2012 Caboolture Open
Entry to the 2012 Caboolture Open Taekwondo Championships is NOW OPEN, anddue to popular demmand, this year will see the inclusion of Pairs and Team Poomse events.
This is the 7th year running of the Caboolture Open, last year attracting players from as far north from Bundaberg Qld, and From as far south as Victoria. We have already had interest from a team from Ghana. The competition is open to ALL players regardless of affiliation, all players and officials are welcome to compete in a freindly and competitive atmosphere.
STQ Open Entries Now Open
Online entries are now open for the inaugrual STQ Open to be held on March 10th and 11th 2012. Please click the STQ logo to enter your details.
Inaugrual STQ Open
March 10th and 11th Will see the first ever Sports Taekwondo Queenslands Taekwondo Open, to be held at the Morayfield Park Leisure Centre, Morayfield. Stay posted as entries will be available (online) very shortly. And 1 week later will see Aimee Lakerdis and Beau Brown competing in the New Zealand Open in Auckland.
2012 Rolls On
2012 has already begun and training is back in full swing. It's going to be another jam-packed year with local and international competitions on the agenda. First up in February we have the first of many State Training sessions on the 12th which is being held at the Rawlins Qld Centre in Underwood. March will see the inaugrual STA Qld Open, the Rawlins Open and the 2012 New Zealand, all one week apart. July has been penciled in as our 2nd International Tournament, the Inaugrual Indonesian Open to be held in Bali. Where we hope to take our strongest tem over.
This year will also see the STA Australian Open on the Gold Coast again, and as per usual the Gold Coast and Caboolture Opens will be one of our feature events of the year where we will contest these with not only our elite and seasoned players but also with our development team aswell.
So all in all it is shaping to be a very busy year again. Stay posted as a calendar will be posted very shortly.
International Referee
Seminar
After 12 years of refereeing, and countless number of Club, State and National tournaments under his belt, Kwangjanim Carlos Lakerdis, has finally made it to the ranks as an International Referee. The Seminar lasting 4 days was conducted at the Radisson Resort on the Gold Coast, and was conducted by WTF Referee Chairman Chakir Chelbut. This will allow Carlos the opportunity to exercise his refereeing skills abroad as well as locally.
STA Australian Open
In our first appearance at an STA event our team did us proud. wih every team member bar 2 coming home with a medal, and with Ethan Donovan coming home with our team's only Gold Medal
Ethan Donovan: Gold Medal, Sparring
Todd Smith: Bronze Medal, Sparring
Ella Grunberger-Daniells: Silver Medal, Sparring
Taylah Smith: Silver Medal, Sparring
Brendon Schoolderman: Bronze Medal, Sparring
MK Kim: Bronze Medal, Poomse
Taekwondo Australia
Nationals Results
Congratulations to our team on a very successful National Championships. This year we only took a smal team to the Nations Capital, Canberra, as the rest of our team were busy preparing for the STA Australian Open
Aimee Lakerdis: Silver Medal, Senior Light Weight, Sparring
Louie Beatty: Silver Medal, Sparring
Josh Moldoveanu: Silver Medal, Sparring
Ethan Donovan: Bronze medal, Sparring
Successful Asian Tour
Having just returned from a very long and successful Asian Tour Team Caboolture Team members Aimee Lakerdis, Beau Brown and Daniel Delaney all competed in the 5th World Taekwondo Culture Expo in Muju , Korea, and the 6th CK Malayssian Open Championships in Kuala Lumpur. In what proved to be tough competition every Team Caboolture Team members showed their talent by mixing it with the international players.
The Taekwondo expo was represented by 20 countries and over 1500 competitiors, whilst the Malaysian expo consisted of 8 countries and over 800 competitors.
Aimee picked up her 2 medals in a welcome return to form in both tournaments, Daniel continued his great form with 2 medals, his silver medal in the Malaysian Open came from winning his first 3 fights but then coming up against a very skilled player from the Phillipines. Beau fought well in Korea, picking up a gold medal, but unfortunately suffered an unfortunate injury whilst winning his first round fight in Malaysia, which put him out of action for the rest of the tournament.
5th World Taekwondo Culture Expo
Beau Brown: Gold Medal, Junior Middle Weight Sparring
Aimee Lakerdis: Gold Medal, Senior Light Weight Sparring
Daniel Delaney: Bronze Medal Junior Light Heavy Weight
6th CK Malaysian Open
Daniel Delaney: Silver Medal, Junior Light Heavy Weight
Aimee Lakerdis: Bronze Medal, Light Weight Senior Sparring
CABOOLTURE OPEN
taekwondo championships
Entry to the 2011 Caboolture Open is now open, click on the link below to be transferred to the Online Registration website.
CABOOLTURE OPEN WEBSITE
Entries close on June 10th 2001
Competition Success
Congratulations to our entire team on their huge success at the 2011 Kings Taekwondo Open or 9 players all competed well coming home with 8 Gold, 3 Silver and 1 Bronze Medals. Making this tournament one of our most successful to date
Beau Brown: Gold Medal, Junior Sparring
Beau Brown: Gold Medal, Senior Sparring
Josh Moldoveanu: Gold Medal, Sparring
Daniel Delaney: Gold Medal, Sparring
Daniel Delaney: Gold Medal, Jump Front Kick
Kirra Finn: Gold Medal, Sparring
Ella Grunberger-Daniels: Gold Medal Sparring
Stephen McNaughton: Gold Medal, Board Breaking
Aimee Lakerdis: Silver Medal, Sparring
Ethan Donovan: Silver Medal, Sparring
Dale Atkins: Silver Medal, Sparring
Stephen McNaughton: Bronze Medal, Speed Kick
The overall result is a Testament to the hard work the players and coaches have put in this year. With Daniel Delaney taking out the overall honors of Best Jump Kick for the Juniors, and Beau Brown Taking out overall hon ours of Best Fighter for the Tournament. Congratulations to everyone.
Queensland Team Selection
Congratulations to Aimee Lakerdis and Beau Brown, on their selection to Team Queensland. They and 8 other Queensland Team members will be traveling to Selangor, Malaysia to compete in the 2011 Malaysian Open. As both Aimee and Beau were absent from the Queensland Open, selection event, they were chosen on their outstanding success in the recent New Zealand Open. And with their first International Competition already under their belts I'm sure they will do themselves and their state proud.
Another Medal Haul
Congratulations all round to all of our athletes competing in 2 Tournaments last weekend. Ethan Donovan and Max Eals winning Gold in the recent Queensland Open, and Kirra Finn winning silver also. Whilst across the Tasman in the 2011 New Zealand Open, Beau Brown Won Gold, Josh Moldoveanu and Louie Beatty winning Silver and Aimee Lakerdis winning Bronze. Each of our athletes competing in their biggest Competition challenge to date. With Aimee competing in her first senior Open division, and Louie Beatty competing in his first competition under the open head kick rules. Congratulations to all of you you have done yourselves and your team proud.
Max, Kirra and Ethan at the 2011 Qld Open
Louie, Josh, Aimee, Carlos and Beau at the 2011 New Zealand Open
NRL Footy Tipping
Our annual footy NRL footy tipping competition is up and running, existing tipsters can simply log in and start tipping away, any new tipsters will need to follow the link on this website to join. Entry is FREE and this years winner gets to claim bragging rights, AKA Greg Walters who won last year. Well done Greg and Good Luck to everyone else.
Black Belt Grading
Feb. 27th 2011 saw our first Black Belt grading for the Year. Congratulations to Phil Suthers, Allan Coggins, Ken and Brendon Schoolderman, who all successfully passed their 1st Dan Hapkido Grading. Kelsey Dowd Also passed her grading attaining her 2nd Dan Taekwondo, and Aimee and Carlos Lakerdis both passed their Provisional (4th and 5th respectively) Taekwondo Gradings.
Grand Master Sung-Soo Lee, 9th Dan TKD and 9th Dan HKD, commented that everyone did exceptionally well, and was very happy with the high quality techniques that he saw.
Caboolture Taekwondo & Hapkido has now passes the 100 mark in terms of Black Belt Gradings. And with many more to come this milestone will be a distant memory very very soon.
QLD Open Entries
This years Qld Open will, unfortunately, clash with the upcoming 2011 TUNZ New Zealand Open, we will, however, still send a team of athletes to contest the 2011 Qld Open. The package is due to be released very soon as soon as it is available i will send out the invites.
New Zealand Bound
4 Players this month will head to New Zealand to compete in the 2011 TUNZ New Zealand Open. Louie Beatty, Aimee Lakerdis, Beau Brown and Josh Moldoveanu will fly out on March 24th. Good luck to you all in this your first International Competition.
Factor 10
Yellow Jacket
Results
Congratulations to our 7 athletes who competed at the Factor 10 Yellow Jacket Invitational. Coming away with 3 Golds and 4 Silver.
Medal Count:
Max Dempsey - Gold Medal
Stephen Mc Naughton - Gold Medal
Ella Grunberger-Daniels - Gold Medal
Ethan Donovan - Silver Medal
Justin Nibbs - Silver Medal
Brooke Tolan - Silver Medal
Kirra Finn - Silver Medal
All of our young and new team performed well, and all bar one player, Brooke Tolan, were experiencing their first ever tournament. With Brooke seeing her first fight in 2 years due to injury.
Congratulations to the entire team, you all showed that you have a great tournament future.
National Championships
Results
Congratulations to our 5 athletes who competed at the Taekwondo Australia National Championships in Canberaa this weekend. Coming away with 1 Gold, 1 Silver and 3 Bronze Medals.
Medal Count:
Michael Delaney (9-10) Red Belt Gold Medal
Louie Beatty (12-13) Red Belt, Silver Medal
Beau Brown (14-17) Black Belt, Bronze Medal
Dylan Maggs (12-13) Red Belt, Bronze Medal
Daniel Delaney (12-13) Red Belt Bronze Medal
The competition had over 1200 competitors entered into more than 1700 events, and as expected it was an extremely tough competition. There were over 80 Referees and Technical Judges and approximatelty 100 volunteers all of whom made this a pretty successful tournament. Our team of 5 did extremely wel in each of their matches and can certainly hold their heads high.
Satutrday's Competition saw all of our Red Belt and Cho Dan Bo players competing, and coached by Aimee who did a great job in preparing and managing them. Michael Delaney, after a first round forfiet, won his 2 subsequent matches and clinching our Only Gold of the tournament.
Daniel Delaney, Started the Day well winning his first 2 matches and earning a place in the Quarter Final, he however, came accros a tough player from South Australia coached by dual Olympian Athlete, Chynthia Moir (Cameron), who won the final in a close contest by only 1 point.
Dylan Maggs won his first match comfortably and advance to the Quarter Finals. Unfortunately for Dylan in a flurry of kicks saw a clash of legs with Dylan coming out of that with a badly bruise shin. Thus limiting his abiility to fight his usual attacking style. Going down to the eventual Gold Medalist of the division. Earning a Bronze Medal.
Louie Beatty who this year has only lost one fight came across a much bigger opponent. And in his only fight of the day Fought very well and certainly put his opponent on notice for next year, went down in a fairly close match and earning a Silver Medal.
Sunday saw our last player Beau Brown competitng in the 14-17 (63-68kg) Black Belt division, and also competing at his first National Event. Played very well taking a early lead in the first round which he maintained for he entire fight up until the last 10 seconds when in a flurry of kicks saw his opponent, from Trainors Taekwondo in Victoria, take the lead 24-23, which he maintained until the bell sounded earning a Bronze Medal.
All in all our players did themselves proud and have gained some very valuable experience.
National Championships
5 of our athletes are travelling to Canberra this week to compete in the Taekwondo Australia National Championships, which are being held at the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) this weekend.
Good luck to:
Beau Brown (14-17) Black Belt,
Louie Beatty (12-13) Red Belt,
Dylan Maggs (12-13) Red Belt,
Daniel Delaney (12-13) Red Belt and
Michael Delaney (9-10) Red Belt.
Good luck to all of and do your best.
NSW Championships
Congratulations to our team who all perfomed to their best and coming home with some fantastic results.
Michael Delaney (GOLD) winning his match 10-9 against TCoS Taekwondo, in a slightly controversial match.
Dylan Maggs (SILVER) won his first match easily 17-8 against Hongs Taekwondo, But losing his 2nd 2-5 against Haktari Taekwondo.
Daniel Delaney (BRONZE) lost his first fight against Global Taekwondo, in a very close, hard fought match 6-7.
Louie Beatty (GOLD) winning his first match 17-12 against MUSA Taekwondo, and going on to win his final againstKoryo Taekwondo in a very close match 14-13.
Josh Moldoveanu (SILVER) in only his second ever tournament his first round fight going to SUDDEN DEATH after the scores were locked at 4-4 with Josh the eventual winner against DOS Taekwondo, But losing in the final to Black Scorpian Taekwondo 4-17.
Jamie Large (SILVER) after a first round BYE, losing tohis more experienced opponent from Hassan Taekwondo 10-20.
Beau Brown (GOLD) winning his first round against DOS Taekwondo in a very close affair 15-14, and going on to win the final more comfortably against Psychwondo 12-4.
The final Result: 3 GOLD : 3 SILVER : 1 BRONZE a very successful tournament with everyone backing up from last week Queensland Selections and all performing as best they could. Then next challenge in 10 weeks time, The TAEKWONDO AUSTRALIA NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS on October 21-24 at the AIS in Canberra.
2010 Qld Selections
Excellent Results
Congratulations alround to our team who competed at the Queensland Selections today (25th July) Everyone competed well and to the best of their ability. Gold Medals to Dylan Maggs, Michael Delaney, Daniel Delaney, Taylah Smith and Beau Brown. Silver Medals to Todd Smith and Darren Shipp.
Next weekend will see several of todays players backing up their performances in the NSW Selection Championships at Homebush Stadium, good luck to all of you. Keep an eye of the website for tournament updates.
2010 KOREAN CULTURE
EXCHANGE
friendship through taekwondo
July 27th will see members from our sister clubs in Daegu, South Korea, Master Seung Ha LEE (Han Gyeol TKD), Master Seong Jae SONG (Kang Hee TKD), Master Jae Won YOO (Good Friend TKD) and Master Kang Woong LEE (Sun Bae TKD), Along with 14 of their students will making a return vist to our state to compete in the Qld Slelction Championships. As per their previous visits we will be conducting a joint training session, and be providing homestay arrangements.
If any family is interested in providing a one night homestay please feel free to contact myself.
Click here to view a brief history on the above 4 masters.
Click Here to view photos of previous Cultural Exchanges