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Black Belt Grading
On Sunday June 27th Brian Barrett and Alex Plamadeala were promoted to 1st Degree black belt following an intense day of testing at the ITA Summer Black Belt Grading. The grading was held in Quin, Co Clare and covered all aspects of the Taekwon-Do syllabus including Technical movements, technical kicking, patterns, step sparring, free sparring, self defence, special technique, power and finally theory. Both the guys performed exceptionally well and the standard of all candidates testing was very high. The grading panel on the day included Master Wheatley VII Degree, Mr Ryan V Degree, Mr Byrne V Degree, Mr Looi IV Degree and Mr O'Donoghue IV Degree and narrator for the day was Ms Kinsella IV Degree. All students testing were promoted and on the 26th there was a grading held for those testing for 2nd and 3rd degrees during which all students were promoted also.
The grading was preceded by 6 months of intense one on one training for Brian and Alex for 2hrs every Sunday as well as their normal classes in order to prepare them for the grading. A big thanks also goes to Mr Stephen Cooley VI Degree and Mr Hong Keat Looi IV for their help with preparing Brian and Alex for their grading.
