The sports halls of the Warsaw University of Physical Education were the venue of the 87th International Instructor Course held on 27th – 29th September 2013 in Poland. The host of the event was the Polish Taekwon-Do Association.

The course was traditionally conducted by the Members of the ITF Technical Committee: Grand Master Hector Marano – the Chairman, Grand Master Willem Jacob Bos, who hold a double position of Member and the ITF Board Director and Grand Master Kim Lan Ung – the Member of the Technical Committee.

142 participants from 11 countries (Argentina, Denmark, Germany, Georgia, Italy, Latvia, Norway, Sweden, Russia, USA and Poland) took part in the seminar. The participants were divided into two groups based on their advancement level: 1st – 3rd Degree (73 people) and 4th – 7th Degree (69 people). Because of that the technical content of the seminar was more adjusted to the technical level of practitioners. In the first group the members of the Technical Committee put more accents to patterns as well as the exercises of the sparring and self-defense, in turn during the training sessions for higher degrees the Grand Masters concentrated on the technical matters of pattern, especially for higher degrees.

During the Sunday seminar a black belt test took place for people who due to the ITF By-Laws restrictions have not possibility to take the grading in their own countries. Three people were allowed to take an exam. First was Mrs. Mimmi Oskarsson, member of the Board of Directors of All Europe Taekwon-Do Federation and Swedish Taekwon-Do ITF Federation, who passed the grading for 6th degree.

Two other people were Mr. Levan Tsaretashvili – President of the Georgian Taekwon-Do ITF Federation and Mr. Zaza Chanturia – Member, who was promoted to 4th Degree. Thanks that promotion the Georgian Federation is right now able to promote their members for the first black belt degree.

At the end Master Tadeusz Loboda the PTA President received many congratulations for a good organization, friendly atmosphere, a nice time in Warsaw as well as for a high level of the course.

 The Georgian TaekwonDo Federation would like to thank to Master Tadeusz Loboda for all the support.

Another report from the IIC in Warsaw is available on the ITF website:

http://itfeurope.org/NL2013-04-03.html

http://tkd-itf.org/noticias/lligirmes.php?id=11443&lng=3&idmodweb=1568&pag=0