Month: November 2023

ITF-Belgium present at biggest IIC ever in Europe

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The weekend of November 18th-19th 2023 took place the biggest IIC with the ITF Technical Comittee ever in Europe, with over 500 participants from 33 countries. The place to be: Vienna, Austria.

Among the participants also some instructors and members ITF-Belgium. GrandMaster Frank Vanberghen was one of the many GrandMasters present, Masters Virginia Dionisi and Annick Van Driessche 2 of the many female participants. Master Virginia was special guest of the committee, Master Annick was there as vice-president of ITF.

Coaches Andreea Musca and Wim Vermeir, and instructors and members Serkan Hasan, Sophie Ardenoy and Juan Martinez also signed in.

During the 2 days all patterns were performed, with some moments for revision, and also stepsparring, hosinsul, free sparring were part of the classes.

Many thanks to ITF Austria for the organisation of this huge event.

Establishment of a new committee

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Dear all,

Some weeks ago we informed you on the willingness to establish a new commitee, the Coach Committee under guidance of Nicholas Taylor, as Coach Developer.

The deadline for the application of candidates is over, and we are proud to inform you that with Nicholas two members are joining the committee and it’s due to be established, both of them VI° degree, both of them with a lot of experience as coach, as instructor and as competitor: Patrick Crevecoeur and Hans Rombaut.

We wish all three of them a lot of success and are looking forward to their input.

We will hear about their plans at the General Assembly of January 21st 2024.

With kind regards,

For the board,

Master Annick

Tafisa World Congress

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Just as in 2022 Master Annick Van Driessche is representing the International Taekwon-Do Federation during the yearly Tafisa World Congress, this time being organised in Germany, Düsseldorf November 1st-5th.

Tafisa is the organisation uniting international and national sports organisations, ngo’s, universities etc. under the motto ‘Sports for All’; ITF is one of the international member organisations.

November 1st one of the most important (for ITF) events took place, the 2nd Meeting with International Federations. It’s an ideal moment for networking, to get in contact with other sports organisations, but it’s also a forum to hear how other organisations deal with issues, to address certain common problems, to hear what new things are available etc.

During the next days there will be more possibilities to get in contact with other organisations, there will be more events like e.g. workshops and plenary sessions, and on November 3rd the Tafisa General Assembly will take place, where ITF is one of the members with voting rights.