Team Carlo News
Holiday Program 29th March - 8th April 2010
The following dates are times will run from 29th March through to 8th April. Normal classes for term 2 will commence Monday 12th April 2010. Please refer to your newsletter for the 2010 timetable. A pdf file of the timetable will be available in the coming days.
Holiday Program Sessions:
Tues 30th March & 6th April
5.30-6pm Ninjas & Taekinda
6.00-6.45pm Warriors & Teens
6.45-7.30pm Athlete Sparring
7.30pm-8.30pm Adults all levels fitness
Wednesday 31st March & 7th April
6.30-7.30pm Athlete Sparring
7.30-8.30 Adults all levels fitness
Thurs 1st & 8th April
5.30-6pm Ninjas & Taekinda
6.00-6.45pm Warriors & Teens
6.45-7.30pm Athlete Sparring
7.30pm-8.30pm Adults all levels fitne
Holiday Program – Bring a Friend
Got friends over during the school holidays? Why not bring them to training with you? Any friend wishing to try out taekwondo can come to any class of yours for just $5 each.
National Championships 2009
Thank you to the 30 students, their familes and friends that made the National Championships such a great success over the four days of competition from October 1 – 4. Queensland turned on the weather and Team Carlo turned the heat up on court. Poomse kicked things off on Thursday with medals going to all competitors. After two days of Poomsae, colour belts hit the mats on Saturday followed by black belts on the final day of competition. Some of you may have been lucky enough to see black belt Steve Currie’s nail bitter match where he was almost knocked out in the first minute to pull it together and win his match with a flurry of head kicks. The whole stadium stood up and cheered Steve home to victory! Well done everybody for your great efforts:
Gold Medalists – National Champions 2009
Poomsae – Chris Rabba
Sparring – Daniel Russo, Hugh Erwin, Tina Santucci, Peter Tilley, Todd Radge, Kyla Tabone,
Silver Medalists
Poomsae – Yvette Detrich
Sparring – Samantha Lazenkas, Will Afonczenko
Bronze Medalists
Poomsae – Clara Sultana
Sparring – Alana Pozzebon, Steven Currie, Tom Afonczenko, Flynn Gregory, Shanra Clement, Joshua Fox, Amanda Caserta, Kyah English
Congratulations also to those who didn’t medal on the day but performed to the best of their ability.
Official photos can be viewed at www.albedophtogaphy.com.au If anybody has any favourite photos to share please send them via the website and we’ll add them to this page.
What’s next? Pre-season has commenced for the Athlete Program and will run through until competition season in 2010. This is the time of year where we prepare the body and mind for the challenges faced in sparring or poomsae competition. Please check the notice board and Athlete page for any changes to training scheules on Saturdays.
Big crowd, Big fights, Great night!
Congratulations to Matthew Caserta, Teen Athlete, who competed Friday 6th September in his first professional fight. Close to 550 people gathered at Moonee Valley to watch a number of great fighters compete. The new Adidas electronic chest guards were in use on the night and are still going to take some getting used to. Matthew soon found out the difficulties of scoring for and against with this new technology. With instructor Adam Wright in his chair, Matthew fought an exciting match all the way to the end against a well matched fighter in Daniel Raji. We congratulate Matthew on his performance and look forward to hearing what he learnt from the evening.
Head Instructor Carlo Massimino and Sydney 2000 Gold Medalist Lauren Burns sat ringside providing the TV coverage during the evening, whilst third Dan Black Belt and resident Team Carlo referee Frank Magliozzi was one of the court officiators.
Again, we had a great club turn out to support Matthew and we thank everyone for coming along to cheer him on. We look forward to our club’s involvement at the next event.
Pictures to follow………
Professional Taekwondo Fight Night
Team Carlo’s Matthew Caserta will compete in his first professional fight, Friday September 4th, 7pm at Moonee Valley Race Course. Matthew will compete amongst past olympians, international fighters and some of Australia’s elite fighters. Tickets are $45 and are available through the club or at the door. Head Instructor Carlo Massimino will be ringside providing television commentary with Sydney 2000 Gold Medalist Lauren Burns. We wish Matthew all the best on the night and encourage you all to come along and support!
Welcome Jennifer Alegra
Congratulations to Team Carlo Instructors Sally Fernandez and Kym Pantlin on the safe arrival of baby Jennifer born 22nd July 2009 weighing 5lb 15oz, We wish you all well and hope to see you around the club soon.
Victorian Championship – Poomsae
Well done to all the Athletes that participated at the Victorian Championships Saturday 22nd August. This was a tough field of many competitors and although we didn’t come home with any medals on this occasion, all Athletes performed very well.
World Championship Selections
Congratulations to the five athletes that competed at the World Championship Selections Saturday August 15 (poomsae) – Sunday August 16 (sparring) at the Australian Institute of Sport, Canberra. Congratulations to Team Carlo Athlete Alana Pozzebon who came home with a Silver medal, after losing to Beijing Olympian Carmen Marton in the final 4 – 1. Unfortunately instructor Adam Wright sustained an injury during his second fight and had to withdraw from the competition winning a Bronze medal. Well done also to sparring Athletes Anya Vukomanovic and Gian Carello and Poomsae Athlete Chris Rabba who competed over the weekend. The World Championships are to be held in Copenhagen (sparring) and Egypt (Poomsae) later this year.
Victoria championships – Sparring
Congratulations to the athletes that competed on the weekend. With colour belts on Saturday and black belts on Sunday we saw real growth and improvement from our athletes, mentally and technically. All of our team qualified for the State team and are now eligible to represent Victoria at the National Championships in Queensland. A notice will be given out to the students in class next week with details of how to enter this event.
I would like to extend a big thank you to all the coaches and staff for supporting the Athletes – Adam, George, Kym and Tina. Also to Frank Magliozi, our resident referee, for his support in preparing our team with rule changes and officiating all weekend. And finally to our athletes, supporters their family and friends. I was very proud of our team spirit and success as a group and look forward to our next goal at Nationals.
Carlo Massimino
Team Carlo Head Coach
Victorian Championships – Poomsae
Congratuations to the athletes that competed at the senior Victorian Champioships. All of our athletes came home with medal and have qaulified to compete at the National Championships in Brisbane in September.
- Chris Rabba – GOLD
- Clara Sultana – SILVER
- Yvette Dietrich – SILVER
Simon Hibbert and Yvette Dietrich,
Poomsae Coaches
Malaysian open
This was the third Team Carlo International competition for 2009, attended by athletes from our Junior and Senior Athlete Program, resulting in an amazing four medals! The tournamanet took place in Shah Alam, Malysia over a two day period with over 500 competitors from local, state, national and international teams. The competition comprised of 14 local Malaysian clubs, 4 state teams, Thailand, Sri Lanks, Malaysian National Team and Singapore.
Alana Pozzebon brought home GOLD medals in both the Junior and Senior Divisions! Samantha Lazenkas won a SILVER medal and Carly Mancuso a BRONZE! Congratulations to the girls on their wonderful achievements.
A special thankyou to George Afonczenko for the many hours he put into travel arrangements leading up to the event and for also doing such a wonderful job coaching our team. The trip would not have been possible without his support. Thanks also to the mums and dads that went on the trip to give George and the Athletes their support!
The Team Carlo team (excluding Peter Tilley)
Team Carlo Girl Power – Alana Pozzebon 2 x GOLD Medals, Samantha Lazenkas SILVER Medal, Carly Mancuso BRONZE Medal
First Para-Taekwondo World Championships
Congratulations to Team Carlo’s Steve Currie who won Australia’s first Para-Taekwondo Bronze Medal. Recovering from recent surgery to his hip, Steve made his way to Baku, Azerbaijan to compete. Steve faced a few challenges at the competition, like badly fitting scoring euipment which was a little frustrating, but overall gained some great experience. Well done Steve on a great effort!
US Open
After four days of competition the 2009 US Open draws to close. There were many tough battles contested, some won some lost, but abundance of experience for our Athletes who got to rub shoulders with the World’s best. Almost 100 Australian’s competed in Vegas, a total of six medals were won — three of these were from Team Carlo!
Chris Rabba GOLD Medal Open Division (Poomsae) and SILVER Medal (Poomsae) Ultra’s Division
Tina Santucci BRONZE Medal (Sparring) Ultra’s Division
Chris Rabba wins GOLD and SILVER at the 2009 US Open – Las Vegas
Tina Santucci and Carlo after her BRONZE medal winning fight.