Christian dropped quite a bomb by grabbing gold in the extremely tough U30 series of the Austrian G1 Championships on 17 June 2017.

Christian left behind a whole line of business series giants of the moment. There were e.g. the reigning European champion Joachim Wien and Joel van der Weiden fell in the final, who is the European champion of sleds from the last European Championships. Christian also knocked out this year's European doubles champion Benjamin Hellegaard Harden.

Aino excelled in the children's series, taking silver in her individual series and gold in pairs and groups, where Aino complemented the team of her Austrian training friends.

Warm congratulations to both of them for their amazing performances!

A sure sign of summer is that the dreaded "hill" appears in the training calendar of Taekwondo athletes. In hill training, as the name suggests, you run repeatedly up the full hill of Malminkartano using either stairs or paths. Training emphasis changes during the summer and as fitness increases. We recommend the training to everyone who wants to increase their fitness, especially if hill training is still missing from the experience bank.

For the first time, we will go for hill training as a joint start in Salita on Wednesday, June 7. at 18:30 From now on, the exercises start directly on the hill at the bottom of the stairs.

Summer practice times 5 June to 13 August.

As usual, the exercises run at the Taekwondo athletes' gym, even in the summer with a slightly lighter schedule. When schools start in August, we will return to a more compact training calendar, which will be announced closer.

The two middle weeks of July 10.7-23.7. the gym is completely closed and the coaches are on summer pastures.

The taekwondo championships will be held on July 7-9, 2017 in Tampere as part of a massive sports week, where more than a hundred sports will organize their championships and other events. In addition, amateur competitions are organized in connection with the event. In the SM championships, the competition is both in the match and in the business series.

This year, we are investing in a separate project for the World Championships, the goal of which is to prepare the athletes for peak performance and work as a unified team throughout the competition process. The project can be participated by both WC competitors and amateurs aiming to participate in the amateur tournament or next year's WC. So everyone, either as a competitor, spectator or part of the maintenance crew!

Ask more at the gym or send an email.

SM17 competition group

Price: 90€

• Competition fees for all series
• Bus transportation
• 4 additional sparring exercises/movement set exercises

SM18 challenger group

Price: 80€

• Competition fees for amateur tournament
• 4 additional sparring exercises/movement set exercises
• Bus transportation
• Entrance fees to WC competitions as a spectator

Just bus transportation and entrance fees as a spectator

• 30€
  • For example, fans and supporters

We try to organize bus transportation so that both groups can move easily without their own car. So on Friday, one bus leaves for Tampere, on Saturday another, and of course returns after both race days. We are also trying to organize transportation to accommodation and from there to the games. Bus rides will be announced in more detail as soon as they are confirmed.

Dates

Competitors outside the club are warmly welcome to participate in extra sparring training.

Additional exercises for movement sets will be announced separately.

Korson Lumo collected on Saturday 27.5. a large group of business series competitors from all over Finland. Taekwondo athletes had the most representatives of all clubs in the games, and the results are worth admiring. Long-term work was again rewarded not only in the form of medals but also in the form of clear personal development leaps.

Taekwondo athletes congratulate the medalists!

Gold:
Aino, cadet girls
Plum, cadet boys
Plum& Mia (EHT), under 17 pairs
Bella, the blue ladies
Bella, the blue lynx
Bella& Vickan, lynx couple
Bella& Vickan& Sofia, amateur groups
Tiitu, yellow women
Tiitu & Maija, amateur couples

Silver:
Sofia, the blue ladies
Vickan, blue lynxes
Maija, yellow women
Bella& Vickan, amateur couples

Bronze:
Vickan, blue ladies
Sofia, the blue lynx

Fourth place:

Alex Jurgens
Iida and Sofia, amateur couples

New belt values at the flea market

There was plenty of excitement in the gym of taekowntour athletes on Wednesday 24.5. when no less than four belt exams followed each other. In the first shift, the white-clad players got to taste their first belt test and performed excellently all the techniques and additional challenges required in the test. In the next turn, the hall was absolutely packed, when the gnomes hunting for green ribbons and belts of the same color showed their skills. Meanwhile, on the other side of the hall, a group of young children earned their tiger and dragon badges. The last test of the evening lasted a full two hours, but it was not an overwhelming challenge for the upper belts.

Good luck to all new belt ranks!

Bardia Mirzai took gold in the Under-21 Finnish Championship in Ikaalilsi on 21.5. The good result of the small team was completed by Emilia Lahti with her bronze

In the amateur tournament held in the morning, Venne Viitaniemi and Teemu Takala took silver and Lauri Hulikkala bronze.

The club was well represented by Ali Lahti, who got to referee the first SC final of his life from the middle.