Name: Steven Newit

Current Grade: 2nd Dan (November 2013)

Training Club: Streetly – Walmley – Four Oaks

TKD Achievements:
My attendance was ultra-high in all classes for over four years as I went to all possible lessons right up to black belt. Training with my son, Jack, was a real pleasure. I was also proud to see my daughter, Abigail, pass a grading, and my wife, Pauline, is on her way to black belt herself. Two years on, my 2nd Dan grading has whizzed past and I have come to realise that sometimes the toughest opponent can be yourself and your own struggle to remain motivated but that mostly it's Andy Pugh.

I do this website and many of our articles for the newspapers.

I've won a few fights in tournaments at Windsor though I think the ones I lost taught me most about myself. It takes bravery to walk into a fight knowing you'll get battered. Winning one is fantastic, too, of course. I've got a gold and a silver medal from Bytomic and five trophies from Suttontkd including 'Outstanding contribution at Streetly Club', and 'Student of the Year Dec 2011'. It's nice to know that someone thought well of me.

I have written this super-cheap but very funny Kindle book about my time with Suttontkd and some of the fantastic people I have trained with. The picture links to Amazon if you would like a copy. Click me and check it out!

In the 1920s, my father was a boxer called Jack and I named my son after him. Our fighting family tradition remains alive and well thanks to Anna, Richard, and Sutton Schools of Tae Kwon-Do.