NZ Team Taupo Camp - Sunday Patterns

Master Davidson came down and joined the camp today to watch individual and team patterns. Our patterns are looking good. I'd love to publish images of some of the innovative team patterns and pre-arranged sparring - but we wouldn't want to give away our secrets to our competitors would we. We'll have some for you during the world champs competition. Here are some pictures of the action (90)...

NZ Team Taupo Camp - Entertainment

Here are some photos of (mostly the parents) chilling out and entertaining themselves in the evening (14)...



The junior boys created a game of hand ball on Friday night which became very competitive and attracted a few of the seniors too.

On Saturday night many of the parents went out for a cheap and cheerful dinner together at Breakers. During the meal Luke, Kate and daughter Ava dropped in to meet up with friends of theirs and after a while Ava came over to our table with a Breakers colouring pad and crayons. After a while she had us all assigned to colouring in a picture and the "competition" became quite serious

Ava won the competition with her awesome picture!

NZ Team Taupo Camp - Saturday Afternoon - Pick of the Pix

Pick of the Pix from this afternoon (39)...

NZ Team Taupo Camp - Some Pictures from Saturday Afternoon

Some of the images taken thisafternoon (102)...


It's been hot and sunny this afternoon - not that we've seen much of the sun while training inside. The team are currently practicing the Haka which gives me some time to sort through photos and upload these for you. I'd kill for a beer right now...

NZ Team Taupo Camp - Saturday Morning - Rest of the Pictures

The rest of Saturday Morning's photos (188)...

NZ Team Taupo Camp - Saturday Morning Pick of the Pix

The Pick of the Pix from Saturday morning (82)...

Canon Powershot G11 a good quality cheap camera for TKD Clubs

Canon Powershot G11, 12.1mm, 1/125s, f/3.5, ISO: 800

The image above and the Set A images taken yesterday were all taken with the latest sub-$1,000 Canon Powershot G11 camera. Since taking these I discovered it has an option to increase the colour intensity and contrast which I've now turned on. Will be interesting to see the results.

Designed for high image quality in low-light and high ISO conditions, the Canon G11 is designed as a lightweight point-and-shoot camera with lots of adjustable functions for professional photographers, replacing the G10 which is about a year old. The G10 has shot magazine covers in war zones and is liked by the pros because of it's image quality, small size, and lack of drawing attention due to it's small size.

The G11 would make an ideal camera for getting good quality images of your clubs training, social and competition activities without needing to spend a fortune on a Digital SLR and the really expensive bit - a fast lens for inside photography. My good fast DSLR lenses range in price from $800-$1,500 each.

Here are some more details of the G11:



Full independent review on dpreview.com.

I bought mine from Progear in Newmarket. I guess you can tell that I'm pretty happy with it :-)