Last weekend Tony and Paul Wood attended a coaching seminar in South Melbourne. The seminar was focused on helping coaches develop their students poomsae skills and techniques. Coaching courses like these are important so we can give our students the best advise and training possible when competing at inter-club and state level championships.

It was great to see Paul step up and take his coaching skills to the next level. If you're interested in future seminars or would like to explore how you can get involved with the coaching/mentoring aspects of taekwondo have a chat to Tony.

Did you know you know the 2015 Winter Taekwondo Championships are coming up next month? And that its not just sparring? There are Individual or Team Poomsae events too. See Tony if you're interesting in finding out more!

My son Aidan started with Gibb's Taekwondo in Benalla when he was 7. At the time he was bullied at school and we wanted Aidan to learn to defend and protect himself.

We have watched him achieve each belt grading over the last 5 years and with it gain in self-confidence thanks to Tony’s expert instruction.

He is keen to achieve his black belt and participate in more competitions so I started taking him to an extra class in Wangaratta. As a result of my sitting there watching I began to think about joining myself.

There were a couple of other mums training who were very supportive and I thought if they could do it so could I! So I'm very proud of passing my first grading recently and look forward to Aidan's and my achievements in the future.

- Cassie (Aiden's mum)

Got what it takes to compete at the 2012 World Taekwondo Hanmadang in Korea? Then why not enter into this Technical Selection Competition that will be used to select the team that is sent to Korea.

This is a great opportunity for the student with a passion for the technical aspects of taekwondo such as poomse and breaking. For full details of the competition and how to apply check out the pdf below.

Entries close May 30.