CLUB
TYGA South West
UK BLACK BELT HALL OF FAME CLUB OF THE YEAR 2011 – Second year running!! Torbay Sports Personality 2011 Team of the year award winners and club of the year runners up
TYGA Martial arts International runs two clubs in the South West in Torquay and Paignton. The clubs are run by Sensei Becky and Sensei Jon Lees both 5thDan black belts. As with all TYGA clubs we offer a combination of sport karate as well as teaching realistic self defence techniques. The club is open to all ages from 6 upwards and all ages train in the same sessions which enables families to all train together. We pride ourselves on teaching martial arts techniques that will work in real situations without the need to put students down or to bully them into learning, we offer a fun and safe realistic martial art that can be enjoyed by all ages and abilities. As well as learning how to protect and defend yourself you will improve your coordination, discipline and self confidence that we find often spills into the daily lives of our students outside of the sessions and really has a positive effect on them both in and out of training.
The first session is free so you are welcome to either come and watch or join in. Parents are free to stay and watch their children or join in with the sessions like so many other parents have. We also have much to offer people wishing to move forward with any existing martial arts experience they have and the club has four world champions who are there to help you what ever level you are at.
Sessions are £4.00 per adult and £3.00 per child
We work on a session by session basis, not by charging per month or through standing orders
For more information please ring the club on 01803 391157, email us at jnlees@yahoo.co.uk
or you are welcome to just come along!
First session Free!
Toorak Hotel, TLH Complex, Chestnut Avenue, Torquay, TQ2 5JS
Mondays 7.00 – 8.00pm
Main Hall, Paignton Community & Sports College, Waterleat Road, Paignton, TQ3 3WA
Tuesdays 7.00 – 8.00pm
STUDENT BLOG – Feb/March 2012
By Dan Ling, 2nd Dan
Happy new year everyone! hope you all had a great time. right big news straight away the trailer is out for thunderkick 3 extreme counterstrike, I suggest you all check it out! Sensei Jon and Rich attended a fighting course in london and took part in some filming, so hopefully check them out on the big screen soon! Also Sensei Jon and Sensei Becky have been nominated for the Devon Sports Award as instructors of the year!! and the club has been nominated for Club of the year, which is again great!! And the last piece of news I have is that we had two new students join us! a father and son team Ryan and David, they are enjoying their training so far! Until next time guys!
Sensei Dan 
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MEET THE BLACK BELTS
INSTRUCTOR – Sensei BECKY LEES 5th Dan
Sensei Becky had been training for over 16 years and has reached the level of 5th Dan black belt, she along with her husband Jon teaches at both the South West sessions. Sensei Becky has won many major awards including world championship titles and has been inducted in to both the UK and USA black belt halls of fame.
INSTRUCTOR – Sensei JON LEES 5th Dan
Sensei Jon has also trained for 16 years and has reached the rank of 5thDan black belt. He along with fellow instructor Becky he has been inducted into both the UK and USA black belt halls of fame. Sensei Jon competes at world championship level and is a winner of many of the major catagories
Sensei RICHARD PYLE 3rd Dan
Richard has been training for 16 years and has reached the level of 3rd Dan black belt, Richard is hard working and dedicated and has been awarded with many major world championship medals and has been inducted into the UK Black belt hall of fame 5 times.
Sensei DAN LING 2nd Dan
Dan who is a second Dan black belt, only ever puts in 100% in every part of his training. He often helps instruct at the Paignton club and is working towards becoming an instructor one day. Dan was part of the Gold winning kata team at the 2009 World championships and has been inducted into the UK black belt hall of fame for both his spirit and dedication to martial arts and in 2011 was awarded Fighter of the year. Dan also writes the student blog for the club on this website.
CLUB AWARDS
Torbay sports personality awards 2011 – Team of the Year Winner and Club of the year (Runner up)
UK Black Belt Hall of Fame – CLUB OF THE YEAR 2011, 2010 and 2008
UK Black Belt Hall of Fame – TEAM OF THE YEAR 2009
Torbay sports personality awards – Coach of the year (Runner up) 2010 & 2008
Devon sport awards – Performance coach of the year, highly commended 2010
Devon sport awards – Female coach of the year (Becky) 2009
TYGA SOUTH WEST IN THE NEWS!
Check out some of the articles about TYGA South West in the news recenlty, just click on the links below:
* TYGA Shortlisted for 2 Devon Sport awards
* The Herald Express Big Interview with Sensei Jon
* Clubs brings home 30 medals from World Championships
* 2011 Torbay sports personality awards
* TYGA South West sucess at the 2011 Hall of fame
* Sensei Dan & Sensei Richard picked for TYGA fighting squad
* TYGA South West’s sucess at 2010 World Open Championships
* Sensei Becky and Sensei Jon graded to 5th Dan black belts
* TYGA South West named club of the year 2010 at UK Black Belt Hall of Fame
STUDENT BLOG ARCHIVE -
Dec 2011/Jan 2012
By Dan Ling, 2nd Dan
Hey again its been another busy month for TYGA south west. Firstly we attended the TYGA world open championships in london, we took 12 fighters and came back with 30 medals! (in which 6 were Golds) Sensei Jon myself and Jason entered the Ju Jitsu competition (Thanks TYGA Monarch!) and took 5 medals home, and Sensei Jon is now the Heavyweight Champion! Again everyone did so well and we’re all proud of them! Secondly Sensei jon had an interview with the Sports editor of the Herald Express (a Big paper in the South West) where they talked about TYGA and the importance of martial arts (check out the link in the ‘TYGA in the news’ section). This was really good and drew up a load of interest in people joining the club!. Next up on the calendars is Christmas so i hope you all have a great Christmas and happy new year! . See you all in 2012! Sensei Dan <:) <– Santa
Oct/Nov
By Dan Ling, 2nd Dan
Hi again! great news for TYGA South West, we have had a great month! Firstly we had a grading, in which Grandmaster came down, and put us and our students to the test, again it was great to see the Grandmaster in action! Everyone did so well as usual,
The results are as follows -
1st Kyu Brown Belt – GERRY KASS & JACOB BOOTHROID
2nd Kyu Brown belt – ALICE GIORGI, SOPHIE GLOVER & PHOEBE HOLDEN
3rd Kyu Brown belt – ANNIE GLOVER, TOM GIORGI & RICHARD KASS
Blue belt – ALANNAH EVANS & EMILY TIDBOROUGH
Green belt – JASON GARSIDE
We all are pleased for them and they have all started training hard for their next grading! The second piece of awesome news is the Torbay sports personality of the year award which I mentioned on the last blog. We were shortlisted for ‘Senior Team of the year’ ( Jon, Richard and me) as well as ‘Torbay club of the year’ We won 1st place Senior team! and runner up for the club of the year! which is amazing! plus we were the only Martial arts club shortlisted, so we beat all the other martial arts in the bay (which is quite a lot!) so next on the TYGA calendar is the World open championships in London, so i will update after that.
Until next time…
Sensei Dan
Sept/Oct
By Dan Ling, 2nd Dan
Well summers over now! and we’re all still training as hard as ever! South West is still going strong, we’ve had a new junior join our ranks a young boy called Leon, who is really enjoying his training with us! Tyga south West has a busy few months ahead of us, we have been nominated for the ‘Torbay Sports Personality Award 2011′ and this year we have been shortlisted for ‘Club of the year’ and ‘Senior Team of the year (Sensei Jon, Richard and myself)’ which will be great! (and also more advertising for TYGA :p ) now were working towards the grading in Oct where grandmaster will be coming to see us! and also the tournament! well that’s all for now!
Until next month, Dan
June/July
By Dan Ling, 2nd Dan
Well, well well, June is off to a great start! We had the hall of fame, where Sensei Jon, myself and Richard all won fighter of the year! Andagain for the second year running TYGA South West won club of the year! which was great. All the students were very happy for us, and even more so when we showed them the trophies! Next up on the TYGA calendar is the one day outdoor course on the 10th June, which will be great!
Until July, Dan ^_^
As Sensei Dan has said above TYGA South West won club of the year at the 2011 UK Black belt hall of fame, an amazing achievement especially as we won the title in 2010 also. So well done all students of the South West club! And congratulations again To Sensei Richard andDan who along with myself also won the title of Fighter of the year 2011!!
All the Best
Sensei Jon, 5th Dan instructor TYGA international
MAY/JUNE
By Dan Ling 2nd Dan
Another month has passed, everybodys training hard as usual down here in the South West. All the students are progressing really well. Firstly big news! SenseiBecky gave birth to a healthy baby girl. So it wont be long until she is back to her standard again! And the hall of fame is coming up soon, Sensei’s Jon, Rich and myself all cant wait. The hall of fame is always great fun, and we endup learning so much. Other than that a quiet month. see ya in june 
Dan
MARCH/APRIL
By Dan Ling 2nd Dan
Well what an eventful month we’ve had! Me, Sensei Jon and Sensei Richard attended the mens outdoor course which again was an excellent course! Sensei Richard went for his third Dan grading and passed! (after taking a beasting from us and the other black belts on the course). Then a week later myself and SenseiJon attended the ladies/mixed outdoor course (not sure why, we both were still recovering from the mens course!) Where we had two of our white belt girls go for their yellow belts on an outdoor course! which is no easy feat! Emily Tilborough and AlannahEvans bothpassed with flying colours! Then if that wasn’t enough karate, the following Monday Sensei Jon, Becky and me helped out at a “be safe” week at south Devon college where we talked to students about self defence and showed several classes some basic TYGA self defence, which went down a treat (especially when SenseiJon started throwing me around like a ragdoll andshowing a few cheeky head kicks!) so a busy month for TYGA South West, coming up on the next blog more gradings for our students!
Until then! Dan ^_^
JANUARY/FEBRUARY By Dan Ling 2nd Dan
Happy new year everybody! The start of a new year of training has begun. I hope you all enjoyed your time off, but now its back to training regularly! We’ve got alot to look forward to this year we have the outdoor course’s, tournament and hall of fame! First one this year is the two day outdoor course, where Sensei Richard is going for his 3RD Dan (Lets all make him earn it!) Hope you enjoy training! and see you in February!!!!
Until next time! Dan
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER By Dan Ling 2nd Dan
November was another good month for Tyga South West. Everyone is still trying hard every week training as much as they can! Also we attended The Tyga World open championships! which was so much fun! All our fighters did amazing! we took nine fighters and came back with seventeen medals inc four gold! Big congrats to Phoebe andSophie who both took home 2 gold medals each which is amazing! Also the Dan grades did great in our fights! some of the best sparring myself Sensei Jon and Rich have done! Just a few more sessions and thats another year over, but the start of another years training and all the fun begins again!
Until next year! Dan
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER By Dan Ling 2nd Dan
September has gone really well, our new girls are getting on brilliantly, their techniques are really improving! Also GM Gary Wasniewskicameto see us for a grading. We had eleven students go for the next level ranging from blue belt !to second kyu brown! They all passed their gradings! Everyone had a great time and we were all really impressed by the skill and technique GM Gary Wasniewski showed us. Next on the TYGA calendar is the tournament, we are all looking forward to going as usual this year, and hoping to bring as many students as possible and bring back lots of medals for TYGA South West
See you in November! Dan
Message from the Instructors – Sensei Becky and Sensei Jon would like to take this opportunity to thank GM Gary Wasniewski for travelling down to take the recent seminar and club grading and also to say how proud we are of all the students who went for and successfully passed their grading. The New grades are as follows: NICK COOMBES – 2nd Kyu Brown Belt, AARON COMMBES – 2nd Kyu Brown Belt, JOE COOMBES – 2nd Kyu Brown Belt, GERRY KASS – 3rd Kyu Brown Belt, SOPHIE GLOVER – Purple Belt, JACOB BOOTHROID – Purple Belt, ALICE GIORGI – Purple Belt, ANNIE GLOVER – Blue Belt, RICHARD KASS – Blue Belt, PHEOBE HOLDEN – Blue Belt, TOM GIORGI – Blue Belt, Well done all, and keep up the good work!
AUGUST/SEPT By Dan Ling 2nd Dan
Autumn has begun! We have had an excellent month as well as three new students starting during August, and all three ladies are doing really well. Everyone is working hard towards the grading at the end of September as well as the world championships in November. We are all practicing our kata and fighting and have strong students in all categories and a first for TYGA South West as Sensei Richard has entered the weapons kata and has great chance of a medal, in his first competition.
All the best, Dan
JULY/AUGUST By Dan Ling 2nd Dan
Yet again it has been a very busy month for TYGA South West. The Monthstarted withtheTYGA systems one day outdoor course held in Wimbledon, London. The course was a packed day filled with a sessions taken by GM Gary Wasniewski. The day finished with the Instructors of the South West clubs battling thier way through a very impressive grading to become 5thDanblack belts. I was very proud of the both of them and was honoured to be able to watch such a high level grading. Sessions have been excellent as usual and the new TYGA leaflets look awesome!
All the best, Dan
JUNE/JULY By Dan Ling 2nd Dan
What a fantastic month June has been. Mainly the trip to London to attendtheUKBlack Belt hall of fame. The day started out with demos andseminars with the world best Martial artists including GM. Gary Wasniewski, all of us who attended joined in every session and learnt a lot. The evening dinner and awards presentation followed and saw my instructors Sensei Jon and Becky being awarded “Excellence in Martial arts” awards, Chris, Tom and Me winning “Spirit of martial arts” awards and Richard winning the “Special merit” award. The best was yet to come when TYGA SouthWestwon “Club of the year” which is the second time! Other than that special event June has also seen two new members join the club, I have enjoyed teaching them alongside Sensei Jon and Becky at the Tuesday club and would like to take this opportunity to Welcome Billy and Connor into the TYGA Family.
All the best, Dan
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