Lil’ Warriors Assessment and White & Colour Belt Grading – Session Details
8 August 2025
Competition Class with Master de Silva
8 August 2025
On the last weekend of May, four De Silva Taekwon-Do students, alongside Master De Silva, travelled to Holland to compete at the prestigious Holland Cup international tournament. Organised by Sabum Tim Kool, the Holland Cup welcomed competitors from across the globe to represent their club and country across patterns and sparring divisions.
All students represented De Silva Taekwon-Do with passion and demonstrated the achievements of their hard work and dedication to training.
We would like to congratulate the following students on their stellar achievements from the weekend:
- Ariella Figueroa – Gold in Senior Female Patterns
- Courtney Smith – Gold in Senior Female Sparring
- Jaymie Hampson-Phow – Bronze in Senior Female Sparring
- Juan Diego – Bronze in Youth patterns and Bronze in Youth Sparring
We would also like to extend our congratulations, and thank, our team member Edward Hampson-Phow who dedicated his weekend to help run the tournament alongside Sabum Kool’s team.
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The 12th edition of the Holland Cup took place on Saturday 3rd June 2023. This competition is one of the best organised ITF Taekwon-Do tournaments, which is attended by many high level international athletes each year. This year was no different and the Holland Cup hosted 597 entries from across 10 countries. Team Warrior was in attendance again this year, but this year was extra special with two of our junior athletes travelling and competing in their first international tournament.
We would like to extend our congratulations to all our students who travelled and competed at this fantastically ran tournament. Please see some of their fantastic achievements below:
Efthymios Paraskevaidis – in his first international tournament, he achieved a well earnt bronze medal in Youth 4th to 1st Kup Sparring under - 140cm. Mrs
Jaymie Hampson Phow – performed fantastically through a long term knee injury and secured a silver medal in senior female black belt +75kg sparring. Miss
Courtney Smith – after a time away due to injury, Miss Smith fought terrifically and earnt a bronze medal in senior female black belt -62kg sparring.
We would like to give Jasmyn Watson-Joseph an honorary mentioned. Jasmyn is a fantastic student, who has been competing consistently all year. Despite breaking her big toe, just a week before travel, Jasmyn still got out on the mats and gave an amazing performance. She showed true resilience and perseverance. Well done, Jasmyn!
Finally, a big thank you to our digital warriors’ team who helped organise and provide social media content for this event. Their hard work does not go unnoticed.
Will you be at the next tournament?
