Welcome to spring! Hopefully those cold morning training sessions are behind us now, but I have lived in Canberra long enough to know that is unlikely! As it warms up remember to bring a water bottle along with you to training!
GRADING
Grading will be held on Saturday 17 September at 11am. Invited students have already received an email with details to register. If you didn’t receive an email and you believe you are ready to grade, please contact us on info@sangrok.net.au.
The 10.30am class on 17 September has been cancelled to allow time for the grading. If you would normally attend this class please come along to one of our earlier Saturday morning classes or another time during the week.
INSURANCE AND AUSTRALIAN TAEKWONDO MEMBERSHIPS
We have been in discussions this year regarding our Australian Taekwondo (AT) insurance and membership. We would usually charge the insurance fee ($30pp) for the year early in January/February, however, AT have a new direct membership system which started up this year. To save you time, we have been able to arrange for AT to manually enter our members onto their system instead. Over the coming week we will be registering each of our members with AT (this is mandatory for insurance coverage) and charging a reduced AT membership fee to your account ($20 rather than $30). Following our discussion with AT it is expected that the registration process will be smoother and faster next year. If you have any questions, please get in touch with the team: info@sangrok.net.au.
MOUTHGUARDS
Please remember to bring your mouthguard to sparring training and to wear it for any partner work sparring drills or training. While we don’t train with head kicks, accidents can happen and we can prevent tooth damage, lacerations and concussion by wearing a mouthguard.
TRAINING SCHEDULE
Our Term 4 training schedule is below. This is subject to change, but is generally a reliable indicator of upcoming training intentions.
17 Sept – Instructor choice + grading feedback
24 Sept – Instructor choice
1 Oct – Instructor choice
8 Oct – Poomsae + combinations or basics
15 Oct – Sparring
22 Oct – Poomsae + step sparring
29 Oct – Self defence
5 Nov – Poomsae + combinations or basics
12 Nov – Sparring
19 Nov – Poomsae + step sparring
26 Nov – Self defence + fitness
3 Dec – Grading preparation + board breaking
17 Sept – GRADING + instructor choice for remainder of the term
WORKSHOP REQUESTS
If you would like to request any specific workshops for Term 4 please send through an email and we will see what we can accommodate!
ONLINE TRAINING RESOURCES
Our website has so many great resources in our online training area to build on your training in classes. We have full videos for some of our online classes, instructional videos for basics, short strength and cardio training videos, and a step by step step-sparring video (good for those blue belts grading on the weekend!). If you need the password, just ask an instructor!
BOOKING INTO CLASSES
Don’t forget to book into classes using the Clubworx portal! It helps us to keep class numbers to a safe and effective size, and if we need to let you know about changes to your class it makes it easy to get in contact with you!
SOCIALS
Follow us on social media: Instagram, Facebook, and our private Sangrok Students Facebook group, where you can chat about training, ask questions, post memes about Master Pravin’s “easy training”, and share photos – this is also where we will advertise informal training sessions!