La Nucia, November 26th 2021

On November 26th 2021, during the European Championships in Spain, the yearly AETF Congress Meeting was being held with 36 affiliated European countries & representatives present. On the agenda this year were also the 4-yearly elections for the AETF Board and the Revisory Committee.

GrandMaster Frank Vanberghen was re-elected in the Revisory Committee, as chairman. He is already holding this position for 18 years, and is up for another term of 4 years now.

Master Virginia Dionisi was candidate to become AETF vice-president. Many congratulations! She won this election with 21 votes against 15 for the other candidate. It’s a big honour to have her in the board, and her election is quite special: as small country, Belgium has 1 GrandMaster, 3 Masters of whom 2 are female, both of them involved in ITF & AETF matters! ITF-Belgium should be proud of this.

The newly elected president of AETF is Master Leonardo Oros Duek. New board members: Master Alexandru Muresan, Master Jorge Züger, Master Lazaros Tsilfidis, Peter Szasz, Master Jurek (Jerzy) Jedut and Master Tomaz Barada.

Saturday February 20th, 16.00h

At the General Assembly of January 24th some instructors ITF-Belgium pointed out to be interested in having a meeting with Rudi Van Hecke, responsible for the ITF-Belgium PR & Communications.

The meeting was scheduled for this Saturday; it was very constructive and a lot of new ideas came up.

Sunday January 24th 2021

Every year the General Assembly takes place in January, also in 2021. For the first time in 31 years however, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, it was organized through digital platforms (Zoom).

Ths Sunday morning 32 participants logged in to the meeting. Besides the yearly legal matters on the agenda e.g. a forecast of 2021 and an evaluation of 2020.

Although we’re facing restrictions, the board, the committees and the instructors are working hard for the members ITF-Belgium. There’re a lot of plans, the situation will decide if they will be executed ‘in live’ or through digital means. For the last couple of months we all showed and proved to be flexible, ready to switch from one channel to another on short terms, using all of the tenets of Taekwon-Do.

The Tournament & Umpire Committee has meetings on regular basis. Now gathering and having face-to-face meetings is not possible, the members of the committee are having these meetings through Zoom. Also in times of Covid-19 and during lockdown, the TUC is working hard for the members of ITF-Belgium.