On the weekend 13th – 15th February 2015 the AETF HQ in Lublin, Poland hosted a two member’s delegation from Ukraine consisted of Mr. Artem Kychko, 2nd Degree and Ms. Yuna Badanina.

From the left: Kacper Słotwiński, 8 Kup, Wiktor Duda, 2 Kup, Andrzej Wieczorek 1st Dan, Robert Jasiński 6th Dan, Artem Kychko 2nd Dan, Przemysław Wieczorek 4th Dan, Paulina Dzieńkowska 1st Dan i Aneta Baudin 2 Kup. Photo: Ms. Yuna Badanina.

Mr. Artem Kychko is a leader and a head coach of Kychko Taekwon-Do Club (http://kychko.com/) in Kyiv. The goal of his visit was to learn more about the specificity of the Taekwon-Do classes in Lubelski Sportowy Klub Taekwon-Do. The guests took part in one of the training sessions. During the meeting there was also the opportunity to discuss the strategy in activity of the Taekwon-Do school on the basis of experience of some Polish Taekwon-Do Association’s member clubs and other schools active in Europe.

Mr. Kychko and Ms. Badanina are interested in building from scratch a new Taekwon-Do school in Lithuania, which could be in the future the foundation of the new National Association in this country.

It was already the next visit of Mr. Kychko in the AETF Headquarter. Previously he visited Lublin on October 4th 2014. See report about it: http://itfeurope.org/NL2014-04-59.html.

The guests brought some souvenirs: Ukrainian cake, delicious cream fudges called “Krowki” as well as commemorative coffee cup from the KYIV OPEN-2014 Fight Challenge Tournament, held on 13th December 2014. Instead they received the calendars 2015 of Polish Taekwon-Do Association.

AETF HQ