Soo Shim Kwan 水心館수심관

This year I'll be starting my dissertation in martial arts philosophy as part of my doctoral program requirements. I'm planning to w...

This photo dates from about 15 years ago. Me (right) and Boosabeom Yolandi Müller. (Besides me, Bsbnim Yolandi was the first person in t...

I focus a lot on posture during my martial arts training and teaching. Taekwon-Do, like Aikido, is very much an upright martial art that put...

I have not been very active on this blog as of late. Much of it has to do with a lack of time and additional energy to devote to it. A reaso...

Someone recently send me the following email. I decided to post it here, with me reply beneath. Letter: Hi, I have a question regarding...

I hope to continue my series on the value of the ITF patterns, and in my next installment in this series, I want to discuss the meditative v...

Jodi, Instructor Philip, and Juan. This past weekend Bsbnim Philip de Vos of our Potchefstroom Dojang took two students to the annual A...

This post brings together different essays I wrote on this blog regarding what I consider to be the value of the patterns as they are perfor...

This is a translation of ITF Taekwon-Do's Theory of Power into Afrikaans by Retha Fritz from the ITF Encyclopaedia on behalf of the SA...

In my discussion on the kinaesthetic value of the patterns I discussed in Part 1 the heavy emphasis on relaxation and moving from a state ...