Honiton Tae Kwon Do student Oliver Buss achieved his First Degree black belt after being put through his paces at the Headquarters of the Tae Kwon Do Association of Great Britain (TAGB) in Bristol.
Oliver had to show his skill in front of the TAGB board of grading examiners, all of whom are 8th Degree Black Belts with a wealth of knowledge and experience in the martial art.
The grading consists of traditional Tae Kwon Do moves including line work, patterns, set sparring and free sparring. In addition, students answer challenging questions chosen at random on the moves they...
Students from Honiton Tae Kwon Do attended the TAGB South West Championships and the TAGB English Championships, bagging an impressive 12 trophies from the two events.
At the South West Championships, Ben Snaith continued his medal success by winning gold in Boys Blue and Red Belt Heavyweight Sparring and becoming South West Champion. Roxy Spiller won gold in Girls Blue Belt Patterns, adding South West Champion to her list of titles. Roxy also obtained silver in her sparring division, narrowly missing out on becoming a double champion.
Michael Jackson’s former bodyguard, Matt Fiddes, a 7th degree black belt, who runs martial arts schools in Exeter, has received a prestigious martial arts award and has been inducted into the Martial Arts Hall of Fame.
Fiddes, 35, is the youngest person to ever have been awarded a Martial Arts Superstar award currently run by the renowned magazine, Martial Arts Illustrated.
Previous winners of similar awards include legends Bruce Lee, Jean Claude Van Damme and Chuck Norris.
Fiddes took to the stage alongside Expendables actor, Scott Adkins and Elvis Presley’s former...
Master Ken is coming over from the States to give one of his unique "Martial Arts" Seminars Master Ken is the Star of the YouTube series Enter The Dojo, which has had over 5 million views to date. For those who don’t know about this show yet, let me promise you that you are missing one of the most hilarious things going right now on the internet, and Matthew Page has created a fantastic character in Master Ken, an amalgam of many “McDojo” instructors, and the show has an eclectic and funny group of people, and the actors who portray them bring a lot to the show, but show creator...
