Master Lear

On the weekend of 14th and 15th October we hosted the AETA Open English Championships in Haywards Heath. 460 competitors from 27 clubs from England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, France and Cyprus participated in this highly anticipated event. The first day was for the under 9yrs, 9-11yrs and 12-14yrs who competed in Pattern, Sparring and Special […]

On Saturday 7th May the AETA hosted its FREE members seminar for the first time in 3 years. Over 130 people attended throughout the day from all of the AETA clubs with all the instructors present and teaching. It was a wonderful opportunity to train together in unison. The groups were split into two with

On Sunday 13th March AETA hosted its first League Championships of 2022 in Redhill, Surrey. This competition is the first of three events this year where competitors can win medals so as to accumulate points towards their end of year overall total for individual and club. One of the main differences with our events is

On Sunday 27th February two of AETA Masters, Master Chesterman and Master Hewlett were both promoted to 8th degree by the ITF Technical Committee consisting of Grandmaster Marano and Grandmaster Lan. The promotion took place in Dublin Ireland during the International Instructor Course. Both Masters have been preparing thoroughly for their examination which consisted of

On Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th February over 200 Taekwon-Do students from various organisations took part in the first international seminar in England for two years. The ITF legend Grandmaster Bos and his son Sabum Timothy Bos conducted the seminar for three age groups. On the Saturday in Tunbridge Wells, firstly we had the under

On Saturday 29th January the AETA organised its first Gala evening for two years at the Mercure Tunbridge Wells. This was a celebration of the achievements from 2020 and 2021 with 85 people present from all of the AETA Clubs. The evening started with master of ceremonies Steve Lobley giving a short welcoming speech and

On Sunday 7th November the AETA organised its long anticipated return of Competitions with it’s first championships since March 2020 held in Crowborough. There were 119 competitors from 7 clubs taking part in our Crowborough event with the competition starting at 10am and finishing by 3.20pm. The Championships included our famous re-qualification system which enables

On Saturday 25th September the AETA hosted it’s first course since the start of the pandemic in March 2020. This was an umpire course in preparation for the first competition since before lockdown that will take place on 7th November in Crowborough. The course took place at VMA Fitness, Crowborough and was hosted and presented

On the 15th March, the first AETA league event of the year in Redhill. 230 competitors registered for this event from 12 clubs. There were less spectators than in previous years due to the current situation with Coronavirus. This competition saw the first Team Event held with the clubs entering teams for Special Technique and

On Saturday 29th February the AETA held its annual Umpire Course, which was free of charge to its members. 46 students from red belt and above took part in the day course that took place in Ash, Surrey. Attendees revised the rules for judging Patterns, Power Test, Special Technique and Sparring. Lots of time was allocated