Newsletter > Newsletter 3/2004 > Dockland Summer Camp, London, England
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Newsletter 3/2004
Dockland Summer Camp, London, England (12-15th August 2004)

Training with Mr. Jedut from Poland was a great experience. His training seminar was full of new exercises, which will be useful for competitions in the future for all different levels. Mr. Jedut understands what Taekwon-Do is about. With his great teaching abilities and skills, it was very easy to pass his ideas to students. I found out his seminar focused on main points within the Polish national team such as movements, techniques, tactics in sparring and developing technical skills etc. Focusing on small details of mistakes in very short time, I found that this is unusual even among masters at his level. His training gave me a lot of experience. It was only '7 hours' training with him, but I feel improvement right now and I would really like to thank Mr. Jedut for the opportunity to train with him.

Honza Kubat, 1st degree, Ex - Czech Republic National Team Member

Mr. Jedut is a man who has countless knowledge when it comes to Taekwon-Do. My participation on the Sunday session was enough to prove that he is very knowledgeable at what he does. It is no wonder that he has produced so many World and European Champions. I am glad that I had the opportunity to tap into this fountain of knowledge. Hopefully one day, I could also be a World Champion. The seminar was amazing and I am looking forward to spend 10 days in Lubartow Taekwon-Do summer camp. Hopefully, this will help me in my quest to become a World Champion and a European Champion. So, watch out POLAND! Thanks a million!

Hong Looi, 3rd degree, England National Team

The Sunday seminar in London was amazing. Exhausting but perfect! I had no doubt that it was my best training received for the sparring movement ever! The only thing that I regretted was the lack of space for some exercises and the lack of time. However, I still enjoyed it very much. Once again, I would like to thank Mr. Jedut for this opportunity to take part in this session. Mr. Jedut gave me a lot of inspiration and motivation to improve.

Vera Nemcova, 1st degree, Ex - Czech Republic National Team Member

Well, there I arrived on the 3rd day of the summer camp run by the polish instructor Mr. Jedut and clearly had to find out how the other 2 days had gone. “It’s hard”, “my muscles are so stiff now”, “my muscles are all cramped” were the kind of initial comments.

Oh in case you didn’t know there were always 2 sessions a day, except for 2nd kups and above who were able to enjoy a third session. Each session was about 2 hours –Mr. Jedut’s hours that is, as he appears to enjoy himself so much that well, time just seems to slip by shall we say.

Before I could find out more the first session of the 3rd day was starting. The variety and number of warm up games and exercises were just staggering (quite literally for the not quite so fit among us). There were games with balls, team games, partner games, funny games. Then the stamina and technique exercises were tough and were targeting pretty much all muscles groups (to judge by which muscles were very stiff next day). Also the exercises were geared towards speed and precision. Mr. Jedut is one of those instructors who demands 100% of all his students in terms of effort, and even though most thought they were doing just that – Mr. Jedut made them put in a few more extra percent.

After an hour and a half break we are starting again with another warm–up session – though not as tough as the first one. Games again were designed to be great fun. One game that gets everybody laughing is running around the hall pretending to be some kind of animal such as elephants, emus, pigs, little pooches, monkeys whatever you could find on Noah’s ark, we had to impersonate it. Then we had the chance of doing a huge variety of hand and foot techniques with partners. The idea was to show us a variety of attacks, counter-attacks, defence strategies and bluffs. All the kind of situations that you would come across in a sparring situation. The session finished with a number of self-defence techniques.

So what’s the overall verdict?

The summer camp is hard training, each day getting a little harder than the day before. However, the quality of teaching also motivates you to improve your techniques, give you fodder for thought and train even harder. No wonder Mr. Jedut is regarded as a great instructor. But apart from my very personal experiences, the results of training for longer could also clearly be seen in the quality of the techniques demonstrated by his excellent team.

Susanna Goller 7th kup

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