{"id":1795,"date":"2016-12-16T08:43:35","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T00:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ywo.id.au\/blog\/?p=1795"},"modified":"2025-02-23T21:30:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T13:30:42","slug":"december-2016-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/2016\/12\/16\/december-2016-action\/","title":{"rendered":"December 2016 action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, First Tae Kwon Do held its last grading examination for the year in Perth. Below are some photographs from the 1st Dan grading (for Junior Black Belt members to be promoted to 1st Dan black belt) and the senior coloured belt (Kup) grading. 1st Kup candidates for 1st Dan were tested earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1797\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1797\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1797\" src=\"https:\/\/ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/YWO_ND2_50697s-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"First Tae Kwon Do side kick, December 2016, Perth\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/YWO_ND2_50697s.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/YWO_ND2_50697s-80x120.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1797\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FTKD side kick, December 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1798\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1798\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1798\" src=\"https:\/\/ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/YWO_ND2_50743s-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"First Tae Kwon Do self-defence, December 2016, Perth\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/YWO_ND2_50743s.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/YWO_ND2_50743s-120x80.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1798\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FTKD self-defence, December 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Master Vernon Low was the examiner, and spent some time during the grading to teach self-defence techniques.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1799\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1799\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1799\" src=\"https:\/\/ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/YWO_ND2_50801s-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"First Tae Kwon Do Master Vernon Low teaching, December 2016, Perth\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/YWO_ND2_50801s.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/YWO_ND2_50801s-120x80.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1799\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FTKD Master Low teaching, December 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Free sparring and breaking followed, with all candidates doing well at their gradings.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1800\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1800\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1800\" src=\"https:\/\/ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/YWO_ND2_50952s-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"First Tae Kwon Do free sparring, December 2016, Perth\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/YWO_ND2_50952s.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/YWO_ND2_50952s-120x80.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1800\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FTKD free sparring, December 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1801\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1801\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1801\" src=\"https:\/\/ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/YWO_ND2_51118s-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"First Tae Kwon Do punch break, December 2016, Perth\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/YWO_ND2_51118s.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/YWO_ND2_51118s-120x80.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1801\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FTKD punch break, December 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1802\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1802\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1802\" src=\"https:\/\/ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/YWO_ND2_51127s-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"First Tae Kwon Do elbow strike break, December 2016, Perth\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/YWO_ND2_51127s.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/YWO_ND2_51127s-120x80.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1802\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FTKD elbow strike break, December 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1803\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1803\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1803\" src=\"https:\/\/ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/YWO_ND2_51145s-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"First Tae Kwon Do side kick break, December 2016, Perth\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/YWO_ND2_51145s.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/YWO_ND2_51145s-120x80.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1803\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FTKD side kick break, December 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Master Low, Chief Instructor John O&#8217;Brien, and WA Chief Instructor Dane Meade stood with the new 1st Dan members for a portrait.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1804\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1804\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1804\" src=\"https:\/\/ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/YWO_ND2_51235s-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"First Tae Kwon Do Master Vernon Low, instructors, and new 1st Dan members, December 2016, Perth\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/YWO_ND2_51235s.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/YWO_ND2_51235s-120x80.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1804\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FTKD Master Low, instructors, and new 1st Dan members, December 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The last session of the day was the senior Kup grading. There was plenty of action, and\u00a0some members demonstrated jumping and flying kicks during their free sparring.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1805\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1805\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1805\" src=\"https:\/\/ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/YWO_ND2_51286s-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"First Tae Kwon Do free sparring, December 2016, Perth\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/YWO_ND2_51286s.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/YWO_ND2_51286s-120x80.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1805\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FTKD free sparring, December 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1806\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1806\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1806\" src=\"https:\/\/ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/YWO_ND2_51354s-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"First Tae Kwon Do free sparring, December 2016, Perth\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/YWO_ND2_51354s.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/YWO_ND2_51354s-120x80.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1806\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FTKD free sparring, December 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Congratulations to all members\u00a0who underwent testing on the day, and were successfully promoted to new ranks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, First Tae Kwon Do held its last grading examination for the year in Perth. Below are some photographs from the 1st Dan grading (for Junior Black Belt members to be promoted to 1st Dan black belt) and the senior coloured belt (Kup) grading. 1st Kup candidates for 1st Dan were tested earlier&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/2016\/12\/16\/december-2016-action\/\" class=\"read-more\" title=\"December 2016 action\"><span>Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text sr-only\">December 2016 action<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[27,318,26,278,292,24,260,277],"class_list":["post-1795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-martial-arts","tag-breaking-action","tag-dane-meade","tag-flying-action","tag-ftkd","tag-john-obrien","tag-sparring-action","tag-tkd","tag-vernon-low"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4149,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions\/4149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}