Soo Shim Kwan 水心館수심관

Congratulation to Boosabeomnim Philip de Vos for getting a bronze medal in the Patterns Category during the recent National South African IT...

A compilation of Taekwon-Do kicks used in K-1 and kick boxing style tournaments. Thanks to Master Kim Hoon of The Way Martial Arts Acade...

 When we look at the sine wave motion in its typically down-up-down form we can identify it as a vertical * sine wave. With vertical I mean...

In the video above, in one of his last seminars, General Choi Hong-Hi, the father of Taekwon-Do and first president of the ITF, spoke prou...

TOI-GYE is the pen name of the noted scholar Yi Hwang 이황 (16th century), an authority on neo Confucianism. The 37 movements of the pattern r...

It is my believe that the sine wave motion in ITF Taekwon-Do can be understood as the combination of Karate's linear way of moving with...

In my previous post on the wave principle I mentioned that it is not unique to ITF Taekwon-Do; that once you understand it you will notice ...

In my previous post I emphasized the importance of differentiating between the sine wave motion and the wave principle. While I spent some ...

There are a number of critiques against ITF Taekwon-Do’s “sine wave”. Some of these critiques are based on a misunderstanding of the (sine) ...

My submission for the latest issue of Totally Tae Kwon Do was on Won-Hyo. In the essay I give some background information on this interesti...