome the new people to the committee and hope that they enjoy and serve the club well.

I would also like to thank everyone who turned up to the AGM.

Cheers, Hallur

UPDATE on training this Sunday:

Douglas Dutton will teach, so there will be training for those who don't come to the trip!

Mr Scheer

No training on Sunday the 27th!

Due to the roadtrip and most of our senior grades joining that one, training is cancelled on that day!

Mr Scheer

April Grading:

Congratulations to everyone who graded this weekend, especially Piotr Smulikowski who won the grading trophy!! Following members graded: Martxel Izaguirre - pregraded to 3rd Kup Hallur Simonson - pregraded to 3rd Kup Piotr Smulikowski - graded to 5th Kup, A level pass Anna Cura - graded to 9th Kup, A level pass

Well done guys!

Mr Scheer

Training will start up again at the usual times after easter break on the 15th of April!

Mr Scheer

Taekwon-Do rocked the Superteams 2008!!!

Our team “We love the smell of pushups in the morning” won 1st place in this years' superteams event! Huge congrats to the whole team, consisting of: Superman: Hallur Superwoman: Iris Members: Elena, Katarina, Martzel, Michael and Julian

This is an incredible achievement for a small club like ours and shows that Taekwon-Do is excellent at developing not just kicking and punching skills but builds good all-round fitness!

Mr Scheer

We had another successful grading last weekend and everyone did very well! Congratulations go to: Michal Piasek graded for 1st Degree Blackbelt (result will be available in a few weeks) Gordon Pfeffer passed his pre-grading for 1st Kup Michael Schlafli promoted to 7th Kup with an A level pass Daniel Leirer promoted to 7th Kup Elena Pozzi promoted to 8th Kup with an A level pass

Keep up the good work!

Mr Scheer

The Sunday training session on the 9th of March is cancelled because of Superteams.

Hallur Simonsen

Hi everyone!

Welcome to the new Aberdeen University Taekwon-Do School website. It isn't quite ready yet, but the key features are working fine and I hope you'll bear with me for the rest. If you have any questions, please feel free to email me personally at u07aw5@abdn.ac.uk

Thanks

Mr Walker