A TAGB Tae Kwon-Do Club in Emersons Green, South Gloucestershire
Phone: 07795467262 or 0117 9029347            Email: Enquiries@EmersonsGreenTKD.com

What is Tae Kwon-Do?
The History of TKD
Our Belt System


The TAGB


Our Instructor
Our Assistants
Events Throughout The Year


Where To Find Us
Training Times


General Information

Our Club

About Our Instructor

The Club is ran by Mr. Lee-David Newman, a 3rd Dan Black Belt who has been training at Bristol Academy under Master Michael Dew 7th Dan for many years having first graded in early 1995. Lee-David has also been Teaching at Bristol Academy since 2000.

He has been going to Tae Kwon-Do Summer Camp for many years and is a team leader at Adults and Juniors Camp. He strongly endorses training outside of the Dojang and attends nearly all of the TAGB functions throughout the year.

Lee-David was born in Bristol and grew up in the St George area very near to St Georges Park, where like most of the children in the area, he spent most of his spare time when growing up. As a teenager Lee spent many hours riding [and falling off of] BMX Freestyle Bikes, a sport he still loves today, only now he watches it rather than takes part in it.

As a child he attended Summer Hill Junior School before he went on to Speedwell School, leaving at 16 with several GCSE's to become an apprentice electrician. He studied at Brunell College where he gained 3 City and Guilds Certificates and worked on construction sites all over the South West, including Lloyds Banks at Cannons Marsh and The BBC on Whiteladies Rd. After around 3 years Lee had decided that this was not the career for him as he did not enjoy working on building sites in the middle of winter, (he's not a big fan of being cold!) After that he had a variety of different jobs and now works as an Administrator for one of the countries biggest electrical wholesalers. He has worked for them since 1997.

About Our Assistants

Mr. Newman teaches the Juniors Sessions with the help of Club Assistant Miss Frances Watson and trainee Assistants, Miss Erin Taylor and Mr. Danny Amos.
 

Frances Watson (1st Dan Black Belt)

Email: Frances@EmersonsGreenTKD.com

Frances is at the moment studying for a Bioscience degree in Sports Biology at the University of the West of England. She has been training at Emersons Green TKD since it opened in 2004 and has assisted with teaching since 2006. She was promoted to 1st Dan Black Belt in April '08, and qualified as an Assistant Instructor in May '08. She is fully CRB checked, insured and First Aid Qualified.

Frances has had great success in all her gradings with 8 A-grades and 3 Grading Awards for being the best student from the Club. She has many trophies from sparring and patterns in tournaments which are listed below, and even reached the semi-finals in sparring at the World Championships in 2007.

Achievements:
3rd in Sparring @ Welsh Champs '07
2nd in Sparring @ English Champs '07
1st in Sparring @ South West Champs '07
1st in Sparring @ British Champs '06
3rd in Sparring @ Welsh Champs '06
2nd in Patterns @ Welsh Champs '06
2nd in Sparring @ English Champs '06
3rd in Sparring @ South West Champs '06
1st in Patterns @ South West Champs '06
2nd in Sparring @ British Champs '05
3rd in Sparring @ Welsh Champs '05
2nd in Sparring @ South West Champs '05

Erin Taylor (1st Kup - Red Belt Black Tag)

Although young and unsure of her future, Erin has a natural ability with children and loves teaching, so aspires to become an infant school teacher. Erin started training at Emersons Green late in 2004, and began teaching in 2008. She is aiming to grade for her Black Belt this October.

Achievements:
3rd in Sparring @ Welsh Champs '07

Danny Amos (6th Kup - Green Belt)

Info coming soon.

Events Throughout The Year

Tournaments
There are now 5 local tournaments every year (the South West Championships, the English Championships, the Welsh Championships, the Southern Championships and the British Championships). Many of our students have entered these for both patterns and sparring, and a number of them have done very well. These events are great fun to watch or take part in. 

Click to see photos from: Welsh Championships '07, English Championships '07, South West Championships '07, British Championships '06, Welsh Championships '06, English Championships '06, South West Championships '06, British Championships '05, Welsh Championships '05, English Championships '05

World Championships
These are held once every 2 years. It's a very exciting weekend, and definitely worth going to. Our Instructor Mr. Newman has officiated in it twice running now, and one of our students, Frances Watson, has even taken part in it.

Click to see photos from: World Championships '07

Anniversary Tournaments
The next Anniversary Tournament will be held in May 2009 to celebrate the Club's 5th year of being open. It hasn't yet been organised, but will contain several categories for sparring and patterns, with trophies for the winners.

Click to see photos from: 2nd Anniversary Tournament '06, 1st Anniversary Tournament '05

Summer Camp
In August there are 2 South West Tae Kwon-Do Summer Camps held by Master Dew, one for the juniors which is held in Chelwood near Bristol for a long weekend, and one for the adults which is held in Veryan in Cornwall for a week. They are both hard work and lots of fun.

Click to see photos from: Adults Summer Camp '08, Adults Summer Camp '07, Adults Summer Camp '06, Adults Summer Camp '05

Kick 4 Clic
We hosted a Kick-a-Thon in 2008 to raise money for Clic Sargent; it was a great success so we decided to make it an annual event. Hopefully next year we can get more people involved and raise even more money for charity.

Christmas Celebrations
It's tradition for us to go out for a meal together to celebrate the festive season. We also have a "Fancy Dress" lesson, a normal Tae Kwon-Do lesson where everyone comes along in fancy dress, we do a bit of Tae Kwon-Do, play games and have a laugh.

Click to see photos from: Christmas Session '07, Christmas Session '06, Christmas Session '05
 

Please See Our Photo Gallery For More Photos of Past Events

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