Soo Shim Kwan 水心館수심관

In this essay, I’d like to appropriate an idea from the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan to understand martial arts practice. One of Lacan...

In Taekwon-Do, we often talk about the “Do” of Taekwon-Do, calling it the philosophy of Taekwon-Do; but what do we mean by this? How can we ...

About a year ago, someone on a Facebook-group posted a few questions about the sine wave motion. I stumbled on my reply to these questions a...

This post will be somewhat autobiographical and is inspired by a recent discussion on Facebook about siblings sparring against each other at...

A recent academic publication (April 2018) (see the abstract here ) provides a meta-analysis of the current literature (23 articles) re...

The twisting kick 비틀어차기 as it is called in ITF Taekwon-Do is, I believe, an iconic kick of Korean martial arts. It is a prominent kick in IT...

My annual trip to South Africa in January and February this year was quite a blessed one. Apart from spending some quality time with family ...

This afternoon I made a quick pre-Christmas visit to the Korea Hapkido Federation headquarters 대한합기도 협회 in Seoul to meet with my Hapkido...

So, last week there was the big Mayweather-McGregor fight. McGregor made some comments back in 2015, which were dug-up possibly by Maywea...

There is much that can be learned from this incident in which an MMA fighter killed a body builder. News Report 1. They have now both l...