Jaroslaw Suska – Daniel Dziala seminar in the Netherlands

Would it be possible to get the most famous and well known male World Champion Jaroslaw Suska, VI Degree in ITF Taekwon-Do to the Netherlands and train with him? KISPORT has a reputation of inviting great trainers to the Netherlands to enjoy, share and improve skills in Taekwon-Do.

I-Con Promotions

When at the AETF website the news was launched I immediate got in contact with Lyndsey Conway of I-Con Promotions to look at the terms of getting Mr. Suska to the Netherlands. After the negotiations we agreed that Mr. Jaroslaw Suska would come to the Netherlands for two days and he bring an assistant. I was much honored to have Mr. Daniel Dziala, 2x World Champion, 4x European Champion and 2x World Cup winner to be willing to assist Mr. Suska on this. As I know both competitors very well of my time as an umpire I knew upfront these two great Taekwon-Do black belts would be great and spectacular to invite.

Participants

After a quick start we ended up with 126 participants, 3 Masters 7th degree and 1 Master 8 degree opening the seminar, almost 70 black belts, 8 countries en more than 30 spectators. A great achievement and well deserved for such great instructors. All participants received a certificate of this seminar which was highly appreciated.

Promotion of the seminar

In cooperation with my website provider, we set up a website in a very short time and I like to thank Sabum Edwin van der Lee, V-Degree of Ohdokwan for all this knowledge and time he spend on this site. Together with Facebook and the club website it was a good tool to spread the information to the interested associations, Masters, instructors, black belts and practitioners. Further KISPORT provided 5000 flyers and 250 posters for promotion of the event for school owners in the Netherlands.

Hall

Finding an appropriate hall with the full accommodation was the next step to take. After finding a top facility we were close to getting this done but two weeks before the seminar we got over a hundred participants we had to find another hall because the other one was getting to small! With the help of the local government we found a brand new hall at the Europaweg 50 in Vleuten with a great restaurant next door. A good choice at the last moment.

Seminar

The seminar contained all the items of Taekwon-Do, 24 patterns, step sparring, sparring, kicking exercises, Taekwon-Do varia, Demo, pictures and even meeting Timmie the Tiger. Because of the contract pictures and films were only allowed during the demo moments this was a great happening to be on the picture with Mr. Suska and Mr. Dziala.

25th anniversary of I.T.F. Netherlands

This year and next year the association of the I.T.F Netherlands celebrates its 25th anniversary and after consulting the Board of Directors of the I.T.F.  Netherlands the seminar got the approval of being:

    a. a party for all participants of the I.T.F. Netherlands were they get a discount for participating in the seminar
   b. the seminar would be seen as a national technical seminar were red belt and up would full fill there black belt requirements of 1 technical training
    c. the national team meeting was postponed one week earlier

The President of the I.T.F. Netherlands Master James Tjin-A-Ton, 8th degree opened on Saturday. He welcomed Mr. Suska and Mr. Dziala as well as all the participants in this event.

Masters:

We were honored with the participation of the 7th degree Masters in the Netherlands:
Master Willy van de Mortel, famous competitor, coach and trainer
Master Coos van den Heuvel,  Chairman of ITF Tournament Committee, Vice President of the AETF and advisor of the Umpire committee of the I.T.F. Netherlands
Master Hans Beurskens, former chairman of the just joined oldest Taekwon-Do association of the Netherlands, the NTA

European and World Champions:

Many European and world champions themselves joined this seminar and I was honored to have them in this seminar. Thank you for participating.

Thank you

I’d like to thank all the helpers of the day of their great help, Mrs. Elly Livestroo, Mrs. Audrey Jacobs, Mr. Jeffrey Hazelaar, Mrs. Anja van Soesbergen, Mrs Andrea Holtmann + kids, Mr. Jarne van Schaik and all the volunteers who helped us setting up this seminar.  I’d like to thank the I.T.F. Netherlands Board of Directors, Sabum Martin Schellens of changing the dates for the national selection training and all the help around it. Last but not least I’d like to thank Mrs. Lyndsey Conway of I-Con Promotions for arranging this seminar with the help of KISPORT MartIal Academy.
 
Sabum Suska and Boosabum Dziala were amazing and I like to thank them for the instruction, company and friendship. It is great to see such good and very humble instructors!  The I.T.F. is blessed and has a great future ahead and having such good instructors/competitiors in the world in I.T.F. Taekwon-Do. I also like to thank Grand Master Marano, Masters Loboda and Jedut from Poland for supporting this event and training with this great next generation of instructors. Taekwon!

What did the participants think of the event:

Thank you too for organising this event for everyone to attend. It was the best seminar we have been to (both content and organisation) and our students feel very privileged to have attended this as their first ever seminar! Thank you also for the advice on growing our club.

It means a lot to us that you spent time with us to pass on your knowledge and wisdom. Looking forward to seeing you again in Brighton at the World Cup.
France: Anthony Meynet and Jonathan Morris

Thank you once again for organizing the seminar which I enjoyed. Tomorrow morning I will fly home. May God bless you!
Moldova: Vasile Filat

Een persoonlijk bedankje voor het organiseren van het prachtige evenement. Floyd kon terug kijken op een heel leerzaam weekend ondanks zijn jonge leeftijd (8jaar) Ik heb nog een foto bijgevoegd met Floyd en Silvia Farigu samen. Nogmaals bedankt en tot de volgende keer.
Nederland: Mike en Floyd Stijger

We arrived home safely lastnight I wanted to say a personal thank you for taking care of the two gentlemen and providing safe, comfortable transport throughout the weekend. On behalf of I-Con ProMotions team I would like to thank you for your hospitality and co-operation for last weekends seminar. We already look forward to meeting and working again in the future.
I-Con Promotion: Miss Lyndsey Conway

Nogmaals dank voor het fantastische Suska weekend. Florian heeft een handtekening in zijn schriftje gescoord!
Nederland: Eric en Florian van Beers

Overigens compliment voor de perfecte organisatie. Was een leuk evenement. Bij herhaling zullen wij zeker proberen weer van de partij te zijn.
Nederland: Bert-Jan Klaren
 
Organizer “Jaroslaw Suska seminar the Netherlands 2012”
 
Harry van Schaik, “Active and Involved”
KISPORT Martial Academy,
www.kisport.nl
Member I.T.F. Development Committee

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