ATA Peel region 2008 annual awards

The ATA Peel region looks back at a successful 2008 year with numerous success stories, in particular when capturing 7 National Champion titles at the 2008 Nationals held in Sydney (September).  This was significantly more than the haul from the 2007 Nationals (Adelaide, September).   The Peel region also won numerous 2008 state tiles.  see tournament results link:

The end of year 2008 ATA Peel region awards are:

Peel region best club:  Mandurah

Peel region most improved club:  Rockingham

Peel region best senior black belts:  Roy Khoh (Mandurah) & Jedi Calicdan (Mandurah)

Peel region best senior blue belt:  Elanie Schoeman (Rockingham)

Peel region best senior yellow belt:  Aneldi Shcoeman (Rockingham)

Peel region best junior black belt:  Miranda Seng (Mandurah)

Peel region best junior red belt:  Alice Warren (Mandurah)

Peel region best junior blue belt:  Muhammad Ahmad Niza (Coolbellup)

Peel region best junior yellow belt:  Zachary Platt (Halls Head)

The ATA Peel region now looks towards the 2009 year and aims to emulate the success of 2008 or even better the success of 2008.

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Mandurah club 2008 annual awards

 Master Head Instructor, Kim Seng, announced the 2008 annual awards for the Mandurah club on Thursday 18th December 2008:

Fairest & Best senior:  Jedi Calcidan & Roy Khoh

Most Improved senior:  Albert Calicdan

Fairest & Best junior:  Miranda Seng

Most Improved junior: Ryan Nafranec

The Mandurah and Falcon clubs will be on Christmas and New Year festive holidays and summer recess.  Classes will re-commence for the 2009 season from the first week of February 2009.

Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year to all members and look forward to seeing you back again for another successful 2009 year next year.

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ATA Peel region grading – 14 December 2008 in Mandurah

The ATA Peel region held its end of year grading at Mandurah where 40 members tested for their belt upgrades ranging from white 9th gup yellow belts to 3rd poom black belts.  At the end of the grading the following members were presented with best grading awards:

Best grading;  Miranda Seng (Mandurah)

Best senior grading:  Andrew Harrison (Falcon)

Encouragement senior grading:  Monika Wodzynska (Mandurah)

Best junior grading:  Merendah Wellock (Rockingham)

Encouragement junior grading:  Kai Harrison (Falcon)

Congratulations to the members who have passed their grading.  Kim Seng, the examiner was quite pleased with the standard and skill levels displayed.  It augers well for the next year.

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2008 Commonwealth Taekwondo Championships in Canada

Kim Seng, ATA Peel Region Master Instructor attended the 4^th Commonwealth Taekwondo Championships held in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada during November 2008.  He was the Referee Chairman for the event that attracted 200 players from 6 countries from host country Canada, Australia, New Zealand, England, Wales and Northern Ireland.  India and Nigeria were entered but they experienced difficulties in getting visas and missed out on the event.

The International Referees were appointed from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Scotland, Malaysia, USA.  Nigeria and India had visa difficulties and were unable to officate.  Four operating courts were used with the LaJust electronic body protectors being a first for the Commonwealth event.  Canada won the event as the overall champion country.

The International Referees: Kim Seng (Chairman), Maher Magableh, Tony Achkouti, Jacques Ayotte, Tracey Bonertz, Ken Froese, William Jones, Martin Kenneally, Song Chul Kim, Linda Kwan, Pierre LaChance, Gilles LeClerc, Babara Marian, Stephane Menard, Susanne Mitchell, Paolo Polano, Kirk Sinclair, Eric Wah, Choo-Boon Lau, Tsu-Ching Wong, Kevin Woon, Vijay Chhika, Stan Wagner, Bill Darlington, Anne Chase and Randy Waitman.

Canada’s National Referees assisting as recorders, inspection and weigh-in: Alison Braun, Glen Berger, Mike LeCren, David Saucier, Terry Webb.

Best Male referee was awarded to Song Chul Kim of British Columbia, Canada; Best Female Referee was awarded to Susanne Mitchell of Saskatchewan, Canada; and Recognition Referee Award went to Vijay Chhika of Wellington, New Zealand.

The next 5^th Commonwealth Championships will be hosted by India in New Delhi during January 2011. There is a discussion topic in the Forum section under Sparring: Electronic Body Protectors.  you can view the comments and join in the discussion.  click on the link in the comments of this post.

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Coolbellup Bowls over Mandurah and Rockingham – or Did Mandurah Strike Again?

Ten-Pin Bowling was just held today at AMF Rockingham and the victory goes to Coolbellup.

Actually, it could be contested whether Club Mandurah or Club Coolbellup won. What’s certain is that Rockingham came third. There were only three clubs competing in today’s challenge and careful consideration had to be taken in calculating the results. Two players from Rockingham and two players from Mandurah bowled 1 game each. So the final calculation had to consider that four members only played once.

The final scores are tabulated as such:

So, similar to Poomsae Judging, we cancelled some scores out. Traditionally, we would discard the top score and the lowest score and average the remaining unbiased scores. However, since we only had 2 games each (some of us only 1) the top score is used. Those who played 1 game had their score counted as their best. In this case, Coolbellup just edged out Mandurah for top spot with an average of 112.40 over Mandurah’s 110.70.

Having said that, Coolbellup also has the widest fluctuations with their low score average of 77.40 losing out to the rest of the clubs. In this particular instance, Mandurah takes the honours over Rockingham.

Normally, you would take an average; total average, have EVERYTHING averaged out. In this case, Mandurah would have Average honours with 98.30 over Coolbellup’s 94.90.

I’ll scan the actual scores and post them up when they’re ready. I had some chocolate smeared over one sheet so I have to wait for it to dry before scanning it.

Photos will come courtesy of the Ahmad-Niza family when they’re ready and have emailed them to me.

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