Krav Maga Grading January 2017
Our Garston Tae Kwon Do and Krav Maga students took part in a Krav Maga grading on Sunday 29th January 2017. This was with the aim of achieving their 2nd level grading. All students were required to perform a number of defensive and attacking moves to demonstrate to the instructors that they were worthy of the grading. There were 5 instructors at the Hemel Hempstead training hall, including top instructor Alex Paris, so the students had their work cut out to impress. The grading syllabus consisted of defensive techniques to combat open hand, knife and gun attacks, as well as disarming the...
Read MoreDaren Norris Earns Last GTKD Black Belt
Daren Norris has been training with Master Dave Sealey for over 5 years. Originally Darren practiced Tang Soo Do achieving the grade of second dan black belt. And we are please to announce that Daren took his grading in June this year (2016) and has now achieved 1st dan black belt in Tae Kwon Do. However, his grading was more demanding than the usual 1st dan grading, as he was required to also complete a series of Krav Maga techniques. He was faced with multiple assailants armed with various training weapons, who he had to disarm. Master Dave Sealey said on completion of the grading that...
Read MoreGTKD Host Martial Arts Event
Once again we held our annual open evening and this year we featured no less than 5 martial arts. The gathered martial artistes and guests were treated to a taste of Tae Kwon Do with Master David Sealey and Master Nouri, Streetwise Self Defense with Richard Farmer, Hapkido with Steve Carvel, Wing Chung Kung Fu with Sifu Brian Sealey and Krav Maga with Dave Sealey (1st Level Instructor), Richard Farmer (1st Level Instructor), Tim Jennings (1st Level Instructor) and Andy Bannister (1st Level Instructor). The evening raised over £400 which we are pleased to say will go to Great Olmond Street...
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