It was a huge week for Taekwondo Central as 120 members passed their belts, but even more nerve racking it was for Taekwondo Centrals Little Dragonflies when 15 little 3 & 4 year old children attempted their belt grading at The South West Sports Centre and Leschenault Leisure Centre, with all passing as a result of a term of kids martial arts training and learning about discipline. self-defence and life skills

Caleb Dewar (4) had a very special day and he was just bursting with excitement. For many including Caleb not only passed his belt but also earned his “Discipline” Skills For Life Badge made it a great day. Caleb had to choose a task at home to help his parents out. Caleb fed his puppy dog and took on the responsibility of continually doing this every day for the whole term.

“Caleb is a pleasure to teach” said Taekwondo Central Head Instructor, Master Justin Warren. “He is enthusiastic, tries his best and always has a story to tell me about his day, Hes a great captain” Caleb is now at the end of the Little Dragonflies Program & will look at promotion to the Little Dragons Classes to learn anti-abduction & anti-bully skills.

The Little Dragonflies Belt System was developed by Master Justin Warren to cater for the many younger children who turned up to our Little Dragons Program. We really needed to develop a system for them based on what they need, so Little Dragonflies was born

It is a great way to teach children about effort & reward, By turning up and training on a weekly basis, your child will learn about setting & achieving goals, The fact that children get excited when we ask them what belt are they going for shows that they realise that they are striving to attain a level that will earn them theyre belt and teach them to set and attain goals. The next skills for life Little Dragonflies & Little Dragons will be taught is “Manners”

Setting and achieving goal is the basis of life success in all areas of life.

Passing Their
Red Dragonfly Belts and promoting up to the Little Dragons (5-8yrs) were. Caleb Dewar, Kara McArthur, Remy Bartlett-Crane, Harry Nortier, Aedden Jones, Tyson Jones.
Blue Dragonfly = Lochlan Baker, Riley Johnson,
Yellow Dragonfly = Heidi Liebert, Liam Irving, Kai Shapkaris, Henry Kettlewell, Seth Murphy, Arton Estrella, James Longhurst

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Taekwondo Central Junior Assistant Instructor, Amelia Dale is focused
on completing her next Blackbelt level when she will grade for her
2nd Dan Blackbelt in a matter of weeks

The Dalyellup Teen spends her own time helping teach the next generation
of students ranging from 3-15 yrs at Taekwondo Centrals Bunbuty club at
The South West Sports Centre.

Teaming Up with John Crawford, The two will have to demonstrate
Kicking Techniques, Poomsae (Patterns), 1 Punch Defence, 2 Punch defence,
Self Defence, Olympic Style Sparring, Kickboxing Style Sparring and then
finish with pine board smashing techniques to show power. All Blackbelt Testing
is completed under the Taekwondo Ohdokwan regulations

The Grading Panel will include Grandmaster Ross Hartnett (8th Dan Blackbelt)
Master Carmela Hartnett (7th Dan Blackbelt) and Taekwondo Centrals Head Instructor
Master Justin Warren (5th Dan Blackbelt)

“Amelia has great skills, she trains hard and is very good technically”
said Instructor Justin Warren. “She certainly deserves this belt”

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Its time to belt test, and for a full term members have been training hard to get the invitation to grade
some 100 Little Dragons & Super Dragons are now finalising their training

Starting in 2001, The Little Dragons Program is a martial arts program especially for kids
with a focus on self protection, confidence, Anti-Bully & Anti-Abduction Skills, instead
of Outdated Tradition or Modified Sport. The classes get to the point of protection while teaching life skills
to help them make their litttle way through life.

Eaton Super Dragons have some of our most talented, with some great future martial artists emerging from
the club, the next generation of champions have been training hard. After completing the upcoming grading
some 8 Super Dragons who finish the program will now move up to the Taekwondo Central Australind Class
to start developing more ingrained and usable skills while they work towards their own blackbelt

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Mex Brown (5) is one of our latest little champions to step up and pass his first belt in the Little Dragons Program after already successfully passing all 3 levels of the Little Dragonflies program for 3 & 4 years of age.
To pass his Yellow Dragon, Mex had to demonstrate a variety of skills that included striking, blocking, kicking and self defence designed to help children escape an abduction attempt and Mex passed all levels easily.

“He always has a giant smile on his face when training, he’s always enthusiastic and full of energy” said Instructor Master Justin Warren.

The Dragons & Dragonfly programs are designed around anti-abduction & anti-bully skills rather than training a taekwondo program.
The classes are designed around skills that work for their age not techniques designed for sport or an out dated system designed for older kids/adults who have greater strength.
It really is a better way to teach children martial arts that work for them, classes are also “one their level of teaching through positive encouragement”.

Now Mex will move up the ranks of the Little Dragons with the eventual goal of moving to the Super Dragons (Advanced Program) and Mex should have no trouble progressing up these levels this year.
Mex also has the added bonus of having his older sister Indi Brown (9) and his mum, Maaike also progressing up the Taekwondo ranks. Both Maaike and Indi are both training for their next belt
in which they will both be judged for their blackbelt grade, a level that takes about 4 years of training to achieve.

Its a great achievement that’s well deserved

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The South West Rotary Young Achievers Program made a big impact on people over the weekend, with 21 of the South West’s brightest Young Adults stepping up in life to get some great advise from many experts in their field.

I was invited to do a talk on “Breaking Through Barriers”, Our goal was to teach the Y.A.P. program how to gain confidence to empower up through Martial Arts Philosophy ending by asking each participant to empower up a smash through a pine board with their Bare Hand, but Mel & I were just one of a group of many experts sharing their experience and knowledge to our next generation of leaders. It was great to also see one of our own Taekwondo Central members &  Australind Vetinarian , Rob Hill give an inspiring talk on Success Mindset. Rob and his team recently won the South West Business Of The Year, so he knows what it takes first hand.

Ive also had the experience of catching up with Dean & Sharon Lomax from Lomax Media. Dean, Sharon and their family have all trained with me in the past and I also had the pleasure of working with Dean, who was my manager in our past employment before we both had decided to follow our passion. Lomax Media has also earned the title of South West Business Of The Year previously and with their attention to detail, they certainly have alot to share with the next generation

Guest Speaker for the Gala Dinner night was none other than Young Australian Of The Year Akram Azimi who give an inspiring talk on human rights drawing from his own life experiences.

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One of my most inspiring moments of the weekend was meeting Josh (Above Right)
Josh is visually impaired from a rare condition that 1 in 200 000 people get
But that didnt stop him – Click Here  To Read how he touched all our hearts with his amazing board break

 A Big Thankyou to Melissa Warren (Pictured Above Centre) who spent extra time on 1 particular member of the YAP program who lost confidence  and refused to even try the board break. With Melissa’s Experience in boosting confidence, She did an amazing job of helping this young woman build enough courage to attempt the break and………… she smashed it

GREAT JOB MEL

 

Other speakers throughout the weekend included

Bec Hawkins (South West Women In Business) – Networking / Connections
Tafe – The importance Of Exercise
Carolyn Landesman – Communication
Rob Hill  (Australind Vet) – Success Mindset
Toastmasters – The Art Of Public Speaking & Presentation Skills
John Williams (Combined Team Services) – Click Colours – Personality
Marian Kuswardiyanto (No River Education Services) Values To Vision – Cultural Awareness
Wendy Perdon – Business Etiquete & Business Customs
Alan McGillivray –  Goal Setting / Big Rocks
Dean Lomax (Lomax Media) – Teamwork
Anthony Congdon (Rethink Marketing) – Time Management
Toastmasters – Public Speaking
Justin Warren (Taekwondo Central) – Breaking Through Barriers
Shaun Brodison (Aussie Homeloans) – Financial Knowledge
Ian Tefler – Negotiation Skills
Matt Granger (Future Opportunities) RYLA, GSE, Peace Scholarships, Academic Ambassadors
Wendy Perdon – Pulling It Together
Akram Azimi – 2013 Young Australian Of The Year

 

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