Soo Shim Kwan 水心館수심관

I watched the great Karate movie Black Belt again. The movie's opening sequence has the three main characters—all karateka—performi...

The dream of re-unifying North and South Korea is slowly fading away. In the past when there were still many families that were separated by...

Mr Philip demonstrating technique for Grandmaster Hwang during a recent seminar in South Africa. I'm very happy and proud to annou...

In the last two issues of Totally Tae Kwon Do Magazine two of my essays on the Value of the ITF Patterns were published. In Issue #67 ...

After a special personal request from the editor of Totally Tae Kwon Do magazine I committed to submit more regular articles again. The r...

Jodi Siecker, Instructor Philip de Vos, Hatting Davel The Potchefstroom Soo Shim Kwan dojang brought home various medals again, after co...

Jodi and Instructor Philip We would like to congratulate Instructor Philip de Vos and Jodi Siecker on winning two medals each, during th...

I was recently having a conversation with my friend Dr John Johnson about a book we have both read, Ki and the Way of the Martial Arts b...

Me at the Ahn Joong-Gun Memorial Museum in Seoul, South Korea, in 2009. Recently I received a question from a Taekwon-Do friend, Marku...

I received the following by email and gladly re-post it here: Absent political considerations there should be no valid reason to exclude ...