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East Leeds taekwondo girls aiming for the top
Fighting fit are seven-year-old black belts Alexandra Turner and Abigail Priestly.
The pair are among the youngest in the UK to hold a provisional black belt in taekwondo.
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Now the girls, who train together up to five times a week with Leeds-based NTX School, have their eyes firmly fixed on sitting the full black belt exam in December.
Both took up the martial art aged just four.
Alex, from Scholes, said: "I love (taekwondo] fighting because it is self-defence and so controlled."
The girls now dream of one day taking to the ring to spa with UK Olympic taekwondo medal holder Sarah Stevenson, from Doncaster.
Both have trained under taekwondo masters once taught by the martial art's Korean founder General Choi.
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