For Dragon Academy Malta (DAM), the month of April was characterised by success.

On Sunday 22nd April the Malta Taekwondo Federation organised a local competition that was held at St. Aloysius College. For this event DAM fielded 14 athletes out of whom 13 played for the title of their respective category. DAM managed to win 6 out of 10 categories, placing first amongst all participating clubs.

Surely the most exciting games where those featuring our elite athletes Jerome Vassallo and Kylie Magro who had both just come back from their participation in the Junior World Championships in Hammamet, Tunisia. Kylie Magro proved to be of great superiority to her opponents defeating both with point gap difference. Jerome Vassallo started slow in his first game but gained momentum and eventually won his first bout with point gap difference as well. His second bout proved to be more challenging, where he had to play more of a tactical game to overcome his opponent. Both Vassallo and Magro won their respective category.

A notable game was played by our young promising athlete Asma Kerfah against a much-experienced opponent. Though leading 25-18, she sadly lost her game by punitive action. Her younger sibling Salem won his category defeating both his opponents while Aisha Kerfah and Tyrone Borg both defeated their only opponent winning their respectice category.

The categories won by DAM were:

 

Pewee -26 Kgs B

Matthew Calleja

 

Juniors Male -68 Kgs

Tyrone Borg

 

Juniors Female -56 Kgs

Kylie Magro

 

Child -36 Kgs

Salem Nouri Kerfah

 

Junior Male -63 Kgs A

Jerome Vassallo

 

Pewee -30 Kgs B

Aisha Kerfah

 

The coaches for this event were Mauro Busuttil, Josianne Formosa and Shania Magro.

On Saturday 28th April, DAM held its first grading examinations for 2018 for which in total 33 candidates applied, ranging from 9th Kup (yellow tab) up to 1st Kup (black tab). This was a very positive turnout with all candidates successfully passing for their successive rank as follows:

 

1st Kup

Luke Camilleri

 

3rd Kup

Denzel Lanzon

 

4th Kup

Kyle Sciberras, Pedro Sanches Pinan and Tyrone Borg

 

5th Kup

Luke Alexander Chircop and Ruby Mifsud

 

6th Kup

Jake Debono, Jake Grima Gilson, Kieran Buttigieg and Neil Oliva

 

7th Kup

Aisha Kerfah, Asma Kerfah, Daniel Debattista, Matthew Calleja, Muhammad Aayan Bin Imran, Salem Kerfah and Zach Caruana

 

8th Kup

Kurt Zammit and Stanislav Lipsky

 

9th Kup

Andy Gingell Littlejohn, Craig Curmi, Emma Abela, Isaac Becirovic, Jan Cilia Pisani, Javier Bartolo, Jayden Cesareo, Kendra Magro, Leonid Denisova Georg, Miguel Borg, Muting Chen, Nick Gingell Littlejohn and Vanessa Salas Pouget

 

Those interested to try Taekwondo out with our academy may do so by visiting our website: www.dragonacademymalta.com or call on 99452010/99868789.