Soo Shim Kwan 水心館수심관

A recent post by another blogger made me look at the Chinese internal style Hsing-I Quan (aka Xingyiquan) 形意拳 again. There are two things ...

A young man who is new to the martial arts asked me this afternoon about the differences between ITF Taekwon-Do and WTF Taekwon-Do. I gave h...

I think more and more that 'art' in combative or martial arts is probably the right word. It is and must be a creative, spontaneous ...

Traditional martial arts instructor Dan Djurdjevic has recently started revisiting basic techniques at his blog The Way of Least Resistance ...

Source May 15th is Teachers' Day (스승의 날) in South Korea. Martial arts instructors also qualify, so it is appropriate for me to wish a...

Kwang-Gae, better romanized Gwang-Gae, is one of the three 1st Dan patterns. It is named after Great King Gwang-Gae To 광개토태왕.  The ITF Encyc...

I realised that I've never actually properly explained the basic understanding of the sine wave motion on this blog. I've always ass...

For this month's issue of Totally Tae Kwon Do ( Issue #27 ) I submitted an article based on an earlier post here regarding the double ...

Image Source "The flea who falls must jump; the flea who jumps must fall." -- Alan Watts, Way of Zen

In the following two part video, my dongsaeng Ok Chanyang takes us through a full body twenty minute stretching routine. The routine is exc...