COMBAT TANG SOO DO
1st Dan
Elise Scheepers
Enrico Meyer
Lourens Botes
Matthys Ellis
Tsavo Raath
Tyron Van der Merwe
2nd Dan
Dewaldt Bothma
Jaco Steenekamp
Johannie Steenekamp
Kiara Raschke
Matthew Uys
Pierre Smith
Ronald Varela
3rd Dan
Bianca Wolmarans
HAEDONG KUMDO
1st Dan
De Villiers Basson
Dewaldt Bothma
Hilmar Backer
Luke Martin
Stefan Scheepers
2nd Dan
Brandon Britz
Christopher Wilken
Cisca Scheepers
Monique Rautenbach
On the 29th of April Nelspruit hosted the 2007 South African Championships for the second time, 2006 being the first. It was the 1st tournament for the year and the 1st training tournament for the National & Presidents development teams in preparation for the World Championships in Holland later the year.
There were 3 Grandmasters present at the tournament, Grandmaster Eddie Jacobsen from South Africa, Grandmaster Mark Adlington from the UK and Grandmaster Jeong Seong Kim from Korea. The students had a excellent weekend with the Grandmasters, the weekend included a Kido energy seminar on the Friday, a Forms application seminar on the Sunday and a Haedong Kumdo seminar and Grading on the same day.
The tournament on the Saturday started at 09:00 with the senior and junior Dan member’s Forms and sparring categories, followed by the rest of the Gup categories.
After that it was the weapon categories.
While the students were getting ready for the Haedong Kumdo part of the tournament, Grandmaster Kim entertained the spectators with a demo of two hand draws and a two handed sword form.
After the demos, the Haedong Kumdo forms and cutting categories got underway.
The students from Wolves Academy did very well on the day and achieved the following;
Tang Soo Do
Sparring – 13 Gold, 11 Silver
Forms – 5 Gold, 6 Silver, 14 Bronze
Weapon Forms – 3 Gold, 3 Bronze
Haedong Kumdo
Forms – 5 Gold, 7 Silver, 6 Bronze
Cutting – 7 Gold, 7 Silver, 5 BronzeIn all Wolves Academy took – 33 Gold, 31 Silver, 40 Bronze
SPECIAL AWARDS
STUDENT OF THE DAY - Dewaldt Bothma
SENIOR MEN STUDENT OF THE DAY – Xander Davis
JUNIOR MEN STUDENT OF THE DAY – Stadler Kok
SPECIAL AWARD FOR
EXCELLENT ACHIEVEMENT – Luke Martin
The day and tournament was a huge success and Wolves Academy would just like to give a big thank you to Penny and Staffies from Altech Netstar, for all their effort and time that they put into the day and for all their hard work. Thank you!
In October 2007 Team South Africa went to Groningan in Holland to attend the World Championships.
Team South Africa brought back 119 medals - 31 gold, 44 silver and 44 bronze, including 18 team event medals:
Wolves Academy brought back a total of 45 medals – 11 gold, 14 silver and 20 bronze
Here are the individual resultsfor the tournament:
TANG SOO DO
HAEDONG KUMDO
Magda Broodryk also took the award for Champion of Champions on the day