DTA NEWS
2024 Easter Schedule
Easter 2024 Schedule With Easter and a number of bank holidays approaching there are a few changes to the regular lesson schedule. If your regular class is not on, you are welcome to train at any of our other classes. We at DTA hate breaking our usual schedule as its difficult to get in the habit of regular training, but easy to break the...
2023 Highlights and into 2024
2023 was another great success for Dorset Taekwondo Association and our membersA few of the highlights are listed below (and shown in the photos below) • Coach Marina wins a bronze and the European Poomsae Championships• Two of our coaches (Cassidy and Kailin) pass the rank of 4th Dan Master• The club wins a 3rd place team trophy at the Bluewave...
2023 Annual Awards & Christmas Party
This years Awards and party were at the Littledown Centre in the bar. This is around 20 years we have been having the party here. This year there was around 120 party goers including DTA club members current and from the past.The annual awards, which were decided upon by the coaches, were presented as follows: “Rising Star 2023” x71. Rory...
Alis Poomsae Competition London
On 18th Feb 23 Dorset Taekwondo Association took fourteen competitors up to compete in various different categories at Alis London Open. There was 341 competitors from clubs across the UK. Coming into the 2023 season we had a lot of competitors where it’s their first time competing in a new category. This didn’t change our teams mindset and...
Coach Cassidy Referees at 2 Competitions in 1 weekend
Well done #DTA coach Cassidy refereeing two competitions at the weekend and picking up the best referee award. Well done Elsa too for judging at these competitions. DTA members have access to British Taekwondo qualifications to Judge and Referee both Sparring Patterns. Cassidy and Elsa have both passed the the level 3 judge qualification, and...
Important Dates / Calendar 2023
Dates for your Diary 2023DTA Gradings (Grange School – with NM TKD)Saturday 25th MarchSaturday 15th July TBC (Kup & Dan)Saturday 23rd Sept TBCSaturday 2nd Dec TBC (Kup & Dan) No Classes at Littledown. (Classes maybe rescheduled – TBC)Saturday 8th April (Easter)Saturday 29th AprilSaturday 10th JuneSaturday 23rd SeptemberSome of the Bank...
LMC Sparring Competition (Southampton) Dec 2022
On Sunday 4th December Dorset Taekwondo Assc took a team of 10 to the LMC Sparring Competition in Southampton. This was the first open sparring competition in the South for many years. There were approximately 400 fighters from all over the country. Our team (Harry, Vesco, Inara, Sean, Tom, Cassidy, Oli, Hamza, Atilla, Myles) consisted of young...
Coach Cassidy qualifies as Referee
Over the last year I had been able to complete my Class 3.0 (Corner Judging course) and additional modules which allowed me to judge and officiate for competitions up and down the country (including Nationals!!). With this experience, some support from new found friends and Master Naraine, I was then able to go for my Class 2.0 Centre Referee...
Annual Awards 2022 (Results) and Christmas Party
Brilliant Party this year with well over 100 people there. Unfortunately England lost the football during the party but it didn't dampen our enthusiasm. This years (2022) Awards were given out by Master Naraine as follows. Rising Stars of 2022 1. Lydia Dmochowska2. Inara Hooper3. Emily Carreira de Sousa4. Veselin Paskalevm (Vesco)5. Harry...
British Taekwondo Nationals (Poomsae) November 2022
During the weekend 12th & 13th November 2022 Dorset Taekwondo had 20 competitors who competed in the Poomsae Nationals in Worcester. Everyone performed extremely well, and all the coaches couldn’t commend everyone enough. As a team we scored an incredible 11 gold, 3 silver and 3 bronze medals. This is a remarkable feat especially considering we...