Seminar

On Friday and Saturday - March 8th - 9th 2013 a technical seminar took place in Wroclaw, in which participated 49 people - coaches, instructors and competitors from 17 schools in Poland. Below you will find the list of the participants.

The seminar was conducted by Master Jerzy Jedut 7th Degree, Vice-president of the Polish Taekwon-Do Association and a member of the AETF Technical Committee.

On Friday, March 8th the training session started at 7 p.m. and lasted 2 hours. It was dedicated to all participants regardless and was referring to the fundamental techniques.

On Saturday, March 9th, the seminar was divided into two groups of color and black belt belts holder. Each group practiced for over 2 hours. And the contest of the training sessions was adjusted to the technical level of its participants.

After the lunch break all participants had an opportunity for individual lessons with Master Jedut. Every person could have corrected their mistakes by him personally.

The main aim of the seminars held on a regular basis is a better way to prepare the candidates for their black belt test as well as the constant techniques’ standardization and their interpretation by all Taekwon-do practitioners in Poland. Therefore among the seminars’ participants are not only the candidates for black belt test but also instructors, coaches and adepts who wish to improve their Taekwon-Do skills. The next seminar of such type will take place in 14th -15th June 2013 in Lublin.

Black belt test

Black belt test was held on Sunday March 10th, 2013 at the same sport hall were the seminar took place. The panel of examiners was headed by GM Ung Kim Lan – 9th Degree from Germany who was assisted by Master Zbigniew Bujak – 7th Degree and Mr. Zbigniew Semp – 6th Degree.

The host of the event was the leader of the local school: Wroclawski Sport Taekwon-Do Club – Mr. Adam Alenowicz 6th Degree, who lent his sport hall for a seminar and a black belt test.

40 people applied for the exam, 27 were promoted. Polish Taekwon-Do Association got rich by having 18 new black belt holders. The list of promoted people read as follows:

The exam was a very important event for some of the junior competitors for whom the positive result means an open road to the European Championships 2013 in Sweden.

Each of the black belt certificates has its own number given by ITF. The last one number granted at this exam is PO-1-966. It means that since the beginning of the Taekwon-Do ITF in Poland which was in 1974, 966 people reached the black belt degree. Only 34 another promotions are needed in order Poland reaches the whole thousand. Hopefully it will be possible during the next black belt grading held on 16th June 2013 in Lublin.

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