The last grading for 2018 was held at Rockdale Dojang. 
The standard of students have certainly improved, thanks to the great effort of the very dedicated instructors as well as the black belts that volunteered to assist the students in preparation for the test. 
Congratulations to all successful students.

9th Gup White belt yellow-tip
Sophie Yang, Andre Goninan, Isaac Lin, Stefani Bosevska, Kevin Yang, Keiron Lee,
Joanne Yan, Gabrielle Wongso, Paul Cusak

8th Gup Yellow belt
Melanie Tran, Annie Chen, Dylan Jovcevski, Elizabeth Le, Deon Goninan, Xavier Moloney, Samuel Atkinson, Moses Chan, Kyan Aung, Jordan Conwell(Probation), Isaac So  

7th Gup Yellow belt green-tip
Rianne Chan, Bianka Lee, Camille Lin, Andy Li(Probation), Devesh Nathakumar, Keanu Zhong, Aleesa Agsalda, Anaya Ganesh, Ethan Ang, Shabri Aulia, Kevin Fang,
Jason Atmadja, Winny Prasetyowati, Jack Maixner

6th Gup Green belt
Audriella Haddad, Isaac Neville, Alice Deng, Kush Parikh, Kiana Parves, Ryan Lee,
Vihaan Rajit, Tamara Kidner, Henry Bergman, Tyler To, Bella Belbase, Christina Wu

5th Gup Greenbelt blue-tip
Ashly Chau, Alysha Chau,Hannnah Khoury, Chloe Liu, Tanya Liu, Kaloyan Vasilev(Probation), Sebastian Ng, Anthony Khoury, Daniel Khoury, Ethan Li,
Jessica Khoury

4th Gup Blue belt
Andrew Chen(Probation)

3rd Gup Blue belt red-tip
Mayah Yeung, Leah Yeung

2nd Gup Red belt
Aidan Wong, Jessica Hyman, Ji-Sun Cecelia Choi

n9th November is the day all ITF Taekwon-Do practioners in the world remember and celebrate.

The Korean Taekwon-Do Committee from DPRK invited all ITF members from around the world to celebrate the Founder of Taekwon-Do, General Choi Hong Hi's 100th Birthday in Pyongyang. The celebration event was in huge scale that no other country have that much support from the government.

At the celebration, a few masters were promoted to grandmaster and high merits award were presented to high achievers. Master Tam was awarded the Order of ITF medal and Sabum Mayumi received her Outstanding Instructor Award. 
2018 makes a year of high achievement for the instructors at Tam Taekwon-Do Mudokwan especially Sabum Mayumi having been awarded the Highest Technical Award at the recent ITF Taekown-Do World Championship in MInsk Belarus..

Tam Taeekwon-Do will continue to strive for high excellence for its instructors and students. To join us please email us at info@taekwondo.org.au
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29th September 12.30pm is the day our TTM jejanims will remember forever. This is the day they have been aiming, waiting and trained so hard for; their black belt grading. A lot of hours have been put in and the sacrifices made to gain every happy moment and successful test. All Tam Taekwon-Do jejas know how serious TTM grading is but this never deter them from putting more effort and to encourage their dojangmates to progress to the next level. It is through this camaraderie, our jejas are known to all martial artist that Tam Taekwon-Do Mudokwan is the best place to train together.

All candidates are fully tested in every aspect of their skill required to pass their grading. We have never ever heard of a single jeja who said he or she will get graded elsewhere once they have been graded here. This tell how happy they are with their training and grading with us.

Photos by Priscilla Lee. Thank you.

TTM would like to welcome the following on board the Black Belt Club:

James Chan Junior 1st Dan
Lauren Huynh 1st Dan
Nathan Myaskovetskiy 1st Dan
Daniel Shalyapin 1st Dan

Joe Lee 2nd Dan
Kevin Quach 2nd Dan

Congratulations to everyone who passed the grading with excellent result.
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As the saying goes, "hard work pays off".

This is what our competitors have been doing, staying focused and trained hard for the biggest ITF event in the world, the ITF World Championship. This year the championship was held in the beautiful city Minsk, the capital of Belarus. This is not the first time a huge event like this is held here. Each time the event gets bigger and better.

Hungry for a podium finish and to test their skills against the world bests, our competitors sacrificed many hours and weekends training at home, in the park and dojangs. Not only physical training and conditioning were given by the instructors but mental and psychological sessions were importantly incorporated into getting our competitors in top form.

It seems like Australia has the lesser advantage than it's northern hemisphere competitors. Many a time Australian competitors leaving the country from the cold season to compete come down with cold or flu. This time round three of our four competitors have cold, injured knees and hips. Albeit the illness and injuries, our competitors soldiered on with positive mind and confidence to the very welcoming host of the championship.

Our proud competitors are:

Joe Lee 1st Dan
Pattern - taking on Kyrgyztan and loosing to Argentina.
Sparring - lost to Argentina, beating Canada but lost to Greece to secure a place in the next round.
Special Technique - Unluckily Joe could not reach the target due to his hamstring injury.

Dmitri Stepanov 1st Dan
Pattern - Came out strongly and sharp but lost to Canada. Dmitri have an extra movement which caused him his next round.
Sparring - Dmitri was all fired up to face Mongolia and Japan with victory. Leading in points against Ukraine for the next 1st or 2nd place match up until the last 22 seconds when his Ukrainian opponent came back on top. Dmitri had to settled for a bronze medal which is an excellent result having to compete with his seasoned competitors in his first international championship.
Power - unable to match the Goliaths from Mongolia, Russian and other strong countries smashing many pieces of solid boards. We shall train harder to come back to this event.

Mayumi Tam 5th Dan
Pattern - was put in the same bracket on the fight chart against the many time World and European champion Linn Johansen. She took this as a good match against the best in the world. It is an honor bowing out to the veteran female pattern queen.
Sparring - Mayumi being the smallest in the championship had her coach's heart trembling. Winning over Scotland added more confidence to her pitt bull heart. Coming out against the championship fighter from Argentina has nothing to loose but everything to gain. Next fight in the first ever ITF World Championship Round Robin matches which added more experience the competitors, Mayumi's luck was even better; fighting the World and European veteran champion as well as WTF seasoned fighter from Kazakhstan definitely see Mayumi coming back for more ITFWCs.
Receiving her bronze medal for 5th Dan pattern was an honor and when the words "Mayumi Tam from Australia" followed by the "The Highest Technical Award" was announced we were all stunned but quickly turned into happy cheering with the Aussie flags flying up high. This is Mayumi's greatest achievement in her Taekwon-Do career and looking forward to more and other avenue to promote the art of Taekwon-Do.

Malik Hage 1st Dan
Malik is one tough nail that no one would like to mess with when his hip injury recovers.
He deserves a gold medal for his courage fighting with pain with the top fighters from Russia, Ukraine and Hellas in the round robin matches. Not many people get this golden opportunity to compete with the best in a row. For certain, Malik takes this as treasured experience to pave his way to his next world championship. 

We are so proud that Overall Country Ranking Australia placed 12th place out of 60 countries.  Juniors ranked 22nd and Veteran ranked 7th. The world has been looking up to Australia in the Veteran since the first Veteran ITF World Championship where coach and Master Tam Fook Chee won 3 gold, 1 silver and Overall World Champion. Australia no doubt one day be on top of the rank for this division.

Thank you to coach from TTM, Master Tam Fook Chee, Team Manager Cherryl Fitzgerald-Holmes and sponsors - Lyn Luong of Minchinbury Lighting and Dr. Michael Zhu.

Congratulations and also thank you to all our Taekwon-Do competitors, coaches and officials from interstate: 
Jo Licastro, Leanne Searle, Patricia McQueen, Ian Greene, Brianna Burgess, Kelsie Williams, Astina Hammond, Jade Lynch, Jonathon Burgess, Patrick Ng,
 Coaches - Master Jason Bradley, Sabum Justin Low
Official - GM Linda Low and GM Low Ming Tuck

Full result for the entire team is can be viewed on All Australia ITF Facebook or see here for full championship result.

The students of Tam Taekwon-Do Mudokwan are not only growing in numbers, but their skills as well. Students proved worthy of moving on to their next gup, outperforming themselves on the 22nd of September and then also on the following day. Congratulations to all successful students who passed grading.

​Photos credit to Tiffany Lau.

9th  Gup White belt yellow-tip
Petros Calokeinos, Bianca Tran, Melanie Tran, Annie Chen, Anthony Abouhanna, Dylan Jovcevski, Dylan Delaney, Kyan Aung, Anita Chay, Jesslyn Tsui, Alessia D'alessandro, Sabrina D'alessandro, Sophia Szabo,Nick Qu, CC Qu

8th Gup Yellow belt
Rianne Chan, Bianca Bozinovski, Bianka Lee, Shreya Singh, Andy Li, Devesh Nanthakumar, Amelia Chao, Addison Ng, Jack Maixner, Kevin Fang, Anson Shum

7th Gup Yellow belt green-tip 
Nathanael Chan, Tony Youssef, Audriella Haddad, Joshua Haddad, Danny Dai,
Ryan Lee, Efe Ustun, Arnav Singh, Luca Bosevski (Probation), Henry Bergman, Louis Xue, Frederick Sulim, Edward Haryanto, Vihaan Rajit(Probation),
Tamara Kidner(Probation), Danny Hu (Probation)

6th Gup Green belt
Brian Chen, Andrew Zhong, Ian Chen, River Hooper, Alastair Georgallis(Probation),
Daniil Volkov, Novojit Datta

5th Gup Green belt blue-tip
Sophia Thong, Austin Chan, Chloe Chan, Vadim Ermoliev

4th Gup Blue belt
Rayden Chan, Mayah Yeung, Adam Paraginog, Neysha Paraginog, Reuben Luong,
Jessica Dang,Leah Yeung

3rd Gup Blue belt red-tip
Isabella Bozinovski, Kritian Bozinovski, Stevie Adioski, Taasha Leon, Aidan Wong,
Ji-Sun Cecelia Choi,Natalie Tran

2nd Gup Red belt
Ronson Chan, Alfred Agsalda, Adamrinjarni, Ashley Chan, Michael Zhu,
Charlie Lay.

1st Gup Red belt black-tip
Jasmine Tran, Khong Howe Yeo, Winston Phan, Dennis Lai,
Tuan TJ Tran, Max Knauer

TTM would like to wish all the father's out there a very special day. 

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Got a cold and flu this season? Or for any medical issue,  Dr Michael Zhu is here for you.
Our hard working Dr Michael Zhu is always at hand 7 days a week at Hurstville Mediacl centre, 1 Park Road Hurstville NSW 2220 Tel- 95805011

Doboks for Team TTM to the International Taekwon-Do Federation World Championship in Minsk, Belarus from 19th to 27th August are proudly sponsored by Minchinbury Lighting and Dr. Michael Zhu.
Team member are Sabum Mayumi Tam, Joe Lee, Dmitri Stepanov, Malik Hage and Sahyun Tam - coach.
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