British Liberated Tae Kwon-Do School Alliance

Only 3 of us representing BLTSA at the EMAP Taekwondo championships in Thornbury today.
Myself, Mads Austen and Alex Ramsdale.

Results: 1🥇, 3🥈and 1🥉

Mads getting Silver🥈 in the 4th Dan and above patterns. Silver🥈in the ladies Black Belt sparring, and a Gold🥇in the special sparring with the younger ones.

Bruce: Silver🥈in Veterans patterns and Bronze 🥉in Veterans sparring.

Alex doing very well but losing out on a Bronze in the red belt boys sparring and coming 4th (but no medal) in the high kick.

Great day and well run comp with an earlier finish than expected. 👊🥋

Well done to the 8 students from BLTSA that attended the ITC Patterns and Points sparring comp in Cheltenham today.
A long day but we managed to bring home a few medals.
Results are: 5x🥇, 7x🥈and 5x🥉

Theo - gold 🥇 pattern,
Alan - bronze 🥉patterns, silver 🥈 speed kicking, silver 🥈 sparring.
Yee - gold 🥇patters, gold🥇speed kicking, silver🥈sparring.
Alex - silver🥈speed kicking, silver🥈sparring.
Julie - bronze🥉speed kicking and silver🥈 sparring.
Amith - bronze🥉patterns and silver🥈speed kicking.
Kavya - bronze🥉patterns and bronze🥉sparring.
Bruce - gold🥇patterns and gold🥇sparring.

Results from last weekends LTSI South East Championships 3rd March.

We had 26 students enter and brought home 4 Gold🥇7 Silver🥈and 7 Bronze🥉Medals.

Alan Bill 🥇sparring
Alex Voong 🥈sparring 🥉patterns
Ayaan Kakad 🥈sparring
Bruce Lapthorn 🥇sparring
Caspar Goff 🥇patterns
Gilad Kalchheim 🥈sparring
Jack Bayford 🥉sparring
Jessica Dunning 🥈sparring
Jessica Payne 🥉sparring
Lisa Goff 🥈patterns 🥈sparring
Mads Austen 🥈sparring
Paula Hock 🥉sparring
Roi Kalchheim 🥉sparring
Rosalee Voong 🥉patterns 🥉sparring
Yee Voong 🥇sparring

Only 2 BLTSA students flying the flag at the ITC Northern Open Championships in Oldham today.
Small competition possibly due to it being mother's day.
But we managed to bring back 4 gold🥇, 1 silver🥈and 1 bronze🥉medals.

Results are:
Lisa Goff 🥇Patterns 🥇Sparring 🥈Team Patterns.
Bruce Lapthorn 🥇Senior Patterns 🥇Veterans Sparring & 🥉in Destruction.

Well done to all the student that attended the OMA Regional Championships in Deeside on Sunday 18th Feb.
Only a small team of 10 this time, but we came home with a good haul of medals again.
Results are: 6🥇Gold, 5🥈Silver and 5🥉Bronze

Lisa - gold in pattern
Yee - silver in patterns
Alex - gold in patterns, silver in sparring, bronze in tag team sparring
Richard - bronze in patterns, bronze in team sparring
Joshua - silver in sparring
Theo - gold in patterns, bronze in sparring
Alan - gold in patterns, silver in sparring, bronze in team sparring
Rosalee - bronze in patterns, silver in sparring
Bruce - gold in patterns, silver in sparring, gold in foot destruction.

Extremely well done to the Richard, Alan and Alex that did the Tag team sparring and had to fight a very experienced Black Belt team once again, only being colour belts themselves and the only colour belt team to compete. 🥋👊😊

Well done to all the BLTSA students that took part in the final competition of the year.
Awesome achievements all round and I got a lot of compliments on students and everyone's standard.
11 students entered, 16 medals home.

4🥇Gold
5 🥈Silver
7 🥉Bronze
Jack - bronze in patterns, gold in sparring.
Caspar - gold in patterns.
Rosalee - Silver in sparring.
Theo - silver in patterns.
Yee - bronze in patterns, bronze in sparring.
Lisa - gold in patterns, silver in sparring.
Alex - bronze in patterns
Clara - gold in sparring.
Alan - bronze in patterns, bronze in sparring.
Mads - silver in sparring.
Bruce - silver in patterns, bronze in sparring.

Well done to Mads Austen who came joint 4th in the patterns with Moon-Moo, only the second comp that she has tried performing this pattern.
And then fighting 2 very season opponents to bring home a silver medal. 👊🥋😊

Only 2 students from BLTSA entered the ITC Southern open championships in Chippenham on Sunday 26th November.
Finishing off a weekend of comps.
Results are:

Mads Austen gettng another Gold 🥇in sparring and then winning the ladies breaking gettng a second Gold 🥇for the day. Woo hoo go Mads awesome stuff.

Bruce Lapthorn gettng Bronze 🥉in executive sparring and also picking up a Bronze 🥉in the men's breaking as well.

Great weekend had all round. 🥋👊😊

Just 2 students entered the EMAP championships in Thornbury.
Mads Austen 🥇Gold in patterns and 🥈Silver in sparring.
Bruce Lapthorn 🥈Silver in patterns, 🥇Gold in sparring & 🥇Gold in high kick.

Hopefully a few more might attend the next one in April 2024. 👊🥋😊

Well done to all students that passed their colour belt grading last Sunday. 69 student graded from 10th Kup white belt up to 2nd Kup red belt.
Best of the grading groups are as follows:

Best beginner 10th and 9th Kups.
Sarah Holt.

Best intermediate 8th & 7th Kups.
Alex Hill.

Best intermediate 6th Kups (26 in this group).
Alex Voong

Best advanced 5th to 2nd Kups.
George Fishlock.

Now the start of another step on the journey to Black Belt and beyond. 👊🥋😊

Well done to all the BLTSA students that took part in the OMA championships in Wrexham today. And thank you to Master Richard Saunders and Ady Jones of OMA One Martial Arts for putting on the event.

We had 16 students entering a variety of events and came home with 48 medals and trophies altogether.

13 gold's 🥇
21 silver's🥈
14 bronze's🥉

An extra well done to the colour belt adults, both men and ladies, who had to fight black belts in the tag team sparring. You all did the club and yourselves proud 👏.

Results are:
Rosalee - silver in tag sparring, bronze in team pattern, gold in patterns, bronze in sparring.

Clara Goff - gold in sparring, gold in speed kicking, silver in tag sparring, bronze in team pattern.

Casper - silver in patterns, gold in speed kicking, gold in sparring, bronze in team pattern.

Clara Gower - gold in sparring, silver in tag sparring.

Tristan - bronze in pattern, silver in tag sparring.

Jack - silver in sparring, silver in tag sparring.

Josh - bronze in sparring, silver tag sparring.

Yee - gold in patterns, bronze in sparring, bronze tag sparring, silver in team pattern.

Alex - silver in patterns, bronze in sparring, silver in tag sparring, silver in team pattern.

Lisa - silver patterns, gold in sparring, silver in team pattern, bronze in tag sparring.

Frederique - bronze in patterns, silver in sparring, silver in musical pattern, bronze in tag sparring.

Ian - silver in patterns, silver in tag sparring .

Richard - silver in tag sparring.

Wayne - silver in patterns, bronze in sparring.

Bruce - silver in patterns, gold in sparring, gold in hand destruction, gold in foot destruction.

Madeleine - bronze in sparring, gold in team pattern (traitor), gold in tag sparring (traitor)🤣 Yee's words not mine....!!🤣

Taekwondo class is still on as normal tonight Monday 13th Feb, at Ridgefield Primary school.
The carpark is out of use and closed, please try and fine parking along the road and walk down.