Miscellaneous

ITF Policy on Harassment

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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.

Best wishes

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ITF-Belgium wishes everyone a splendid Christmas period and a fantastic New Year: full of hope, full of courage, full of dreams, full of Taekwon-Do and above all with a good health!

Scientific research by Tomas Chacon

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Tomàs Chacon, II° degree, member of Samjok-O and the national team, did scientific research concerning the effects of HIIT on hypoxia. Some members of the belgian national team were some of his study objects.

Some words written by Tomàs:

I am pleased to present to you the recent scientific research entitled: “Effects of High-Intensity Interval Training in Hypoxia on Taekwondo Performance”, which is published in the prestigious “Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance” (https://journals.humankinetics.com).

Together with members of the “Université catholique de Louvain” (Louvain-La-Neuve – Belgium), we have conducted research on the valuable effects of High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) in hypoxia and/or normoxia to improve the performance in Taekwon-Do practitioners.

This study was carried out with the participation (between others) of Taekwon-Do practitioners from ITF-Belgium, from the different regions (Flanders, Brussels and Wallonie).

I am very grateful to the Belgian Federation and to all the people who participated in this study for their collaboration and contribution to the science, which through it, we can base our work as athletes, instructors or professionals on.

You can find the publication in the following link, or you can contact me directly by e-mail:

Research: https://journals.humankinetics.com/view/journals/ijspp/15/8/article-p1125.xml?rskey=uUNhxo&result=5

E-mail: tomas.chacont@gmail.com

Tomás Chacón Torrealba

Physiotherapist M., MSc. – Master of Health and Sports Sciences, mention in Sports Physiotherapy  – Master in Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation