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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