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30 March 2015
Congratulations to Horangi Students
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Back: Instructor Gerhard Louw and Stephani Front: Hussain, Tlotlo, Katlego, Sena, and Andreas The Soo Shim Kwan is proud of Instructo...
06 March 2015
Vacancies at Korean University for BJ/Muay Thai Instructors
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Kyongbuk Science College < http://golfma.kbsc.ac.kr/ > is the first university in South Korea to offer a major in Mixed Martial Arts. ...
02 March 2015
The Value of Patterns (Part 2): Kinaesthetics (Part 3: Controlled Power)
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This is the last post for the time being on the kinaesthetic value of the ITF patterns and was published in Issue #72 of Totally Tae Kwo...
24 February 2015
Seoul: Taekwondo Classes for Adults Kicking Off Again in March
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Although Korea is the motherland of Taekwondo it is ironically often difficult to find serious Taekwondo classes, as Taekwondo schools usua...
27 January 2015
Visit to the ATC Pretoria Dojang
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Taking students through warm-up drills at ATC Pretoria I was in Pretoria last week and got to visit Sabeomnims Karel and Annari Wethmar,...
20 January 2015
Visit to the Potchefstroom Dojang
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Last week Thursday I visited the Soo Shim Kwan Dojang in Potchefstroom during my visit to South Africa. Since it is still early in the ye...
14 December 2014
The Golden Move and ITF Taekwon-Do's Pre-Arranged Sparring
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The ultimate goal of pre-arranged sparring is to drill two important skills: attaining superior positioning and simultaneous defence-and-att...
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09 November 2014
ITF Patterns: Artistic Expression or Self-Defence? -- Neither
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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...
07 November 2014
On Teaching Self-Defence Drills
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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...
27 October 2014
Contemplations on the Evolution of ITF Taekwon-Do as a Style
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I watched the great Karate movie Black Belt again. The movie's opening sequence has the three main characters—all karateka—performi...
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