Australian World Poomsae Championship Selections Tournament

This year’s selection for World Poomsae Championships is a low key affair with only about 50 players competing at the AIS in Canberra. Although small, most of last year’s winners were present to compete for position in the national team and like the previous two years, the majority of the divisions were won by the same players.

With only 5 players in my division (Male 31-40, we went straight into the semi which required us to perform Gumgang and Taebek in the first round. My Gumgang routine was less than ideal, with me losing balance on one of the movements and unfortunately, Gumgang is all about balance. Even before executing the movement, I knew in my head that I would have problems because I found the soft floor to be difficult to perform on since we practice on hard floor in class. I think I should invest in a few mats to practice at home .. Other than Gumgang, I was fairly happy with my other routines.

From a personal account, the tournament was a success because I managed to win my division, but it also allowed me to fulfill two of my childhood dreams, one of which was to see the deep space communication complex in Tibinbilla (I have always had an interest in Astronomy as a kid) and the other was to experience fresh powdery snow. After the tournament we went to Tredbo/Mt Kosciusko for two days and by co-incident got caught in the middle of a snow storm whilst driving around the Snowy mountains. Here are some of the photos of the trip ..

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Richard Huynh 2008 Australian Taekwondo Nationals Poomsae Video

Richard Huynh wins first place – in the 4th Dan 31-40yrs with a score of 8.2 – at the 2008 Taekwondo Australia Nationals and Australian Open Championships held inside Olympic Park, Homebush, Sydney.

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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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ATA members win 8 gold medals at the Australian Taekwondo Nationals held in Sydney 4-6 Sept 2008

Results:

Gold medal: 1st placing:

Jed Calicdan (Mandurah); 31-40 years male 1st dan black belt poomsae

Miranda Seng (Mandurah); 10-11 years female 2nd poom black belt poomsae

Roy Khoh (Mandurah); 18-30 years male 3rd dan black belt poomsae

Richard Huynh (Morley); 31-40 years male 4th dan black belt poomsae

Elanie Schoeman (Rockingham); 18-30 years female blue belt poomsae

Elanie Schoeman (Rockingham); open female blue belt 67-72 kgs

Aneldi Schoeman (Rockingham); 14-17 years female yellow belt 55-59 kgs

Zachary Platt (Halls Head); 10-11 years yellow belt 46-50 kgs

Silver medal: 2nd placing:

Alice Warren (Mandurah); 10-11 years female red belt 25-28 kgs

Bronze medal: 3rd placing:

Miranda Seng (Mandurah); 10-11 years female black belt 34-38 kgs

Aneldi Schoeman (Rockingham); 14-17 years female yellow belt poomsae

4th placing:

Liam Fossey (Morley); 12-13 years male 1st dan black belt poomsae

Stephanie Fossey (Morley); 10-11 years female red belt poomsae

7th placing:

Alice Warren (Mandurah); 10-11 years female red belt poomsae

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Elanie Schoeman (Rockingham) produced the best performance from the ATA team members when she won 2 gold medals while representing WA at the Australian Taekwondo nationals being held in Sydney during 4th – 6th September 2008.

Elanie won her poomsae division with a high score of 7.47 beating her 2nd placed opponent from Queensland who scored 7.12 (a 0.1 point gap can be similar as a 1-point difference for sparring). In the sparring contests she beat Victoria and NSW by runaway 7 point gap scores of 9-2. She executed her roundhouse kicks to precision placing them squarely on her opponent’s trunk scoring areas. She has potential to reach greater heights in her development towards her red belt next year and then black belt in the following year.

Next best performed were Aneldi Schoeman (Rockingham) and Miranda Seng (Mandurah) who both won a gold and a bronze medal each.

Aneldi was trailing 1-0 in the 1st round and scored a head shot with 2 points to lead 2-1 but her NSW opponent scored the next 2 points to counter back into a lead of 3-2 until the last few seconds when Aneldi scored the important 1 point to tie the score 3-3 to force a sudden death round which she won. Aneldi scored 7.13 in her poomsae to win bronze in a field of 6 players.

Miranda Seng (Mandurah) won her poomsae division with a score of 7.35 beating her next placed opponent from Victoria who scored 6.78. Miranda lost her sparring to Victoria in the semi-finals and bowed out with a bronze medal.

Zachary Platt (Halls Head) won his semi-final fight against Queensland in a close match 2-1. In the final, also against Queensland, Zach unleashed 5 unanswered point scores before the end of the first round before slowing down in a sporting move to allow the contest to play out time and the other player to play the game. His opponent came back to score another 2 points before Zach let fly with 2 more roundhouse kicks to win convincingly 7 points to 2.

The other gold medal winners were won by our male black belt poomsae players; Richard Hunyh with a score of 8.20 (2nd placed was 7.83); Roy Khoh with a score of 8.10 (2nd placed was 7.35, a massive gap of 0.75); and Jedi Calicdan with a winning score of 7.68 (2nd placed was 7.18).

Alice Warren (Mandurah) went kick for kick in her sparring match with South Australia. She caught up after being 1 point down in the 1st round to tie the score 1-1 to force another sudden death round but was unlucky to lose by a golden point to the SA player in the end. Many of both players’ kicks went begging for points and nonetheless it was an exciting match as both little tyros just went for it. The little pocket dynamos embraced after the fight displaying good sporting spirits.

The hard luck stories belonged to brother and sister, Liam and Stephanie Fossey from Morley. They were both placed 4th amongst 8 and 9 players in their divisions. Liam scored 7.58 to lose bronze by a mere 0.02 points gap while Stephanie scored 7.18 to lose bronze by 0.07 points gap.

Photos are available here – check out the forum for some video clips

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2008 Australian Nationals – Homebush, Sydney 4th – 6th Sept 08

The 2008 Australian Taekwondo National Championships has been awarded to Sydney. The venue is the Homebush Stadium which was the venue for the taekwondo at the Sydney 2000 Olympics. It is within the Sydney Olympic Park precinct.

The schedule is as follows:

The information package and application form can be downloaded and viewed here.

Students wishing to participate will need to consider training with the WA State Squad. Click here for more details regarding the WA State Squad Training sessions.

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