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Mourning the Loss of
Grandmaster Tran Trieu Quan - ITF PRESIDENT His body was found under several tons of debris and his death was confirmed by an official of the Embassy of Canada in Haiti. He will be repatriated to Canada on Sunday, February 14. We are deeply saddened by this news and on behalf of Master Wallace, Mrs Wallace and all our students, we would like to offer our deepest condolences to his family.
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SPONSORED FAST -
Master G Wallace Master Wallace has now completed his 28 day sponsored fast in aid of the Haiti Earthquake Appeal. This fast ran from Midnight 31st January until Midnight 28th February. More... |
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FAREWELL ANNOUNCEMENT Mr Burns has been a great asset to our academy over the years and has definitely added to the energy within our kids classes with his particular way of teaching. We know that everyone will miss him, but we are sure you will all join us in wishing him well. |
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CONGRATULATIONS 7th Degree Promotion On behalf of the academy, we would like to pass on our congratulations to Master Mark Hutton on his promotion to 7th Degree Master at the IIC in Benidorm on Saturday 26th September. Master Hutton VII Deg pictured below (left) with Master Gordon Wallace VII Deg. 
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TEAM BUILDING - BEDLAM PAINTBALL Nine students from the academy attended a team building paintball day on Saturday 24th October at Bedlam in Edzell. The day consisted of 4 missions in the morning, lunch and then 4 further missions in the afternoon. Unfortunately the weather turned in the afternoon but that did not hinder them from doing commando rolls through the woods and throwing grenades into enemy territory. We hope to arrange another one next year.
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| CONGRATULATIONS April 2009 Promoted to 9th Degree Grand Master On behalf of the academy, we would like to pass on our congratulations to GM Trajtenberg, GM Marano, and GM MacCallum on their promotion to 9th Degree Grand Master. Their presentations were made at the ITF European Championships in Benidorm on 25th April 2009.  Pictured above are GM Trajtenberg (left) with Master Wallace (centre) and GM MacCallum (right). |
CONGRATULATIONS Mr & Mrs Burns would like to say a big thank you to everyone who contributed to their wedding gift. They were overwhelmed by the surprise and wanted us to pass on their thanks. |
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| KATRINA
& SCOTT DUNCAN January 2009 We were sad to say goodbye to Katrina and Scott Duncan who have moved with their family to Singapore. We hope they will continue their training overseas and wish them all the best in the future. 
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NIGHT December 2008 Sadly Mr Roy (3rd Deg) and Michelle Hession (4th Kup) have left the academy as they are relocating to London in January for 2 years. Mr Roy will be dropping in from time to time as he is still working in the North Sea and will be continuing his training in London. We do hope they choose to return to Aberdeen in the future. We wish them the best of luck in their new home!! 
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PROMOTION (October 2007) Master Sheena Sutherland ITF Scotland is pleased to announce that Master Sutherland was successful in her promotion to 8th degree during the International Course in Belgium, 19th - 21st Oct 2007. Not only is this a great achievement of such a high rank, but she is the first ever female to reach this level. This accolade is the summit of a lifetime devoted to the furtherment of Taekwon-Do in |
OUR DAY WITH THE BBC July 2007 Please click on the link above for more details about our day with the film crew from Children's BBC2 Programme - DSD (Do Something Different). We were lucky enough to be approached in June 2007 by Producers at the BBC to ask if we would like to participate in filming a Children's BBC2 Programme called DSD (Do Something Different). We had never heard of the show but it sounded great fun and we were sure the kids would love to get involved and we were right. |
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| Pictured from Left to Right are: Master Michael Thompson, 7th Deg, Master Sheena Sutherland, 8th Deg and Master Gordon Wallace, 7th Deg |
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PROMOTION (April 2007) Master Gordon Wallace, VII Degree Following his promotion to 7th Degree Master in April 2007, Master Wallace was given a presentation on behalf of the UKTF in recognition of his promotion. Master Wallace is pictured below being presented with his watch from Master Sutherland, 8th Degree. |
VISITING
BLACKBELT (October 2007) Mr Stephen Marcia, IV Degree Pictured below (back row, 5th from right) is Mr Stephen Marcia, 4th Degree who visited our academy for 3 weeks at the beginning or October during a visit to Aberdeen for work. Mr Marcia travelled from Regina, Canada where he trains with Master Clint Norman who visited us earlier in the year (pictured above). Mr Marcia participated in class |
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MASTER (April 2007) Master Clint Norman, VII Degree Pictured below (centre) is Master Clint Norman, 6th Deg who visited our academy at the end of April 2007 during a short visit to Aberdeen. Master Norman is the President of the Canadian Tae Kwon-Do Federation International and ITF Continental Representative for North America. |
GENERAL CHOI
TARTAN The General Choi Tartan was worn by all Blackbelts in attendance at Mr & Mrs Wallace's Wedding - November 2003 |
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In
a statement issued on 13 Feb, Grandmaster Tran's family have
confirmed the discovery of Grand Master Trān from the rubble of the
Hotel Montana in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. 
As
most of you now know, we have to announce that Mr Burns II Degree
will be leaving us at the end of January. Mr Burns has been
with us for over 6 years as he started teaching when we moved to our
first full time premises at Justice Mill Lane in September 2003. As
you know, Mr Burns was married in July 2009 and has various projects
which he is now looking into. He is currently in the process of
writing a book which he is hoping to publish in the near future and
we wish him every success in this venture and with all he chooses to
do in the future. We are obviously sad to see him go, but appreciate
that he has other things to fulfill. 
