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2011 update
Its been a long while between blog posts … in quick summary we went on holiday (August 2010) to Rarotonga, bought a new house in September, Graded to Red belts in November both with A passes 
(only 1 more grading before we go for Black Belt)
We also went to see Rhys Darby live, (dec 2010) Danny Bhoy, and Katy Perry both in May 2011.
For new years we stayed up in Maraetai House sitting – that was cool – and relaxing – had Xmas with Charlotte’s family.
We had a couple of tramps – one with Isobel round Lake Waikaremoana in January over long weekend, and the Northern Circuit with Charlotte’s Family for Easter.
In March 2011, the ITF Taekwon-do world championships were held in Wellington – I helped with the registration and ID card system which was really cool but a lot of work -Charlotte did not see a lot of me during the lead up to the tournament but the tournament itself was amazing and NZ topped the table with most golds!
In May we both competed in Midlands regional tournament held in Tauranga. I won my first two sparring matches and ended up with a silver in sparring:) Also a gold in power (which is an event where you break boards) winning with a reverse turning kick – my first gold medal in TKD – Charlotte also won a sparring silver and gold in patterns, and gold in Specialty – Nationals is in August this year -in Auckland so there’s a good chance she’ll do well in that.
We have bought tickets to Paris for November – and we are both looking forward to that trip
2010
Its Jan 2010 , and not a lot has changed -well the house sold at the end of December finally and for xmas we spent time in Auckland with Charlottes family , and for New years we went to the Gold coast and hung out with the other millions of tourists and sun seekers – unfortunately the rain did fall quite a bit but it was a warm 28 degrees.
Dracula’s was as usual awesome – and the theme parks although busy were still fun.
In the beginning of December we both graded to Blue belts (4th Gup) so now the real hard work kicks in – new pattern , new techniques , a few flying
Websites and Taekwon-do are as usual taking up most of my time.
Although we are off to tramp around Mt Egmont on Long weekend
Taekwon-do Nationals update
At the ITFNZ Taekwon-do Nationals awards dinner on September 26th I won the Gup Student of the year award - it was a pretty amazing feeling! Thanks to my instructor Grant Eccles and Gwyn Brown from Silla club for the nomination.
At the tournament itself I got a bronze in both Sparring and Patterns, and I helped out on the Saturday with Id-cards , the tournament was fun and another great experience.
Both Charlotte and I stayed down in Christchurch with Gavin, Liz, Jayden and Corban which was also awesome – Jayden is becoming very talkative and aware and he’s very smart too. Hopefully we will be going back at christmas time to visit again.
We leave for Thailand in 3 days and the weather over there looks very hot around 34-36 degrees, so that will make it interesting, also all the forecasts look like Thunder storms so hopefully we don’t get rained out!
ITFNZ Nationals 2009
I’ve been extremely slack in updating my blog recently – with the increased use of FB just about no point – but I’ll try to keep up with it …
I’ve had some ups and downs in training for the Nationals this year. I’m competing in Sparring and Patterns and over the last few weeks have managed to injure my knee, neck and ribs. With only 2 weeks until Nationals now i’m hoping i’ve done enough I’ve had quite a bit of extra training in sparring than I did have before regionals, so hopefully i’ve picked up some useful tips and can apply them in the ring – still have a bit of weight to lose to get back into the correct division – time is running out — ahhh !
I’ve been very busy updating the ID card software from last year and processing all the new photos from all the regions.
TKD Nationals this year is in Christchurch so i’m taking a few extra days and staying from thursday until monday. I get to spend some more time with Gavin, Liz, Jayden and Corban this way too.
I am also helping to organise the Midlands TKD camp for next year, which is turning out ok – 1 guest instructor has confirmed so far, venue confirmed, and dates 99% confirmed so not too bad for 6 months out.
A couple of days until my birthday too – wonder what its gonna be like, I have a short TKD training after work, and then some drinks. A big dinner is planned for Friday and not sure what Saturday will bring
Off to Thailand too for a holiday in October- first trip to asia – so doing a lot of reading up of that area and things to do – hoping to get lots of beach time in though and mainly relax …
Grading April 2009
I had a shocker of a grading for blue tip – including knocking someones contact out, and although I didn’t get an A pass this time, I still passed so I’m now a blue-tip or 5th gup half way to black belt 
The grading examiner was Andrew Salton 6th dan from Levin and he conducted a very rigorous grading. I’m now looking forward to learning my new pattern Yul-Gok which has 38 movements.
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