On the 1st of November 10 students off the Scottish Tae Kwon-Do Academy plus coaches and parents travel to Kidderminster to compete in the Verve UK Open championships, hosted by Mr. John Swift of the Independent Tae Kwon-Do Schools. The Scottish Tae Kwon-Do Academy travel to this group twice every year and always perform really well but this time they outdid themselves by brining home 23 medals between 10 students, 9 Gold, 10 Silver and 4 Bronze. Mr. & Mrs. Boyle club instructors are extremely proud of all students who traveled to take part. Students competed in individual patterns, team patterns, individual sparring and tag team sparring. Winning students were;

 

Louis Rowe, 1st point sparring, 1st team patterns, 2nd individual patterns

Aimee Ellis, 1st point sparring, 1st team patterns

Lauren Morton, 2nd individual patterns, 2nd team patterns

Andrew Morton, 2nd individual patterns, 2nd tag team sparring

Ross Galloway, 1st point sparring, 2nd tag team sparring, 3rd individual sparring

Amy Rodger, 1st individual patterns, 2nd point sparring, 2nd tag team sparring

John Walmsley, 1st individual patterns, 2nd point sparring, 3rd tag team sparring

Drew Morton, 2nd individual patterns, 3rd point sparring, 3rd tag team sparring

Elliot McVey, 1st individual patterns

Ross Derrick, 1st point sparring

 

This event brings the academy's competition season to an end for this year with there next event in January of next year. Mr. & Mrs. Boyle and all of our competitors throughout the year would like to say a big thank you to Frank O'Neil and Hardies Coaches for all of there help and support this year.

 

Pictured below is the Academy students along with chief instructor Mr. Boyle and event organizer Mr. Swift.