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Hey all my name's Lanny James, I'm 15 and I am I Dan now! I've been doing Taekwon-do for 5 1/2 years now and I train at Ely School TKD, my instructor is Senior Master John Taylor VIII.

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 Latest News                            Archives     2007      2006     2005
     
Welsh Open - Saturday 4th October, NIAC Cardiff
21 School members went to the Welsh Open this year with Ely as reining champs and a great all round performance from everyone as 16 gold, 8 silver and 9 bronze later Ely tallied up 73 points - still waiting for the overalls but it looks good!
  
VIII Junior & III Veteran Worlds - Tashkent, Uzbekistan
First ever Worlds and what fun, long trip - interesting place and some nice people - Nargus Rakhmanova our interpreter being the main girl. Great news for Wales with a new World Champion in Mr Michael Barker Veteran III dan patterns champion as well as silver medal in sparring and Lauren Robson a bronze medallist in female sparring - well done guys!
     
London Open - Saturday 13th July, Guildford Spectrum
8 of Elyites made it to Guildford and 6 gold, 3 silver with 4 bronze to boot between us - well done to all.  Click the picture to the left for photos.
       
Scottish Open - Saturday 21st June, Kelvin Halls, Glasgow
24 competitors in total from Ely, Fairwater and Cardiff Uni with some 23 gold, 13 silver, 8 bronze and an overall - Beth Pezzack u13 colour belt  won between us a great showing for Wales - Well done you all and well done me for my first ever special technique medal - only a bronze but it a first for me :)
 
XXIII Senior & XIV Junior European Championships - Porec, Croatia
Great time away in sunny Porec, big well done to Tom (Bronze patterns), Conah (Bronze patterns) and Lauren (Silver sparring) and to everyone else who competed. - pictures to follow. See you all in Slovenia next year!
Grand Prix VI stage II - Sunday 20th April, Eastern Leisure
More success at stage II with our 15 competitors picking up 8 gold, 7 silver and 10 bronze between them - well done to all you eager little colour belts.
      
English Open - Saturday 15th March, K2 Crawley
Great tournament for Ely school, 16 gold, 6 silver and 9 bronze between us all! The school finished on 69 points which means we won the English Open again this year with Fairwater winning it the year before us that means 3 Welsh wins in a row. I got a double gold which now means I have managed to do it in all the opens so go me!.
Grand Prix VI stage I - Sunday 24th February, Eastern Leisure
A great start to 2008 with our 17 competitors picking up 8 gold, 5 silver and 3 bronze between them - well done to you all.
            
Skittles Night fund raiser - Saturday 16th February, Ty Pwll Coch
A great night where I learnt that I suck at skittles and we raised over £170 for the school so go us.
Awards Night - Thursday 13th December - Electricity Club, Cardiff
Great night at my fourth Awards event, Ely did well picking up 7 overalls and Ethan and Daniel getting students of the year so go them I won the new Master's Shield so go me too. - funniest thing all night - Emily falling over in the dance!

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 Competition results:

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Patterns 18  12  8  4
Sparring 32  6  4 1
Special     1 10
Overalls   9      
Awards   1      

Total tournaments = 45

2008

RITA Irish      
UK Open      
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London Open r1
Scottish Open
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 2007
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English Open  
London Open
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