So last Saturday was the day I scored not only third place in the women’s heavyweight blackbelt sparring division of the Tae Kwon Do Association of Great Britain’s South East Championships 2008, but it was also the day that I also gained my first black eye…albeit a partial one.

I got a bye into the 2nd […]

That’s a song lyric quote….that NONE of you will know, so I shall tell you who it’s by - it’s from a song called ‘Beauty Fiend’ by a California based metal band called My Ruin. It refers to the current state of my left leg:

Yeah, pretty colourful, huh? This is from Tae Kwon […]

Yeah, I don’t know what to make of it either:
Reuters - N.Korea used taekwondo group to plot murder
For you TKD laymen, North Korea practices ITF-style TKD (the style I do) and South Korea practices WTF-style TKD (style in the Olympics) which was allegedly developed after South Korea took a dislike to General Choi, the founder […]

Yesterday I competed in the TAGB London Area Interclub Championships in Hemel Hempstead. Just a small Tae Kwon Do tournament - small enough that I had a chance of not getting completely beaten up : ) I entered for patterns, team patterns, and sparring. I nearly pulled out of sparring as I […]

I found this trailer for this forthcoming martial arts comedy film on my weekly popbitch.com newsletter…it looks very funny, totally ripping it out of Tae Kwon Do, which is the martial art I practice.
It gets a release in the US this month, so I guess it’ll be out in the UK later this […]