News
February 1st, 2012: Sportivate
BTS is involved with the "Sportivate" project which is a sports development initiative supported by Solent University, Southampton City Council and Sport England. The scheme allows pupils from Southampton schools to get a free licence and train at a very reduced cost of £2 per session. After 8 weeks they can also purchase a dobok at half price. BTS is the only taekwondo club on the South Coast to be involved whith the project and Gareth has been busy delivering taster sessions at schools across the City. The schools involved at the moment are St George, St Annes, Redbridge, Cantell, Regents Park and Upper Shirley.
January 29th, 2012: Inter-club training day
Coaches from accross the South of England have come together to organise a joint training day hosted in Southampton by BTS. Nearly 70 athletes from the London, Plymouth, Poole, New Milton and Southampton areas have benefited from the forward thinking of the coaches and their cooperation. Top marks and we all look forward to the next one...
December 12th, 2011: GB cadet talent squad
It is 5 out of 5 for the BTS cadets! All our players who attended the trials last month in Manchester have been selected for the GB cadet talent squad. They will now be expected to attend the training camps at the Academy in February, April and summer. Congratulations to Mollie, Archie, Adam, Sean and Jeamy.
December 11th, 2011: French Open
After Georgia and Ben were sidelined due to injury, Jemma Johnson was our only representative at the French Open in Paris this weekend. She put in a very positive performance comprehensively beating Russia in the first round. In the second round Jemma just lost to Turkey who went on to the final. Well done for flying the BTS flag solo!
December 9th 2011
December 5th 2011
7 BTS fighters returned to Southampton this morning after a successful weekend competing at the International Park Cup in Stuttgart (Germany) and bringing back 5 medals (3 golds, 1 silver and 1 bronze). BTS was the only British team who attended this very competitive tournament and finished 7th in the team rankings out of 116! More to follow…
November 26th 2011
BTS entertained about 300 spectactors at the Sussex Sports Awards gala dinner held at the Hilton in Brighton last night with a fantastic display of pad work, sparring and destruction. Congratulations to Gareth, Archie, Ben and Jeamy for putting together a routine that drew a great reaction from the spectators who had been quite reserved up to that point. You were a great advert for the sport and a credit to the club.
November 24th 2011
Our very own Jan Annis is selected to work as a sports massage therapist at the Olympic test event from Dec 2nd to Dec 4th. Congratulations!
November 21st 2011
With Gareth on National Team coaching duty in Manchester with the cadet squad, Joe took a small team to Coventry this weekend for the British Masters. The whole team performed very well with all 8 of our players bringing back a medal including gold for Erika, Ben and Georgia. Joe was very impressed with how much improvement the whole squad has shown, with particular mention to Joseph and Hannah. Joe said "Gareth's coaching and new regime of 3 weekly squad training sessions is fantastic and already showing results. Keep up the good work G!"
November 12th 2011
Congratulations to Archie, Natasha and George who passed their black belt grading today!
November 11th 2011
The Daily Echo features the BTS trip to the Croatia Open
November 7th 2011 - Croatia Open
BTS was in Croatia this weekend with 3 fighters who all put in strong performances and returned with 2 bronze medals. Ben Haines managed to reach the quarter finals of the Juniors male -73Kgs, Georgia Barnes and Jeamy Navarro-Schrank both reached the semi final before losing to the eventual winner in the Juniors female -44Kgs and cadets female -33Kgs.
October 9th 2011 - Southern Counties Open
BTS gets 1st place team trophy at our home tournament, the Southern Counties Open. A big well done to all our fighters! There were some great performances including many novices for whom this was the first ever tournament.
The competition this year was of exceptional standard with teams from Gibraltar, The Czech Republic, Denmark and Ireland as well as many English teams. Thank you to all those teams who have travelled to support our event, we truly hope you have enjoyed it.
Finally, a huge thank you to all the BTS volunteers who have helped on the day or in the days leading up to the event. Your support was invaluable and is greatly appreciated. The event was also kindly supported by Esso refinery at Fawley and by Roxan Construction.
October 2nd, 2011
BTS have claimed 3 bronze medals from 3 fighters at the British International Open this weekend in what turned out to be a very competitive tournament. Well done to Jemma Johnson, Ben Haines and Jennifer Marjason.
Georgia Barnes and Alexandra Thomas are flying to Cyprus tomorrow to represent Team GB at the Junior European Championships. Good luck!
September 20th 2011
Ben Haines has been selected by GB Taekwondo to receive the TASS award for the year 2011-2012. The Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme (TASS) is a government backed partnership between talented young athletes, educational institutes and National Governing Bodies of sport to provide a tailored support service package. Congratulations Ben!
September 10th 2011
Both Alex and Georgia pick up silver at the Polish Open! Well done to both of you.
August 20th 2011
Congratulations to ALEXANDRA THOMAS and GEORGIA BARNES who have been selected to represent TEAM GB at the junior European Championships in Cyprus this October!!!!!
The Girls are currently in an intense training camp at the GB TAEKWONDO ACADEMY in Manchester, training and sparring with a junior Korean Team for 7 days!!!
AND.......
Gareth Brown, who has been working along side Paul Green (high performance coach) at the National academy for the last 2 months, will be taking the GB junior team out to the European Championships as a coach along side Paul. Gareth says: "im very excited about the championships, we have some very good junior talent in our team and they are preparing in the best surroundings possible!!!" Good luck to you all!!!!
April 26th 2011
Head BTS Coach, Gareth Brown, has been selected to work with GB TAEKWONDO as an assistant development coach for the GB JUNIOR TEAM (14-17). This envolves working along side the high performance Coaches at the national Academy in Manchester. ''Coaching the juniors in that environment is loads of fun!!'' Gareth has been working with the Juniors in a number of camps and there are more camps planned for this year. ''This is a really exciting time for Taekwondo in the UK, there are lots of opportunities for young taekwondo athletes in our country''.
June 20th 2011
Gareth has also been selected, after a long interview process, to take the Cadet national team (11-14) to the European Championships in Tibilisi, Georgia as a Coach for the National Team. ''Im very excited about this opportunity and proud to be coaching our future Olympians''.
BTS STUDENTS pass their black belt grading, at the BTCB National Dan Grading's 2011
Adam, Alex, Jenny and Jeamy...
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Contact Jan on 07719 261356.
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Taekwondo World Junior Championships
Britain’s Aaron Cook Strikes Gold atTaekwondo World Junior Championships.
Teenage Taekwondo sensation Aaron Cook became the first ever male British athlete to win a WTF World Junior Championship title after taking gold in Turkey, while team-mate Bianca Walkden completed a successful weekend for Team GB by seizing silver