Exclusive Gun & Knife Seminar

We're happy to announce that International Instructor, Master Vladimir Grachev will be hosting an Exclusive Gun and Knife Seminar in both Centurion (18th November) and Ballito (8th December).

Be sure to Reserve your Seat - as spaces are limited and it will be a first-come-first serve basis.

CENTURION SEMINAR

Excellent Results for SA GTF Taekwon-Do Black Belt Team at Euro/Asia Championships - Cyprus July 2017

Congratulations to out South African GTF Taekwon-do Black Belt Team on their excellent results at the GTF Taekwon-Do Euro/Asia Championships held in Cyprus.

Miki Oshua (II Degree) – Gold Sparring & Silver Patterns
Humaira Khan (I Degree) – Gold Sparring & Gold Patterns
Kai Weinzheimer (I Degree) - Gold Sparring
Pieter Pienaar (I Degree) - Silver Sparring
Johannes Kohn (I Degree) - Silver Sparring
Collin Naidoo (I Degree) - Silver Sparring
Ruan Janse van Rensburg (I Degree) - Silver Sparring

A sincere thank you to Master Grachev for his Coaching and Instruction. Thank you Sir!

SA GTF Black Belt Team with SA GTF President and Master Mr. Vladimir Grachev

SA GTF Team here with GTF President and Honarary Grand Master Mrs. Linda Park and
USA GTF President Mr. Manny Quiles.

South African GTF Colour Belt Team Results - Euro/Asia Championships Cyprus - July 2017

Congratulations to our South African GTF Taekwon-do Colour Belt Team for their excellent results from the Euro/Asia Championships held in Cyprus.

Seen here with Hon. Grand Master and GTF President Mrs Linda Park, Grand Master Francisco Paco Beloso​, USA GTF President Manny Quiles​, SA GTF President & Instructor Master Vladimir Grachev.

Sonneline Wools – Green Belt – Silver Sparring – Gold Patterns
Madia Olivier – Green Belt – Gold Patterns
Vanessa Moodley – Green Belt – Gold Patterns
Jacque Heymans – Green Belt – Gold & Bronze Sparring & Gold Patterns
Desiree Moodley – Yellow Belt – Silver Patterns
Merlene Munusamy – Yellow Belt – Gold Patterns

Children Colour Belt Results:
Sebastian du Plessis-Holemans – Green-Blue Stripe - Gold Sparring – Bronze Patterns

The Team wishes to thank Master Grachev for his coaching and excellent Instruction. Thank you Sir!

Congratulations to Bo Sabum Nim's - Vic Aparicio, Michael Sonnekus and Miki Oshua for achieving their 2nd Degree Black Belts in Hapkido. The students wish to express their appreciation and gratitude to Master Grachev for his excellent Instruction.

Students Achieved Excellent Results at Championships

Congratulations to the students from the Centurion Dojang for your excellent attitude, respect and results attained at the GTF Open Taekwondo Championships ... held in Ballito recently. 

Students participated in Sparring, Patterns and in Sword Fighting. 

Medals Galore' :) .... Well Done!!!

The students wish to thank Master Grachev for his excellent Instruction. 

Congratulations To Our New 1st & 2nd Degree Black Belts

Congratulations once again on the following Taekwon-Do students from the Ballito Dojang who recently, successfully completed their Black Belt Grading's. Well done on all your years of hard-work and commitment. What a great achievement. 

Avril Taylor, Vicki Millican & Theresa Jackson, started training together as white belts and set their goal to stick together until they had their Black Belts, what a journey! 

Fabian Durocher-Yvon has been training diligently and along with Avril, Vicki & Theresa achieved 1st Degree Black Belts. 

Bo-Sabum Nim Linda Smit, graded successfully to her 2nd Degree Taekwon-Do Black Belt. What a great achievement!

Well done Team!! TaeKwon!

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GTF Euro/Asia Championships .... Salerno, Italy

Guk-Jae Sabum Nim Vladimir Grachev receiving a gift from Honorary Grand Master Mrs. Linda Park and Master Pallela. Seen here at the recent GTF Euro/Asia Championships which took place at Salerno, Italy.

SA GTF Taekwon-Do Team Competes in GTF Euro/Asia Championships

Congratulations to the SA GTF Taekwon-Do Team that participated in the GTF Euro/Asia Championships which took place last week in Salerno, Italy.

Lucky Ndlovu - Gold Sparring 
Victor Aparicio - Silver Sparring, Bronze Patterns
Humaira Khan - Silver Sparring, Silver Patterns
Miki Oshua - Gold Sparring, Bronze Patterns

The Team wishes to thank their Instructor - Guk-Jae Sabum Nim Vladimir Grachev for his training and support.

The Team seen here with Honorary Grandmaster Mrs. Linda Park, Master Palella and Guk-Jae Sabum Nim Vladimir Grachev.

SA GTF To Host First GTF Taekwon-Do Championships in South Africa!

Congratulations to Guk-Jae Sabum Nim Vladimir Grachev (SA-GTF) for winning the bid at the recent GTF Official Annual Meeting in Cyprus for South Africa to host the first ever intercontinental GTF Taekwon-Do Championships!!

This is a great achievement for South Africa - and the SA GTF Taekwon-Do Federations. Congratulations!!!

December 4 -7, 2014 .... ICC Centre - Durban -    THE BIG FIGHT !!!

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Congratulations to the South African GTF Team

Congratulations to the SA Team, 
Training with Guk-Jae Sabum Nim Vladimir Grachev,
for their Results at the GTF Taekwon-Do World Championships 
- Cyprus June 2013 - 

NAME                                         BELT        PATTERNS       SPARRING
Female
Chelsea-Leigh Flaum                    Black        Bronze             Gold
Miki Oshua                                 Black        Silver               Silver

Male
Victor Aparicio                             Black       Bronze             Gold
Samkelo Maphumulo                     Red         Bronze             Silver
Jarred Karp                                  Green          -                 Gold

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Veritas National Championships

The Martial Arts Masters Academy students from the Ballito and Centurion Dojang’s attended the Veritas National Taekwon-Do Championships, in Johannesburg this past weekend.   Students from many different Federations and Clubs nationwide attended this national event.

The event was also used as part of the selection process for the SA GTF Team that will represent South Africa at the GTF Taekwon-Do World Championships taking place in June in Cyprus.

We wish to congratulate all our students on their results!

(Please see our Face Book page for a full name list and achievements - thank you!)

A sincere thank you to International Instructor Guk-Jae Sabum Nim Vladimir Grachev for his excellent instruction and coaching.

Students are now hard at work, training under the expert instruction of Guk-Jae Sabum Nim Vladimir Grachev, to represent South Africa at GTF Taekwon-Do World Cup - taking place in Cyprus, in June 2013.

We wish the Team the very best as they prepare for this prestigious International GTF Taekwon-Do event.

PS: As the rest of the Teams results are sent in we'll do some additional posts ...

"Congratulations to our students in Shakaskraal!"

Students from Shakaskraal this week gathered excitedly at their local community hall for their official grading in the Korean martial arts of Taekwon-Do and Hapki-Do.   Students have been training hard and diligently under the instruction of Samkelo Maphumulo.

Samkelo is a Junior Instructor with the SA Global Taekwon-Do & Hapki-Do Federation and teaches children, teenagers and adults in both disciplines.   Samkelo himself trains under Guk-Jae SabumNim Vladimir Grachev, of Ballito and is currently training hard to qualify for the SA Team that will attend the GTF World Cup in Cyprus in June.

Students were graded to different belt levels and each grading started with the required fitness levels, then demonstrating their balance, new kicks, punches, speed techniques and patterns.   Breaking of wood with kicks and punches was a definite highlight as was the self-defense and weapons techniques of the Hapki-Do students.
We wish to sincerely congratulate all the Shakaskraal students for their hard work and excellent grading. It is wonderful to see these children directing their energies positively whilst learning to defend themselves.

Many of the students are unable to pay for their fees, and instruction is given freely to them.  We wish to express our gratitude for all the donations and gifts of Dobok’s and training equipment that has been sent to assist these students.

The SA GTF and Hapki-do Federation have joined forces with Samkelo & Innocent and the Shakaskraal community, and will be bringing at exciting upliftment programme to the community upon their return from the World Cup.

KZN Open GTF Taekwon-Do Championships ~ 2 March 2013 ~

We held our annual summer KZN Open GTF Taekwon-Do Championships this past weekend.  Nine different clubs from Ballito, Shakaskraal, Stanger, Pinetown, Richards Bay, Centurion, Pretoria and Johannesburg attended, providing an exciting and well attended Tournament.

Over 100 students partook in this Championship, well supported by their family and friends. This event was also used as part of the selection process for the SA GTF Team that will represent South Africa at the GTF Taekwon-Do World Championships taking place in June in Cyprus.

We wish to congratulate the following students from our Dojang’s on their excellent results!

For Patterns in their respective Divisions: 

Gold Medals: Natasha Oosthuizen, Sathinder Naidoo, Tristan Power, Jack Maidman.

Silver Medals: Jarred Karp, Daniil Grachev, Dasra Naidoo.

Bronze Medals: Anika Naidoo, Lynne Meintjies, Chelsea-Leigh Flaum, Janine Correia, Keshav Govender, Matt Kalil.

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For Sparring (Contact) in their respective Divisions: 

Gold Medals: Chelsea-Leigh Flaum, Roger de Charmoy, Tristan Power, Daniil Grachev, Sathinder Naidoo, , Samkelo Maphumulo, Jarred Karp, Neels Grobbelaar.

Silver Medals: Lynne Meintjies, Conrad Nalson, Shaun Cronje’, Matt Kalil, Jack Maidman, , David Henwood.

Bronze Medals: Nadira Waters, Leigh Power, Natasha Oosthuizen, Dasra Naidoo, Keshav Govender, Fabien Durocher-Yvon.

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We also won the Trophy (1st Place) for the Best Club. Congratulations to all the students and to International Instructor Guk-Jae Sabum Nim Vladimir Grachev for his excellent instruction and coaching.

Big thanks to the Westbrook Church for their supply of refreshments and tasty lunch and to Mr. Densil Reddy for arranging the venue. 

A special thank you to our Official Sponsor Mr. Andrew Pillinger from Herbalife – www.24HourNutrition.co.za for his very generous sponsorship of the music, medals and certificates and providing nutritional food for the children of Shakaskraal. 

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Thank you to all the Judges - it was fun working beside you - really appreciate your help and hard work ... it made for a fabulous event !!!
Students are now hard at work, training under the expert instruction of Guk-Jae Sabum Nim Vladimir Grachev, to represent South Africa at GTF Taekwon-Do World Cup - taking place in Cyprus, in June 2013.
We wish the Team the very best as they prepare for this prestigious International GTF Taekwon-Do event.

Sabum Nim Featured in Success Academy Magazine!

Students from the SA Global Taekwon-do Federation attended the GTF Grand Master Park Jung-Tae World Cup in Toronto, Canada which took place from 24-29^th July. 

After national selections, seven competitors from the Ballito & Johannesburg Martial Arts Masters Academy Clubs qualified to represent South Africa at the World Championships.  Each country sent their strongest sportsman to the World Cup and the event was filled with eager anticipation from competitors and coaches alike.  After four days of competition our South African team achieved outstanding results, with each person achieving a medal.

Janine Correia – Under 80kg – Sparring: Gold
Innocent (Lucky) Ndlovu – Under 80kg Sparring:  Bronze  - Power Breaking - Gold
Miki Oshua – Under 65kg – Sparring: Gold
Natasha Oosthuizen – Under 60kg – Sparring: Silver – Power Breaking – Gold
Mix Swart – Under 80kg – Sparring: Bronze
Darryl Smith – 90kg+ - Sparring: Silver – Power Breaking – Gold
Kim Mulder – Under 80kg – Sparring:  Gold

 The President of the (GTF) Global Taekwon-do Honorary Grand Master Linda Park and the Masters were impressed with the technique and sportsmanship demonstrated by the South Africa Team.  We congratulate the team on their excellent results!

We wish to thank all our many supporters and in particular the generous Team donations and sponsorships given by Mr. Eric Page of HERS and Siza Water of Ballito.

This event was an excellent experience for the SA Team, many of whom this was their first international championships.  The team has returned, ready and eager to prepare for their next world championships which will take place in 2013 in Cyprus.

The team wishes to express their appreciation and gratitude for the world-class training received by their Coach, International Instructor and Master Vladimir Grachev – 6^th Degree Black Belt (Taekwon-Do & Hapki-Do).

Congratulations to our SA GTF Team for their achievements at last weekends Veritas Competition.
 
A big thank you to all our Instructors and Team members for their support during the day we appreciate you!


For Sparring (Contact) Gold goes to Sabum Nim Timur Kurmanov and Roger de Charmoy - you did us proud.  Silver Medals to Lucky Ndlovu, Miki Swart, Janine Correia, Natasha Oosthuizen, Grant Sutherland, and Vounal Nandlal. 


The Teams would like to thank Guk-Jae Sabum Nim Vladimir Grachev for his instruction, coaching, constant and unfailing support. Thank you!!

Go Team Go! 

Some of the SA GTF (Global Taekwon-Do Federation) Team seen here with 

 - Master & International Instructor - Guk-Jae Sabum Nim Vladimir Grachev - 

- VI Degree Black Belt Taekwon-Do & Hapki-Do - 

                                                  

National Events

The IFT Taekwon-Do Centre in Richards Bay hosted an Open TaeKwon-Do Tournament this past Saturday.  Once again Ballito students brought back the medals.  Congratulations to all the students for excellent results!
Jesse Jacobs - Bronze Sparring (contact)
Warren Bratby - Gold Sparring
Ede van Wyk - Gold Sparring
Jordan Duncan - Gold Sparring & Gold Patterns
Daniil Grachev - Gold Sparring & Bronze PatternsKaitlyn Damant - Silver Sparring & Gold Patterns
Conrad Robert -  Bronze Sparring

From left to right: Bo-Sabum Nim Timur Kurmanov, Kok Chee Sabum Nim Vladimir Grachev, Miki Oshua, Jesse Jacobs, Warren Bratby, Ede van Wyk                       

Front Row: Jordan Duncan & Daniil Grachev