ATA referees perform at the Australian Nationals in Sydney – 4-6 Sept 2008

Three referees from the Australian Taekwondo Academy represented Western Australia in the Australian Taekwondo Nationals and Open Championship this past week. Richard Huynh, Jed Calicdan and Roy Khoh. One other WA referee could not make the trip at the last moment while 2 from the SouthWest group officiated as poomsae judges..

The three of us from ATA went to referee on both the sparring competition days; on Friday and Saturday. We arrived there late Wednesday night so that we could also compete in the poomsae, technical day on Thursday.

Touching down in Sydney approximately 20:30 on Wednesday, we caught a cab to Pullman Hotel inside the Olympic Park precinct. The Pullman is a 5-star hotel that had just recently opened operations 2 days before we arrived. One of the waitresses, during breakfast, had mentioned that to me and also stated that there was some special discount because of the opening week. Either way, I was quite surpised and very pleased with the hotel accommodation that the referees received this tournament.

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3rd Commonwealth Taekwondo Championships – Referees – Oct 2006

25 International Referees officiated at this event which was attended by 12 Commonwealth countries. This event was the 3_^rd edition and held in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The referees were represented by Australia, Brunei, Canada, England, Malaysia, Scotland, Singapore and Sri Lanka. Top honours went to Australia for the poomsae competition while Canada took out the seniors sparring and Australia won the junior sparring. The referees who were qualified poomsae judges also judged the poomsae competitions. The ATA-WA is represented by Kim Seng as the Referee Director (Mandurah, 3_^rd from right front row in the photo) and Raffaele DiRenzo (Morley, 2_^nd from left back row).

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