The way to Sarajevo

The European Championships 2019 are coming closer, and some of the athletes are searching for some means to collect money to pay for the travel and the hotel. For the WC in April most clubs gathered funds for their own competitors, but now some of them thought it would be a good idea to combine all of their efforts. Some initiatives are on their way, but already Leen managed to make a page through Trooper.

Trooper? Trooper is an online forum that combines a lot of online shops, like e.g. CoolBlue, Zooplus, Dreamland, Booking.com and many more. If you buy online and do this through the Trooper page instead of going directly to the online shop, you can decide to give a small piece of the profit to an organisation. The customer chooses of course his/her own charity.

As from now, the national team has a page: http://www.trooper.be/itftaekwondo   

Are you planning to do some online shopping and would you like a small piece of the profit to go to the national team members, to support them on their way to Sarajevo? Then from now on you can shop through Trooper, thanks to Leen.

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European Championships 2019

Sunday June 23rd the trials for the 2019 EC in Sarajevo were done, followed by a meeting with the coaches. The members of the belgian team received the announcement a day later.

Are selected for the European Championships in Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina, October 2019:

  • Musca Andreea: tul IV°-VI°degree, sparring -50kg, pre-arranged free sparring, team power breaking
  • Erik Van Hoeck: sparring -78kg, team sparring
  • Esther Meulemeester: sparring -75kg, power breaking, team power breaking
  • Roeland Heirbaut: tul II°degree, sparring -70kg, special techniques, team sparring
  • Terence Bewa: sparring -78kg, team sparring
  • Leen Walraeve: tul I°degree, pre-arranged free sparring, team power breaking
  • Laura Mouret: tul I°degree, sparring -68kg, team power breaking
  • Hans Van Lierde: power breaking
  • Nicolas Taylor: sparring -85kg, team sparring
  • Corentin Besonhé: sparring -85kg, team sparring
  • Tabitha Van Lierde: junior tul I°degree, junior power breaking
  • Lisa Ghijsens: junior tul I°degree
  • Arthur Delhaye: junior tul I°degree, junior sparring -68kg

Officials: GrandMaster Frank Vanberghen, Master Annick Van Driessche

The AETF Umpire Committee selected 50 umpires for the championship. Amongst them are also 2 belgian referees: Eddy Van Damme and Benito Martinez.

Many thanks to our sponsors, FROS and Mighty Fist.

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Trial training for EC 2019

On Sunday June 23rd, in Lokeren, the trials for the 2019 European Championships will be held. The trails will start at 13.00.

Are you a black belt, and would you like to be part of the national team for the European Championships in Sarajevo, October 2019? This is your chance to get selected.

Show your abilities to the coaches. Umpires appointed by the U&T Committee ITF-Belgium will be present to judge you, and will create the same environment as on a championship.

Take a look at the selection criteria to see if all of the conditions are fulfilled.

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Start of a new school

We’re happy to announce the start of a new affiliated school ITF-Belgium.

In October a dojang will open in Oostrozebeke, under guidance of Claude Duyck (I°degree): Duke’s Warriors ITF Taekwon-Do Club.

Classes will take place on Monday and Wednesday. The dojang will be located at Sportcentrum De Mandelmeersen.

For all information: contact.

Belgian Masters teaching abroad

The belgian female Masters were invited to give seminars abroad.

Master Annick Van Driessche will conduct 3 sessions in different disciplines of Taekwon-Do in Balbriggan & Skerries (Dublin, Ireland) Saturday June 15th: a class for children up to 12, a session for all green belts and above 13 years and above and a class for girls and women only. It’s the third year in a row Master Annick was invited to conduct a seminar by Master Terry Donnelly and the club Elite Taekwon-Do.

The weekend of June 29th-30th Master Virginia Dionisi will conduct a seminar in Switserland. She was invited by Anthony Meynet. Also for Master Dionisi it’s the third time she’s invited by Anthony to conduct classes, although the previous times the seminars were held in France (Thonon-les-Bains), near the border with Switserland.