Merry Christmas and A Very Happy New Year.
On behalf of Tam`s Budo Academy ITF Taekwon-Do I would like to wish you and family a Wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Our last training session has wrapped-up on 15-12-2011 and resumes on 30-1-2012.
I know many are still hungry for fitness so please visit Sabum Ray`s Punchon Fitness to continue your fitness training. See www.punchonfitness.com or call Sabum Ray on 0452 248363.
Happy Holidays.
Taekwon.
Sonim Sahyun Tam


3 & 4 December 2011 AAITF National Championship Melbourne


AAITF National Championships in Melbourne was a very successful event. Congratulations to all participants in Tam`s Budo Academy who competed in the Championships and the World Selections. Almost everyone went home with a medal around their necks! Well done! You have done your dojang proud!
27-11-2011  Tam`s Budo Academy ITF Taekwon-Do 86th Grading Results




Our new black belts receiving their ITF certificates, ITF pin, new dobok and custom embroidered black belt.


Yellow-tip 9th Gup

• Justin Ye-Wang, Jonathan Lam, Edison Lam, Isaac Huynh, Rick Cassab, Andrew Chen, Alex Chen, Jennifer Xu, Koray Ozbay.
  

Yellow Belt 8th Gup

• Paul Wu, Lilyanne Huynh, Daniel Sherry, James Sherry, Luis Ligon, Wayne Lee, Song Lin Wu, Raymond Alexandroff, Joanna Xu, Richard Duong.
  

Green-tip 7th Gup

• Andy Jin
  

Green Belt 6th Gup

• Savva Hilellis, Manuela Mouawad
  

Blue-tip 5th Gup

• Luca Young, Paul Feng, Kirana Myrianthis, Michael Jomaa.
  

Blue Belt 4th Gup

• John Ngo, Leslie Wang, Brian Feng, John Mouawad, Joseph Mouawad.
  

Red-tip 3rd Gup

• Shanai Krizman, Dave Subia, Paulina Makowska.
  

Red Belt 2nd Gup

• Juan Ligon, Yi Shi
  

Black-tip 1st Gup

• Jolene Cheah
  

Black Belt 1st Dan

• Yun Yi Tam
• Jeremey Myaskovetskiy

Annual Awards
Congratulations to the recipients of the following prestigious awards and a big well done.

Best Attendance

• Jacek Leszcznski, Peta Pyrgiotis, Ben Boonyatulanoon and Leslie Wang
  

Best Grading Result

• Song Lin Wu and Daniel Sherry

Most Improved

• Stephanie Bousoutis and Richard Duong

2011 Dedication Award

• Paulina Makowska
  

Miss Carley Bolding from Texas USA
Carley 7 y.o. is truly a role model for our TaekwonKids when it comes to Taekwon-Do. She has just been graded and passed her blue belt on Friday 18 November 2011 at her dojang in Mansfield Texas USA by Mr. Chris Poteet. Monday, Carley and her parents arrived in Sydney for a 2 weeks holiday and she was looking forward to have a session with our TaekwonKids at Burwood Dojang. It was her very memorable training because she wore her new belt for the first time out of USA. We all look forward to seeing her again one day in the future. Good Luck Carley.





Penshurst Dojang is now one month old.
Mr. Abiguna Safarudin`s Penshurst Dojang is now full steam ahead with recruitments.
Abi is now really enjoying his new dojang instructing his new students. Watch out for one of his special students, Denise, who already can throw a near perfect flying side kick.
Looking for a place to train? Come to Penshurst Public School, Arcadia Street Penshurst NSW. Classes is on Mondays 3.30 to 4.30pm. Call Abi for more info on 0405 079 049 or
see Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Taekwon-Do-for-KIDS-Penshurst-Tams-Budo-academy/249865261726665


5-11-2011 Special Technique Workshop in Wagga
Mr. Vitaly Kachnov is a famous and honoured Russian coach who has coached many Russian competitors to several ITF World Championships with very successful results. Senior Master Linda Low invited him to Perth to conduct a session for our WA ITF members and followed by his kindness to share his "secret" knowledge with us in Wagga Wagga. The session in Wagga was very interesting and we all learned a different approach to executing the special techniques. Thanks to sabum Philip Fitzgerald-Holmes for hosting the session at his dojang and a big Thank You to Mr. Kachnov.


30-10-2011 Technical Seminar by Senior Master Tam
All sports including martial arts improve their techniques over time. There is no exception with ITF techniques and pattern but not without research and tested. Senior Master Tam would like his students to be kept updated with the techniques and movements. Hence, after attending the technical seminar by Grandmaster Hwang and the umpire seminar by Grandmaster Leong recently in Pyongyang DPRK, he quickly conducted a technical seminar for his jejas with the approval from ITFHQ. The first of the series of this seminar was so well attended by the senior jejas that they have for the next one already.



25-9-2011  Tam`s Budo Academy ITF Taekwon-Do 85th Grading Results
This 85th grading marks the first grading by the examiner under his new title as Senior Master. This is also a very memorable grading as there were 7 students went for their 1st Dan and one for 5th Dan. The performance of all students were very good and this made Senior Master Tam and all his students very happy and proud with their results.
Congratulations to all who sat for their test and also a big thank you to everyone who helped and supported the grading. All certificates issued are ITF and All Australian ITF Taekwon-Do Association (National Governing Body) recognised.





Yellow-tip 9th Gup

• Simon Mravec, James & Daniel Sherry, Paul Wu, Thomas Bousoutis, Kate Drohan, Lilyanne Huynh, Renee Sibenaler, Jonathan Tirekidis, Joanna Xu, SongLin Wu, Ray Alexandrof and Wayne Lee.

Yellow Belt 8th Gup

• Claire Zhao, Nathan Myaskovetskiy, Grace Karras, Jonathan Go, Jonathan Karadimas, Danile Shalyapin, Hristian Krstevski, Antony Mikhailov, Oliver Dubois, Xiaoyan Chen, Joseph Do, Joel Wu, Ke Sun and Oscar Tuckfield.

Green-tip 7th Gup

• Stephanie Bousoutis, helen Dedes, Franca Mazzone and David Leonard.
  

Green Belt 6th Gup

• Amy Thomson de Zylva, Jenny Pham and Julia Yan.

Blue-tip 5th Gup

• John Ngo, John Mouawad and Bob Yan

Blue Belt 4th Gup

• Kevin Quach, Ricky Su and Vanessa Ly.

Red-tip 3rd Gup

• Priscilla Lee

Red Belt 2nd Gup

• Andrew Chan, Caroline Ting and Meghan Carberry
  

Black-tip 1st Gup

• Grace Wee

Black Belt 1st Dan

• Musk Chow, Viktoria Mravcova, Tiarn Krizman, Abiguna Safarudin, Nicholas Damianou and (Jeremey Myaskovetskiy - probational black belt)

Black Belt 5th Dan

• Raymond Sue
  

10-9-2011 General Choi Museum in Taekwon-Do Palace DPR Korea
Senior Master Tam found many of his photos in the Taekwon-Do Museum where the Taekwon-Do Founder, General Choi Hong Hi`s personal and historical belongings were kept for display.




7-9-2011 Master Tam promoted to 8th Dan Senior Master
Master Tam was promoted to 8th Dan Sonim Sahyun at the 17th ITF Taekwon-Do World Championship Congress in Pyongyang DPR Korea. Senior Master Tam is now the highest Dan holder along with Senior Masters Low and  Linda in Western Australia and Senior Master Lai in Victoria. He is also the ITF Technical & Education Committee Member and the only legitimately recognised and affiliated ITF dojang in Sydney. All current members of Tam`s Budo Academy  Taekwon-Do are official members of the NGB and ITF under the great Presidency of Professor Dr. Chang Ung IOC member.



17th ITF Taekwon-Do World Championship DPR Korea. Umpires for Ring Number 2




21-8-2011 Black Belt Training

Master Tam, ITF Technical & Education Committee, conducted another interesting and resourceful training for his black belts. Training covered senior black belt patterns and tactical sparring drills. The picture above are some of the Dan students attended this black belt course.
More pictures are in Gallery and Tam`s Budo Academy Facebook.

Jacek Leszczynski gets full support from Dubbo communities for his big trip to the ITF World Taekwon-Do Championship.
Under a month our local hero will be flying out to Beijing and a connecting flight to Pyongyang to take part in the ITF 17th World Championship. There will be over 70 countries participating in this fiercely contested championship. All competitors are of high caliber and Jacek will be taking them on in the Team Free Sparring and Special Technique Division.

Recently Jacek along with his dojangmates, Brison and sister Musk Chow and Jerry Xu put up a demo at the Dubbo Community Women`s Association Hall to introduce the Taekwon-Do art of self defense. Supporters were overwhelmed with their performance and were surprised with little Musk defense skills. A successful fundraiser in conjunction with the demo was warmly welcome and assisted Jacek in every which way they can.

On behalf of Jacek, Tam`s Budo would like to thank all supporters, families, friends and Taekwonmates, Dojangmates for your kind donations and fundraising through the demo, purchasing of t-shirts and hoodies. Also a big thank you to Sabum Raymond Sue for designing and organising the fundraiser through the T-shirts and hoodies for Sahyun and Jacek.


31-7-2011 Tam`s Budo Academy ITF Taekwon-Do Black Belt-Only Training.
It was a perfect morning and the weather has started to warm up again. What else is better than getting together for a black belt-only training session and discuss about technical details with Master Tam, the ITF Technical & Education Committee Member. These hard core black belts enjoyed the session and looking forward to the next training.



Due to Master Tam attending the ITF World Championship in DPRK as an Umpire, September grading has been rescheduled for Sunday 25-9-2011. December grading and Christmas luncheon is now on Sunday 27-11-2011. Please see Event Page for more information.


84th Tam`s Budo Academy Taekwon-Do Grading at Burwood Dojang 19-6-2011


The morning came with a  perfectly bright sunshine after loosing count how many days Sydney was pelted down with sky juice. The air was cool; cold in fact in the dojang  in the first hour and that I thought it must have frozen some nerves of some students.

Sunday 19 June has been in minds of many jeja`s; all aiming to perform and show off their Taekwon-Do skills to be promoted to their next Gup. I arrived early to find that Jacek has already placed the mats down to save our freezing toes and Roman was accompanied by his family....one of his young lad was also grading together with his jejas. So mathematically 75% of Myaskovetskiys are now Taekwon-Do exponents. Don`t mess with them! Mark Balfour slipped into his dobok and made sure his jejas were spot on with their techniques and gave warm encouragements with great patience.. It was pleasant to see Keffe came along and help out while Boosabum Mayumi was a great help with the grading forms and commanding together with Jacek.

Frozen nerves were thawed and many jejas were turned into hot tournament sparring mode. I reminded everyone that sparring in grading defers from tournament styles. One must not forget to display their full potential by utilizing makgis/blocks learned from their tuls/pattern.
Some were very quick to respond and adapted themselves very well into the requirements to show their defending skills and not only attacking all the time.

Overall we had a good grading result from all grading jejas. When asked, all of them answered "we strive to better our grading marks and further improve our standard. Train Hard Train Smart".
 Thanks goes to Mayumi, Jacek, Roman and Keffe.
And what followed after hours of grading 26 jejas?..yummy lunch together with Ray and all the black belts at Kwok Doo Restaurant which was once our sponsor to the World Championship.
Check out some photos from the grading in the gallery page and don`t forget :next grading at Sabum Amanda Morrison Woy Woy Central Coast Dojang on Saturday 25 June 2011. There will be tul and matsogi workshop. All black belts will be attending and gup jejas are welcome.
Taekwon.
Tam Sahyun




NSW ITF Open Championship Wagga Wagga 28-5-2011
26 competitors represented our club to the championship and returned with excellent result. Our team left Sydney on Friday at 1pm in the safe hand of Roman; driving them in a bus with some parents and supporters. Sahyun and his family left about the same time and catching up with the team at Pheasant Nest. Master Tam wanted to make sure everyone on board are relaxed but mentally prepared for the big day. Everyone were enjoying the trip and had fun.
Arriving at 7pm at the motel in Wagga Wagga the team was still full of energy but was looking forward to a nice meal at the Farmers Hotel. Sabum Alan arrived shortly to join in the dinner. Thanks Sabum Alan for looking after the team. The meal was really nice and the team was entertained by Jerry`s hilarious game.

The next morning everyone woke up early and made their way to the championship venue for registration. It was very nice to have Hari`s supporters turned up too. The atmosphere seems a little like a mini world tournament. Cheering from Nepal and Poland excited the crowd and competitors.

Our team turned out to be very successful in pattern as well as sparring. Highlight of the event went to Paulina against Amy. Paulina gave it all she had to Amy and Amy was feeling the pressure. In the end Amy came out as winner with her vast experience. Paulina wasn`t told that Amy is a world contender until after the bout. The fight might be different if she new it earlier and not having a cut lip!

Poor Jacek had a fight of a time...broken his nose but still attended the after-party after staying in the hospital for more than 3 hours. What makes these two so tough...maybe it is the banner..Polska!





Results
Abigu Safarudin 1st Pattern, 3rd Team Pattern
Bob Yan 2nd Team Sparring
Caroline Ting 2nd Pattern
Callum McInerney 1st Sparring
Colin Pong 3rd Team Pattern
Grace Wee 1st Pattern, 3rd Team Pattern, 3rd Team Sparring
Jacek Leszczynski 2nd Pattern
Kevin Quach 3rd Sparring, 2nd Pattern, 2nd Team sparring
Musk Chow 3rd Pattern, 3rd Sparring
Nicholas Lau 1st Pattern
Paulina Makowska 2nd Pattern, 3rd Sparring, 3rd Team Sparring
Priscilla Lee 1st Pattern
Richard Quach 3rd Pattern,
Roman Myaskovetskiy 3rd Pattern, 2nd Sparring
Samini 3rd Team Sparring
Shanai Krizman 1st Pattern
Tiarn Krizman 1st Sparring, 3rd Team Pattern, 3rd Team Sparring
Vanessa Ly 3rd Pattern, 3rd Team Pattern
Viktoria 3rd Team Sparring


Launch of new Tam`s Budo hoodies.
Thanks to Sabum Raymond Sue for his design of our new hoodies and t-shirt. They came in time for the NSW Championship. Sabum Ray has arranged for the production of the hoodies and t-shirts as fundraiser for Jacek and Sahyun to the World Championship in Pyongyang this year. Jacek will be competing in the Special Technique and Team Sparring events. Sahyun Tam will be attending as Umpire.