Swansea were on the end of a defeat last year and are looking to bounce back with a win this time around.

“The squad and myself are quite confident this year, especially after the student ITF championships in Leeds,” said Batson.

“Some of our fighters beat theirs [Cardiff’s] at the tournament.

“It will make for an interesting showdown definitely!”

The Varsity taekwondo match consists of two main disciplines, sparring and patterns.

Batson added: “Cardiff and myself will be matching up our fighters for the match soon and will also discuss how the whole tournament will be judged.”

She believes their patterns were Swansea’s “weakest element” last year and needs the most work before the big day arrives.

The discipline of patterns consists of the performance of a sequence of set movements.

They are then marked based on technique, timing and breathing.

Batson and the squad are taking inspiration from the New Zealand rugby team and have created their own haka.

She added: “We will try and scare Cardiff, it should be good fun.”

Braddock won his medals in patterns and point-stop sparring and captain Emily Batson said the team is eager for more tournaments.

“Our performance in Leeds has boosted the club’s morale 100 per cent because of the success we had,” she said.

“Everyone is desperate to compete in another tournament.

“I couldn’t be more proud as a captain for all the hard work they’ve done which has evidently paid off.

“This puts us in high spirits for Varsity.”

The tournament consisted of four disciplines: patterns, point-stop sparring, continuous sparring and destruction.

A pattern is the performance of a sequence of set movements, and they get marked based on technique timing and their breathing.

Point-stop sparring is a timed contest between two fighters, a punch to body is one point, a kick to body is two points and a kick to head is three points.

The referee stops the fight each time a hit is noted. The winner has the most points at the end of the fight.

Continuous sparring is similar to point-stop but the scoring system differs.

The scores are marked by clickers in each of the corners with the referee only interfering if it gets too scrappy.

Destruction is the breaking of boards by the competitors.

Matthew Hakim, Laura Hunt, and Sam Mason all won silver for Swansea in sparring.

Lewis Bray, Batson, Mason and the jitsu captain, David Townsend, picked up bronze medals.

Batson said she is impressed by recruits who joined the club in September.

“Townsend also recently won gold for groundwork in jitsu,” she added.

Emily Batson, tae kwon do captain, is thinking positive about the event on February 26.

“We hope to take around 13 [competitors] and hopefully bring back some gold,” she said.

“We’ve got a good few black belts on our team and some of the younger grades are showing some real potential in sparring, so I’m quite confident.”

Batson will be leading from the front taking part in several key disciplines in Leeds including patterns, sparring and destruction.

“I’m hopeful that we’ll win in most categories to be honest,” added second degree black belt Batson, who has more than eight years’ experience in tae kwon do.

Following the competition, the tae kwon do team will have their next grading event at the university to test the ability of their members.

Batson is yet to know for certain how many will be grading but she is aiming for the number to be in double figures.

This will take place on March 1.