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✅📸 DTA Summer PHOTO Comp 2024 📸✅ Back by popular demand - too keep you kicking during our summer (3 week) break. PRIZE EVERYTIME – Drawstring Kitbag for every DTA member that posts a picture / video To take part, simply take a photo or video of you training / posing during the summer break, and Post it on your own social media channel with...

Day Last Class First Class Back Monday 5th August 2nd September Thursday 25th July(No Thursday classes in August) 5th September Friday 9th August 6th September Saturday 10th August 7th September Summer Break As usual we will take a break from classes during part of August. There will be no classes from :-Monday 12th August; Restarting on Monday...

  Easter 2024 Schedule With Easter and a number of bank holidays approaching there are a few changes to the regular lesson schedule. If your regular class is not on, you are welcome to train at any of our other classes. We at DTA hate breaking our usual schedule as its difficult to get in the habit of regular training, but easy to break the...

2023 was another great success for Dorset Taekwondo Association and our membersA few of the highlights are listed below (and shown in the photos below) • Coach Marina wins a bronze and the European Poomsae Championships• Two of our coaches (Cassidy and Kailin) pass the rank of 4th Dan Master• The club wins a 3rd place team trophy at the Bluewave...

This years Awards and party were at the Littledown Centre in the bar. This is around 20 years we have been having the party here. This year there was around 120 party goers including DTA club members current and from the past.The annual awards, which were decided upon by the coaches, were presented as follows: “Rising Star 2023” x71. Rory...

On 18th Feb 23 Dorset Taekwondo Association took fourteen competitors up to compete in various different categories at Alis London Open. There was 341 competitors from clubs across the UK. Coming into the 2023 season we had a lot of competitors where it’s their first time competing in a new category. This didn’t change our teams mindset and...

Well done #DTA coach Cassidy refereeing two competitions at the weekend and picking up the best referee award. Well done Elsa too for judging at these competitions. DTA members have access to British Taekwondo qualifications to Judge and Referee both Sparring Patterns. Cassidy and Elsa have both passed the the level 3 judge qualification, and...

Dates for your Diary 2023DTA Gradings (Grange School – with NM TKD)Saturday 25th MarchSaturday 15th July TBC (Kup & Dan)Saturday 23rd Sept TBCSaturday 2nd Dec TBC (Kup & Dan) No Classes at Littledown. (Classes maybe rescheduled – TBC)Saturday 8th April (Easter)Saturday 29th AprilSaturday 10th JuneSaturday 23rd SeptemberSome of the Bank...

On Sunday 4th December Dorset Taekwondo Assc took a team of 10 to the LMC Sparring Competition in Southampton. This was the first open sparring competition in the South for many years. There were approximately 400 fighters from all over the country. Our team (Harry, Vesco, Inara, Sean, Tom, Cassidy, Oli, Hamza, Atilla, Myles) consisted of young...

Over the last year I had been able to complete my Class 3.0 (Corner Judging course) and additional modules which allowed me to judge and officiate for competitions up and down the country (including Nationals!!). With this experience, some support from new found friends and Master Naraine, I was then able to go for my Class 2.0 Centre Referee...