On Sun 2nd March, Palcic TaeKwonDo sent 70 keen students up to what is now being considered one of the best Open TKD competitions in the country – the LTSI OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS.
The competition is well supported by both many local, and nationally based schools, and is great as students get to compete against some very high standards.
For Palcic Taekwondo, the day was an amazing success, bringing home 20 Gold medals, 15 silver medals, and 18 bronze medals in total! This was an amazing result, and although we narrowly missed out on winning the over all team result, on an individual level, no other school came close to getting this amount of medals.
The day started very well, with the kids, with great performances from Thomas Hughes-Munoz and Kameron Carandang, two juniors from our Kensington school getting gold in patterns and sparing respectively.
The middle of the day always represents an exciting time for us as it is the team patterns events. Our adult Black Belt team has previously won this event every time we have entered, and due to half the team having commitments this time round, we initially decided to run a Black Belt junior team only.
We love the team patterns event as it show pieces the club and provides great entertainment for the crowds. So with this in mind there was an interesting surprise for us this time as one day before the competition we were asked if we would like to add an adult team pattern in with no practice at all!
In true PALCIC TKD style we rose to the challenge! Unfortunately the 5 minutes the team had to prepare just wasn’t enough to get this ready, but we did lose in spectacular style indeed, and luckily our kids Black Belt team performed amazingly well to take the gold!
The afternoon was when we really came into our own, with our Black Belts winning many of the Gold Medals, performing some amazing patterns and sparring against some very tough opposition.
Below then is the breakdown of our medal winners, however, before this I would like to say that to organise and send 70 people to such a great competition would not be possible if it was not for our fantastic team of coaches, instructors and organising committee, my heartfelt thanks to all who helped make this happen, of course not forgetting our family and supporters and all the volunteers who gave up their day to do work free of charge to make this happen!
Well done to all the other schools who attended this great competition. Some fantastic performances from members of LTSI, LEARN TKD, RAYNERS LANE, TSA (awesome fighters), LONEWOLF, UKGT, and many other groups.
Taekwon!
Paul Palcic
NOW –THE RESULTS -
GOLD MEDALS -
Priyesh Patel – Gold Patterns
Sophie Doosaah – Gold Patterns
Jathusan Uthayakumar – Gold Patterns
Romario Godfrey-Brown – Gold Sparring
Thuvijan Kathiravelu – Gold Special Technique
Saameh Dallali – Gold Sparring
Jeevan Matharu – Gold Sparring
Kieran Mallon – Gold Patterns
Kieran Mallon – Gold Special technique
Suhrab Sayfi – Gold Patterns
Chris Wilson – Gold Sparring
Ewa Iwanow – Gold Patterns
Helen Berry – Gold Sparring
Malachy McKillop – Gold Sparring
Mounia Tobbal-Seghir – Gold Patterns
Vanessa Virtue-Abbott – Gold Patterns
Thomas Hughes-Munoz – Gold Patterns
Kameron Carandang – Gold Sparring
Gabriel Willis – Gold Patterns
Junior Team Patterns – Gold
SILVER MEDALS-
Joanice Carandang – Silver Patterns
Jeffrey Fernandes – Silver Patterns
Chirag Patel – Silver Sparring
Sophie Doosaah – Silver Sparring
Pasha Lashgari – Silver Sparring
Saamer Dallali – Silver Sparring
Abbienaya Dayanamby – Silver Sparring
Akshaya Dayanamby – Silver Sparring
Ewa Iwanow – Silver Sparring
Jonathan Henry – Silver Patterns
Saloni Shah – Silver Sparring
Mounia Tobbal-Seghir – Silver Sparring
Annaliese Morris – Silver Sparring
Adam McCarthy – Silver Sparring
Pasha Lashgari – Bronze Sparring
Suhrab Sayfi – Bronze Sparring
Malachy McKillop – Bronze Patterns
Radwa Yaslem – Bronze Sparring
Michael Hryniuk – Bronze Sparring
Amelia Sowik – Bronze Sparring
Amaan Quraishi – Bronze Sparring
Ayesha Abbas – Bronze Sparring
Michael Mo Cullen – Bronze Sparring
Antoni Kryzos – Bronze Patterns
Alexandros Dimopoulos – Bronze Patterns
Nigel McCarthy – Bronze Sparring
Senior Team Patterns – Bronze
