KEES CANADA CUP 2009
June 8, 2009
KEES CANADA CUP JUNE 6TH , 2009
CONGRATULATIONS !!
GREG HIGDON, JONATHAN HIGDON, JOELLE HIGDON, DILLON HISCOCK , AND DEVAN HISCOCK
GREAT JOB REPRESENTING BOWMANS TAEKWONDO IN SASKATOON !!!!
Maximum Fighting Championship 21
May 19, 2009
DWAYNE LEWIS IS BACK !!!
WAS THE CRY FROM THE CROWD !!!
LEWIS QUICKLY TOOK CARE OF BUSINESS, FINISHING JAY WHITFORD ( WHO SHOWED UP 10LBS OVERWEIGHT) WITH A 29 SECOND TKO. EARNING DWAYNE “KNOCKOUT OF THE NIGHT”
UFC VETERAN JASON MACDONALD WAS IN THE WARM UP AREA AND CONGRATULATED DWAYNE
“ GREAT JOB , WE DON’T GET PAID BY THE HOUR< IT’S PIECE WORK >”
DWAYNE MOVES NOW TO 9 WINS 5 LOSES
NEW SCHEDULE
May 11, 2009
THIS NEW SCHEDULE HAS SOME NEW CLASSES ADDED
INCLUDING
“ MORE JUNIOR BRAZILAN JIU JITSU CLASSES”
“ WEAPONS CLASSES , SWORD AND NUNCHUKS”
“ ULTI FIT CLASSES ( day time circuit training for everyone)”
“ NEW TYKES CLASSES”
EXTREME CHALLENGE APRIL 25TH 2009
May 5, 2009
MASTER BOWM AN WINS BY KNOCKOUT !!
MASTER BOWMAN WISHES TO THANK EVERYONE FOR ALL THE SUPPORT !!!
2009 ALBERTA TAEKWONDO PROVINCIAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
April 4, 2009
Local boy earns spot on Team Alberta
COREY ATKINSON
Today staff
Young local taekwondo athlete Cobby Rice is going to get a kick at nationals in May.
Rice, a 12-year-old who trains at Bowman’s Taekwondo Academy, made the Alberta team at provincials last weekend in Edmonton with a stellar first place gold medal performance in B black belt junior finweight.
“For two years in a row, Cobby’s been junior national champion but this is the actually his first year stepping into the B division, which is older kids,” instructor Sandy Bowman said.
“He’s a tiny, small child, but he’s usually at the top of his division in C against younger kids. Now he’s against older kids, and there’s full (head) contact now, so I was kind of worried about how he was going to react. But he did awesome, and that’s the best he’s ever done. Everything was right on the money, his timing and technique.
“It was just like playing a video game. I’d say something and he’d do exactly what I said.”
Rice finished third last year at the C junior nationals in Calgary but now he gets to take his taekwondo to Montreal in May for this year’s nationals. At this age, the sky is limit for Rice.
“It’s going to be good to go to Montreal,” Rice said. “”I’m going to be training pretty hard.”
“He’s 12 years old and he’s a second degree black belt,” Bowman said. “He’s got a bright future in taekwondo ahead of him.”
The club’s Andrew Nelson was in second place behind Rice.
The entire club did well at provincials this year. There were a total of 11 gold, seven silver and six bronze medals earned by the club’s athletes in the various belts and age groups.
It’s been a lot of time since 2002 when the entire Alberta provincial senior taekwondo team came from Bowman’s. That group gradually disbanded, but there is a good young group of taekwondo athletes ready to make their marks, and Bowman feels this tournament went very well for them.
“All these younger kids are coming up now, the junior black belts and the blue belts dominated in all divisions. They had no competition whatsoever,” he said.
Brayden Rice also won a gold in the junior lightweight purple belt competition, while Four other athletes also won gold, with Jamie Limbitko winning double gold. Yellow belt Devon Hiscock’s gold is particularly remarkable, considering she’s only five.
Even some of the athletes who didn’t get gold impressed Bowman. Dominic Hazard also had a very good tournament.
“He does good in class and he does good at everything else, but when he gets to the competition … he doesn’t follow the game plan and he find of follow in his own little ideas,” Bowman said.
“This time he did awesome. He lost his first match in a 5-5 overtime point, and he was really upset, but I went and talked to him afterwards and told him it was the best he’d ever done. It brought him up, He didn’t win, but he’s the one who showed that he could do well overall.”
The club will go to Western Canadian championships June 6 in Saskatoon, with a flock of about 20 athletes.
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