Soo Shim Kwan 水心館수심관

The ultimate goal of pre-arranged sparring is to drill two important skills: attaining superior positioning and simultaneous defence-and-att...

Recently there was a poll on a Taekwon-Do Facebook group that I belong to that asked whether or not practitioners view the ITF (Chang Hon) p...

Teaching self-defence skills to people is always a tricky business because it is difficult to say what will work or not. Sometimes I teach a...

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...