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ONLINE GRADING

Central Academy conducted its first ever Online Kup Grading Test on 5th June 2020.
The grading candidate was Lewis Mason, who produced a faultless performance and was promoted to 8th Kup Yellow Belt with an Advanced Level Pass!
Well done Lewis!

40 YEARS IN TAEKWONDO

1980

30th March – Took part in my first ever taekwondo class. It was at Great Sankey Forum in Warrington with Grandmaster Shin (Mr Shin at the time!). I was 18.


1982

Grandmaster Shin had started a class at Norton Recreation Centre in Runcorn. I took over as instructor in the summer of ’82, I was a 2nd kup red belt at the time. When I took my 1st kup black tag grading later that year in Manchester, I had six of my own students taking their first grading.

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