Summer Uniform: During the warm weather we allow students to wear club T-shirts (available at idsports shop in town) with their dobok pants and belt. If you do not have a club T-shirt, please only wear either a plain white or plain black T-shirt (no designs) in order to keep the ambience of discipline in the class. Wearing a full dobok without a T-shirt/vest is just as cool. Thank you for your co-operation.

Grading Dates: The end of year gradings will now take place week commencing 17^th June 2024 rather than the first week of June. If you are on holidays at this time, please let us know as we will have an alternative date for those students who are prepared and eligible to grade. Please note, not every student will be eligible to grade at this time. Those who are not grading will receive an end of year silver tag at their last class and the end of year awards will be given out at this time.

Last Classes of the term: Classes will run up until Saturday 15^th June (except Ninjas).

Black belt Grading: We would like to wish all the black belt candidates the very best of luck at the up and coming preliminary black belt grading on Saturday 18th May. They are Emma Hurley, Richard Lyons, Sean Dennehy, Thomas Wakulinski, Karen Guerin and Irina Todorovic. If they are successful they will go on to grade at the black belt grading on Sunday 9th June in Ennis. Good luck to you all!

Ninja Graduation: The Ninjas will Graduate on Saturday 8^th June, their final class will be on Saturday 1^st June.

ITA Summer Camp: This will run over the Summer holidays form Friday 12th 1pm, to Monday 15th 2pm, at Midleton College, Cork. It is an action packed long weekend of Taekwondo training with many of the National Team coaches. It is open to Teen+ yellow belts and above. We can confirm that the organizers will accept 12 year olds from our club at this event. You may board for the three nights (€200 which includes accommodation and meals)  or you may choose to attend daily (€30 per day for the training only, no meals). You can attend just one or all 3 days if you wish. If you are interested, please let Mrs Murphy know a.s.a.p. (message 0873290003) because spaces fill up quickly. Forms are available in the gym or you can find an application form attached below as well as extra information.

August Training: We will return with summer training timetable mid August. We recommend that higher grades and anyone who has ambitions to enter The Irish Cup in UL in November 2024 starts their training in August. We hope to take a big group of you to this event!

National Technical Seminar Sunday 29th September 2024:  We are delighted that this year we are allowed to host a National Technical seminar in Mitchelstown. It will be a great opportunity for all green belts and above to meet and train with some of the top coaches and students from all around the country, right on our doorstep at the MLC. and bring huge prestige to the club.  We urge all our students green belt and above to attend this event as part of your preparation for black belt.

ITA National Tournament: Irish Cup UL Arena, 2nd/3rd November 2024: This prestigious tournament is open to yellow belt and above. We recommend that you do not enter a National tournament without having attended a Development tournament & done the extra training sessions we put on prior to the event. You may enter for just patterns or just sparring or both.

Our full timetable of classes will resume on Tuesday 3^rd September 2024.

SUMMARY OF DATES:

Thursday 21^st March: Last classes of the term

Saturday 18^th May: Black belt Preliminary Grading Mallow

Saturday 1^st June: Last Ninja Class

Saturday 8^th June: Ninja Graduation

Sunday 9^th June: Black Belt grading Ennis

Saturday 15^th June: Last classes of the term

w/c 17^th June: Grading week

Friday – Monday July: ITA Summer Camp

w/c 12^th August: Summer training classes

Sunday 29^th September: National Technical Seminar MLC

Sunday 27^th Oct – Sunday 3^rd Nov: ITF World Cup

Saturday/Sunday 2^nd/3^rd Nov: Irish Cup UL Arena

ITA NEWS & EVENTS CALENDER: Each and every event countrywide (tournaments/seminars etc)  can be found in the events section of the ITA website www.taekwondo.ie.

T-SHIRTS: 

ID Sports in town look after the club gear side of things.  You can purchase gear online or pop into the IDSports Shop in town to check your size and order. They are good quality and hopefully will last a long time. They cost from €20 – €24  depending on size.

Here is the link to order online:

https://idsportshop.com/collections/mitchlestown-taekwon-do-club