UKTA New Badge leads to fall out
The United Kingdom Tae Kwon-do Association have announced that they are changing their ‘official’ badge and will release a new dobok design. Fair enough you would think. However, it’s not as simple as that. According to reports, dobok supplier has been left out of pocket as he believed he had the sole right to distribute UKTA doboks of the ‘old’ design.
After some to-ing and fro-ing between Tony Williams and Master Prewett it appears that peace has broken out. In his his latest mail Williams says.
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1). UKTA BADGE. Master Prewett advised me that currently he is only responsible for the Head Office and Accountancy staff. He is not part of the “Management” and he had no part in the decision to change the UKTA badge. In fact Master Prewett never wanted the badge to be changed and he therefore wanted to continue discussions with me. Had this happened I think that we would have definitely reached an agreement so that there would have never been any need for the UKTA to lose 42 years of history when the badge was changed. Unfortunately the “Management” instructed Master Prewett not to discuss this matter with me.
2). FINANCES. I worked very closely with Master Prewett for many years and we have always had great respect for each other. In regard to the unpleasant thing that are currently being said about me Master Prewett has confirmed that he has also heard these but that he has never believed them and has most definitely never said them himself.
Like me Master Prewett is someone who place a high value on his reputation and good name. I therefore wish to apologise to him as I now know that he was not the person responsible for the comments that were made about me at the BTC meeting.”