Asfordby tae kwon-do quartet make the grade as black belts

The group changed association recently, joining the Absolute Taekwondo Association, part of the International Taekwondo Council, which demands an intensive hour-and-a-half grading.

Students were assessed on all aspects of tae kwon-do including linework, patterns (tuls), sparring one-on-one, two-on-one, and three-on-one, and destruction with hands and feet.

Madeline Templeton and her brother Ewan Templeton both became taekwondo black belts at first degree, while Millie Maeve-Harris and Isaac Banks both graduated to second-degree black belt level, all before their 14th birthdays.