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Last night, I had the chance to take part in a seminar with multiple time Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu World Champion and ADCC winner Braulio Estima! The seminar was organised by my Instructors, Chris rees and Rob Taylor, and took place in Swansea at the Gracie Barra Chris Rees Academy headquarters with more than 80 adult students. It was once again a great opportunity to train under such an amazing grappler and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu legend. The seminar went on for 3 hours and we went through a series of drills and techniques and tested them in live sparring towards the end of the class. Braulio is a fantastic instructor and his technical ability, the way he explains every position and every detail and his knowledge made this one of the best seminars I've had the chance to attend. A few students got promoted as well at the end of the night and received their new belts, which made this an even more memorable event. I cannot wait for the next one!

On Sunday the 4th of November Miss Jade Jones, Olympic gold Medalist of Wales, made a special appearance and presented a Taekwondo training seminar at the National Sports Centre for Wales in Cardiff. Jade who is now the current World Taekwondo number 1 and Olympic Champion was promoted By Mr Joseph Schembri and Mr Gordon Fearn, both former Taekwondo World Champions who are very well known throughout the Martial Arts community. Jade began training in Taekwondo at a very young age in Flint, North Wales. When she was a teenager her grandfather brought her down to train at the National Junior Welsh squad training in Cardiff under Mr Schembri and Master Gianni peros. From a young age her talent shone through and after achieving many titles and representing Wales in non Olympic TKD, it was obvious she had bigger achievements ahead. Jade then went on to train in Manchester, at the British TKD Olympic head quarters and the rest is history. Jade is the 1st Olympic TKD champion from the UK a...

Massive congratulations to Liam Sloan , Harvey Stockford and Joseph Davies who recently undertook a very challenging Black Belt grading test to achieve the rank of 1st Dan Black Belt in Taekwondo. The T.A.G.B. National Black Belt grading took place on the 19th of October 2012 in Bristol and put students through their paces to demonstrate their technical abilities, as well as their pattern knowledge, application of self-defense, theory of Taekwondo and sparring skills. The students were examined by a panel of Masters and Senior Instructors of the T.A.G.B. in what proved to be an extremely technically and physically demanding grading. All 3 boys represented their school and Instructor in the very best light, and are true role models and inspiration for other students at the club by becoming the first ever Black Belts at the Neil Gimbel Taekwondo school. The years of dedication, hard training and commitment have finally paid off! Well done boys for this great achievment! ...

The T.A.G.B. British Championships 2012 will be on the 25th of November and will take place at the Skydome Arena in Coventry. Address: Skydome Arena Croft Road CV1 3AZ Coventry All entry forms to be in by the 1st of November please. Start time will be 9am. COMPETITORS All competitors may only wear standard white T.A.G.B. doboks or the most recent national doboks (No club doboks). Please contact me for more infos.