Soo Shim Kwan 水心館수심관

Grandmasters and dignitaries This past Friday I had the opportunity to attend the 2018 International Martial Arts Seminar organised...

Over the weekend I had the opportunity to attend a symposium about General Choi 최홍희. The symposium was in honour of the 100th Anniv...

The essay below was published in this month's issue of Totally Tae Kwon Do magazine, Issue #116. For Taekwon-Do enthusiasts, it is well...

"What your servant loves is the method of the Dao, something in advance of any art." Image Source The following story fro...

Instructor Philip de Vos, Riana Serfontein, Hilda Schutte, Edrich Louw I'm happy to share the results of the Soo Shim Kwan Potchef...

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...