Taekwondo and Hapkimudo grading

Sabomnim - instructor - Formosa has been practising and teaching Taekwondo, a martial art as well as an Olympic sport, for the past 23 years. This past May, in Vienna, saw the rewarding of Sabomnim Formosa's years of passion for knowledge and teaching through the award of a 3^rd Class Master Instructor qualification from Kukkiwon, Korea (the world authority for Taekwondo instructors), strengthening his expertise and competence in this dynamic martial art and Olympic sport.

Innaekwan's Taekwondo branch, named Taekwondo Dragon Club (TDC), held a promotion exam for 11 of its members on Saturday 6^th July. It is Innaekwan's great pleasure to honour the following successful candidates with their new ranks:

Yellow belt (8^th Keup): Douglas Da Silva Pace and Andrea Briffa Sillato

Green stripe (7^th Keup): Josmar Azzopardi

Blue stripe (5^th Keup): Emvin Mifsud, Reuben Mifsud and Gianluca Agius

Blue Belt (4^th Keup): James Aquilina and Jerome Vassallo

Red Belt (2^nd Keup): Shania Magro, Kylie Magro and Jadyn Portelli

It has been almost a year (on 24^th August 2012) that Sabomnim Formosa had conducted the first session of Hapkimudo under the tutelage of Sabomnim Christopher Vella (the establisher of Hapkimudo in Malta) and later on founding the Malta Hapkimudo Association (MHA). Sabomnim Formosa consolidated Innaekwan's Hapkimudo's branch by achieving his first Dan in Hapkimudo through arduous training in France under the traineeship of Master Kang Jong Lee. 

Hapkimudo, a direct derivative of Hapkido, is characterised by solely being a pure self-defence system. This system's fundamentals are a fusion of the best elements found in both Hapkido and Korean kickboxing, therefore a complete system with kicking, blocking, striking, releasing and submission techniques. 

On Thursday 4^th July 2013, Sabumnim Vella conducted the second promotion exam assessing the above mentioned elements in each of the 10 candidates. With a good level of proficiency, the following candidates passed successfully and earning their new respective rank as follows:

10^th Keup - Andrea Briffa Sillato, Karl Grima, Jerome Vassallo and Mauro Busuttil