11 minute read
TANG SOO DO PANAMÁ SBN Carlos O. Urbina
TANG SOO DO PANAMÁ
SabomNim Carlos Omar Urbina Panamá 2022
Advertisement
A young Panamanian from the province of Bocas del Toro on his main island Isla Colon where growing up I saw Sawamura El Campeón on television that I liked him a lot and wanted to be like him and as I remember there were no martial art schools on my beautiful island Colon. I grew up and went to school, but suddenly I traveled to the capital, Panama City where I finished school and then went on to university. Still in school I think starting high school I wondered if I could learn martial arts, Karate was the best known, but I don't know why I saw a couple of Karate classes and I didn't feel that it was what I wanted to learn. On the way to school and returning home one day I discovered that passing in front of the entrance to a neighborhood called La Cresta there were some locals and I saw an advertisement for TangSooDo – Korean Karate and decided to get off the bus or public transport and I visited it, I said to myself “I like this”, I went to find out the data and tell my relatives to be able to pay for the classes and enroll, but I think in two or three months the TangSooDo school closed. I wanted to continue learning, but I didn't want Karate and I didn't think there were more Dojang's of TangSooDo, but a fellow classmate told me that if I wanted to continue learning there was an Academy in a place called Rio Abajo but that the classes were very strong and maybe I wouldn't stand them. I wanted so much to continue learning TangSooDo that I found out how to get to that place, the Colegio Episcopal de San Cristóbal in Rio Abajo (it is known as such), but it is in Parque Lefevre. At the San Cristóbal school there was a gym and these classes were held there. When I arrived I saw that on this basketball court, that is, in this gym, the space of the court was full of students and a student from Black Belt approached me and asked me how he could help me and well, I will not say that the rest is history. I saw the class and immediately knew and said to myself “this is my thing”. The thing was that these classes were three days a week, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, the man who was the Master, a dark man, his name was Alfonso Jesse, but I found out that to address him it had to be like this: SabomNim Jesse (RIP). He was sick and passed away in November 2020 but when I started in the classes of the SabomNim Alfonso Jesse in the early 1980s and I started with fear that I would not stand the classes, well I realized that there were few black belts and over time I found out that not everyone could achieve the Black Belt. Well, this is not exactly the case, but what is true was that for him Sabonim Jesse well, it should be said SabomNim, to rise from the grades or ranks of the colored belts to those of the Black Belts, the student had to show several things such as the endurance of how strict these classes were also the emotional growth and development of the student's character to the point that more than 50 years of teaching SabomNim Jesse until God called him on November 6, 2020 only 8 students achieved this award. Thank you SabomNim Alfonso Jesse for having taught me, for tolerating me for so long and even after his departure from this world I remember him as if he were still alive, I thank him that I was the 7th Black Belt in 1989 that he did. I SabomNim Carlos Omar Urbina until 9 years ago I started teaching on my own
with the authorization of my Master the SabomNim Alfonso Jesse in a gym in the Betania urbanization. Before and after I achieve the Black Belt with my teacher, help support instruction if my teacher needed it. Now with the passing of time I have learned in TangSooDo for almost 33 years of being a Black Belt. I am 4th Dan and I lead the representation of the World Traditional TangSooDo Union. I train my students with combat all classes as I learned from SabomNim Alfonso Jesse. In Panama City, every time there are open Karate or TaeKwonDo tournaments or competitions, I take my students who are prepared and want to not say that they can go to the competitions. I teach classes to children from the age of 4, as well as teenagers and adults. We train with warm-ups, kicks, blocks and punches like with Hyong, that is, we form what they call Kata in Karate and a lot in sparring, that is, in combat. The truth is that I teach what we call physics, that is, calisthenics and stretching, etc. and not always in the same order, but in the different ways that the Chinese Hand Martial Art or TangSooDo can be taught. Tang symbolizes the Tang dynasty of China, Soo is hand and Do
SabomNim Alfonso Jesse
is the path to follow in this martial learning. I teach TangSooDo for the street, not to score points, although as a school we participate in competitions we will continue to do so only that I teach lessons that my students learn this is not for competitions but to save their lives in situations where there would be no rules and the only thing what is worth is to save the lifetime. They know that it is not that they are learning a fake MooDukKwan, it is just that this part they learn cannot be used in a competition or tournament. They know that the TangSooDo they learn is so that if they have to defend themselves in the street, they know how to control force and technique depending on the situation. The MooDukKwan school thus means Moo is martial art, Duk is virtue and Kwan is school or style and this was its translation ´School of Martial Art of Virtue´ of ´Art of the Chinese Hand´ or TangSooDo. I love teaching children and adolescents, of course, adults, but when teaching the youngest from 4 years to 21 years old, they remind me of when I started, which helped me as a person in general, sharing this benefit with them in addition to self-defense . For adults because in addition to helping them almost like minors, it helps against stress, control weight, maintain physical condition and improve health, etc. I can train with adults, practicing easier and improving, since in the street it would be adults who would be the aggressors, either to assault us or just to attack us. Now I will introduce a student of mine who shows interest and makes the effort, in addition to fulfilling all the commitments she has, she always coordinates the time to come to receive
the classes, she even trains to go to the competition despite being a beginner, so I I asked her to write her experience training TangSooDo, her name is Andrea Olaciregui:
My history in martial arts and Tang Soo Do began when I was 23 years old thanks to some friends who practiced it and seeing me on some occasions doing exercises in the same gym that they eventually also attended, they invited me very often already that occasionally I joined them to practice some techniques that I saw them doing and they told me “Andrea, these techniques, although you don't practice them, come out quite smoothly, you should enroll in our academy. You can come as our guest to a class, see if you like it and stay”, however, as a result of the pandemic, my arrival to officially practice it was delayed a little over a year later and I started thanks to my mother and grandmother who felt that it would be very beneficial to me and they were delighted when I mentioned it to them. Starting this martial art (Tang Soo Do), meant a new challenge for me since although I do it with great enthusiasm and enthusiasm, it was a new commitment that I was acquiring and I already had my university classes, the projects of the that I am part and a part-time job, however, despite being a new challenge, bumps and bruises, falls and other situations that occur while practicing, tang soo do has become one of my greatest admirations and a great I like being able to practice it and go to my classes. In a certain way, and although it doesn't sound very professional, I became my own superhero like the ones I've seen since I was little and wanted to be, something that amuses me and motivates me to continue, even if I'm tired. I have been able to strengthen my security by going outside and now at this moment it is also a very special memory that I have with my grandmother, since she went to accompany the angels to heaven, but she gave me the money to register and every time When I came home from my practices, he sat down and said to me, “What did you learn today? Teach me and show me your kick.”
At the beginning, many told me that I would not be able to endure the training, however, in 1989, after many training sessions and difficult tests, I was able to obtain my black belt in Tang Soo Do, from the hand of SabomNim Jesse. Currently, I impart the knowledge that my teacher left me at the Iron Kick Academy, where he trained martial artists who also have a passion for Tang Soo Do. For more information to the Mobile or Whatsapp: +507 6636 – 5917 with pleasure.
Academy Iron Kick Forming Martial Artists that also feel passion for him Tang Soo Do.
Movil: +507 6636 - 5917
is a reflective philosophical work, its author exposes topics as controversial as common, taking them to extreme points, and always looking for a healthy individual balance in thought, no dogmas, death to radicalism and without hypocrisy or contracts, a look at the daily life of each of us who inhabit the planet and the worn concepts and customs waiting to be destroyed with a hammer.
BIOGRAPHY: He was born in the city of Hermosillo, in 1976, the son of Juan Manuel Acosta and Yolanda Serrano (+), he developed in a context of traditional education, his early social relationship took place in a certainly different way, attached to having friends from the elderly, always questioning the social changes that were seen in their contemporaries, as well as the prejudices and value judgments that occurred in an era overwhelmed by capitalism and consumerism in Mexico. A child with a lot of imagination, and even the inventor of nonexistent events, someone who, based on fantastic odysseys, captured the messages that his teachers gave him, sometimes harsh, many others with laughter in between. Married to Melba Valenzuela since 1998, with whom he had four children, a student of society and its behavior, an insatiable reader and lover of balanced thinking, a volunteer for various social causes, a martial arts teacher, a seminarian and an international competitor in Peru. Argentina, Uruguay, etc. Today he makes his debut as a writer and continues in his social causes from his own trench, the traditional martial arts center.
ENDORSEMENTS:
“I recommend reading this book, which reminds us of the values that are currently being lost, the forms of teaching, the factors that influence one's personality and good customs. The order in your life as a fundamental stone, find your place in the world, meet your inner self and always seek the truth. Mario Marcelo Segnini Fursa martial arts teacher Graphic Designer, Radio Panelist and Entrepreneur. Montevideo, Uruguay.
“Whenever we talk about teaching, it is easy for us to think of colleges, secondary schools, universities, but… What if the path we travel in our lives is marked by many more ingredients than those? You have to read this work then, and rediscover information that sleeps in your mind. I invite you to recognize and change old patterns.” John Suarez martial arts teacher Entrepreneur, Neurosales Trainer, Apprentice of life. Montevideo, Uruguay.
"The Ephemeral Observer", a recommended reading in these times where the generation gap seems to get bigger and bigger. Finding oneself, the importance of keeping the values and roots of each being strong. Observe, describe, understand and never judge. Daniel Rodriguez Garcia Medical Specialist in Rehabilitation Master of Martial Arts
