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Janne and Kassu to the Danish Open

Jan-Eric and Kasper Wargelin will compete in the Wonderful Copenhagen Taekwondo Tournament this weekend.

Kassu competes in the cadets' -37 kg category and Janne in the men's – 63 kg category.

Tournament homepage:

http://www.wctt.dk/

All competitors and results:

http://www.tpss.eu

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Do you want to join in promoting the club?

Do you want to join in promoting the club and thus help grow our club bigger and better?

It's easy to do! Assemble a patrol of one adult and 2-5 children. Go to the information desk and fill in the form there with the time and place of your choice from the available options. Each shift is one hour long. During this time, you will receive 150 flyers for your group to distribute.

You can also take posters to hand out. When you have distributed the posters, mark the date of distribution and the place where you have taken the poster in the list.

The advertisement distribution dates are 16.8., 17.8. and 23 August 2014. You can distribute posters whenever you want until the end of the month.

The locations are Kaari Shopping Centre, Pitäjänänmäki Station, Malminkartano Station and the center of Tapiola.

A couple of instructions that are good to remember when distributing ads:

1. If a person is busy, don't disturb them

2. Everyone can be a potential hobbyist

3. Feel free to tell about your own experiences, both good and bad

4. If you don't know something, ask to be contacted by phone or email or ask to visit on weekdays between 5:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.

Taekwondo athletes thank you!
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The Taekwondo Peace Corps visited our gym

1602195_823573841000685_5014903434164539355_o 10497344_823573724334030_7316136429172897340_oOn Wednesday, our gym was visited by young Korean taekwondo experts. Ku Tae Kim and Hye Jin Choi from the World Taekwondo Federation's Taekwondo Peace Corps program led two exercises. There were a lot of kicks, physical exercises and dance suitable for the shows.

Thank you to everyone who participated and especially to Vesa Suomalainen from Lohjan Mudo Taekwondo for the opportunity to train with these positive and enthusiastic whores,

More on the weekend

At the weekend, Mudo Lohja organizes a camp led by Koreans. Read more at the link below.

Weekend camp ad >>

Presentation of the activities of the Peace Corps on the WTF website (in English) >>

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Autumn practice times start on August 11.

TU11 practice schedule S2014Fall practice times start in Konala on August 11.

For young people, some of the groups have been combined so that the advanced ones also get their own exercises. Anyone with a yellow belt (8th kup – 7th+ kup) can participate in the advanced group. Anyone with a green (6th kup) or higher belt rank can participate in the advanced exercises.

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Tapiola and Kalajärvi practice times, groups and start times can be found on their respective pages:

Tapiola>>

Kalajärvi>>

 

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Summer video. Juho & Sara

Sara Quiñones & Juho K TU11

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Opening loss for Sophia, silver for Niko Saarinen

 

-47: Sophia Vassilaki – Olivia Roberts, AUS 10-19

Sophia fought well, but Roberts even better. Roberts did not place in the medals

World Championship silver for Niko Saarinen

The most joyful surprise of the competitions was Budokwa's Niko Saarinen's silver in the boys under 53 kg category. In the final, Korean Ui Hyeon Lee was better 11-6.

Article on the topic on the website of the Taekwondo League: http://www.suomentaekwondoliitto.fi/?x103997=1380131

You can follow the results here: http://www.ma-regonline.com/tournaments/430/1ST-WTF-WORLD-CADET-CHAMPIONSHIPS-2014-#live

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Live photos and video collection from Baku

You can follow the Cadet World Championships here:

Live footage from Baku, but now, for example, tennis. Local TV company's sports channel:

http://www.idmantv.az/canli/idman-canli-yayim.htm

The videos can be found here, albeit with quite a delay:
http://www.dartfish.tv/CollectionInfo.aspx?CR=p1c96953

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Sophia Vassilaki represents Finland at the Cadet World Championships

Sophia Vassilaki will represent Finland at the cadet World Championships in Baku

Sophia competes in the girls under 47 kg category and the Match Day is Saturday 26.7. The draw will take place on July 22, and after that the opponents for the first rounds will be known. Sophia will be coached in the competition by national team head coach Kim Sinisalo.

The Finns' opposition in the first round:

-33: Ida Tammila – Paula Antunovic,CRO/Cindy Arcolas,PHI
-41: Emma Reiman – Aleksandra Perisic, SRB
-47: Sophia Vassilaki – Olivia Roberts, AUS
-51: Noora Rannikko – Shahad Ahmed, EGY

-33: Oskar Mäkinen – Benjamin Konde, KEN
-37: Oskari Koskinen – Maksym Plachita, UKR
-53: Niko Saarinen – Abdulbasit Abutaleb, KSA

Sophia's opponent is a multiple champion of her country, although only 12 years old.

Sophia's chart:

http://www.ma-regonline.com/downloads/1ST%20WTF%20WORLD%20CADET%20CHAMPIONSHIPS%202014%20DAY%203.pdf

Other charts:

http://www.ma-regonline.com/tournaments/430/1ST-WTF-WORLD-CADET-CHAMPIONSHIPS-2014-

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Finnish team: Niko Saarinen, Budokwai Taekwondo Oskari Koskinen, Salon Taekwondo Oskar Mäkinen, Tampere Kumgang Emma Reiman, Loviisan Taekwondo Sophia Vassilaki, TU11 Ida Tammila, Budokwai Taekwondo Noora Rannikko, Yong Taekwondo Photo: Suomen Taekwondoliitto
Finnish team: Niko Saarinen, Budokwai Taekwondo
Oskari Koskinen, Salon Taekwondo
Oskar Mäkinen, Tampere Kumgang
Emma Reiman, Loviisa Taekwondo
Sophia Vassilaki, TU11
Ida Tammila, Budokwai Taekwondo
Noora Rannikko, Yong Taekwondo
Photo: Finnish Taekwondo Federation

 

 

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Referee training available on August 16-17, 2014 in Kisakallio, Lohja

The match referee committee of the Finnish Taekwondo Association will organize a basic taekwondo match referee course on August 16-17, 2014 in Kisakallio, Lohja. The committee hopes that especially clubs that act as competition organizers and clubs that are actively involved in match activities would send their members to the course. The match activity is growing strongly and in order to increase the domestic competitions, we need more match referees. In addition, clubs that are heavily involved in match activities should invest in refereeing, because an active referee in their own club can offer a surprising tactical perspective on match coaching.

The match referee committee welcomes all interested enthusiasts who are at least 16 years old and have at least a 6th cup (or equivalent) belt rank to the course.

Download the training advertisement here >>

Regards,
Ilkka Vikström,
education officer
match referee committee,
Finnish Taekwondo Federation

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Korean instructors for the summer trainees' camp on August 6, 2014

If you have paid your training fee throughout the summer, you are welcome to train under the guidance of Korean TPC instructors Ku Tae Kim and Hye Jin Choi.

Schedule 6.8.:

17.00-18.30 Children and young people

19:00-20:30 Adults and children and youth competing in league series

The program includes interesting and fun training, as well as some sweat cranberries for sure!

If you haven't paid your training fee for the entire summer, the camp costs 20 euros per training session. Fans of other clubs are also welcome.

Note! Other exercises have been canceled for the whole evening!