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Hill Dickinson trains with Team GB Taekwondo athletes

Following Hill Dickinson’s appointment as official legal services supplier to GB Taekwondo last year, a team from Hill Dickinson’s Manchester office took part in a training session with GB Taekwondo athletes.

The session took place on 20 February 2015 at the athletes’ national training facility in Manchester. Participants from the firm watched some of the top Team GB athletes, including Damon Sansum and Olympic bronze medallist and European Champion, Lutalo Muhammad, training in preparation for various upcoming competitions, not least the 2016 Olympics in Rio.

Participants were then put through their paces with some warm up exercises, before Damon and Lutalo demonstrated some of the basic - and not so basic - taekwondo kicks.

The training session was attended by Hill Dickinson’s Ian Gillis, Paul Spence, Martin March, Chris Johnston, Jonathan Gillow, David Mkhitarian, Rhian Hughes, Mercy Mba, Kin Liu, Jade Chan, Sabina Davis, James Down, Katie Somerville, Faye Russell and Oli Benson.

Ian Gillis, who heads up the Manchester corporate team at Hill Dickinson, commented on the session: “Thank you to the GB Taekwondo athletes for taking time out of their busy training schedules to train my colleagues and I. Skills taught at the session, such as focus and discipline, can be transferred and applied to both everyday life and business.”

Hill Dickinson will be providing a wide range of legal support to GB Taekwondo and the firm’s specialist sports team will also be advising individual athletes on the run up to the Olympic Games in 2016.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Hill Dickinson .