About Our Club
TaeKwon-Do is a Korean martial art, famous for its dynamic kicks and wide variety of training techniques. We are a friendly and passionate club, open to everyone! Potential members who have practised TaeKwon-Do should know that we welcome both ITF and WT styles, and indeed train in both. With a lively social scene, regular competitions, and a broad range of seminars, our club has something to offer casual members and experienced competitors alike. So whether you simply want to feel safer on nights out or push to win medals, come check us out! Here is our linktree with more useful information.
https://taekwondosoc.uwcs.co.uk/constitution.pdf
Session Times
Our sessions on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturdays are held at Westwood Games Hall and Thursdays are in Zone D in the Sports and Wellness hub. See our session times for this year below:
Monday (WT): 17:00 – 18:30
Tuesday (ITF): 18:00 - 19:30
Wednesday (WT): 17:30 - 19:00
Thursday (ITF): Weeks 1-5; 16:30 - 18:00
Thursday (ITF): Weeks 6-10; 18:00 - 19:30
Saturday (Squad): 14:00 - 16:00
Exec Team
If you have any questions about our club, feel free to ask any of our wonderful exec!
President: Sophie Cockerham
Vice-President: Zoë Dumbleton
Treasurer: Louis Price
Secretary: Arnav Sinha
Captain: Chris Ayannuga (WT) & Hleb Liesniak (ITF)
Social Sec: Adhit Shah & Casey Nicholson
Charity and Publicity Officer: Liz Titova
Equipment & Welfare Officer: Thalia Manning-Burrell
Our Instructors
ITF - Mark Fitton, Sophie Cockerham & Darcy Holden
Mark , 5th Degree Black Belt, runs our ITF sessions on Thursdays. He has over 30 years of experience in Taekwondo. Mark's Taekwondo career was predominantly governed by his time in the RAF where he regularly competed in numerous national and international competitions as part of the RAF and Armed Forces Taekwondo teams, gaining Service Colours at both levels. Mark is also the chief instructor at Balsall Common Taekwondo club. Mark’s particular interest in martial arts is understanding the technical nature of the art and applying this to his main passion of teaching self-defence.
Matthew, 2nd Degree Black Belt, and Sophie, 3rd Degree Black Belt, take the ITF sessions on a Tuesday. Matthew is studying for his PhD in physics and is in his third year. He started Tae Kwon-Do at 14 years old, and received his 1st degree when he was 18 during his first year of undergraduate at the University of Liverpool. He trained with the club at Liverpool and was their treasurer and president. He now trains at Warwick and is the current treasurer. Sophie has been training for 10 years and is a qualified International Instructor for ITF taekwondo. As well as being the current Charity and Publicity officer, she is in her second year studying Engineering.
WT - Dominic Ly & Nicola Rosetti
Dominic holds a 1st degree black belt and has done Taekwondo for over 8 years. He has competed nationally in both the UK and Hong Kong, and is apart of the British Taekwondo National Squad this year. Dominic co-runs our WT and squad sessions, with the focus on getting members to sparring competition standard. Outside of Taekwondo he is a final year Economics student, and has been coaching with the club since 2022.
Competitions
Our club attends a variety of official competitions throughout the year. We have a dedicated Squad session on a Saturday for all those looking to compete at a high level. You can compete in patterns, sparring, breaking and special technique. We attend ITF and WT competitions. Notable competitions include BUCS, BUTL, TSTUK Interclub and ITFU championships.
Gradings
We offer internal gradings in both ITF and WT styles every term. So come along and work your way up from white belt to black belt.
Seminars
We also offer several seminars throughout the year with some very special guests. There are opportunies to further your knowledge in self-defense, Bo Staffs and cool kicks. We also run joint training sessions with other University clubs.
Socials
Outside of training, our social secs also host several socials and events throughout the year - both sober and non-sober. Some events we've done in the past and plan to do this year are:
- POP! and Skool Dayz
- Duck socials
- Games and movie nights
- Club Meals
- Annual international and domestic tours
Charity
We are supporting Cancer Research UK this year. Over the course we will run several events to raise money. We do an annual 12 hour Taekwondo session, pub quizzes and kickathon
Social Media
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Costs
Training requires both a membership and payment of training fees, however these include:
1a) Student:
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Taekwondo Standard Membership £6
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Sports Federation Student Membership £24
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Club Pass Membership Fee (ON CAMPUS) £82
1b) Non-student:
https://www.warwicksu.com/societies-sports/sports-clubs/howtojoin/associate/
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Taekwondo Associate Membership £7.50
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Sports Federation Associate Membership £29.63
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Club Pass Membership Fee (ON CAMPUS) £82
2) Training Fees:
3a) ITF Grading (Optional)
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TSTUK Membership: £35
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Grading Cost: £25
3b) WT Grading (Optional)