Soo Shim Kwan 水心館수심관

At the end of last year I was a guest on the Korea Deconstructed  podcast by Dr David Tizzard, in which we spoke about my life in Korea, Tae...

Last week I participated at the 2024 UNESCO ICM 's annual International Martial Arts Seminar . This year the topic focused on mental hea...

While searching through one of my folders, I came upon an essay I wrote for Totally Tae Kwon Do Magazine ( Issue #138 - August 2020 ). Usual...

On 22 November 2023 I delivered a paper entitled "From Decisiveness to Adaptability: The Muhyeong-Principle in (ITF) Taekwondo" at...

I was promoted earlier this month (November 2023) to 6th Dan by Taekwon-Do pioneer Grandmaster Lee Yoosun. My previous black belt test to 5t...

My original Taekwon-Do school that I opened in 1998 was simply named Potchefstroom Taekwon-Do Club and it kept that name for the 25 years th...

In December of 2020 I posted an essay here in which I proposed a classification of martial arts as premodern, modern, and transmodern. This...

Beating Swords into Ploughshares:  Pondering Peace and Martial Arts By Dr. Sanko Lewis Presentation given at the 5th African Martial Arts Co...

A while ago I was scanning through this blog searching for a post on "Basics", which I was certain I wrote years ago. In my memory...

I recently presented a paper titled “The Evolution of Taekwondo’s Body Culture” at the 7th international Martial Arts Studies Conference: Ma...