Action plan policy ITF-Belgium

The board started to work on the implementation of the policy. We started to put an action plan on paper and will keep you updated once we could finalize more of it. The board will have a face to face meeting soon to discuss this further, and other items. Also on this of course you will be informed.

If you have any ideas, tips, suggestions … please feel free to inform us.

As for the committee chair persons and members: if not done yet, take a look at the policy with the description of the tasks of the different committees, but also the objectives as for many of the objectives in the policy we will need the cooperation of the committees: to implement them, to monitor them, to evaluate them.

With kind regards,

For the Board ITF-Vl

Master Annick

 

Open German Championships

Saturday March 23rd 2024

The representation of ITF-Belgium consisted of 2 competitors, Hans Rombaut (BBMA) and Alice Vrinat (ITF Brussels) and one umpire, Sophie Ardenoy (Ge-Baek).

Results:

  • Hans Rombaut: gold tul male IV°-VI° degree
  • Alice Vrinat: silver tul female III° degree

34th Belgian Championships

The 2024 Belgian Championships were organized by Taekwon-Do Club Gent and the ITF-Belgium TUIC in venue Tolhuis in Ghent. Almost 300 individual competitors and 18 teams were subscribed,  accompanied by a huge amount of referees and coaches. The competition was open to all members ITF-Belgium as from 3 years on, white, coloured as well as black belts, with categories for kids, youth, pre-junior, junior and senior in tul, teamtul, special techniques, power breaking, pre-arranged free sparring, sparring and team sparring.

Thanks to the instructors, members and volunteers of the organizing club and the TUIC it was one of the best Belgian Championships ever. Above this everyone involved made sure the level of the competition was very high, and the atmosphere and spirit, the enthusiasm were great.

All results can be found on Sportsdata: click here.

 

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European Project: Taekwon-Do for the Rights

Report by Master Virginia Dionisi:

ITF Brussels is one of the partners of the Project “Taekwon-Do For The Rights” (№ 101133552) which is co-funded by the Erasmus + Program of the European Union and coordinated by the Central Police Taekwon-Do Club of Bulgaria. It aims to encourage young people actively practicing sports to be socially engaged by interacting with law enforcement authorities and thus engage more effectively in public life. Master Virginia Dionisi, acts as project manager in Brussels, while Andreea Musca represents the police force and Omar El Ferkhani acts as volunteer.

This Project is carried out in partnership between 10 countries: Bulgaria, Slovenia, Greece, Romania, Belgium, Hungary, Slovakia, Latvia, Serbia, Poland. Characteristic of the project is the key role assigned to the police and fire protection. Many volunteers will help in the realization of “Taekwon-Do For The Rights”, but also parents acting as volunteers.
Parents will get a vital role, as they will need to evaluate their children on different activity indicators, outside of sports training, when coaches have no supervision over the children.

Some activities will be carried out locally in Belgium like trainings, inspirational talks, visits to the police station in Vilvoorde and European Parliament in Brussels, etc.
Bulgaria will host the larger events from the 17th till 20th October, like a visit of the Academy of the Interior and the G. Stadium. S. Rakovsky. There will be presentations by each participating team, with each module corresponding to a letter from the acronym RIGHTS:

-R /Role Model/ – A role model: a role model from the National Police or NPP/Fire Protection/ who has made a special contribution to the democratic life in his community and who will talk about his sports regime and also how this regime helps to have a healthy lifestyle and stress management.
-Inspiring Stories: video or podcast with the inspiring story of journalists’ participation in democratic elections and how they were reported – the challenges journalists face and how they engage with the community and the PPO.
-G /Growing up/ – Growing up: the profile of a famous athlete and the motivation to change careers by becoming a part of the police, fire or youth service.
-H /Heroine/ – Heroine: A woman with achievements in Taekwon-Do and her professional career will be invited to share the values of the sport and how they have helped her career and whether there is any discrimination related to gender, ethnicity, religious affiliation, etc.
-T /Taekwon-Do: European, world and national champions will present their sporting path explaining her/his challenges, achievements, highlights.
-S /Sustainability: A social or environmental cause associated with local youth communities will be represented by young Taekwon-Do players. The relevant associate partner is engaged to the cause in the future.

The thematic presentations are in line with Taekwon-Do’s role to cultivate various qualities such as tolerance, discipline, combativeness, responsibility, etc.

The final huge and fantastic activity will be on October 17th and 18th at the Arena Asics, where 300 Taekwon-Do young players coming from ten European countries will compete in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. The Project will cover the travel expenses and the inscription fees of all young athletes, and in addition they will receive a dobok and sparring protections.

ITF Brussels, in collaboration with ITF Belgium, will open some places for young Belgian athletes coming from different clubs to be part of the competitor’s team.
If Belgian instructors are interested to include some students in the selection process, please contact Master Virginia Dionisi, Sabum Andreea Musca or Bo Sabum Omar El Ferkhani as soon as possible. Please note that places are limited, as only 15 young athletes will be selected.

We also need your help to support the Project. How? Following the official pages on social media (we need 2.000 followers!): https://www.facebook.com/taekwondofortherights; sharing it within your students and friends and putting likes in all publications about it!

Yours in Taekwon-Do,

Master Virginia Dionisi