TaeKwon Do

Again the Senior Instructors of the BUTF headed out to Spain for their annual instructors course. This instructors look forward to this course as much as they fear it. No matter how much they protest that they can't do the things that they could 20 years ago, Grandmaster Choy takes no prisoners with the exacting standards that he expects from his instructors when running them through their patterns and sparring syllabus.

Day One -

Day 1 was as usual the early start with matching flights leaving Luton and Gatwick around 7am to arrive in Malaga around 10.30am Spanish time.  Grandmaster Choy and Miss Au were waiting at Malaga with provisions in hand to refresh the instructors before Mr Sheehan and Mr Austin were despatched to collect the Mercedes Hire Van.  As in previous years there was disappointment again when they returned with a Fiat Van safe in the knowledge that the hire company had used the 'or equivalent' clause to full effect.  After the usual game of Jenga when all luggage was duly loaded into the van we set off for a short sight seeing mission.  The mission was to see a character building which appeared to have been made entirely out of stalactites and stalagmites and was inhabited by (allegedly) 'The Mad Englishman'.  Oddly, the owner was neither mad nor an Englishman but an American 'Chino-cologist (so the guide said) who had a taste for avant garde architecture.  The place was wonderful and there was hardly a nook or cranny where there wasn't something amazing to discover.

To read the rest of the story behind the 2012 instructors event please click here and download the report.

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