Scottish Championships - Grangemouth
12:00AM 01-Jun-2007
Focus WTF Taekwondo have returned triumphant again from this years Scottish Championships held in Grangemouth sports centre, clubs from England, N-Ireland and Scotland competed to win the coveted titles of Scottish Champion. Focus WTF Taekwondo sent a team of 16 players to the event. Students could compete in Full Contact Olympic style Sparring and /or patterns where the student performs a set of movements incorporating the striking and blocking moves learned in taekwondo. Last year Focus Tkd earned third place team, this year they were fortunate to move up the team ladder to second place. The students have been working very hard for this event and the inclusion of Competition specific sparring class and patterns class where a student of any grade can learn patterns up to 4th dan level has helped make the medal haul from this event possible. Mark Russell, Chief instructor from Focus Tkd had this to say, “ Having one of our students representing Great Britain at this years world championships in China has helped our students realise that their dreams can become reality and I have noticed an increase in focus and determination in all our students. Competition is a small part of what we do here at focus but it is an important part for those students who hope to follow Louise Mairs footsteps and represent Great Britain and hopefully one day go to the Olympics. Our new Scottish Champions are as follows- Peter Woods(12) -50kg under 14’s Sparring Scottish Champion Cammy McKenzie(11) -34kg under 14s Sparring Scottish Champion Connor McKenzie (12) -44kg under 14s Sparring Scottish Champion William Young (8) -25kg under 14s Sparring Scottish Champion Silver Medal Winners Josh Cruickshanks ( 11 ) -34kg under 14s Sparring Katie Wills ( 12 ) -41kg under 14s Sparring females Gary Mitchell (16) - 55kg under 17s Sparring Rory Lambert (15) +78kg under 17s Sparring Matthew Coulson ( 9 ) Red Belt patterns Cory Grant ( 10 ) Black Belt patterns Bronze Medal Winners Cory Grant ( 10 ) -25kg under 14s Sparring Sean Lineham ( 14) -55kg under 14s Sparring Katie Wills ( 12 ) Red Belt Patterns Kimberley Clarke (13 ) Black Belt Patterns Stuart Tulloch ( 6 ) Yellow Belt Patterns
2007 World Championships Beijing, China
11:53PM 31-May-2007
Louise Mair has just returned to Focus after being the first Scottish person ever to represent Great Britain at the senior world championships. Louise, 18 fought in the -47kg senior female division. She was unfortunate to meet probably the best player in her division in her first match- China. Louise went into the fight prepared for a battle as she has fought with this girl before on her first trip to china for training. Louise knew she would have to keep focused- after the three rounds Louise only lost 2-0. the Chinese girl went on to become the 2007 world champion!!! Congratulations to louise for attending such a prestigous event and doing so well at a competition of this scale.
louise off to korea and china again?
12:09AM 26-Jan-2007
yep , once again shes off on her training travels with the british team, tomorrow friday 26th jan she leaves sunny loughborough to go to korea for a week of intense fighting then off to shanghai for shopping, or so she wishes! but no, its more fighting. the life of a pro athlete.
focus goes strength and conditioning
12:05AM 26-Jan-2007
focus has added a new peice of useful equipment. 175kg of olympic weights and power cage helping focus students add that bit extra to their training programme.
louise mair wins first round robin
12:02AM 26-Jan-2007
louise had a great success last weekend at the first round robin of three to select the -47kg female british team player for the world championships in beijing china in may 2007...........go louise- keep it up
2007
7:37PM 01-Jan-2007
happy new year everyone who trains at focus and also all those who know about us
new black belts- the future-
12:29AM 03-Oct-2006
sunday 1st October- 10 students woke to the thought of going through a BTCB black belt testing, the day before the grading the students attended 4hrs of technical seminars ran by Grand Master Park Soo Nam, assisted by Master Ian Lennox 7th Dan and Master Niel Guest 6th Dan. the seminar was attended by over 200 students. Our instructor Mark Russell was given the job of warming everybody up and stretching them ready for the days proceedings. After taking part in all the black belt classes preparing our 10 students for the test..........they all passed! the hard work paid off. i'm sure you would like to congratulate all 10 ( 100%) of our students in their success. however on the day not all other students were successfull, i and i'm sure you would like to wish them all the best for next time and to keep working hard.
Scottish Coach Visits Focus
11:55PM 20-Aug-2006
Mr John Haggerty visited Focus on Sunday 20th August. A select few were asked to attend a sport specific training session as part of regional squad training. Mr Haggerty covered various tactical ring craft ensuring when our students enter competitions they know how to use the ring to their advantage. The next Scottish/ British Regional training @ focus will be in February all other dates will be at Mr Haggerty's gym in anniesland, Glasgow.
technical seminars
11:41AM 15-Aug-2006
Master Ian Lennox visited Focus this weekend and held some very informative and impressive seminars. Students from Focus have been informed of all the changes made by the WTF thus ensuring our standards keep rising with the rest of the world. The next time our students will see Master Lennox will be on the grading panel at the black belt grading along with grand master Park Soo Nam. i'm sure he'll be looking to see those changes implace.

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