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Lakerdis Martial Arts

Locality: Caboolture, Queensland

Phone: +61 7 5428 2930

Address: 1/5 Machinery Pde 4510 Caboolture, QLD, Australia

Website: http://caboolturetkd.com.au/

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22.01.2022 The 2020 year has been the most challenging year of our lives in many ways, but for the Taekwondo community, the covid-19 pandemic has brought particular challe...nges and many hardships for club operators and their students. For our MNA’s, the pandemic resulted in no activities being scheduled and for athletes, the Covid pandemic has meant no competitions and the cancellation of the 2020 Olympic Games and great uncertainty as to whether the games will actually take place in 2021. Fortunately, the Oceania Olympic qualification event was able to be completed in February 2020 on the Gold Coast, Australia but the pandemic outbreak resulted in many athletes not entering the event because of fear of travel and some who entered, were not permitted to travel by their own governments and NOC’s. To engage with our Taekwondo Community and our MNA’s, Oceania hosted its first ever online Poomsae competition and this was an extremely successful event with over 500 entries from more than 50 countries participating across 46 divisions. The event also included Para Poomsae with over 30 contestants from 13 countries. On the education front, we witnessed the introduction of the WT education programs particularly the coaching accreditation offering three different levels of coaching accreditation. A number of other education initiatives were also introduced in 2020 such as referee courses for those aspiring to become international referees as well as courses for technical delegates who are usually appointed to oversee the running of WT sanctioned or promoted events. In Oceania we also say three of our officials become accredited WT course presenters. Congratulations to Rene Leveaux, Denzil Ray and Colby Au, who all completed the WT presenters’ course and are now accredited to present WT education programs. I am pleased to say, that we now have a significant number of accredited level 1 and 2 coaches who completed the online courses as well as many who successfully completed the Technical Directors’ courses. Whilst we had hoped that the pandemic will have been under control by the end of 2020, this did not occur and a second wave of the pandemic struck many Oceania countries particularly Australia. In Melbourne, Australia, strict curfews were introduced and a state of emergency was announced resulting in a further lockdown of the entire community for several months. Unfortunately, 2020 brought further sadness to the worldwide Taekwondo community with the passing Gen Ahmed Fouly, Vice President of World Taekwondo, longstanding President of World Taekwondo Africa and WT council member. Gen Fouly was a great man and a great leader who oversaw enormous development if African taekwondo resulting a in numerous Olympic medals in Rio in 2016. He will be sadly missed by all of us. The 2020 year also saw many changes in the leadership roles of some continental unions. We can all pray that 2021 will be a much brighter year filled with good health and much happiness and hopefully, we will have taken control of the Pandemic which has destroyed so many lives and caused enormous economic damage and suffering. I am confident that in 2021,we will overcome the challenges of 2020 and we will be able to return to some normality with many Taekwondo programs and events being scheduled and offered to our MNA’s and their athletes. In 2021, Oceania intends to host a number of important G ranked events which include Presidents cup G2, Tahiti Open G2, Oceania championships seniors G4, Oceania Junior championships G2 s well as Oceania Poomsae championships G2. I look forward to meeting our Oceania family members face to face in 2021 and I wish everyone a safe, healthy and prosperous 2021 year. .. Kindest Regards John A Kotsifas, President World Taekwondo Oceania

16.01.2022 Attention all members and families. Due to recent COVID. developments, tonight’s training sessions will be cancelled, apologies for any inconvenience, but I’m sure you’ll understand that this is a necessary precaution. We will keep you updated over the next 72 hours. Keep an eye on your emails as I will update everyone as soon and as often as I can.