Author: Petteri Kauppinen

Yesterday, the last belt exams of the spring and summer season were held at the Taekwondo athletes' hall. At five in the afternoon, the juniors started with their own belt tests and continued with the adults until nine in the evening.

Juniors

Henry Traan completed the 7th cup (yellow belt and green stripe)

Joel Repo and Lukas Lassooy completed the 8th cup (yellow belt)

Adults

Janne Rita completed the 5+ cup (green belt and another blue stripe).

Mari Havakka completed the 7+ cup (yellow belt and another green stripe).

Anna-Kristiina Ostamo, Lotta Veira and Anna Kumpulainen completed the 7th cup (yellow belt and green stripe).

Mikko Karjalainen, Jaakko Saha and Anssi Häära were the backing bands and pairs for the belt curlers.

Congratulations to all the test-takers for their great performances and new belt values!

The training center's movement series exercises have started at a good pace. On Thursday of last week, kicking technique day was on the program. The topic of the day was the most challenging kick of business series competitors, i.e. the side kick. In the photo, Essi Labart and Mirva Niiranen are looking for more strength in their sides and legs during one of the sub-exercises of the side kick.

The coaching program of the training center's range of motion exercises is built around four sub-areas. Sub-areas include stances, hand techniques, kicking techniques and sets of movements. The business series competitors will get to know the new coaching model very closely in the coming months.

I would like to welcome all business series competitors to the training center. It is especially worth coming if you want to win in business series competitions!

The head of the training center's business series

Petteri Kauppinen