27 year old Aravind Krishnan. U,  has pulled off an amazing grading to earn his Yellow Belt 2 Stripe (8th Gup)
in an impressive display of skill and talent to Double Grade in his first grading.

Since entering the doors of tkdcentral.com Headquarters, he has thouroughly impressed all of the
clubs instructors with amazing talent and an ability to pick up techniques quicker than any student that has
entered the Full Time Academy

Aravind is a Martial Arts movie enthusiast who has learned many of his skills by mirroring the stars of the screen
and tranfered that into amazing skills and ability which made the Centrals Instructors job very easy.

Aravinds standard is so high we have got him in sparring the Blackbelts where he hold his own against the
clubs best

“We are so proud to have in our team” said Head Instructor Justin Warren. Not only his Martial Arts skill
but also his discipline, personality and mannerism will take him along way in the Taekwondo arena.

Aravind is now looking at grading to Yellow 3 Stripe (7th Gup) at the end of January as part of the January Summer Holiday Program
and has expressed interest in stepping into the Tournament scene in 2012. We wish him the best of luck in his future Martial Arts achievements

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Taekwondo Central Junior Dynamite Ajana Plunkett (13) is Taekwondo Centrals first under 14 to receive
her 3rd poom (jnr Black Belt grade)after successfully passing her grade and earning the 3rd highest mark
of some 80 Taekwondo Ohdokwan State members attempting the grading

Graded by a panel of 4th Dan & above senior blackbelt, which included Grandmaster Ross Hartnett (8th Dan Blackbelt),
Master Carmela Hartnett (7th Dan Blackbelt) and Taekwondo Central Head Instructor Master Justin Warren (5th Dan Blackbelt)

The former World Taekwondo Expo Champion (won in Korea), ITCO (International Taekwondo Club Organisation) Gold Medallis,t
past Taekwondo Central Club Champion (Central Cup) winner & Leadership Team member showed an
impressive display of kicking and punching techniques, step sparring, self defence, knife defence, Board Breaking Techniques and Sparring
which included WTF Olympic Style Sparring & Kickboxing style sparring to earn the high level at such a young age

Ajana who has had a break in 2011 from sparring is hoping to enter back into the arena this year as she makes her
way back to competition sparring after resting due to injury

Ajana is a regular helper at many of Taekwondo Centrals classes including Busselton Taekwondo & Eaton Little Dragons
plus helping at Taekwondo Central HQ in Bunbury.

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Maya Smith, Ebony Bilcich, Ben Cole & Blake Shanahan, have all recently
moved up to Blackbelt, Ajana Plunkett makes her 3rd Poom (Jnr Dan) Black Belt
at a December Blackbelt grading with some 80 other State wide Blackbelts

Taekwondo Centrals 5 that passed were picked from over a dozen persons training to achieve
the high level in Taekwondo Centrals Blackbelt Pool

Ajana Plunkett was one of the highest scorers for the day, and we were very happy with the
students behavior, effort, attitude and addaptability to change,
they all deserved their next level just on the pure effort theyve put in.

Maya, Ebony, Blake, and Ben will now move to a new phase of their training by entering our
Advanced Blackbelt Master System, while Ajana has now will have a 3 year training stint to get
her 4th Dan Blackbelt. To achieve 3rd Dan is an amazing accomplishment that very little make
and especially considering she turns 14 this year.

Well done to you all, We are very proud of you

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Picture – Ebony Bilcich & Maya Smith Proudly Show Off Their
New Blackbelt Certificates after Achieving Their 1st Poom Blackbelt

Taekwondo Central entered a 9 person team into the 2011 Mr Shin Boo Kim Memorial Championship
with a 5 gold, 3 Silver, 2 Bronze return from our team.

2011 Wa State Sparring Champion, Jake Radford showed why he is just that. Winning gold in a strong performance
defeating a South West & a Metro Opponent to win gold. Little Brother 2011 WA State 2nd Ranking Jordan Radford also kicked his way
to victory in a great performance to take out gold.

Danielle Suckling also proved too strong for her opponent, winning comfortable gold in her girls sparring contest
with WA State 3rd Ranked Maeve McNulty winning the gold in her patterns division & smallest competitor
Aiyana Morris winning her poomsae division in the smallest of the girls competition.

Silver Medals went to first time competitor Nicholas Wilson putting in a great effort,
and earning valuable experience for the future and Luke Smith who also put in a strong effort.
Luke also won a bronze in his poomsae division. Dylan Morris was our teams poomsae Silver Medalist

Recently just grading to yellow belt, Aaron Mernilo had his first attempt at competition and did himself proud
earning bronze for his first go.

GOLD (5)
Danielle Suckling, Jake Radford, Jordan Radford, Maeve McNulty, Aiyana Morris

SILVER (3)
Luke Smith, Nicholas Wilson, Dylan Morris

BRONZE (2)
Aaron Mernilo, Luke Smith

A big thankyou to Black Belts Glen Suckling & Branden Madaffari for helping the team out & coaching on the day

Pictured

Front Row (R -L) Jake Radford, Jordan Radford, Nicholas Wilson
Middle Row (R – L) Danielle Suckling, Luke Smith, Aaron Mernilo
Back Row (R – L) Glen Suckling, Justin Warren, Branden Madaffari

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Above – Zoe Brown shows her 2 trophies for 1st place

Taekwondo Centrals assualt on the WA State Taekwondo Championships was a great success for the sparring team winning 8 Gold, 4 Silver with Zoe Brown leading the way taking out 2 Gold in Black belt & Red belt divisions in her weight group

The sparring team success is a great reward for the many putting in the hours of training and the hard work of Melissa Warren, Jasmine Klumpp & Jake Klumpp. with a special mention to Jake Klumpp using his experience to coach with Justin for the great result

Most memorable moments for the team were Zoe Brown winning Double gold,  including winning the Blackbelt division (Zoe is still a Red Belt) and Liam Heidt &  Jayme-Lee Smith who dropped their opponents with well timed kicks to the head guard, both went on to raise the gold tally, Connor Peterson for a great silver medal who as a red 1 stripe beat a blackbelt and placed 2nd in the blackbelt division and Chris Guy who fought an under 18 competitor (though Chris is only 13) through agreeing to a catch weight due to both competitors not having a division, put in one of the most gutsiest efforts seen in a long time. Well done team

Sparring Gold
Zoe Brown (2) Liam Heidt, Jake Radford, Chloe Wild, Blake Shanahan, Bradley Yates, Jayme-Lee Smith,

Sparring Silver
Chris Guy, Connor Peterson, Jake Klumpp, Jordan Radford

Patterns Silver
Ajana Plunkett (2), Chris Guy,  Jayme-Lee Smith

Patterns Bronze
Maya Smith (2), Maeve McNulty,  Chloe Wild, Jayme-Lee Smith

Taekwondo Central will now put a small team of beginners into the 2011 Mr Shin Boo Kim Memorial Championships, good luck to Aaron Mernilo, Maeve McNulty, Danielle Suckling, Aiyana Morris, Dylan Morris, Luke Smith,Nicolas Wilson, Jordan Radford & Jake Radford.

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