{"id":46555,"date":"2013-10-25T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/46555\/local-club-excels-in-competitionornew-local-taekwon-do-club-excels-in-competition\/"},"modified":"2013-10-25T09:11:35","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T07:11:35","slug":"local-club-excels-in-competitionornew-local-taekwon-do-club-excels-in-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2013\/10\/25\/local-club-excels-in-competitionornew-local-taekwon-do-club-excels-in-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Local club excels in competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pilsung Taekwon-Do Club, situated in Lambton, took part in the Veritas Championships, in Johannesburg, on September 21 and 22.<\/p>\n<p>There were nine Taekwon-Do dojangs (groups) that participated in the competition.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The club did remarkably well, collecting six gold, four silver and two bronze medals.<\/p>\n<p>The members also managed to scoop the Overall Tiger (junior) Trophy and the Overall Veritas Championship Trophy.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The Lambton-based club focuses on the art of fist and foot fighting, and is less than a year old.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are thrilled with our performance at the championships; our closest competitors were 175 points behind us; we only started operating on August 2, 2013, but the future is looking bright for our club,&#8221; said the manager of Pilsung Taekwon-Do Club, Carnelle Vorster.<\/p>\n<p>Their recent achievement has motivated them to train even harder.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I must admit, it is not easy, as it requires a lot of hard work, determination and focus, but we enjoy what we do,&#8221; Vorster added.<\/p>\n<p>The club currently has 15 students and anybody who is interested in joining is more than welcome.<\/p>\n<p>All age groups are welcome and there is a joining fee, which varies according to age.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the club, contact Vorster on 079 893 4100.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='7e25eab261cae11877bc9a0f8e02be50'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New local Taekwon-Do club excels in competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":46556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Puleng Sekabate","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[979,1059,1617,1979,1119,1724,1981,1980],"class_list":["post-46555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-germiston","tag-lambton","tag-pilsung-taekwon-do","tag-pilsung-taekwon-do-club","tag-sport-2","tag-sports","tag-veritas-championship","tag-veritas-competition"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["germiston","lambton","pilsung taekwon-do","Pilsung Taekwon-Do Club","sport","sports","Veritas Championship","Veritas Competition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}