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Open session with the Board: All welcome. On Sunday February 12 the Board is meeting in Wellington. From 1pm until 2pm the Board will running an open format session. Taekwon-Do instructors, students and interested family members are invited to come along, at your leisure within this hour, to meet Board members, and to raise any issues, pass on suggestions, or ask any questions you wish. The Board meeting will be held at: Archaus Architects, Ground Floor 25-29 Pirie Street, Wellington.
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Auckland Round the Bays 2012
More details on the Counties Manukau website
Thank you to those who applied to be a part of and support the New Zealand High Performance Programme. Our goal is to build a world class high performance programme focussed on our athletes becoming the best in the world and we need world class people to support them. Two pinnacle events are the 2012 World Cup in Brighton, England and 2013 World Championships in Benadorm, Spain. We are please to appoint the following people who will help our athletes prepare, attend, compete and win at selected international events. Join us in congratulating these people. A special thank you to those who applied and were not successful this time. See the HP Team here.
Prime Minister's Scholarships
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2011 Halberg Award nominees announced. Mr Carl van Roon and Mr Steve Pellow have been named in the list of finalists for the 2011 awards, to be announced on February 9, 2012. Read the story here.
He's been made dux of his school, blitzed his senior classmates at NCEA exams and he's off to Otago University to study pre-medicine – oh, and he's only a fourth former. Congratulations to 15 year old Jun Lee from Khandallah club who made front page news in Wellington on Friday December 9th. Click his photo to read the article or see on-line here.
The New Zealand Martial Arts Institute (NZMI) has been formed and recently held it's inaugural meeting. The organisation was established to benefit all styles of martial arts and to add credibility to genuine martial artists and martial arts organisations.
The first NZMI AGM will be held at 11am on 11 February 2012 at the Seishinkan Dojo, Shorewell Street, Sandringham, Auckland. All will be most welcome.
From The Board - October
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The ITFNZ Gup and Dan Syllabus DVDs previously for sale are now available for free download for ITFNZ members. Members can Sign in and follow the link to Member Downloads Page to download the videos.

Our very own Mr Peter Graham
was inducted into the Australasian Martial Arts Hall of Fame (AMAHOF) and the World Karate Union Hall of Fame (WKUHOF) »


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Update on how our funds raised were put to good use in PNG.

ITFNZ's new Brand »
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Team 2010 Reports »
Read reports on our Team's travels overseas during 2010.

$8000 raised »
Read about the efforts of International Taekwon-Do to assist a fellow ITF Country.

Christchurch Earthquake »
The International Taekwon-Do Board have extended a fee exemption to those affected by the Canterbury earthquake.

PEG Grants for our Athletes »
16 of our athletes Performance Enhancement Grants (PEG).

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