On Sunday June 6th quite some instructors and members ITF-Belgium will participate at the first Fuji Mae Online Tour with Master Jerzy Jedut, Master Jaroslaw Suska and Leonardo Oros Duek.
Another ITF online event to look forward too!
Annick Van Driessche
National Instructors Course 2021 Online
Zoom, May 23rd
As the feedback on the online NIC’s of 2020 were good and on the General Assembly of January the instructors asked to repaet the format, and since it’s still difficult to have training sessions ‘in live’, another online National Instructors Course was organised this Sunday morning (open to all instructos and assistant-instructors ITF-Belgium).
On the program this time: Choong-moo. The first 45 minutes some fundamental movements from the pattern were exercised, afterwards the pattern was done on count, with explanation of the details, and in the own pace. The last part of the seminar consisted of a Q&A: on Choong-moo, but also on other patterns and aspects of Taekwon-Do.
The next NIC is planned for June 20th.
ITF Policy on Harassment
Although due to the pandemic the ITF Board is not able to meet in person, since April 2020 the Board Members had a Board Meeting through Zoom every month, always on a Sunday morning 7.00 am CET, for 5-6 hours. A lot has been done and decided during these many hours, and also the ITF Bylaws have been revised, many ITF Policies have been updated or written, etc.
On May 2nd also the new ITF Adult Harassment Policy was voted after several months of work and 16 draft versions. Meanwhile a Children Harassment Policy is on its way.
The policy comes with an awareness campaigh against all kinds of harassment, to show that ITF has zero tolerance against harassment.
ITF-Belgium will implement the policy in its own rules, at this moment the Disciplinary Committee and the API’s are working on this.
The policy is published on the ITF website and on the website ITF-Belgium, in the section ‘Documents’: click here.
ITF Taekwon-Do e-World Championships 2021: announcement of the team
The ITF e-World Championships, an alternative on the WC that were postponed to 2023, will take place between 4 and 19 September 2021 in the disciplines tul, teamtul and pre-arranged free sparring. The national coaches announced the selection on May 12th. ITF-Belgium is proud to announce the names of the team members:
- Andreea Musca: tul IV-VI degree, teamtul, pre-arranged free sparring
- Esther Meulemeester: tul III degree, teamtul
- Amber Dellaert: teamtul
- Laura Mouret: tul II degree, teamtul, pre-arranged free sparring
- Tomàs Chacon Torrealba: tul II degree
- Margaux Pollefeyt: teamtul
- Juan Martinez: tul I degree
- Maximilien Boyens: tul I degree
- Tabitha Van Lierde: tul junior II degree, junior pre-arranged free sparring
- Matteo Preys: tul junior II degree
- Lisa Ghijsens: tul junior I degree, junior pre-arranged free sparring
- Rune Schuddinck: tul junior I degree
Open AETF e-Tournament
April 25th-May 5th
On the Open AETF e-Tournament 898 participants from 21 countries subscribed. Amongst them 49 belgian competitors from 7 different affiliated clubs. Two belgian umpires were selected to judge the performances.
The participants needed to send in all of their performances before May 2nd, 1 up to 6 recordings. May 3rd the referees started their work.
All of the participants showed perseverence and motivation, some of them in strange situations as still indoor training is not possible for certain age groups. So all of the participants should be considered winners, and for sure all of them had a nice experience and learned a lot by doing competition in this way, perfecting their techniques and tuls. Congratulations to all of them, they should be proud!
Some of the competitors didn’t reach the second round, some won several bouts, others have a medal. It doesn’t really matter, and all of the performances were of high level.
Still, out of 49 ITF-Belgium won 13 medals and is finishing high in the medal raking: click here.
Results/medals:
Gold medal:
- Greta Perkauskaite
- Khuslen Chingesdalai
Silver medal:
- Sophie Ardenoy
- Stefan Haagedoorn
- Anastassia Edel
- Joachim Van den Bogaert
- Alyssa Mbala
Bronze medal:
- Iudith Musca
- Olga Illes
- Abel-Wahid Elmizziana
- Abigael-Ruth Mutshipayi Pasualo
- Frances Van den Bogaert
- Sakina Khajou