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Hapkido Syllabus on youtube

Congratulations to Chrissie Bowie (1st Dan), Graham Jones (Cho Dan bo) and Anthony Lutz (Cho dan bo) on receiving their black belt certificates. Our Hapkido class has doubled this year thanks to some new beginners. We welcome Tony, Paula and Chelsea Hobday, Judy Pascoe, Greg Blain, Byron and Chris Hobbs to our Hapkido classes. We have also posted the Hakido syllabus on youtube. Just search Tans Hapkido and you will fine 50 videos covering the hapkido syllabus from White belt to 3rd Dan black belt. for example. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B1LNvsIvI4 Special thanks goes to Graham Jones, Terje Svingen (now in Denmark) and the crash dummies who participated. Master Michael Tan.

By Michael Tan|2019-01-16T10:31:37+10:00March 3rd, 2013|Centres, hapkido, Martial Arts, Tans Coorparoo|0 Comments

Kick Start the New Year

We hope everyone had a wonderful New Year. Below please find the return dates for all our centres. We look forward to seeing you back at Taekwondo. Full time Centres Caboolture - Wednesday 2nd January Coorparoo - Monday 7th January Currumbin - Monday 7th January Arana Hills - Monday 7th January Sunnybank - Monday 7th January Springwood - Tuesday - 15th January Acacia Ridge - Monday 14th January Logan - Saturday - 19th January Clayfield - Wednesday - 16th January Roma - Tuesday - 29th January Ipswich - Monday 7th January

By Michael Tan|2013-01-03T22:13:45+10:00January 3rd, 2013|Centres, Martial Arts, Taekwondo, Tans Clayfield, Tans Coorparoo, Tans Curumbin, Tans Enoggera, Tans Ipswich, Tans Logan, Tans Roma, Tans Springwood, Tans Sunnybank|0 Comments

December Newsletter – Coorparoo

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By Michael Tan|2019-01-16T10:31:37+10:00December 11th, 2012|Centres, Martial Arts, Taekwondo, Tans Coorparoo|0 Comments

Coorparoo Christmas Party

About 50 students attended the 2012 Junior Christmas party. The afternoon started at 4pm for our Little Tigers. 15 of our little tigers played games followed by a small party. Games included egg and spoon, potato sack and running races. All Little Tigers received a certification of participation for their hard training throughout the year. They also received their new belt which they will proudly wear at the next class. The juniors arrived at 5pm and started with soccer. We then divided the group into 3 teams for a series of races. After a number of races we had a break for food. There was heaps of food thanks to the parents of our students. Homemade spring rolls, sushi, chips, cake party pies. There was plenty to go around. After all that sugar, we had a few games of poison ball before finishing with our awards. This year awards were sponsored by Chroma Hair Studio. The following students were worthy winners of the awards. Yellow Belt of the Year - Casey Stephens Blue Belt of the Year - Spiro Livanes Red Belt of the Year - Nicholas Coverdale Black Belt of the Year - Joshua Coates Most Consistent - David Meechan Most Improved - Roseanne Scodellaro Family of the Year - The Gibsons Student of the Year - Chelsea Hobday Chelsea was a worthy winner of the student of the year. She trained more than 100 times through out the year. She competed in a number of competitions including the Nationals in September. Even though she is only 12 she trains with the adult class including our competition class. Supports by parents Paula and Tony, Chelsea also tries her best and rarely [...]

By Michael Tan|2012-12-07T22:09:44+10:00December 7th, 2012|Centres, Martial Arts, Motivation, Taekwondo, Tans Coorparoo|0 Comments

4th Gold Coast Open

The 2013 Gold Coast Open has been confirmed for the 11 & 12 May at Carrara indoor stadium. With the success of the last 3 Gold Coast Opens we expect our usual 500 competitors over the weekend. At this stage we will follow the same schedule as 2012. Seniors will be Saturday and Juniors on Sunday. The full package will be released in January 2013. Daedo PSS will be used for all divisions 10 years and over. We welcome all WTF stylist to the Gold Coast. Please email us to be receive updates about the GC Open. look forward to seeing you next year. Regards Michael Tan

By Michael Tan|2012-11-16T11:34:30+10:00November 16th, 2012|Martial Arts, Taekwondo, WTF Competition|0 Comments

End of year grading

Roma Taekwondo now has 4 new provisional black belts. Toby, Jennifer , Jordan and David successfully passed their cho Dan Bo grading. They will now be training hard to hopefully become black belts in 2013. Master Michael Tan was in Roma this weekend conducting Gradings and training workshops. He also gave the higher ranks a demonstration of the Korean sword art Kumdo.

By Michael Tan|2012-11-11T22:59:03+10:00November 11th, 2012|Martial Arts, Taekwondo, Tans Roma|0 Comments

30 Year reunion

About 30 former students attended of 30 year anniversary at the Coorparoo HQ. The rain held off, and everyone enjoyed the BBQ and chatting with other former students. It was great to see so many student especially those travelling from the Gold Coast. All had fond memories of training in the 80's and 90's on old wooden floors in community halls. Founder Dr David Tan who has just come out of hospital made the journey up and talked to all the former students. All the students were impressed with our full time centre. It was our ultimate dream and being a former member of Tans it was theirs to share. Our first black belt George Ruch (1984) was there along with our first white to black belt Jeff Munster. Glenice Shaw who started Logan in the late 70's was also there and met some of the current students of Logan. Glenice is coming back to Taekwondo after nearly 17 years. It was great to hear that Taekwondo has made a big difference in their lives. Many attributed to where they are now to Taekwondo and the spirit of the Martial Arts. It seemed like only yesterday that these students were training. Now most have children or grand children. From the 80's of just Taekwondo, Tans has evolved and offers hapkido and kumdo. Master Michael Tan, Chrissie Bowie (Taekwondo Logan) and Terje Svingen (Hapkido) put on a demonstration of Kumdo. Master Tan and son Liam also demonstrated the new Daedo electronic chest guards. All were amazed at how far the sport had come and the use of technology. We hope that all former students keep in touch and plans are underway to host a 35 year [...]

By Michael Tan|2012-11-04T11:56:02+10:00November 4th, 2012|Centres, Health, Martial Arts, Motivation, Taekwondo, Tans Clayfield, Tans Coorparoo, Tans Logan, Tans Springwood|0 Comments

Currumbin Halloween Party

Scenes from last night's halloween party at Currumbin. The normal white dobok (uniform) was no where to be seen. Everyone dressed up and got into the Marial Art ghost spirit. Looking forward to next years party.

By Michael Tan|2012-11-01T09:34:34+10:00November 1st, 2012|Centres, Health, Martial Arts, Motivation, Taekwondo, Tans Curumbin|0 Comments

Tans Halloween Party

What a great and spooky night at the Tans Halloween party. The day started with making the jellies and decorating the dojang. Claudia and I have great enjoyment setting the place up for a great night. This year we made a haunted tunnel for the kids to go through. Full of surprises and smoke from the fog machine made it a great attraction. At 4.30 the little tigers arrived for their session. There night was mainly about fun dressing up and playing games followed by a little party. We were expecting 12 and ended up with 24. All played well together and enjoyed the theme of Halloween. At 5.30 the bigger kids arrived. There were some great costumes amoungst our 30+ juniors. THeir session was more about halloween with ghost stories, games, and scarier themes. The night ended with pizza and cake. Custom photos have been made and will be distributed this week. Looking forward to 2013 for another halloween. " Hey Michael and Claudia, Thanks for an awesome Halloween party on Friday night. Jorge had a ball!! You guys went to so much effort! The place looked awesome. "

By Michael Tan|2019-01-16T10:31:38+10:00October 30th, 2012|Martial Arts, Motivation, Taekwondo, Tans Coorparoo|0 Comments

What a black belt means to me

Taekwondo plays a big role in my life. Whenever I go to taekwondo I always come home feeling great, I don’t know if it is the people I train with or it is just the training. I find Taekwondo is more enjoying after a stressful day at school, because when I am at training I don’t think about anything else but taekwondo, so it takes my mind off most things. Taekwondo is the best sport I have ever done. When I think of taekwondo I think of all the people I train with and the great community that taekwondo has. To me taekwondo almost feels like having another life but in that life you have no pressure and no stress and the only person you are competing against is yourself, and you want to be the best person you can be at Taekwondo. When I hear Taekwondo I straight away think of the enjoyment I have working with others. The community is what I think is the best part about training because everyone is so kind and ready to help guide you when you need it. This motivates me to keep on coming to training and to work harder. There are many difficult times when I am training that I need to remember or correct a pattern to get it right. I keep working at it, even though at times I get confused with patterns because some of them are very similar. Despite this, I like learning new patterns so then I have more patterns to do and that makes training fun because I know I have more choices instead of only having to do the one pattern over and over again. Other difficult times [...]

By Michael Tan|2019-01-16T10:31:38+10:00October 21st, 2012|Centres, Martial Arts, Motivation, Taekwondo, Tans Springwood|0 Comments