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We hope you like our new web site, if you have any useful comments please sent them to us via our contact page.

We will be updating this page on a regular basis and if you would like to submit any articles or stories concerning yourself or your school then please e-mail your stories to me at : mark@mftkd.co.uk

Mark Farnham 6th Dan

We have a new page to help with your 2 Step Sparring
2 Step Sparring Page

We have a new page to help with your 3 Step Sparring
3 Step Sparring Page

Remember your Theory Cd for all your grading theory from White Belt to 5th Dan.

Theory CD

You can download the new Oath and stick it into your Handbook - Just click here

James from Ely composed this track - have a listen

SPECIAL OFFER

This new full syllabus referance book for all colour belt grades - this is the best book up to date to cover all your grading techniques / questions etc. Special price of £12.95 to students of our schools ONLY !

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Students Grading Letters

Please go to this page to find your grading times and venues.

What a great finish to 2009 for
The Mark Farnham Schools of Tae Kwon-Do.

British Championships Sunday 22nd  November held at Cardiff

Results :

Ely
Duncan Earlam 2nd Team Sparring
Lynsay Williams 1st Ladies Sparring
Britni Edwards 1st Sparring, 2nd Patterns
Danika Hall 3rd Sparring

Kings Lynn
Cameron Webb 2nd Sparring, 1st Team Sparring
Warren Vice 1st Sparring
Alistair Church 3rd Patterns
Gavin Davies 3rd Sparring

March
Bethany Marsh 2nd Sparring
Simon Bradshaw 3rd Sparring

Mildenhall
Shane Parker-Mallows 3rd Sparring

Peterborough
Kieran McMullon 1st Sparring, 2nd Team Sparring
Jordan Murray 2nd Team Sparring
Greg Hibbert 1st Sparring, 2nd Team Sparring

Wisbech
Ryan Waring 2nd Team Sparring

Downham Market
Christopher Gilluley 3rd Sparring, 3rd Patterns
Paul Gilluley 3rd Sparring, 3rd Patterns

Burwell
Samantha Wise 2nd Sparring
 
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Clash of the Titans Saturday 14th November held at Huddersfield

This was a special event that was invitation only to the British team.
Different martial arts gathered together for a team fight-off to find the best.
Warren Vice was chosen as one of the T.A.G.B. team members.
The T.A.G.B. team won the event with a very strong nights work from Warren who won the fighter of the night award, a very prestigious award indeed.

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Also at the British Championships at Cardiff.

Two high level accolades we also awarded to our members.

Warren Vice from Kings Lynn was awarded international fighter of the year, this award is given to only one fighter a year and with 25,000 members it is a real achievement to gain this award – this is the 4th time Warren has received the honour. Which goes to show the standard of this fantastic fighter.

Chief Instructor Mark Farnham was awarded his 6^th Dan Black Belt this grade has taken over 25 years to achieve, with only a few Tae Kwon-Do practitioners in the country holding this rank or above.

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A very well done to all of those students taking part in the latest events.

We currently have at least 1 competition every 4 weeks on average throughout the year.

AGE IS NOT A CONCERN

This is the start of my story that I would like to share with you Members,Non Members, and Parents.

It begins in the 1970s this was my first martial arts experience aged 13,my friends and I sitting in our local flicks (cinema) glued to the big screen watching Bruce Lee punching and kicking his way to victory, I was hooked I wanted to give it a go but the only sport available was boxing there was my first problem I did this at a young age of 9 for a number of weeks until I got caught by my trainer having a crafty cigarette he suggested I stopped going to his gym as I might encourage the others (silly boy). Then in 1987 at the age of 30 I saw some people dressed in white cotton suites carrying padded shields going into my old school, out of curiosity I followed them in, as the class started they did kicks up and down the hall then a vigorous workout and sparring which included sweeps (take downs) I decided to give it a go. My first lesson was very hard for me but for the others just a warm up. This was the first time that I met Mr Mark Farnham who had just successfully achieved his black belt with this very strict instructor. As months passed I managed to get to yellow belt, only to have announced that the Ely classes would be moved to another place Marham. As I did not have any kind of transport I had to stop training. It was 6 years later aged 37 I was flicking though the local paper when a advert caught my attention it was advertising Tae Kwon Do lessons at the sports centre with Mark Farnham (mmm that name seems familiar) I went along on the Monday evening and was greeted with "hello geoff good to see you again how have you been" well that was 12 years ago I have done in that time all my colour belt grading and a trip to Bristol for my black belt. I hope you enjoyed this piece I put together for you to read.

Yours
Geoff Youngs

• January 2006
• March 2006