British Student Taekwondo Federation
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Founded | 1986 |
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Based | United Kingdom |
Website | http://bstf.org.uk/ |
The British Student Taekwondo Federation (BSTF) is a national student sport federation and registered charity.[1][2]
The organisation was founded in 1986[3] and provides services and events to university Taekwondo clubs across the United Kingdom including the mutli-discipline annual Student National Taekwondo Championships Series, also known by university taekwondo clubs as "the Nationals";[4] training events also known as Fightcamps;[5] referee training courses;[6] British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) qualification tournaments and team management of the European Universities Games and Championships squads;[7] inter-university composite team training for performance athletes based at the national team training centre in Manchester;[8] BUCS London University Sports League tournaments;[9] support for university clubs hosting their own training events and university open tournaments;[10] award an annual Club of the Year Award,[11] and provide advocacy and advice for university Taekwondo clubs.[12]
The charitable object of the BSTF is "The advancement for the public benefit of physical education among students in Universities and Colleges by the provision of services and promotion of the martial art and amateur sport of Taekwondo".[13]
History
The BSTF was established in 1986 as a not-for-profit organisation to facilitate university Taekwondo clubs to train and compete together. The first Student National Taekwondo Championships were organised in 1987 and were held at the University of Southampton. The event began as a collaboration between students of Southampton and Warwick University's Taekwondo clubs, including one of the BSTF's founding members and current patron of the charity master Graham Jones. The inaugural championships included student teams from the University of Southampton, Southampton Technical College (now Southampton City College), Leeds University and Warwick University.[14]
By 1989 the organisation had evolved into a constituted national organising committee to cater for the expanding event. The first Student National Taekwondo Championships included only the WTF rules sparring discipline, with ITF rules sparring added in 1992 and various individual, pairs and team patterns events being added over time.[15] The most recent edition to the competition programme is the Freestyle Patterns discipline added to the Student National Taekwondo Championships event in 2017 as and additional qualification event for the European University Sports Association's European Universities Games and European Universities Championships Taekwondo programme.[16]
Membership of the BSTF is open to all university Taekwondo clubs which are themselves members of their respective students' unions. Representatives of each member club may vote on motions and in trustee elections at the charity's general meetings. The BSTF's events and tournaments are open to all university student Taekwondo athletes – including independent entries from universities which do not yet possess a student union registered Taekwondo club.[17]
A not-for-profit organisation since its creation in 1986, the BSTF became a registered charity in 2016; its charitable objects are: "The advancement for the public benefit of physical education among students in Universities and Colleges by the provision of services and promotion of the martial art and amateur sport of Taekwondo".[18]
Student National Taekwondo Championships
The Student National Taekwondo Championships Series comprises several multi-discipline tournaments each year, which the largest university Taekwondo events in Great Britain.[14] The series typically attracts over 500 student athletes from over 50 universities across Great Britain taking part, with around 30 athletes qualifying at the event to represent their instututions at the EUSA European Universities Games (even years) and EUSA European Universities Championships (odd years).[4][19]
Five Taekwondo disciplines are contested at the annual Student National Taekwondo Championships, with competitors split by grade (experience level) divisions and also by weight divisions for sparring disciplines. The current events programme includes: ITF rules sparring; WTF rules sparring; Chang-Hon patterns (individual, pair and team Tul); Kukkiwon patterns (individual, pair, and team Poomsae); and Freestyle patterns.[20] BSTF competitions are contested according to the rules of the pertinent international federations, the WTF and the ITF.[21]
Competitors accrue points for their registered institution for every single sparring match win / patterns round progressed at every event in the tournament series towards their institution's overall Student National Taekwondo Championships ranking at the end of the year. The table below shows the history of overall club champions based on overall team score.[22]
Year | Venue | Club Champions |
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2017-18* | Worcester | University College London |
2017 | Worcester | University College London |
2016 | Worcester | Cardiff University |
2015 | Worcester | University of Southampton |
2014 | Bristol | University of Southampton |
2013 | Banbury | University of Southampton |
2012 | Nottingham | University of Southampton |
2011 | Aylesbury | University of Southampton |
2010 | Aylesbury | University of Southampton |
2009 | Durham | University of the West of England |
2008 | Nottingham | University of the West of England |
2007 | Bristol | University of the West of England |
2006 | Southampton | Newcastle University |
2005 | Leeds | Newcastle University |
2004 | Teesside | Newcastle University |
2003 | Cambridge | Bristol University |
2002 | Birmingham | Bristol University |
2001 | Birmingham | Bristol University |
2000 | Bristol | Bristol University |
1999 | Manchester | Lancaster University |
1998 | Warwick | University of Bradford |
1997 | Newcastle | Newcastle University |
1996 | Bournemouth | Newcastle University |
1995 | Coventry | Kingston University |
1994 | Nottingham | Kingston University |
1993 | Manchester | Newcastle University |
1992 | City of London | University of Southampton |
1991 | Sheffield | University of Manchester |
1990 | Lancaster | University of Manchester |
1989 | Warwick | Lancaster University |
1988 | University College London | Lancaster University |
1987 | Southampton | University of Southampton |
Note from 1986-2017 the title was awarded based on overall team scores from all disciplines and divisions of the Student National Taekwondo Championships Finals event only, irrespective of other competition results, while from 2017/18 season onward it is awarded based on overall team scores from all disciplines and divisions across the multi-event tournament series.
Competition Rules
BSTF competition disciplines are contested according to the rules of the pertinent international federations:[14]
- http://www.worldtaekwondofederation.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/WTF_Competition_Rules__Interpretation_May_11_2015.pdf
- https://web.archive.org/web/20150218011539/http://www.itftkd.org/pics/texte/ITF_Tournament_Rules__092014.pdf
- http://www.worldtaekwondofederation.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Final_Poomsae_Competition_Rules_and_Interpretation_20140319.pdf
References
- ^ "National and International Associations". theschoolofmartialarts.com. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
- ^ "Charity framework". Retrieved 9 November 2016.
- ^ "Fight Camp". martialartsvohra.com. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
- ^ a b http://www.britishtaekwondo.org.uk/2017/03/report-31st-student-national-taekwondo-championships/
- ^ http://www.martialartsvohra.com/html/fight_camp.html
- ^ http://bstf.org.uk/event/wtf-rules-officials-course/
- ^ http://www.bucs.org.uk/news.asp?itemid=19588§ion=8
- ^ https://bstf.org.uk/info/universities-composite-team/
- ^ http://www.bucs.org.uk/page.asp?section=19393§ionTitle=LUSL+Taekwondo
- ^ https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9LHBtPzysHcZTI3dy00dTZ1NGc/view
- ^ http://bstf.org.uk/info/club-of-the-year-award/
- ^ http://bstf.org.uk/portfolio_category/more/
- ^ http://beta.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regid=1169895&subid=0
- ^ a b c "BSTF website".
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwcu0M34jW4&list=PLzaqoxgouCQZVeSXYtf-ID6N6m9TGJwy2
- ^ http://bstf.org.uk/info/freestyle-patterns-discipline/
- ^ http://bstf.org.uk/info/about-taekwondo/
- ^ http://beta.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regid=1169895&subid=0
- ^ http://taekwondo2017.eusa.eu/
- ^ http://bstf.org.uk/info/disciplines-divisions-and-seeding/
- ^ "taekwondo". hellothere.se. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
- ^ http://bstf.org.uk/info/previous-nationals-results/