Senior Degree Grading Newcastle

Grand Master Michael held a senior degree grading in Newcastle NSW

Participants were put though Grand Master’s Daher senior grading syllabus.

GM focus is to have a set standard of Patterns through our region. Saying you have performed a pattern in front of a grand master is special. Saying that you have performed every pattern you know for a grand Master to be promoted to the next rank is next level.

The participants Trevor McIntyre NSW promoted to 6th Degree, Shannon Purser QLD promoted to 5th Degree & Carlo Giampietro certainly earnt their this promotion through the 4 hour testing.

All candidates were successfully promoted

2021 B&C Class Umpire Course

The National association held the first live umpire course since Covid 19 shut down events in Australia.

B-class umpire certified course

21yrs old

2nd degree +

To participate in a national association umpire course and succeed in obtaining the official “B” class Umpire Certificate

To apply for and receive the official ITF “B” Class Umpire certificate

c-Class umpire certified course

2nd Gup+

To participate in a national association umpire course and succeed in obtaining the official “C” class Umpire Certificate

Senior Dan Grading ITF Fitness Centre Nov 2019

Grand Master Michael Daher conducted a senior Degree testing at the ITF Fitness Centre Sydney.

7 National Association Clubs & their Candidates  participated

The promotion was held on behalf of the International Taekwon-Do Federation, promotions for eligible candidates from 1st Degree and 6th Degree were in attendance from seven National Association Clubs.

Grand Master Daher started the testing with a 3hrs Instructors seminar, running candidates through all of the ITF Patterns from beginner Tuls to advance Dan Tuls.

The promotion testing started with all Tuls being performed, GM Daher promotion criteria is first and foremost a full knowledge of all ITF Tuls.

GM Daher also pushes the candidates to the end of their physical boundaries with sparring criteria and 4 rounds of high intensity interval testing.

CONGRATULATIONS to the successful candidates

Promotion to VI Degree
Marc Fitzsimons – Parallax Taekwon-Do
Promotion to IV Degree
Sam Murray ITF Newcastle
Scott Gallagher ITF Newcastle
Niklas Larsson ITF Newcastle
All of these candidates have been instructed by Sabum Trevor McIntyre from white belt.
A fantastic achievement for ITF Newcastle and Mr McIntyre
Promotion to II Degree
Dennis Benedet IL Shim Gold Coast  
Denean Dubois IL Shim Gold Coast

GM Daher & Sabum Trevor McIntyre in China

Our National association leading Australia and Asia in 2019

International United Taekwon-Do Association (AA) supported by Grand Master Michael Daher ITF Vice President set their sights on hosting a B Class umpire course in conjunction with the 144 IIC in China. The newly approved Association planned to give its members the full opportunity of learning all aspects of our ITF systems. Technical IIC training with Grand Masters & Technical Umpiring to assist in providing an increased performance of umpires in the Asian region.

The Members of this association supported this event with enthusiasm and numbers, 67 umpires received umpire training certification. Many will applicable for B Class certification through our online system.

ITF Australia Senior Vice President and umpiring director Trevor McIntyre, agreed to run this course for this association, many senior instructors were in attendance and increased their knowledge of our umpiring procedures to a world class level.

The course was translated into Chinese language with the help of MR Liu Xin from the Association Mr Yu Xue Min is the umpiring director for this association, we thank him for his efforts and expertise.

The course was also translated through 2 helpful verbal translators Mrs Amanda Zhao Pei Yun from China and Mr C K Sun from Malaysia.

Throughout the course, the participants showed a keen interest in improving their professionalism, a skill required to umpire on a world-class level, included in this B Class training was specific training drills to practice all that is required to be a top-class umpire.

  • Opening and Closing the ring
  • Hand signals
  • Centre refereeing drills
    • giving warnings and fouls
    • ring control – including Coach control
    • working with jury table
  • Corner umpiring
    • How to score a correct point
    • Planning and mind preparation – predicting what may happen next
    • Point values and target areas
  • Patterns umpiring
    • Scoring system
      • 0.2 deductions
      • 0.5 deduction
      • 0 points

The participants learn many aspects of our umpiring system and have committed to the future improvement of umpires in China.

Future planning should include umpire training B class for all developing countries with the plan that these umpires will one day seek further umpire training level A Class and an IUC when available.

Aussie Open 2019 & ITF Taekwon-Do Australia National Championships

Hosted by GM Michael Daher

8th & 9th June 2019
Valentine centre Sydney
Competition registration
https://www.kihapp.com/tournaments/5117-aussie-open-itf-taekwon-do-australia-national

Accommodation registration

http://itftaekwon-doaustralia.com/aussie-open-itf-tkd-australia-national-championships/

This event is open to all countries, New Zealand, Hong Kong, China, Japan, Malaysia will you be here?
This is a great opportunity to develop the Australasian region.

Come & compete with our World Cup Champions.

Queensland State Championships

Dear Masters, Sabums & Instructors,
ITF Australia would like to invite you to one of our prestige tournaments ITF Australia’s “QLD State Champions” being held on the beautiful Sunshine Coast.
$60 covers all events
28th -29th September 2019.
Senior 13+ Saturday
Juniors 12- Sunday
Patterns, Sparring, Special Techniques, Power breaking & Junior Power Machine.


Enquiries please phone Shannon/Tania-0403212677
ITF Australia
Queensland State Championships
28th-29th September 2019
Mountain Creek State High School
Lady Musgrave drive,
Mountain Creek (Sunshine Coast)

9th Degree Black Belt – Grand Master Michael Daher

Congratulations to newly promoted Grand Master Michael Daher
Oceanic region’s First Grand Master with ITF Spain group AU-9-1.

Grand Master Daher has a reputation of being committed to Taekwon-do in the Oceanic region.
ITF Australia would like to congratulate GM Michael Daher on his promotion to 9th Degree and celebrate the future growth of ITF in Australia, with him as leader of our National Association and the Oceanic region we see a bright future.

Taekwon

International Women’s Day

ITF Taekwon-do Australia would like acknowledge the role of women in all circles of life and in particular their positive roles in Taekwon-do Dojangs across the world.

ITF Taekwon-do Australia would like to high light one of our leading women within our organisation Executive Board Member (Treasurer) Mrs Michelle Harper and thank her on her contribution and numerous works she undertakes which usually goes on behind the scenes to ensure the smooth operation of this progressive dynamic NA.

We thank all the women involved in our organisation and dojangs across the country who contribute to our success on and off the mat we truly appreciate all that you do.

We wish all women across the ITF World happy International Women’s Day.

ITF Taekwon-do Australia

 

 

NA Executive Board Elected

ITF Taekwon-do Australia held its due elections during the general meeting conducted on the weekend which coincided with NA Fulltime training centre official opening and the High Performance Training weekend with Mr Mark Trotter.

Special mention of thank you for our VIP guests who shared in our celebrations of this momentous occasion for ITF Taekwon-do Australia.

Master Paul McPhail ( NZ ), Mr Peter Spokes ( AUS ), Mr Hassan Iskander ( Australia Taekwondo Director) & Nelson Taione ( World Champion Kick Boxer )

We would like to acknowledge and thank immensely Mr Steve Sarkis for his selfless support and assistance in realising a dream come true once again in Australia for the establishment of this amazing state of the art ITF Fitness Centre which without his generous contribution of time, guidance and money this would not have happened. Thank you once again Mr Steve Sarkis.

TERM 2018-2020 NA EXECUTIVE BOARD

President                                   Master Michael Daher

Senior Vice President                Trevor McIntyre

Vice President                           Alfio Viscuso

Treasurer                                  Michelle Harper

Secretary General                     Paul Harper

 

Congratulations to the newly elected NA Executive Board we wish them full success.

 

 

 

 

National Team in Ireland

 

National Team In Ireland

The national team represented by competitors, coaches & officials for NSW, QLD, Vic & WA headed to Ireland for the World Championships. The excitement for many first time competitors was growing as we set off for Ireland from across the country.

 

Competition was going to be tough with the world’s best gathering for this event. Patterns events started the competition on the first day, with the level of competition the highest of any ITF group with most divisions having 35 plus competitors and last Worlds winner and vis in attendance competition was tough. All Aussies giving there best with most going out in the first round.

1st Degree Patterns

Teresa Le going down to Germany in the second round.

Richelle Shamrock, Jacob Khadi and Charle Dagher going down in the first round.

2nd Degree Patterns

Jemima Hodge going down to Russia in the second round.

3rd Degree patterns

Samuel Murray going down to Finland in the 3rd round.

Michael Byrnes going down to Netherlands in second round.

 

Sparring

First round loses to Oxana Gorskina v’s Poland , Paul Wehbe v’s Russia, Brooke Ryan v’s Argentina, Matthew Travieso v’s Russia, James Sarkis v’s Ireland, Corey Massoud v’s USA, Leon Sejranovic v’s Belorussia & Jacob Khadi v’s Romania 

Charlie Dagher at his first World championships winning against Romania & Canada but going down to Spain in the third round missing out on a medal with Spain finishing runner up.

Jemima Hodge winning against Chile going down in the second round to USA

Samuel Murray winning against Honduras going down to Ukraine in the second round to eventual runner up and post junior world champion Ivan Gryshchuk.

Trent Hayden was in with a medal opportunity with wins against Finland & Argentina when in the final 30second of his winning match against Italy was injured an could not take the mat against New Zealand in the fourth round, New Zealand moved through and finished runner up.

First timer Kiara Naik competed well winning against Paraguay, Ireland but going down to Poland in the third round missing out on a medal.

Power Breaking

Adele Barnes-Cook missing breaks and not placing

Richelle Shamrock breaking all first breaks 12 points missing etra round to finish 9th from field of 49

Lani Massoud breaking both hand techniques missing sidekick to finish 19

 

Special Techniques

Richelle Shamrock making 1 from 3 techniques finishing 15th

Corer Massoud missing all his heights

Leon Sejranovic making 2 from 5 techniques finishing 13th

Trent Hayden making 2 from 5 techniques finishing 9th 

 

Pre-arranged sparring Teams

Jemima Hodge and Samuel Murray going down in the first round the World Champions from New Zealand

Jacob Khadi and Charlie Dagher going down to Romania in the first round

 

Team Sparring 

Junior Male team sparring going down to Scotland in the first round.

 

Umpires

First time international umpires Trevor McIntyre and Gerard Kelly representing Australia well showing that Australia has quality umpires.

Mr Trevor McIntyre had the privilege of corner judging the final of team sparring Germany and Ireland on ring one at the gala night and closing ceremony.

Ring council and Mr Trevor McIntyre with Master Scott Downey

Master Michael Daher and Steve Sarkis attended as VIP guests