HX Taekwon-Do is run by ITF Taekwon-Do instructors Stuart O'Reilly (4th Degree) and Jonathan Dargan (4th Degree).
Master Brendan O'Toole (8th Degree), INTA President and Technical Director, teaches classes twice a week.
Our full-time Taekwon-Do gym is equipped with heavy bags, medicine balls, focus mitts and strike shields - all you need to supply is hard work and enthusiasm.
We offer classes in the traditional martial art and competitive sport Taekwon-Do, alongside our purely fitness orientated Fighting Fit classes.
We run children's classes four days a week, promoting focus, fitness and confidence.
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| Saturday, 24 April 2010 22:10 |
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The bags finally arrived about the second week of March, after a brief spell in container limbo. This is them on arrival, and pretty much where hey have been laying ever since: Lovely sight, aren't they? I hung one of them up today using a 8mm steel chain, which is a shade on the overkill side, but big chains look great so there you go. The chain is slung over a 12mm steel bolt which is going through a roof joist, so the whole thing is probably the most solid and secure part of the whole building. And that's including the floor. The bags seemed a little light when they arrived and I was worried that they might not be solid enough to take a good bang without flying away, but the hung bag tells a very different story. It's a little narrower than many other bags that I've used, so straight shots need to be that little bit more accurate to avoid sliding off, which is no bad thing in tkd training. Most importantly it feels very solid, and is not too easy to move. This might well be a result of being very new, as a few years of use will soften up any bag, and the fact that the bags are five feet high (or five feet low, as the top of the bag will be hung at the same height as a four foot), so they have a lower centre of gravity than shorter bags. Or something.
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