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- ABOUT THE KIDO KWAN
- LINKS
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- Profile
- Safety Brief
- Kido Kwan Color & Black Belt Pledges
- GWEN F. HALL 9th Dan
- Pil Sung: Embodiment of the Tenets of Tae Kwon-Do
- Taekwon-Do Student Training Profile System
- Respecting the Past and Martial Art Legacy
- Integrity: A Shield for Good Character
- Tenacity: Pil Sung as a mindset action dynamic
- The Theory Of Power – A General Martial Art Concept
- H2O Tae Kwon-Do
- A Glimpse into TaeKwon-Do and Geo-Political Intrigue
- Integrity: A Shield for Good Character
- TaeKwon-Do Motion Physics-How Sine Wave and other components affect the Arts performance-
- Perseverance and my Tae Kwon-Do Training: A Martial Art Thesis
- ROGER KOO 9th Dan
- MACK NEWTON, 9th Dan
- SERGIO G. BARRIGA, 9th Dan
- DOUGLAS GRANT
- Blown apart: the divided world of taekwondo
- Forward Stances
- History of the 29th Infantry Division (ICKU) 29사단 (익크부대)
- International Five-Man Black Belt Benefit Karate Tournament
- Martial Arts Terms & Meanings
- ITF History in the U.S.A.
- Juche Fiber and the ITF: The True Story of the “Blue” ITF Dobak
- Pod Casts
- Taekwon-Do and the DPRK Part 1
- Teaching TaekwonDo or the Martial Arts to Students with Special Needs
- Does Taekwon-Do need the Olympics?
- The Unification Cases of Germany and Korea: A Dangerous Comparison (Part 1 of 2)
- Why Martial Arts Are Best for Special Needs
- Taekwon-Do and the DPRK Part 1
- Taekwon-Do, Taekwondo, Tae Kwon Do, TaeKwon Do, A study of Words
- Gwen F. Hall, The Amelia Earhart of Taekwon-Do
- Why do we put our hand under our right elbow when you give or receive something?
- Why do we Kiap?
- The Generals, A study of Taekwon-Do History Part 1
- Following is one of the most underrated aspects of leaderships!
- History of Hapkido
- White only Taekwon-Do uniforms
- Class start and end procedure
- 10th Kup to 9th Kup White Belt (ADULT 15 plus)
- I.T.F. International Instructors
- The Kodang / Juche Controversy
- Taekwon-Do, Taekwondo, Tae Kwon Do, A study of Words
- A Parents Guide 2018
- 10th Kup to 9th Kup White Belt (CHILD 14 under)
- Student Oath
- Dojang Layout
- Meanings of Martial Art Terms-old
- Chang Hon Pattern Name & Meanings
- Etymology of Pattern Names & More!
- The Use of Titles
- The “Renegade Pioneers”, Choi, Hong-hi & Ed Parker
- 29th Division Ik troop
- Dodging in Martial Arts
- What has 20 years gotten us?
- What is a Black Belt?
- KOREAMERICA TAEKWON-DO UNION
- There was a time, back in my prime
- Is your school/association a Martial Arts Cult?
- You’re doing your pattern wrong!
- Dojo Storming 道場荒らし
- Self Awarness is Self Defense! Part 1
- Do you have a written standard for your Patterns?
- CHUNG DO KWAN FOUNDER, LEADERS & THEIR LEGACY (Part 1)
- MUYAE BUN 1 Martial Art Minute
- Dojo Stoming and Count Dante
- Is your child a black belt?
- History of Martial Arts in Muhlenberg County Kentucky
- ROBERT FRANOVICH, 7th Dan
- Chung Bong: A Closer Look At True Korean Forms
- Song Moo Kwan Precepts
- Half As Much
- Carefulness
- The Value of Training
- ETAT – Education, Training, Application, Teaching
- Discipline vs Self-Discipline
- The End
- Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment
- Do they know your name?
- Sometimes it is hard!
- Thoughts into Words (Bunhae)
- The Journey So Far
- Are You Doing It Right?
- Becoming Courageous & Strong Younglings (And Adults)
- GENERAL CHOI, HONG-HI
- 1974 Interview with Gen. Choi Hong Hi President of the International Taekwon-Do Federation
- Interview 1999 Founding Father of Taekwon-Do, President of the International Taekwon-Do Federation
- GENERAL CHOI SPEAKS – The Founder of Taekwondo 1987
- Taekwon-Do and I Volume 3
- General Choi, Hong-hi’s Final Words
- Song of Taekwon-Do
- An Interview with Grandmaster General Choi Hong Hi (1994)
- General Choi’s Communist Sympathy Seen Through ITF
- International TKD Federation
- System of Rank
- History of the ITF Instructors Course
- 1959 Taekwon-Do Demo Program
- 1st Taekwon-Do Book 1959
- A Plain English Explanation of the ITF Student Oath
- I.T.F. Recognition Plaque & its Significance
- Theory of Power – ChangHon Taekwon-Do’s concept
- “Instructor,” “Master” and “Grandmaster”: An Explanation of the Titles Used in ITF Taekwon-Do
- ITF Patterns: Artistic Expression or Self-Defence? — Neither
- Biography of Charles “Chuck” Sereff
- Profile of ITF Instructor J.C. Kim 7th Dan
- ITF Newsletters and other Older Information
- ITF produced Tournament List from 1981
- Membership Letter from UTF/USTF Feb 1982
- Human Weapon 1984
- USTF declaration letter
- Taekwondo announced to be in 88 games
- Inclusion of Taekwondo in the Olympics
- USTF member letter
- USTF membership letter
- Letter to USTF members by Gregg Youstra
- USTF Annual Red & Black Belt Championships
- Choi Duk Shin, 75, Ex-South Korean Envoy Dies
- Grandmaster Park, Jung-tae explanation on ITF expulsion/resignation
- Letter to US Speaker of the House and UN Secretary General from Gen. Choi, Hong-hi
- Master Sereff promoted to Grandmaster
- Current ITF Masters 2001
- Open letter to Master MacCullum from Terrance Geoghegan
- Formal Election of the President of the International Taekwon-Do Federation September 22, 2002
- A Notice from Secretariat
- International Taekwon-Do Federation Board of Directors Meeting
- Letter Concerning ITF Matters from GM Hwang, Kwang-sung
- The ITF President, Mr. Chang Ung visited USA
- Letter from Gen. Choi widow about ITF property
- Email from GM Rhee to GM Hwang about promotion matters
- Email exchanges from then Master John Tompkins
- Agreement between the ITF & WTF 02 December 2006
- Evolution of ITF legal cases against Chang Ung from Tran Quan
- ITF (Trajtenberg) and Sport Accord
- Interview of Chang Ung
- Chang Ung & Choe Chung-won meet
- Pioneering Grandmaster Looking To Bring Tae Kwon Do Unity
- North Korean ITF president “steps down” after 13 years
- Pattern speeds and sine wave study
- Introducing Taekwon-Do Abroad for the First Time
- Orginial ITF Path
- ITF President
- ARTICLES
- Asperger and Martial Arts
- Tul Diagrams Origin
- Taekwondo History
- A Modern History of Taekwondo
- IOC Suspends Kim Un Yong
- The Making of a Modern Myth: Inventing a Tradition for Taekwondo
- Sine Wave in Taekwon-Do: That Funny Bouncing
- The Karate Roots of TaeKwonDo
- The Best Sport for Autism and Other Mental Disabilities
- The Ups and Downs of Sine Wave
- Budo Demonstation
- Technical Taekwon-Do Articles
- Technical Martial Art Articles
- New rules for Taekwondo take immediate effect
- WTF proposes creation of ‘Sports Peace Corps’
- Taekwon-Do: The Art of Hand, Foot and Political Statement
- WTF Launches Reform Committee
- How Tae-Kwon-Do Won the West Part
- The Evolution of Taekwondo from Japanese Karate
- ‘Suffrajitsu’: How the suffragettes fought back using martial arts
- Storming the Fortress: A History of Taekwondo
- 90% of Fights End up on the Ground: Fact Or Fiction?
- HYUNG, POOMSE, TUL
- Traditional/Tang Soo Do Hyungs
- Chang Hon/I.T.F. Tuls, Hyung
- Korean Martial Art Kwans
- KENPO KARATE
- The Origin of Kenpo Karate
- Tracy Kenpo Kata Requirements
- Kenpo Karate – Setting History Right 1949-1954
- Kenpo Karate – Setting History Right 1954-1956
- Kenpo Karate Setting History Right 1960-1962
- Kenpo Karate Setting History Right 1962-1964
- The Business of Kenpo Karate 1965 and Beyond
- Tracy’s Kenpo Karate Curriculum
- When We Were Black Belts
- American Kenpo Karate Pledges
- Tracy Kenpo Karate
- The History & Origins of the Kenpo Katas (AKA Sets or Forms)
- Kenpo Salutation
- 10 Kenpo Laws Every Martial Artist Should Know
- Kenpo Karate Training Today
- Short Form 1
- Long Form #1
- The Ten Commandments of Prevention
- Short Form #2
- Long Form #2
- Short Form 3
- Long Form 3
- Long Form 4
- Long Form 5
- Mass Attack (w/video)
- Kenpo Kata
- Book Set
- Shilla Hyeong Cho-Dan (Kido Kwan Form #1)
- Traditional Taekwondo ChungDo Association TTCA Taekwondo
- Interview with President Global Taekwon-Do Federation, Mrs. Linda Park
- Jee Sang Hyung
- Dhan-Goon Hyung
- Jee Goo
- Pyong-Hwa
- Sun-Duk
- Song Ahm 1
- Song Ahm 2
- Choong Jung Ee Jahng (2)
- Shim Jun Poomse
- Sok Bom Poomse
- Jun Yul Poomse
- Chung San Poomse
- Section 1: pg. 13 A new history of a loan
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Category Archives: General Martial Arts
Wordley Wednesday
Words of course have meanings, and root words are important. We can’t know a word’s meaning unless we know where it came from! This is especially true about words used in martial arts! So today’s word is “Taekwon-Do, Tae Kwon … Continue reading
Open Tournament Season is coming back
Please consider making in-person tournaments a success. The Kido Kwan and all affiliate schools are encouraged to participate even if you are just a spectator! Please consider supporting the East West Karate Challange in Hopkinsville, KY
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SUCCESFUL 1ST ONLINE INTERNATIONAL TECHNICAL SEMINAR CONDUCTED BY GRAND MASTER HWANG HO YONG
On the occasion of the upcoming 55th anniversary of the ITF, the International Taekwondo Federation (ITF) has authorized the Czech Taekwon‑Do Federation to organize an online International Technical Seminar. The seminar was conducted personally by the Korean Grand Master Hwang … Continue reading
Kukkiwon – World Taekwondo HQ elects New President
Grandmaster Lee Dong-sup has been elected as the new President of the Kukkiwon – the World Taekwondo headquarters. The South Korean claimed an emphatic victory over Lim Choon-kil, the former vice-president of the Kukkiwon, to secure the top job at … Continue reading
One World, One Tae Kwon Do
GENEVA, Switzerland (April 12, 2019) – World Taekwondo (WT) and the International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF) today showcased the power of taekwondo to promote peace during a joint-demonstration at the United Nations (UN) Office in Geneva. The joint-demonstration was the fourth … Continue reading
Two taekwondo bodies to launch joint organization for integration
World Taekwondo President Choue Chung-won, left, and International Taekwondo Federation President Ri Yong-son sign the agreement for the integration of taekwondo, in Pyongyang, Friday. Courtesy of World Taekwondo By Jung Min-ho PYONGYANG, North Korea ― Two international taekwondo governing bodies … Continue reading
Attitudes for Productive Participation
Some years ago, back in the 1980s and early 1990s, I had the opportunity to attend several camps and workshops of Anshu Stephen K. Hayes and his personal student Robert Bussey. If you were involved in the martial arts in the … Continue reading
Hapkido Seminar Oct 19-21 2018
The Korea Hapkido Federation in the USA Branch HQ will be hosting a seminar in October 19-21, 2018 featuring Grandmaster Michael Rhoades. GM Rhoades is the US Director and working hard to unite all professional Hapkidoins who are or want … Continue reading
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Time Flies (7th Dan promotion)
I’m sure that we will all agree that days, months and years go by much too fast as we try to learn and grow and work toward our goals. As the Kido Kwan site has been in the process of … Continue reading
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RHEE, Jhoon-goo Passes
Rhee, Jhoon-goo AKA Jhoon Rhee, passed away early this morning 30 April, 2018. He was the first Korean to teach Korean Karate later known as Taekwon-Do first in Texas and then later in Virginia/DC area. We wish to extend our … Continue reading
Israel Taekwondo competitors banned from Tunisia event!
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) A court in Tunis has banned four Israeli athletes from competing at the taekwondo world junior championships after a group of activists opposed to normalization with Israel filed an urgent lawsuit. The competition is being held in … Continue reading
Grandmaster Al Tracy Passes
The world lost one of the most senior if not most senior Kenpo Grandmasters in the world in the early hours of 30 Oct. 2017. He was one of Ed Parkers earliest black belts and arguably the “keeper”of Original Kenpo, … Continue reading
World Taekwondo President disappointed by ITF’s failure to fulfil promise on World Championships invite
hips invite Add comment By Daniel Etchells at the Copper Box Arena in London Friday, 20 October 2017 World Taekwondo President Chungwon Choue has expressed his disappointment that the governing body did not receive a promised invitation to send its … Continue reading
Kukkiwon President describes the Funtion of the Kukkiwon 극기원
An older video but a great resource
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Ex-IOC Vice President Kim Un-yong dead at 86
SEOUL, Oct. 3 (Yonhap) — Kim Un-yong, former vice president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), passed away Tuesday. He was 86 years old. Sources close to the deceased said Kim, feeling under the weather, was admitted to Severance Hospital … Continue reading
World Taekwondo still waiting on promised invitation to upcoming ITF World Championships
By Daniel Etchells at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre Saturday, 9 September 2017 World Taekwondo President Chungwon Choue has revealed the governing body has still not received a promised invitation to send its Demonstration Team to the upcoming ITF … Continue reading
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Gwen F. Hall, The Amelia Earhart of Taekwon-Do
AS PUBLISHED IN TOTALLY TAE KWON DO ISSUE # 109 MARCH 2018 The following interview with Grandmaster Gwen F. Hall, who had graciously agreed to be interviewed, was conducted via personal interview, telephone, and historical documents. Doug Nowling (DN): Grandmaster … Continue reading
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Thinking of the Kukkiwon
By KIM, UN-YONG September 4th is a historical day in which I had Taekwondo adopted as an official Olympic sport in 1994 during the IOC session in Paris, which commemorated the 10th anniversary of IOC. It just so happens that … Continue reading
ROK blocks DPRK in martial arts competitions
SEOUL, July 27 (Yonhap) – The South Korean government has blocked North Korea’s participation in a martial arts competition here in September, after Pyongyang accepted an invitation, a Washington-based news media report said Wednesday. According to Voice of America … Continue reading
Passing of Grandmaster John Tompkins
We are sad to learn of the passing of Grandmaster John Tompkins July 6, 2016. GM Tompkins was 72 and first joined the ITF after his service with the U.S. Army and served as a aviation crew member for the … Continue reading
Grandmaster Promotions Annouced
With the birth of Taekwon-Do on April 11 1955 when Taekwon-Do was given its name, many in the name of Taekwon-Do have been promoted to 9th Dan (degree). General Choi first appointed 9th Dan was Rhee, Ki-ha of Scotland, followed … Continue reading
2015 Kukkiwon Invitational Course in USA
October 24, 2015 DEAR KIND AND HONORABLE READER, PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS ARE TRUE: 1. With the authority and responsibility to maintain “global standards,” the Kukkiwon is implementing regulations in the U.S. that are already successfully established … Continue reading
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Russia and North Korea to Co-Produce Film On Taekwondo History
by Vladimir Kozlov 10/20/2015 10:58am PDT The film will be the first co-production project between the two countries in over 25 years. Russia is planning the first co-production with North Korea since the Soviet era as part of a larger … Continue reading
I Am Taekwondo!
The date of birth of the founder of Taekwon-Do, Choi, Hong-Hi is approaching. November 9th, make a difference! Show the would that you are TaekwonDo! Hold the sign, or make your own declaring ” I am TaekwonDo” and then … Continue reading
