Good luck to all our students who are starting new schools or going to university this month. 🤗
We have started to introduce the rest of the syllabus (shields, focus mitts, close range) during the Summer break with those students who’ve been able to attend. This will continue going forward but will mean that less time will be spent on the basic patterns, offense drills, defence drills, hand and foot techniques so it’s even more important to practice at home.
Don’t forget your missed classes are carried over into September. You can attend any class to make up for the ones you have missed.
We’d love to see your holiday training videos on our Facebook page #holidaychoi.🥋⛱☀
Mr Bunch has had to under go an operation on his knee so we wish him a speedy recovery.🤕💐🍇
Congratulations to Miss Tailor on attaining her Assistant Instructor status. 🤗🎉😎
Training Protocols
We’ve continued with temperature checks and hand sanitisation during the summer as a precaution. From September we will no longer check temperatures so it’s vitally important that if you are in anyway not feeling well that you do not attend.
All students will be required to bring hand safety to each class. Yellow belts and above will also require foot safety. Mr Tailor has a few Small and Medium hand safety otherwise please purchase your own using the guide at the end of the newsletter.
Turkey Street Classes
The floor mats will be laid out for each class so training will be in bare feet unless you have a foot infection. Leadership students and assistant instructors need to be available to help with the the mats. Please discuss with Mr Tailor in class.
Southgate Classes
Class location will be as follows
Thursday 2nd September – Southgate Scout Hall
Thursday 9th September – Southgate School Sports Hall – Please go to the other entrance
Thursday 16th September onward – Southgate School Gymnasium – our usual hall
Birthdays
🎈September Birthdays🎈
Sep 8th – George Hadji-Ioannou – 8yrs old Sep 13th – Vidya Beeharry Sep 20th – Andrew Bigmore – 14yrs old Sep 30th – Deniz Yalcin – 17yrs old
🎂🎂
Testing Schedule
There will be a Colour and Black Belt testing this month as below. Please ensure that you bring your hand/foot safety.
Sunday 19th September – Colour Belt Testing – Turkey St Monday 27th September – Dan tag assessment – Harrow
Sunday14th November – Il Dan Jnr tag assessment – Turkey St
Sunday 28th November – Colour Belt Testing – Turkey St
Hand and Foot Safety
The current syllabus requires students carrying out defence drills to make light contact. The equipment can be purchased from wherever is most convenient for you.
– White belt senior and above, dipped foam hand safety.
– Yellow belt and above, dipped foam foot safety.
The Playwell site has a number of gloves. Below is an example with the CKD logo but any of a similar style will be permitted. Boxing gloves are not allowed.
The Playwell site has a number of boots. Below is an example with the CKD logo but either this style or the dipped foam style will be permitted. These are designed to be generally worn without shoes and the fit needs to ensure that the toes are always covered. If wearing shoes then a larger size will be needed plus adjustments will generally need to be made. Please discuss this with an instructor in class if you want to do this.
Weekly Class Times
Please note that for Southgate students the training venue for the summer will be the Scout Hall in Green Road.
Turkey Street:
Sunday 10am to 11am (mixed) Tuesday 6.30pm to 7.25pm (children only) Tuesday 7.35pm to 8.30pm (school year 7 + Adults) Wednesday 6.30pm to 7.30pm (mixed)
Southgate:
Southgate Scout Hall/Southgate School.
Thursday 6.30pm to 7.30pm (mixed)
Black Belt/Advanced Classes:
Turkey St
Sunday 11.05am – 12.05pm – Black Belts and invited advanced students
Intro Classes
Potential students should contact Mr Tailor.
Licence & Insurance
Please ensure that you renew your CKD Licence and NAKMAS Insurance on time.
– The CKD Licence will have the issue date and so will expire 1 year after that date
– The NAKMAS Insurance will have the expiry date. NAKMAS have requested that we complete their form from their site. The link is here.
Please contact Mr Tailor if you have any queries about your License or Insurance.
Late Payment of Fees
A reminder that late fees will incur an additional £5 for each person.
If you are not currently training, but wish to remain on our register, then there is a minimum £5/month to cover registration fees or you can elect to be archived. Note that there will be a £20 administrative fee to reactivate your membership.
Referral Program
Do not forget to join our referral program! For every new student that joins through your recommendation you get a FREE grading! Please let me know if you want any leaflets. Pil Seung!
Check if you are on track with the number of classes – click here
Student Training videos (password ECKD2020) – click here
Quote for the Month
“The calmed say that what is well-spoken is best; second, that one should say what is right, not unrighteous; third, what’s pleasing, not displeasing; fourth, what is true, not false..”
