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2024 Annual Championship

12 OCT 2024
MT GRAVATT
SATURDAY 12:15 PM

Report from 2023

The 22nd Sun Bae Championships is open only to Sun Bae members and entry is FREE. Spectators are also free.

The event is a non-contact team event including patterns and high kick. Up to 200 competitors will battle it out for the much coveted Championship Trophy and Players Trophy. Every member of the team placing 1st, 2nd and 3rd will receive a team medal — presented on the day. There are also medals for individual divisions — which are split into coloured belts (white, yellow, blue, red, red III, black), further split into four age groups per colour.

Defending Champions (with 7 gold) are Team Kenmore, followed closely by Team Newmarket who only loss by the silver medal count. Defending Poomsae Champion is Hannah Yang from Kenmore. Team Newmarket will try their very best to reclaim the championship title won in 2022. Train hard!

Entries will be open soon. Please look out for an invitation email.

Competitions

Gold Coast Open May

15 of Sun Bae students participated in the poomsae event. All successfully won a medal. Find out who were the competitors from your centre and their achievements. Congratulation!

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Kukkiwon Cup NZ August

Master Shirly competed in New Zealand recently and refereed for the poomsae event. She secured a Gold medal for the WT (Under 50) division performing poomsae Chonkwon and Keumgang, obtaining a score of above 7.

She was also awarded the best poomsae referee for the event.

"I am delighted and honoured to have been selected to judge the poomsae event. Thank you so much to President Oh (NZT), Master Garry Carpenter and Master Sophia Haynes for organising a great event and sharing your knowledge with me"

Interesting Articles

Parent's Guide to Prepare for Tomorrow — the Road to Black Belt

A black belt in taekwondo is not just something to tie around our body when we train. It's achievement is representative of our success — success acquired through dedication and perseverance. The "Road to Black Belt" is not just our martial arts journey, but most importantly it is our journey in life coupled with our hope... 

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This article seeks to assist students and parents on some of the decisions they can make to ensure the road to black belt is more easily travelled. Definitely worth a read...

My Club — Newmarket

Black belt (Dan) promotion April

Instructor Chris was promoted to 4 Dan and more recently achieved the Kukkiwon 3rd Class Master level.

Two 1st Gup students, Nathan Ryan and Matilda Fenton were approved to apply for Black belt grading in November. We look forward to their performance!

Hapkido 50th anniversary 

Recently, Sun Bae Hapkido Black Belts attended the 50th Anniversary of Hapkido Moo Hak Kwan at NSW. The two day seminar was conducted by many Hapkido masters, including Grandmaster Bradley. Master Shirly and Instructor Steph were very honoured for the opportunity to train with Grandmaster Sung Soo Lee. 

Private lesson

Private lessons with Master Shirly are available for students from Blue Belt onwards. Please enquire directly with Master Shirly

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