Online Day of Taekwon-Do & Kids Day

Due to the restrictions for the Covid-19 pandemic we had to cancell all events, e.g. the Day of taekwon-Do and the Kids Day of May 17th in Jambes.

However, we want to offer our members an alternative….

On the same date, Sunday May 17th, ITF-Belgium will host the first online Zoom Kids Day and Zoom Day of Taekwon-Do. More information, the invitation and all details will be spread amongst the instructors asap.

Mark the date in your agenda and keep on practising Taekwon-Do in lockdown!

Online Zoom classes

During this Covid-19 pandemic a lot of instructors are searching their way through online classes, with Facetime, Skype, Zoom or other means. Also Master Virginia (ITF Brussels) stays busy. She wrote this report:

Saturday 18 April, 2020 – virtual Masterclass

In times of the pandemic that we need to train at home, people are finding different ways to get closer. I was invited to conduct a virtual Masterclass via Zoom by  the school Centro de Entrenamiento  from Misiones (Argentina), lead by Sabum Agustina Correa and Sabum Mauricio Rodriguez (both V° degree). Between the participants there were children and adults from 10° kup till VII° degree, mainly from different locations in Misiones and some participants from Belgium, Hungary, Czech Republic and the USA. It was nice to see on the screen complete families taking part! The class was conducted in Spanish language.

It was a great experience and we could feel the good vibes online of the more than 80 Taekwon-Do practitioners that participated. The class consisted of warming up/conditioning, fundamental movements/kicks in patterns, sparring drills and stretching. After the class participants received a certificate of attendance.

Many thanks to the organizers for the invitation! It was very emotional, challenging and fun!

Yours in Taekwon-Do,

Master Virginia Dionisi – ITF Brussels

Keep up the good work

Dear members ITF-Belgium,

Week 4 of the restrictions and measures in the battle against Covid-19. I hope all of you are still in good health. For many of us the situation is getting hard: no school, no work or having to do telework, no contact with family, friends, relatives, colleagues, no classes, no visits to restaurants, no travels etc.

But we really need to keep up the good work a bit longer! We’re on the right track thanks to all of us, all of our hard work, but we need to keep this pace to win the battle against the virus. Luckily as Taekwon-Do practitioners we have enough perseverance to do this, even if things are getting rough and hard.

Some can get a bit annoyed, having to stay at home, between the walls of our houses. We’d like to ‘break out’….and then we can rely on our selfcontrol.

Let’s just do this, all together, to be able to meet again soon, to be able to reopen the dojangs and do what we like most: Taekwon-Do, to be able to restart classes.

Try to find something positive in this whole situation, try to find something beautiful each day: the solidarity amongst persons, the creativity coming along, the sun who’s shining, the full moon at night, the birds singing the whole day, the smog that seemed to have dissappeared, the flowers in all colours, the air that seems to be much fresher these days, the time we received to take a break etc. I believe all of you, all of us, can find something positive in this whole situation, even if it’s only one thing.

So: keep on doing what you’re doing. Stay in contact with each other, with us, through other channels.

Keep safe and healthy, keep strong, take care of yourself and the others (your family and beloved ones in the first place), stay at home and keep on moving,

Master Annick