The Bradshaws
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Heart of England Chief Instructor & Grading examiner
Taekwon-do is a real family affair in the Bradshaw household with Mr Bradshaw being the Chief Instructor and Head Coach. As well as co-ordinating and overseeing the activities of all the Heart of England Schools Mr Bradshaw runs 4 schools of his own at Eastwood, Hucknall, Kimberley and Nottingham. With over 21 years of Taekwon-do experience and teaching Taekwon-do full time for the last 18 years Mr Bradshaw has succeeded in taking over 200 students to Black Belt, 20 of whom he has subsequently helped to develop into new school Instructors.
Qualified as an International Instructor and Referee, Mr Bradshaw has also been a regular on the International Coaching circuit with tremendous success having trained 25 ITF World Champions. He has been the ITF National Team UK coach on 4 occasions coaching the England Teams to many International successes including the British, Korean, Australian and Argentinean ITF World Championships as well as being the PUMA National Squad Coach for many years.
“Our aim is to teach traditional Taekwon-do to anyone who has the commitment to do the best that they can do”
Mr Bradshaw is a dedicated coach who arranges extra training in his free time and always gives his all to motivate the competitors. The programme of training that he uses ensures that his students get top level training specific to their individual needs. His successes at International level range in age from 14 yrs to 52 yrs of age male and female. He is able to get the best out of all students and competitors and is excellent at spotting individual potential and working them through to the best that they can be. This is on top of Regional and National Competition success where he motivates and encourages those as young as 5 years old to do there very best and deal with the times that they do not achieve medal results but helps them get better for the next time. He is honest with everyone and if he tells you that you need to work on certain elements of your training he does it in such a way that motivates you for your own good.
As a group we receive no funding and therefore a lot of Mr Bradshaw’s time is spent fundraising and organising events for the competitors to showcase their talents a total of £20,000 had to be raised in order to get the competitors to the Taekwon-do World Championships in Korea July 2010.
Even with this to contend with he always manages to get us performing at our best. His job doesn’t end with the lead up he is constantly busy at competitions making sure all our competitors are prepared and of course at the right place at the right time. Without Mr Bradshaw we would not have been able to perform as well as we did in Korea.
In order for all the students who train within the Heart of England group to attend World Championship and International competition he has formed a LTD company (Heart of England LTD) which provides Martial Arts services and merchandise the profits of which are used to sponsor those students selected for International events.
In 2010 Mr Bradshaw was awarded the Chesterfield and North East Derbyshire Coach of the Year and the Derbyshire Performance Coach of the Year Awards for the Heart of England Team's numerous National Competition successes in the preceding 12 months but also for the Team's successes at the 2010 World Championships in Korea where the Team won 19 Medals from 13 Competitors - 5 of them Gold and one team member being awarded Best Overall Senior Male.
The picture above shows Mr Bradshaw receiving the Derbyshire Performance Coach of the Year Award for 2010.
ELAINE BRADSHAW 5th Dan
Training for over 15 years and a full time Instructor for the last 10 years Mrs Bradshaw is also an International Instructor, Grading Examiner and Referee. She has been responsible for training 5 World Champions and over 20 International Champions from the Alfreton School alone.
In 2007 Alfreton Taekwon-do School received the Amber Valley Sports Club of the year award in recognition of not only its World Champions, but its inclusive policy of giving everyone a chance to succeed at Taekwon-do, whatever their circumstances or natural abilities.
Mrs Bradshaw states, “I am proud to have been given the responsibility to train and develop such a large number of individuals, with such varying abilities, to Black Belt status. Alfreton is an all inclusive, successful school with over 90 students training regularly twice a week. A great deal of that success is down to my two valuable Assistants, Kimberley and Gavin Bradshaw, who are also my children”.
KIMBERLEY BRADSHAW 4th Dan
Miss Bradshaw has been training for 14 years from 5 years of age and is now a fully Qualified Instructor.
Kimberley is a very successful International competitor becoming British and European sparring champion in 2001 at the age of 11. This proved to be a turning point for her and she subsequently competed in 4 World Championships;
Argentina 2002 - winning 4 Team silver medals
Korea 2004 - winning 4 Team Bronze medals
Australia 2006 - winning Individual bronze patterns medal, captaining the Girls team to 2 silver medals and 1 gold and helping achieve the best overall trophy
Birmingham 2007 - winning Individual silver in sparring, captaining the Girls team to 3 gold and 1 bronze also winning the overall team trophy Kimberley was also given the honour to recite the oath at the beginning of the championships
Korea 2010 - Individual World Champion Ladies Heavy Weight Sparring, Silver Ladies Team Sparring and Bronze in Ladies Team Patterns
In 2006 Miss Bradshaw Captained the Girls Team in the European Championships in Germany winning the individual Silver for sparring and in the Team event winning 1 Gold medal & 3 Silver medals.
Her competition successes are a result of dedication and hard work in her training. To date Miss Bradshaw has won over 130 National and International medals.
Kimberley won the Chesterfield & NE Derbyshire Young Sportswoman of the year for 2006 & 2007 and then went on to win the Derbyshire Young Sports woman of the year for 2006 & 2007
Kimberley is the Instructor at Clay Cross Taekwon-do School and also runs the Junior Taekwon-do class at Alfreton for 4-7 year olds and her enthusiasm and inventiveness makes these classes run very smoothly. Her knowledge and experience in Taekwon-do is also of great benefit to the Alfreton School and has contributed to the successes that the school has achieved both in terms of student gradings and competition results.
GAVIN BRADSHAW 3rd Dan
The youngest but tallest member of the Bradshaw clan is 17 years of age and has been training for 12 years since the age of 5. He is a qualified Assistant Instructor and is looking to take his full Instructor qualification when he turns 18 in 2008.
Gavin has had many successful National competition results being undefeated Scottish Champion for the last 10 years. To date he has won over 70 National medals.
He has just moved into the adult competition’s category and despite this being one of the hardest groups to compete in has made a very impressive start winning several Gold Medals.
Gavin was awarded the Chesterfield and NE Derbyshire Junior Sportsman of the Year Award for 2006 and was runner up in the Bolsover awards for 2007
Gavin is a valuable member of the Alfreton Taekwon-do school and inspiration to all who he trains with.