During August 1-8, 2011, the 15th Summer Training Camp Taekwon-do ITF organized yearly by Master Vasilis Alexandris's club, took place in Plaka Litohorou, at the Olympios Zeus bungalows camp, overshadowed by Mount Olympus. This year the number of athletes topped at 75 with participation from 12 other countries.

The schedule comprised double training sessions in the morning and early at night covering every aspect of the TKD ITF martial art. It begun with a good, general warm-up and basic kicking and punching techniques. The next session included pad practice with hand pads, kicking pads and shields. That was followed by an extensive tuls seminar which was later reiterated and enriched. For better execution and correct supervision the athletes were divided in two groups of color and black belts. Next session involved advanced sparring techniques and free fight. The seminar after that was dedicated exclusively to boxing techniques with hand pad target practice. The program was concluded with two intensive seminars involving self defense techniques against knife attack and kicking techniques on the ground.

A variety of extra curricular activities surrounded the training program; swimming, beach volley, soccer, hiking, visiting archaeological sites and places of great natural beauty were but a few. Besides, it is well known that Mount Olympus hides a lot of beauty from the casual observer.

The participants were satisfied not only from Master Vasilis Alexandris's high level of technical expertise and the advanced nature of the training sessions, but also, from the mountain-sea scenery contrast, the extra curricular activities complementing training, friendships that blossomed and the emotional and intellectual bonding of athletes from different countries. It was natural then that all expressed a wish to participate again in the summer training camp next year!

As time goes by, this event becomes more and more recognizable, acting as a focal point and proving time and again that a summer training camp is the optimum combination of training and vacationing for a TKD fan.

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Best Regards,
Philotas Kyriakidis
2nd Degree Black Belt, TKD ITF