NEWSLETTER VOLUME 10 NO. 1
We are already in the second half of 2021, which is another good time to bring you members up to date again with the Taus Gym newsletter! Apart from being able to enjoy summer temperatures again, we are also incredibly happy to be able to play sports almost as usual again.
Not only that... Taus Gym exists 10 years this year! In this newsletter, we update you on the festivities, upcoming courses and events, extra shifts, new (aspiring) instructors, the holiday schedule and new Taus Gym merch.
10 years of Taus Gym!
Ten years ago in September, Taus Gym opened its doors for the first time. We are overjoyed to be able to celebrate this with you. In the near future, we will be announcing a number of events and would love to look back with you at all the milestones we have achieved together with you over the past few years. Keep our facebook and instagram pages for updates on member promotions, giveaways and celebrations!
We will also hold the annual members' BBQ again, of course, but this year it will be in the theme of the tenth anniversary. Click here for more information on the members' BBQ.
Events
Apart from the 10th anniversary celebrations, we will also pick up old events.
One of the courses we are picking up again is the Women Only Krav Maga course. During this course, women learn in a safe environment how to keep themselves safe in dangerous situations they may often face. For example, sexual harassment on the street or while going out. During the Women Only Krav Maga course, they learn to recognise danger early and how to use the necessary techniques to get to safety as quickly as possible. The course also helps create greater self-confidence and a confident attitude. The course lasts for 9 weeks and will be available to try out during trial lessons. Interested? Then check out this page.
We will also organise the Ground Fight course again. During the ground fight course, you will broaden and deepen your ground fight skills. You will learn the intricacies of moving in a ground fight and various tools and tricks that will give you the advantage both on the street and during a grappling match. Are you interested in the Ground Fight course? Then check out this page.
Below is the schedule of all events confirmed so far.
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EVENTS |
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| Sunday 12 September | Curriculum training kids |
| Thursday, 16 September | Women Only Krav Maga trial class |
| Saturday 18 September | Members' BBQ |
| Sunday 19 September | Groundfight workshop |
| Thursday 23 September | Women Only Krav Maga Trial Class |
| Sunday, September 26 | Curriculum training adults |
| Thursday, 30 September | Start Women Only Krav Maga course |
| Saturday, 2 October | Child-parent training |
| Sunday 3 October | Start Ground Fight Course |
| Sunday 3 October | Curriculum training young people |
| Sunday 10 October | Krav Maga pre-test adults |
| Sunday 17 October | Krav Maga pre-test kids |
New classes from 1 September
After waiting, they are finally here; The new classes will take place from 30 August! Check out the schedule below.
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TILBURG |
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| Monday 19:30h - 20:00h | (Temporary) boxing bag training |
| Monday 20:00h - 20:45h | Krav Maga youths |
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BREDA |
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| Thursday 18:30h - 19:15h | Kids Krav Maga |
| Thursday 19:30h - 20:30h | Krav Maga adults |
More than just a gym
The safety and well-being of the Taus Gym community is our top priority. We therefore want to offer you more than just workouts. Would you like to share something with us, need advice on your physical and mental health or just want to chat? We are happy to listen and help you. You can contact our instructors for this. We also have Louise, our well-known instructor, designated as confidant. If you need a listening ear on a sensitive subject, Louise will gladly offer one.
As a socially engaged gym, we also see the importance of an integrated approach. That's why we collaborate with other coaches and therapists and can possibly help you find someone who can best support you.
Cooperation with Vivendi
Like sufficient exercise, nutrition is one of the essential building blocks for good overall wellbeing. That's why Taus Gym and Vivendi Dietetics join forces. Thanks to a multidisciplinary approach, we can help you apply and maintain a healthy lifestyle. From now on, you can come to us for appropriate nutritional advice. For more information, visit our page about nutrition.
Taus Gym as an accredited training company
As of today, Taus gym is a recognised training company. This means that we can officially offer traineeships to MBO level 4 students. We are extremely proud of this and look forward to making a social contribution in this way too.
Introducing...
We were able to add two (not so) new faces to the Taus Gym team! A new intern and aspiring trainer will join our team and help you achieve your goals. Maurijn Musters will be our first intern since we became a recognised training company and Marcel de Groot is currently on a pathway to become an instructor. Read Maurijn and Marcel's stories at the bottom of this newsletter and get to know them already!
Holidays
Due to the summer holidays, we will be closed between 5 August and 22 August. The two weeks before and after this closure, we will sport according to a modified schedule. During the weeks of the adjusted schedule, you may take extra classes outside your membership. Look for the adjusted schedule in our agenda.
Training materials in stock
Starting next week, we will have a whole bunch of training materials in stock again! Do you need new gloves or is your T-shirt due for replacement? Then drop by before class so we can help you with that. Need something, but train in Breda? Send us an e-mail and we'll take it with us.
We also finally have the long-awaited Taus Gym vest in stock! We are more than happy with the final result and can't wait to see you in this cool vest. These will soon be available for €55 each from sizes XXXS to XXL.
And finally...
Lastly, we would like to thank you again for all your support, understanding and loyalty regarding covid-19 and the measures to be enforced. We remain vigilant and will continue to work towards a safe sports environment. In the time to come, we will again guide you with all the passion and professionalism first and we will again build hard on the community feeling with all the upcoming events and festivities. Remember, we are here for you and you can come to us with various questions for help!
Let me introduce: Maurijn Musters
I am Maurijn Musters, I am 17 years old and from Tilburg. I have been sporting at Taus for almost 5 years now.
Gym and really enjoy the fact that I am now doing an internship here. I am currently studying ROC sports and exercise level 4. My passions are Krav Maga and MMA. I also enjoy gaming sometimes. In addition, I like to read informative books from the past, such as the art of war.
What I want to do in the future I haven't quite decided yet. What I do know for sure is that it will be something active because I don't like sitting still. I hope to learn a lot of things during my internship about teaching methods and how best to convey information. I also hope to gain a lot more insight into what goes on behind the scenes of the gym. I want to motivate and help people achieve the goals they have.
Hope to see you soon!
Introducing: Marcel de Groot
Most of the members from Tilburg know me from the Krav Maga training sessions that I, not too long ago, enjoyed attending. Soon, besides bringing my Krav Maga skills to the next level, I will also start providing FIT training. Therefore, a somewhat more formal introduction seems in order:
I started my ‘working’ life as a 17-year-old in the green suit and kept it up for about seven years. After, during an exercise, our 58-year-old adjutant plopped down next to me in the mud, huffing, puffing, wet and cold, I took a critical look at my future prospects and ended my career as a non-commissioned officer and started studying Technical Computer Science. After my studies, I managed to get myself a job for a long time by developing buggy software and fixing it.
For the most part, these are the activities you imagine: lazy office chair work... Fortunately for my body, I did always have an interest in ‘martial arts’: started with Judo as a child, progressed to (Japanese) Jiu-Jitsu and much later discovered and embraced Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu with a touch of MMA (I managed to avoid the Kung-Fu craze).
From the moment I joined the army, I had to leave the bustling heart of partying Brabant for Schaarsbergen and started looking for evening activities other than visiting the company bar, which I found with Edgar Kruyning. With him, I came into contact with the Japanese martial arts Aikido, Ken-jutsu and Yoseikan (later, by the way, Edgar became the organiser of the NK Grappling but that was far from on his radar at the time).
All that pyjama dancing I enjoyed over the years, and although I was familiar with ‘no holds-barred’ tournaments and free-fighting (I remember the first UFC, watched on a much-copied VHS tape, very well. Even Remco Pardoel came to visit occasionally for some good stories (he was totally focused on Japanese Jiujitsu until he lost to Royce Gracie in UFC 2) I didn't give it much attention.
Only years later did I ’casually’ come across Brazilian Jiujitsu (as in: I was completely dominated by someone who had just been training for two years), and from then on this ‘ground fighting’ had my full attention.
In BJJ/Grappling competitions, I wasn't worth much, but there was always a good atmosphere (what else to expect other than time-wasting so chillexes interspersed with brawling if ‘Brazilian’ is included in the sport name) and coaching our team seemed to suit me quite well so whenever possible I entered the various tournaments. After doing this for a while, I also started practising some MMA. To ‘experience it once’, I entered the cage a few times at amateur level (and was also able to leave on foot. MMA is less spectacular than its reputation sometimes suggests), and above all learned that all that cuddling is not blissful when the other person strikes back....
During this time, around 2010, I also got to teach my first classes in BJJ/Grappling. I noticed that was a lot of fun and more importantly, the team members seemed to keep coming back (and working with all limbs)!
Switching back to my day job, somewhere halfway through my IT career I had had enough of the corporate world for a while and joined the police as a detective in the role of ‘digital forensics specialist’ with the East Brabant Regional Criminal Investigation Department. Here, I saw the aftermath of ‘real’ violence many times (my deployments in the army were mostly exercises in boredom...).
The hectic nature of this work did cause me to not feel a mat under my feet for a few years. In retrospect, I did miss this: the sport gave me a lot (two new anterior cruciate ligaments, for example, and very charming ears ;)). But my opinion of combat ‘sport’ had changed fundamentally by now.
So after my retirement from the police force in 2019, it started itching again but was looking for something ‘different’/realistic. After it became an insufferable itch, I found Taus Gym where I can expend my energy in a fantastic environment and under expert instructors (I've seen enough of the other variety to recognise it).
I recently left the business world anyway and started teaching software development. Partly, of course, because I find the field very interesting and can tell a bit about it by now, but mainly because I really enjoy coaching people, young and old, and teaching them ‘things’.
I hope to experience the same here at Taus Gym, starting with the FIT! Classes (solemnly promising to use fewer words there than here and, above all, let you experience more action)!
