San Training juniors face off in competition

from Edition 20 June 2023

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SAN Training hosted an in-house competition on May 27 to allow club members the chance to experience competitive taekwondo, with one breaking a club record in the process.

Club owner Cameron Taylor said it was a great day for fighters who have never competed outside of the club, to learn what Taekwondo competitions are all about, with 35 athletes participating.

“We had an inhouse competition on the weekend, which gave younger students the chance to experience a competitive atmosphere without having to fight people they don’t know,” he said.

“We also had a timber breaking competition, we did a highest jump front kick competition and one of our students, Kaitlyn broke the female highest jump front kick club record, she jumped 2.2m.”

To make this day possible, the competition was sponsored by the Gold Coast based company, FightHQ, impressing them into wanting to provide future support to the club.

“We were very lucky actually that we had sponsorship from FightHQ, that was cool and they brought up a lot of the equipment for us to use so we got to use an electronic scoring system,” he said.

“It was quite expensive so they brought $30,000 worth of equipment up here to try out, it was a great opportunity for our athletes to come and get a proper feel of the event so that was cool.

“FightHQ are keen to work with us more now, they sponsor the national team so it’s great to see them support clubs on the other end of the spectrum to help grow grassroots clubs.”