In The Press

Here are some of our favourite press clippings!
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April 2018 – Love Bridgnorth

February 2018 – Bridgnorth Journal

December 2017 – Shropshire Star and Bridgnorth Journal

October//November 2017 – What’s What Magazine and Shropshire Star

July 2017 – What’s What Magazine

LoveBridgnorth – March 2017

LoveBridgnorth – March 2017

BridgnorthBusiness – March 2017

ShropshireLive.com – February 2017

Success for Excalibur Martial Arts at the GTI Taekwondo English Open

February 2017

Fantastic day for Seamus and Dave training with Mr Iain Abernethy and Mr Andrew Rheeston in Birmingham.
Thank you for the opportunity to attend and train with a great bunch of people

LoveBridgnorth – January 2017

Hooray! Excalibur Martial Arts (top photo) made it on LoveBridgnorth‘s top 100 reasons to ❤️ Love Bridgnorth 🙂 So many happy smiling faces – you all look fantastic guys! Well done!

ShropshireLive.com – January 2017

Excalibur Martial Arts celebrates grading success

Global Taekwondo International Facebook Page – December 2016

Courtesy of I’m Famous – November 2016

The Magnificent Seven!

ShropshireLive.com – October 2016

Excalibur Martial Arts celebrate achievements

September 2016

Radio Shropshire – August 2016

Fantastic time with a some of our Excalibur students, past and present, BBC Radio Shropshire‘s Adam and Vicky and R2D2 builder-extraordinaire, Robert Lucas at the free Rocky showing courtesy of the Majestic Cinema. What a great night!

What’s What Magazine – June 2016
Congratulations to 2nd Dan Junior Black Belt, Elle Humphries, who’s on her way to the European Biathlete Championships in Portugal! Well done!

GTI North West Open
Fantastic results for Excalibur competitors Amelia, and mum Tig, Phoebe, and dad Tony, who took part in the GTI’s first ever North West Open in April 2016, along with Mr Bradley and Mr McGinley who attended in “Officials” capacity.
Bridgnorth Journal – May 2016

Excalibur’s Fantastic Four! Congratulations to Harriet and Lucy Crump and Charlie and Freddie Callaghan on achieving promotion to 1st Dan Junior Black Belts in the April 2016 Black Belt Grading!
Shropshire Review, What’s What Magazine and LoveBridgnorth Facebook Pages, Bridgnorth Journal 28th April 2016

World Champ Tony ‘The Iceman’ Sewell at GTI Sparring Seminar with Excalibur Martial Arts
Bridgnorth Journal February 2016

The Three Musketeers! Congratulations to Erin, Dave and Declan who were promoted to 1st Dan Black Belts at the October 2015 Black Belt Grading!
Bridgnorth Journal and Shropshire Star November 2015

The motley crew from Excalibur Martial Arts who took part in the GTI’s annual 100 Rounds of Sparring Charity Event, raising £711.50 for our chosen charity, Young Minds!
Bridgnorth Journal July 2015

Congratulations again to Matthew Hodgkins and Matthew Lawer on achieving their Black Belts!
Bridgnorth Journal April 2015

Medals success for Ellie and Tom at the GTI English Open in Swindon in February 2015!
Bridgnorth Journal February 2015

Excalibur’s Dave Holloway and Toni Bennett take on the Burger Challenge to raise money in aid of the Jayne Sargeant Foundation. ‘Dangerous’ Dave beats the rest of the competitors to win the challenge in just 23 minutes with Toni coming in 3rd place!
Bridgnorth Journal February 2015

The fantastic team Excalibur competing at the GTI tournament in November 2014!
Reilly took Bronze in the Boy’s (Under 18s) Green Belt Patterns Division whilst Erin came in 4th place, missing out on a Bronze by a tenth of a point in the Girl’s (Under 18s) Red and Black Stripe Patterns Division.

Our very own Karl Thompson was successful in gaining his Black Belt First Dan in October 2014. Well done, Karl!
Bridgnorth Journal November 2014

Excalibur’s Reilly, Connor & Erin McGinley and Toni, Kyan and Taylor Bennett took competed in the GTI National Open in Cheltenham in July 2014.
Reilly took Bronze in Boys (under 18s) Green Belt Patterns whilst Erin took Silver in Girls (under 18s) Red Belt Patterns and Toni took Silver in Men’s Veteran’s Sparring.
Bridgnorth Journal October 2014

Superstar Mr McGinley! Mr McG was the subject of the Bridgnorth Music and Arts Festival photography challenge. Ex-Excalibur student, Jake Adams, took the shortlisted photograph with his perfectly timed shot.
Bridgnorth Journal April 2014

Excalibur Champs bringing home the bling for Bridgnorth!
Bridgnorth Journal April 2014

The Bridgnorth Journal helps us celebrate Chris Punchard’s achievements
Bridgnorth Journal March 2014

Excalibur Stars Lucy and Toni bringing home the bling!
Bridgnorth Journal January 2014

John Bradley achieves instructor qualification!
Bridgnorth Journal December 2013

What’s What Magazine
November 2013

Connor, Mr McGinley and Tom celebrating their Dan Grade successes!
Bridgnorth Journal November 2013

Connor and Mr McG – Father and Son make the grade!
Shropshire Star (Shrewsbury edition) November 2013

BBC Radio Shropshire’s Ryan Kennedy takes part in ‘Ryan vs. Sport’ with Excalibur Martial Arts
Bridgnorth Journal July 2013

Mr Jack Cox and Mr Andy Seymour get to show off their Black Belt Certificates
Bridgnorth Journal October 2012

Castle Grounds Family Funday in the sun! Action packed demos and lots of fun (and ice cream!) had by all! Thank you to everyone who joined in and helped out.
Bridgnorth Journal September 2012

May 2012 GTI Black Belt Grading: Congratulations to Isaac Williams who was promoted to 1st Dan Junior Black Belt, Chris Punchard who was promoted to 2nd Dan Junior Black Belt and it’s the third degree for Excalibur student Gary Plant!
Bridgnorth Journal July 2012

Come in no. 672… your time is up! Mr McGinley joins the Bridgnorth Walk 2012. Walker #672 came in between 6 hours 30 minutes and 6 hours 38 minutes.
May 2012

Golden Girl Allie gets gold in Patterns and bronze in Sparring at the PUMA World Black Belt Championships
Bridgnorth Journal May 2012

Black Belt Superstars! Congratulations to new 1st Dan Junior Black Belts Jack and Tom Bradley, Marcus Crawford-Thomas and James Seymour!
Bridgnorth Journal November 2011

Fundraising for Excalibur’s Charity of 2011 – NSPCC
Bridgnorth Journal October 2011

Fun at Bridgnorth Children’s Festival
September 2011

Open Day supporting ‘Hands-On’ activities for children in Bridgnorth – martial arts demo
Bridgnorth Journal September 2011

Excalibur’s new Black Belts!
Bridgnorth Journal July 2011

Come in no. 873… your time is up! Mr McGinley joins the Bridgnorth Walk 2011. #873 came in between 6 hours 24 minutes and 6 hours 34 minutes.
May 2011

Allie rewarded with Most Indomitable Competitor accolade!
Shropshire Star March 2011

Mr Punchard and Mr McGinley help raise funds for Help For Heroes
Shropshire Star, Bridgnorth Journal and Telford Journal February 2011

Yvonne Hadley takes her Black Belt to work!
February 2011

Mr Bradley and Mrs Hadley with their Black Belt Certificates
Shropshire Star January 2011

Bridgnorth Journal January 2011

The Excalibur Ceilidh swung into life with Mr Bob Hadley and the Coalport Invention!
November 2010

Triumphant Quartet as Miles Westwood and Chris Punchard are promoted to 1st Dan and Allie Lucas and Gary Plant are promoted to 2nd Dan!
Bridgnorth Journal June 2010