Shawn Sutton

Mark Trotter Seminar Gold Coast Feb 2014

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Today was hopefully the first of many appearances from a world champion, Mr Mark Trotter from New Zealand. His friendly and fun nature put smiles on the faces of all that attended the seminar. Mr Trotter commanded the attendees with sheer grace, strength and outstanding technique and the way he moved around the mat surprised all with his speed. Small in stature but Sutton wants to fight TrotterTrotter side kickbig on power proving that size doesn’t matter, Mr Trotter’s well traveled experience was strongly felt amongst us all. The passion to share his knowledge could not be stopped, when he requested more time than was scheduled as he wanted to give everyone as many options as possible. His seminar was overheard as being “that was just pleasure and pain in one”, just about sums it up.

TrentI would like to personally thank Mr Trotter for his time and believe that a great friendship has been made.

On behalf of Master Daher, ITF Australia and the clubs of IL Shim International Taekwon-Do, a big thank you.

John Abdallah

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Shawn Sutton

Report about the Mark Trotter Seminar Sydney, from Ken Hayden – Aberdeen ILSHIM

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DSC00583We woke at 4:30 am for the 4hr drive to Parramatta, with a sense of excitement and expectation, for the much anticipated Mark Trotter seminar.
We have been very fortunate to know Mark through our previous overseas travels and were well aware that we were about to be instructed by one of the worlds most popular and recognisable Taekwon-do competitors. Mark is a multiple world champion in several disciplines, and this was a rare opportunity to be coached by him in a small group environment.
For this seminar, the main focus was on some fundamental sparring skills, with a short session of traditional sparring thrown in to the mix. As well as a mix of students from the Sydney area, there were several instructors and students from as far away as Melbourne and the Sunshine

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Coast who traveled to learn from Marks experience. He gave everyone in attendance a number of things to work on to improve their fundamental sparring techniques as well as a challenge to work much harder during their everyday training sessions on strength and conditioning.
I am sure that the people who attended this seminar have been challenged to work hard on improving in the areas identified, and we are all looking forward to the next opportunity to train with Mark.

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