Spirit Taekwon-Do

Members will have recently received an email from the Treasurer, Mr D'arcy Mellsop, reminding you of the fee increase about to take effect. These changes were signalled some time ago and are now upon us.

Please attend to these changes as soon as possible.

There are two key things that have to be remembered if you are to receive the discount for automatic payment.

1) The payment MUST be set up for the 25th of the month. Payment in each month is for the following month's training.

2) The payment MUST include a reference to a) your school, b) your last name,  and c) the initial of your first name. If payment is for more than one person then include the first initial of each person.   The school references are BRK for Brooklyn, KAR for Karori and THO for Thorndon.  Example: Brooklyn students David, Frank and Erin Smith would have the reference details BRK Smith D F E

If you have any questions then please ask your instructor or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

We have learned with great sadness that it has been confirmed that Grandmaster Trân, president of the International Taekwon-Do Federation, passed away in the Haiti earthquake. There is more information on the ITFNZ website and on the ITF website.

There is also an article about Grandmaster Trân in this Canadian newspaper.

Grandmaster Trân has visited New Zealand in the past, and some of us have had the privilege of meeting him and hearing him speak. If you have a look at his messages on the ITF website (http://www.tkd-itf.org/pub_web/ver_eng/archive_presmess.html) you can get a feeling for the amount of energy and devotion he had for furthering Taekwon-Do and how it can help build a more peaceful world. He has been instrumental in helping ITF focus more on the “Do”.  I highly recommend reading his messages.

Congratulations to Mr Malcolm Doidge, who has been made an instructor for the Karori School.

Mr Doidge has been training consistently at Karori since the school opened, and has helped out Mr Mellsop on many occasions, assisting during class and also often taking class when Mr Mellsop was not available. In Mr Mellsop's words: "Mr Doidge has proven himself, not unexpectedly, as a very capable individual who reflects the quality and passion that we seek in our instructors here at Spirit."

Of course Mr Doidge recently earned his 1st Degree Black Belt, and on doing so was asked by Mr Mellsop whether he was interested in becoming an 'official' instructor for the school. Mr Doidge readily agreed to do so.

The official announcement was made to the students of Karori School at training on Monday 1st February.