Jon Mackey's blog carries his thoughts on the recent trip to Korea, here is a small excerpt, for the full blog click on the link below.
So we are one week back today (Wednesday) and the thoughts of Korea are still very vivid. What an incredible experience. The championships, the festival, the cultural experience, just incredible. To be apart of team Ireland for this trip is something that can't be forgotten easily. Obviously it was a great trip for a number of reasons, my test, the students performance at the tournament, the experience of coaching at that level, being around some great people from across the globe and spending time with Master Choi and Master Dalton.
All the tough training certainly paid off, it was well worth all that effort. All that extra time on the mat, all those early mornings, the diet plans, the weight cutting, the hard slog of fundraising and the team building wasn't lost on everyone, and the results speak for themselves.
The World Taekwon-Do Festival was the first of the events to happen. This event saw both fighters from the WTF and the ITF compete along side each other in an amazing display of sport Taekwon-Do. Some of these WTF guys are savage kickers, explosive. Competing in the Festival for us was Lauren, Erika and Donna in the colour belt sections, Neidin and Alvy competed in the black belt sections.
Arbour Hill boxing coach and long time friend to Red Star coach Jon Mackey, Stephen Kavanagh paid a visit to the club to work on some tactical hand sparring with team Korea.
The pad work covered all possible combinations found in the Taekwon-Do ring. Commenting on the standard of the guys traveling to Korea, Stephen said they had made huge improvements since his last visit. He wished them all the best of luck in Korea.
Welcome to the new Red Star Sport Taekwon-Do website. We've tried to keep the friendly and energetic style of our old website while making everything a little bit more professional, and I think we've succeeded in that. The best way to view this website is through the browser Firefox, you can download Firefox for free here.
Please have a nosey around the place and let us know what you think by using the contact us section (About us), please be patient though as there is still a bit of tidying up to do. Over on the right you can see our social networking buttons, that's where you'll find us on Twitter, our photo gallery is there too as well as all our uploaded video clips. Facebook will be along shortly (I hate facebook :-/) If you want to sign up for the newsletter thingy just add your name and email over where it says 'subscribe' - pretty easy hey? And there's a video on the bottom right.
Our online shop will be ready for action pretty soon also, allowing you to buy some groovey Taekwon-Do t-shirts, hats, ties and other bits and bobs.
So we're all pretty excited about the new site, I hope you will be too.
Call back as often as you can and let everyone know about the new design.
more professional, and I think we've succeeded in that. The best way to view this website is through the browser Firefox, you can download Firefox for free 
