Soo Shim Kwan 水心館수심관

In South Africa, ITF dojang (specific ITF Taekwon-Do schools) are clustered together in academies. In other words, an academy is a group of ...

Vanderbijlpark -- Steel Mill [ Image Source [ I'm currently doing my annual visit in South Africa, hence the absence of more regular po...

Last night during Taekwon-Do training I could feel my body complaining. I felt some tender joints, sensitive tendons and sore muscles. There...

After my recent post on the three Korean terms ( Moosool , Mooye and Moodo ) used to describe the combat arts, it reminded me of one of my f...

In the latest issue of Totally Tae Kwon Do ( Issue #23 ) my essay on the difference between the ITF tenets “perseverance” and “indomitable ...

When I first came to Korea I was surprised to learn that in Korean there are three different expressions for “martial arts”: moosool (alt...

Edited: December 2014 Image Source In a combative encounter (in other words, in a fight) your brain needs to process hundreds of va...

A while back a friend and I got talking about the whole Juche/Kodang controversy. I've mentioned in a previous post how differences betw...

What are the differences between the side piercing kick, side thrusting and kick and side pushing kick? In a previous post dedicated to the ...

Image Source In the martial arts, we learn how to protect ourselves from an enemy. One important enemy that is often over looked, is the o...