TANG SOO DO COLOMBIA KSN Oscar González

TANG SOO DO IN COLOMBIA.

In our country, in most of its history, martial arts have mostly dominated martial arts such as taekwondo, hapkido, karate and judo, now with the rise of mixed martial arts disciplines such as kick boxing, brazilian jiujitsu stand out among others, but at the time of naming the TANG SOO DO in Colombia despite the fact that it is a martial art with many philosophical and theoretical bases with many years of practice worldwide in our country it has been two years what makes it a young martial art in this country. When Tang Soo Do came to our practice, to our lives, it came through the WORLD TRADITIONAL TANG SOO DO UNION (WTTSDU) through the KJN Patricio Saavedra and SBN Mario Segnini placing their trust in my hands at the beginning I must confess that despite of my age at that time, 27 years old, I believed that I would not be prepared to carry out a task like this that generates a great responsibility, but I followed the advice of both and we started in August 2020 the idea of the WORLD TRADITIONAL TANG SOO DO UNION COLOMBIA ( WTTSDU COL) we started working at that time with my own dojan SUPREME MARTIAL ARTS as well as from the hand of my wife and advanced belt YENNY VILLAMIL giving feedback on the experiences lived by me so far in the different hapkido organization in which had participated (hapkido being our base martial art). From that point we started first by reorganizing our program in a pedagogical and methodological way to offer our students a system that handled both approaches, both TANG SOO DO being a traditional system with strong theoretical bases as well as the WTTSDU strengthening the parts of traditional forms. and strong theoretical concepts and hapkido offering a system focused on self-defense from there we left to give our school a new path but as October and November passed, our second dojan KIDO MARTIAL ARTS joined by the hand of KSN Samuel Ochoa who arrived with new ideas and knowledge to strengthen the ideas and the project that we were creating for the following year with that we close 2020. At the beginning of 2021 we started with the expansion plan that we call WTTSDU COL 2021 where we seek, through the support that our organization gives us at an international and global level, to welcome different teachers of different martial arts so that they know the TANG SOO DO system that we We offer by providing all the necessary tools and support to future members so that they become part of our ranks and keep the tradition alive. From there we started with the idea of organizing sporting events and that it be one of the two points of greatest attraction, as well as the technical basis provided by the organization through theoretical work and graphic video bases. At that time we only had one SUPREME MARTIAL ARTS dojan and after a virtual tournament organized by the wttsdu at the beginning of 2021, the RISING DRAGON dojan led by the sabonim DANILO AYALA AND ALEX DOMINGUEZ with whom we managed to organize our first open WTTSDU COLOMBIA 2021 where we were accompanied by more than 50 athletes from different areas of our country and different martial

arts (kung fu, kempo, hapkido, kick boxing among others) where we were able to provide a first approach to the organization in Colombia. Then for the month of October of the same year we started with our second open tournament where more than 80 athletes arrived as in the previous contest with different delegations from different martial arts and areas of our country but instead within this tournament we did something different We brought our teachers who felt even more identified with our organization and we began to improve the marketing and advertising part of the WTTSDU COL. We started with jackets and t-shirts giving a special touch to this participation. Passing this experience, two more dojans joined us MARTIAL ARTS COLOMBIA directed by the sabonim Geiner Suarez and the YEONKKOCH dojan directed by the KSN Tania muñoz and Axel Medina where we continue to improve our processes both martial and sports giving the opportunity to these new teachers the task to spread and massify the TANG SOO DO in our different study points with them we closed 2021 in terms of organization but in terms of competition we closed with another virtual contest where the students of the new dojan SILVER FU LIONS of the sabonim DANILO AYALA represented our country in that tournament Highlighting the work done in the dojan by the teachers preparing the idea for our third tournament and the different activities for next year. Starting this 2022 we decided to give a specific role to each teacher within the organization in our country so that our organization would have solid foundations and that little by little we would continue to grow in a balanced way but always with a traditional approach we started the organization of the third open WTTSDU COL 2022 on this occasion we improved all the logistical aspects, we went from a social room to a sports arena where more people, more athletes, new schools came to the tournament to participate in it, reaching more than 90 athletes offering many more categories for the participation of the different schools, which led KSN Mauricio García, director of the TUKSURY MARTIAL ARTS dojan, to join our organization to complete our work team and to give continuity and fulfillment to our objective, which is the dissemination of the TRADITIONAL TANG SOO DO IN OUR COUNTRY. To conclude we must say that we are a group of young people who are passionate about Korean martial arts and we want to highlight that we found in TANG SOO DO a new path that helps us not only in the sports part but in our path of life so that we can transform all the community that is part of the WTTSDU COL and we find in the WORLD TRADITIONAL TANG SOO DO UNION something that goes beyond what is a normal martial arts association or organization with your support and backing we have managed in two years to fulfill many of the goals that we set for ourselves at the beginning of this path and we know that we still have more to accomplish.

Ksn Oscar Andrés González Rodríguez representative for Colombia WTTSDU.