Soo Shim Kwan 水心館수심관

In a recent post on the value of patterns ( Part I ) I referred to the essay below, which was published in Totally Tae Kwon Do magazine, Is...

I wrote  my previous post , on the potential value of martial arts training for ostracised Korean children, specifically as a contributio...

Image Source There is a phenomenon in Korea known as “wangtta.” The word is used as both a noun—a person is said to be a wangtta—and an ...

In a previous post I argued that the ITF patterns should not be considered, like in Karate for example, as purely a template for fighting. ...

I've mentioned some safety precautions before when performing the rear naked choke. If precautions are taken, this could be a safe tech...

For the April 2012 issue of Totally Tae Kwon Do ( Issue #38 ) I contributed an essay based on two posts from last year concerning the probl...

There is a mistaken notion that the sine wave motion (i.e. the iconic relax-up-down movement ) is the only way of stepping in ITF Taekwon...

Just some random photos of the warm-up section of a seminar I presented in South Africa in February, showcasing various core-muscle and bala...

My recent article in Totally Tae Kwon Do  magazine regarding Daoism's disdain of war (and by implication all forms of fighting), garner...

Arirang TV , "Korea's Global TV" (read: self-promotion / propaganda), recently aired a program on nuclear terrorism. One inser...