Shotokan Karate Club

· TThe Shotokan Karate Club is one of the martial art club offered by the college CAS Unit as one of the options for the CAS Sport clubs which are compulsory for the students to join since in Semester 1.

· The Karate club has been established since the opening of the Kolej MARA Banting in 1992.

Advisor:

Miss Fazila binti Zakaria

President:

Salman Ayassy bin Razman

Members:

1. Adibatul Athirah bt Azman

2. Ahmad Farhan Azami

3. Atiqah bt Mohd Zayed

4. Fadzliyana bt Mohd Adzlan

5. Kitaro Irwan bin Mohd Azlan

6. Maisarah bt Omar

7. Muhammad Hirzi bin Amir Hmzah

8. Nik Afifah Shahirah bt Rahimi

9. Nik Syakirah Nik Aziz

10. Noramira Atiqah bt Salam

11. Nur Ezzati bt Mohd Sabran

12. Nurfarhana Muhd Reza

13. Nursyafizan Amalina Rahamzan

14. Nur Sakinah bt Bahaman Shah

15. Nurul Syamim bt Zulkifli

16. Nur Najah Mahmood

17. Nurliayana Munirah bt Mohd Rosli

18. Salman Ayassy bin Razman

19. Siti Noor Adnin bt Muhammad Amin

20. Siti Noor Fatimah Ismail

21. Syazwani Dan Adnan

Recent activities:

1. Weekly training

The training session is conducted on weekly basis under supervision of a qualified instructor or better known as Sensei in Japanese. Usually the training session is done on Monday from 8.30 pm to 9.30 pm.

2. Grading test

Usually, the grading session is done after 8 classes or after a student mastered his or her syllabuses or steps in order to gain a higher belt ranking. The belt ranking starts with the white belt and the highest belt available for the student to gain is the black belt.

Personal Reflection:

Sample 1:

I have learned that Karate requires immense amount of disciplined and it is a fun thing to participate in. I have learned to respect the place that we are learning be it at Kolej MARA Banting or our Dojo.

Sample 2:

Throughout my practice in Karate for the month of August, had realised that the key to mastering Karate successfully is to comprehend the basic techniques theoretically and practically. This will further guide me in improving those techniques so that I may be able to demonstrate combinations of those techniques in Poomse and sparring.

Sample 3:

As Karate teaches us on quick and accurate responses towards any alarming external stimuli, it can be said that self defence can only be mastered only if students are able to learn it correctly. The techniques of Poomse Taeguk 5 Jang, free and step sparring, and ‘sets’ help me to be able to perform at my level best when I focus on doing them correctly. This is also essential in ensuring that a student has a well-understood the techniques or not.

Taekwondo

ADVISOR:

Miss Mariam Nabilah Binti Mohammed Selamat

CLUB ORGANISATION:

President : Muhammad Akmal Afiq Bin Zubir

Vice President : Nur Syaza Zuhailee Binti Roslee

Secretary : Sau Hooi Yee

Treasurer : Idhzan Chin Bin Sulayman

Committee Members : Muhammad Ridhwan Bin Azlan

Ahmad Nasree Bin Muhammad Khairuddin Lim

Nur Khalidah Binti Rozali

MEMBERS:

1	Arnoldweld Sikat
2	Muhd Jamil Al-Hakim bin Mohd Rodzi
3	Nooramad Abbas bin Ahmad
4	Amir Rosli
5	Nadia Najwa binti Bakri
6	Avina Melia
7	Nurliyana binti Hanifudin
8	Siti Nabilah Asror
9	Foo Meng Seong
10	Baizurina binti Bahtiar
11	Muhd Shaffri bin Abu Kassim
12	Umi Amirah binti Mohd Hashim
13	Muhammad Afiq bin Ahmad Anuar
14	Anuar bin Ramli
15	Nur Atiqah Azmi
16	Faizatul Arishah binti Idris
17	Lew Cui Fang
18	Adina binti Ngah Mohamed
19	Raja Noor Hazwani binti Raja Azman Shah
20	Ahmad Afham bin Kamaruddin
21	Wahida Amalin binti Razak
22	Low Xinjie
23	Shukriyah binti Razak
24	Siti Nur Maisarah binti Takhiuddin
25	Gordon Liaw Wei Yeung
26		Siti Nurshakinah binti Jamaludin
27		Liew Yee Har
28		Nur Farahin binti Roslan
29		Haziyah Hashim
30		Nabilah binti Muhammad Barzani
31		Nabilah Aziz
32		Law Chun Sian
33		Nur Farahin binti Ayob
34		Nur Najihah
35		Hriah Ahmad Mizam
36		Noor Ameera binti Mohd Amin
37		Nazihah Syahirah binti Mohd Amin
38		Liong Wai Choon
39		Teo Kia Gin
40		Nur Syuhada binti Mohd Mustapha
41		Dinie Aqilah Farhana binti Mohd Noor
42		Melvin Nicholas
43		Nur Zahidah binti Zulkifli
44		Aimi Diyana Ahmad Rokis
45		Nurul Adibah binti Abdul Rahman
46		Wooi Michelle
47		Amir bin Rosli
48		Dayana Asilah
49		Maryam Arina Mohd Mahyuddin
50		Nurul Syafiqah Izzati binti Zulkifli
		Ahmad Haziq Bin Abdul Shukor

The Taekwondo Club of MARA College Banting is an active club that always has its activities planned ahead for the enjoyment and enthusiasm of its members. It can be said that the Taekwondo Club members are always out and about when it comes to participating in the activities planned. A compulsory practice session is held in every Tuesday night of schooling weeks where each practice session lasts for 2 hours which begins from 9.00pm to 11.00pm sharp. Therefore, a key importance in participating in this club is discipline as time jurisdictions mark the obedience of the club’s members.

During the practice sessions, club members are often taught by two Pro Sport Taekwondo instructors who are M. Chandran and S. Kumaran. The sessions often focus on the basic skills of Taekwondo, step sparring tactics, free sparring sessions, Taekwondo Poomse (Step Patterns), and Grading Qualification (Higher Belt Promotion).

As for the basic skills, Taekwondo encompasses the coordination of nearly the whole body such as the hands, arms and legs. This is in support of the definition of Taekwondo which is “Taekwondo is a sport for the whole physical system, generating energy in every organ of the body, developing the muscles and stimulating the brain, and thus developing the will of action”.

Sparring tactics and sessions will require the students of Taekwondo to be able to apply the basic skills learnt in response of an attack by an opponent. Therefore, precision and accuracy in demonstrating steps and counter-acting towards the attacks are essential in ensuring that the student is able to involve him or herself in a fair yet challenging sparring. Sparring also teaches the students in building confidence in them so as to be brave enough in defending oneself for the sake of self-defence.

Furthermore, Taekwondo Poomse is a syllabus of Taekwondo that is taught cumulatively as the student progresses him or herself to the higher belts. Taekwondo Poomse is a combination of many steps that needs to be familiarised and memorised by the student so as to test the ability of the student in handling complex yet overwhelming steps continuously. Some of the Taekwondo Poomse that one can learn from the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) are Taegeuk 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 Jang, Koryo, Geumgang, and Taeback.