****Goal Setting**** Unleash Your Child’s Potential Goal setting is one of the most highly linked characteristics to the success that individuals have. Top athletes and successful people all use goal setting. And while it is a trait that is most often associated with adolescents and adults, younger children can also benefit greatly from beginning this life skill at an early age. Learning how to set reasonable and attainable goals is a valuable lesson for children of all ages. Studies show that goal setting helps children improve their self-discipline and self-awareness. It also increases their internal drive so that they stay motivated to complete the goals they set for themselves. By accomplishing their goals, children’s self-esteem automatically increases, and they have more motivation towards setting future goals. For children that are just beginning to set goals, it is important that they have tangible and immediate successes to keep them motivated. Goal setting should also be fun so that they will stay interested and continue setting goals throughout their lives. This will help them build the habits necessary to achieve important goals as they continue into adulthood. In the my ninja classes, short- and long-term goal setting and achievement are at the very core of it. The goals are not intended to create pressure on the student, but rather to encourage them to do their best so that learning and effort is valued. Because my ninja classes utilises game-based learning in this process, the students have fun while they put effort towards the drills. By setting these goals and achieving them, the students will unleash their potential. Short term goals are addressed in class each day. Students are trained on a skill each day, according to their age group. At the end of the class, the students are given a stripe for their belt or sticker in their skillz book. These short-term achievements keep them motivated to continue to set new goals for themselves and work to accomplish them. As the students work towards earning all eight stripes on their belt, they are ultimately working towards their long-term goals for the testing cycle. The long-term goal accomplishment will be finalised through testing where the students will perform all skills they have learned and, finally, receive the next belt in their level. And as an added bonus, goal-setting is addressed as an additional 4 week life skill program each year. But not only do my classes utilise the stripes and belt system, it also incorporates additional goals that students can work towards. These include being a part of the STORM Team, which is a leadership program, The Performance Team which is a competition Team program which are invitation only programs that students can work to become a part of. To succeed in life, we must know exactly what it is we are trying to do. This is the first and foremost secret of successful people - a secret we give as a gift to our students when we teach them how to set goals. By doing this, we are creating positive habits of setting goals that will carry over into adulthood.   Please like/comment this post if you found it useful so I know whether to post more! Read More

On the weekend of 21st -23rd April, 5 students from Gordon Fearn TKD went over to the TAGB headquarters in Bristol to grade for the their Black belt. They were all examined by 5 examiners - Grand Master Oliver 9th Dan, Master Walton, Master Sergiew, Master Donnelly and Master Dew (all 8th Dans) All 5 of our students passed and performed very well, looking strong and showing good technique. Arabella Thurlow, Beau Bradford, Arief McKenna and Matthew Cooke were all promoted to 1st Degree Black Belt. Mrs Julia Mardo graded for her 4th Degree Black Belt and had a very impressive performance and was in the top 3. So after 16 years of training she is now an expert in Tae Kwon Do and a very well deserved grade. Well done to you all, we are all very proud of you. Read More

Well done to Evie Hodges and Adam Gladdis for both receiving A stars on their last grading and being awarded the Grading awards. Read More

English Championships - 12th March 2017 Read More

Well done to all the students on passing their grading in December. At the December grading there were several awards given out. Sarah Wardell - Best in Grading Natasha Pettifer - Poole Student of the year and competitor of the year Rebecca Brown - Bournemouth Student of the year Bethany Monger - Christchurch Student of the year Adam Gladdis - Wimborne Student of the year Read More

Congratulations to Natasha Pettifer and Adam Gladdis for taking part in the Midlands Championships and both returning with 2 medals each. Natasha won a bronze in sparring and Gold in the Team event Adam won Gold in sparring and bronze in the Team Great start to the year for them both Read More

7 New Black Belts at GF TKD 7 Students of Master Fearn took their Black Belt grading in Bristol on 15th October. All of them performed the grading in front of 4 x 8th Dan Masters and 1 x Grandmaster 9th Dan. I am please to say that all 7 got through and have been promoted to 1st Degree Black Belt. Congratulations to Rebecca Brown Bethany Monger Ben Cadec Izzy Cadec Rory Crum Glen Anzinger-Cooper Lucas Bradshaw We are all very proud of you! Read More

The next coloured belt grading is in Wimborne on 19th September starting at 5.30pm for Junior belts and star grades Read More

Beach Training on 24th August was a great night with 60 students training hard followed by a cool down in the sea. Read More

Beach Training 19th August Sandbanks Beach Read More