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September 2008 / Volume 28 No.5 / Issue Number 165 Publisher & CEO Woojin Jung Managing Editor Laura Stolpe Creative Director Elizabeth Brown Business Director Brian Heckart

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16 WTF Junior Championships Travel to the country of Turkey to see the junior champions compete and win.

22 Clemson University CKD

32 A Second Chance

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37 Toughness

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44 What Goes Up: Two Types of Falling

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The revolutionary art of Choi Kwang Do is emerging as one of the most popular martial arts around the globe. Found out what Clemson University in South Carolina has done to welcome the art.

It takes a good competitor to win. It takes a great competitor to be tough enough to win again and again. Found out how to toughen up with this excerpt from the new book Fighter’s Mind / Fighter’s Body.

Get the info on how to fall like a real fighter from an expert in Kuk Sool Won. Learn how to protect your body with a good fall and how to prepare for a real life rolling fall!

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TKDT T talks to all four members of the U.S. Olympic TKD Team and their coaches to find out how they train, what makes a great athlete and their plans for the future—including Olympic gold!

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Find out what the former U.S. Olympic gold medalists are doing today! Read what happened after they achieved the win of a lifetime.

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C. M. Griffin Doug Cook Karen Eden Master Rondy Ron Shane Tae Yun Kim Tom Kurz

Contributors Benji Magnelli Bill Heeney Daniel Middleton Gordon White Jeremy Talbott Kathrin Sumpter Master Rondy Michael Tang Morgan Hege Ronda Sweet Suzanne Ellenberger Tiffany Chau Tony Li Vice Presidents Don Wells Eui Min Ko He-Young Kimm General Advisors Jhoon Rhee Jin Suk Yang Hee Il Cho Woon Chick Park Chuck Sereff Soo Nam Park Edward Sell Rick Rojeck Tiger Kim Kwang Sik Myung Soon Ho Lee Chun Sik Kim Public Relations Jung Oh Hwang Taek Sung Cho Michelle Kim General Education Alexander Choi Byungchul Kim Yong Bum Kim Event Coordinator Jun Pyo Choi

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Jae Kyung Kim Scott Greca Barry Harmon Jamie Serio Dojang Operations Mike Menters Marshall Pereira Alex Suh Donald C. Kimm News Director Mike Zeman Marketing Director Scott Warner Lisa Warner International Department Kwang Jo Choi Jae Chul Sin David Moon Jin Suk Yang (WTF) Yong Son Ri (ITF) International Correspondents Asia: Changsub Shin Europe: Bum Ju Lee Africa: Robin Rafferty Argentina: Ricardo Desimone South America: Jose Luis Giarone Australia: Tam Fook Chee

64 The Evolution of Olympic TKD Get the history of how TKD joined the Olympics, what changes were made along the way and what competitors and spectators can expect to see in the future.

68 Score! Understanding Olympic Sparring A quick and easy to understand guide to Olympic sparring that will get you up to date on the latest rules, techniques and information that will help you Score!

74 Fighting for Equality: The Obstacles of Female Competitors Competing as a female in the world of martial arts lends itself to a wide-array of challenges unknown to their male counterparts. Find out what Master Rondy, a martial arts expert and role model in paving the way for young female competitors, has found to be the biggest challenges for her female students.

80 Real Life Karate Kids Meet today’s real life Karate kids—kids who travel and compete on the well-known and highly-competitive NASKA circuit.

Read what it takes for them to stay in the game and why they love to compete.

92 TKDT Photo Contest Winners Check out which reader-submitted photos won our photo contest! Find out how you can win next time!

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NEWS WTF President Olympic Torchbearer Seoul, South Korea—World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) President Chungwon Choue participated as a torchbearer in the Beijing 2008 Olympic Torch Relay in Lijiang, Yunnan Province in China on June 10, 2008. Dr. Choue ran about 50 meters as the president of an international sports federation.

Under the theme “Journey of Harmony” and the slogan “Light the Passion Share the Dream,” the Beijing 2008 Olympic Torch Relay started on March 24 in Greece and continues until August 8, the opening day of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

The torch relay covers over 100 cities across five continents of the world for a combined distance of 137,000 kilometers and involves 21,880 torchbearers and 5,000 escort runners.

Jhoon Rhee Speaks to U.S. Military Washington, D.C.— Grandmaster Jhoon Rhee, tenth-degree black belt and considered to be the Father of American Tae Kwon Do, was the guest speaker at three U.S. military institutions in May 2008 to observe the 2008 SMDC/ ARSTRAT Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.

Lt. General Kevin T. Campbell with Grandmaster Grandmaster Rhee spoke at the U.S. Air Jhoon Ree Force Academy, the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense, and Fort Carlson. The event also featured board-breaking demonstrations by Major Sang B. Lee, Sergeant Raymond L. Morad, and General John Seward.

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Gold Medal Mental Workout Island Pond, Vermont—Gold Medal Mental Workout, a stepby-step program of mental exercises proven in Olympics and World Championships, is now available on just one CD. The CD includes the GMMW W book in Adobe Acrobat format and recordings of 12 exercises, in both MP3 and M4A (iPod) formats. Readers may download them to a portable player or burn them onto a CD. This program was designed by Dariusz Nowicki, a worldrenowned East European sports psychologist of Olympic Teams and will help you learn how to rid yourself of doubt, face any opponent with confidence, boost your energy and concentrations, reduce stress and tension and feel at ease in the competition hall. For more information or to order, go to stadion.com.

Miami, Florida—Mixed Martial Arts champion and crowd favorite eighth-degree black belt, Shihan Moti Horenstein literally broke a world record by kicking through and breaking 49 Louisville Slugger baseball bats in one minute using only his feet and legs. Nearly 900 spectators witnessed the achieved world record for most baseball bats broken in one minute. The previous world record for bat breaking was 23 baseball bats set

by Markus Boch of Germany in 2007. This means that Shihan Horenstein almost doubled the number of bats split in the same time frame with 38 broken into two pieces and an additional 11 shattered.

The event and achievement was officially registered and authenticated by Guinness Book of World Records in London.

Known for both his humbleness and strong presence, when asked by an interested party if it hurt at all, Shihan Horenstein replied, “Of course, a little bit.”

CKD NEWS Choi Kwang Do: 20 Years in Europe Atlanta, Georgia—April — 2008 marked a monumental occasion for Choi Kwang Do in Europe. A massive seminar was hosted by the K2 Centre in Crawley, United Kingdom. Over 600 people participated in the event. During the seminar, Sahjonim Kwang Jo Choi displayed why he is the one of the world’s greatest martial artists alive today.

The evening was capped off with an elegant dinner at the Effingham Park Hotel. Dr. Mary Galinski, Founder and President of the Malaria Foundation International from Atlanta, Georgia, was also in attendance, along with Grandmaster Woo and Dr. Do from Korea. Special guest of honor was Sahjonim Choi.

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Over 600 people celebrated CKD’s 20th Anniversary in Europe.

Sahjonim Choi also attended the grand opening of the largest Choi Kwang Do UK school in Morden. This is one of three professional schools Grandmaster Choi has now declared open in the UK. More professional schools are soon to be opening.

The rest of the 2008 CKD seminar series continues in South Korea on August 2 and 9, New Zealand on August 16, Australia on August 23 and 24, Malaysia on August 30, and Russia on September 28.

Clemson University CKD Training Clinic Clemson, South Carolina—Clemson University Choi Kwang Do hosted an Instructor Certification and Training Clinic for school owners and instructors of all levels. The instructors traveled to Clemson from all over Georgia. While these clinics are monthly occurrences, this was the first one held on a University campus. The afternoon began with a certification class for three new Assistant Instructors and two Head Instructors, and was followed by a training session for all instructors. The session was led by Senior Master Marshall Pereira, seventh-degree black belt and a Choi Kwang Do International Faculty Member, and included practice of techniques and discussion of teaching methods.

EVENTS Puerto Rico Seminar a Success Corona, California—Master Wilfredo Sellas of Sellas Martial Arts and Master Miguel Lind of WorldWide Tae Kwon Do and Hapkido Federation (WWTHF) played host to Master K.O. Spillmann, seventh-dan, at a seminar at their schools in Puerto Rico. The seminar covered business aspects of running a successful martial arts school, including class organization, student retention and teaching principles. Each attendee received a copy of Master Spillmann’s book, The Taekwondo Business Manual.

Masters Sellas and Lind have invited Master Spillmann to return in 2009 for another seminar.

Master Spillmann (center) in Puerto Rico

Red Tiger Cup

The first-ever Clemson University CKD Training clinic

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania—Nearly four hundred and fifty competitors from as far away as Guatemala came to compete in one of the largest International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF) style tournaments in the country. The Red Tiger Cup (RTC) has become a nationally recognized event spanning 21 years.

Students of all ages, from three to 64 years old, and ranks, from white belt to fifth-degree black belt, competed in the patterns and sparring divisions, as well as the team sparring. Special guests at the tournament included various members of the ITF USA Board of Directors, as well as nationally ranked competitors from Guatemala, Canada and the U.S. taekwondotimes.com / September 2008

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Hapkido and Kuhapdo Journey Daegu City, South Korea—In 2008, Master Michael D’Aloia of New Jersey and Master Sheryl Glidden of Maine, the directors of the Korea Jung Ki Hapkido and Kuhapdo Association of America, embarked on a Hapkido and Kuhapdo (sword) journey to the Jung Ki Kwan for their annual training with Grandmaster Lim, Hyun Soo, ninth-dan promoted by Dojunim Choi Yong Sul. Accompanying the masters were New Jersey Iron Eagle Hapkido students, Howard Spivey, third-dan, Richard Nelson, Jr., first-dan, and Michael Suplicki.

The students practiced basic and advanced Hapkido techniques as taught to Grandmaster Lim from ITF Founder, General Choi Hong Hi. The students also learned and practiced Chung Suk Kuhapdo exercises and forms.

self-defense and full-contact sparring. In addition to the Tournament and Exhibition, Chong Je Nim In Sun Seo, President of WKF, Han Min Jok Hap Kido Association and Korea Kuk Sool Association, captivated the attendees with an intensive one-day seminar.

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EVENTS + AWARDS USTGS Meeting and Hall of Fame

6th World Hapkido Martial Arts Tournament Pusan, South Korea—The 6th World Hapkido Martial Arts Tournament and Master Exhibition was held in in March 2008.

International and Korean masters were showcased before a crowd of over 1300 in Pusan’s Indoor Sports Complex. The 72 of the competitors were World Kido Federation (WKF) members from the U.S., Canada, Brazil, Sweden, Australia, Spain, Turkey and Panama. Master Alexander Gomez’ Um Yang Kwan Hapkido Team from Brazil brought home multiple medals in

Dallas, Texas—The United States Taekwondo Grandmaster Society (USTGS) held its Sixth Annual Meeting and Third Annual Hall of Fame Banquet and Induction Ceremony in April 2008. At the meeting, members of the USTGS elected Grandmaster Kyu Boong Yim as president.

This year’s USTGS Hall of Fame inductees include: Grandmaster Jack Hwang: Pioneer Award; Grandmaster Hyun Ok Shin: Lifetime Achievement of Tae Kwon Do Award; Grandmaster Yung Ho Jun: Lifetime Achievement of Tae Kwon Do Award; Grandmaster Dae Sup An: Lifetime Achievement of Tae Kwon Do Award; Grandmaster Kyung Won An: Outstanding Leadership Award; Grandmaster Sang Chul Lee: Coach of the Year Award; Master Jay Warwick: Male Competitor of the Year Award; and Grandmaster Seung Ryul Yang: Ambassador of Tae Kwon Do Award.

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UK Tang Soo Do Tournament and Promotions North Reading, Massachusetts—In May 2008, the largest event in the history of the Traditional Tang Soo Do Federation and the United Tang Soo Do Congress took place. Master John Trudgill hosted dignitaries from two continents and over 600 competitors at the annual Traditional Tang Soo Do Federation Tournament in Cardiff, Wales. Never before has an event in Wales featured three Grandmasters as well as one of the highest ranking women in the world of Tang Soo Do. Grandmaster Richard Byrne of Massachusetts; Grandmaster Benedetto Stumpf of Germany; Grandmaster Dominic Giacobbe of New Jersey and Master Penny Mitchell were all in attendance.

The event featured two notable promotions. Master John Trudgill, founder of the Traditional Tang Soo Do Federation, was promoted to sixth-dan by Grandmaster Byrne, President and Founder of the American Tang Soo Do Association (ATA) and the United Tang Soo Do Congress (UTC). Master Trudgill has been practicing for over 25 years and was inducted into the ATA / UTC Hall of Fame in March 2008. Grandmaster Byrne was also promoted to ninth-dan with a presentation by Grandmaster Benedetto Stumpf.

PROMOTIONS Grandmaster Hae Man Park Promotes Masters Bloomington, Illinois—In April 2008, Grandmaster Hae Man Park, Vice President of the World Chung Do Kwan Association, conducted a Master Level Promotion Test in Bloomington, Illinois. Master Manny Sosa, President of the Victory Taekwondo Chung Do Kwan Association, tested successfully to seventh-dan and was upgraded to the rank of Grandmaster by Grandmaster Park.

Other individuals that were tested and promoted during this examination event included: Senior Master Kenneth Schuster to sixth-dan, Master Daniel Heath Woolman to fifth-dan and Master James Rowland to fourth-dan.

In addition to the examination, Grandmaster Park conducted a student seminar in which he taught the essential principles required to execute perfect basic techniques and poomsae.

Chi Gong Symposium and Promotions Sedona, Arizona—A special Chi Gong Symposium conducted

by Grandmaster Andy Ah Po, ninth-dan, was held in Sedona, Arizona, in May 2008. As founder of the Tang Soo Do Martial Way Association, Grandmaster Ah Po set a new precedent at this event by bringing together no less than seven different Tang Soo Do organizations for a shared training experience, including: the Universal Tang Soo Do Alliance, the Tang Soo Do Mi Guk Kwan Association, The Educational Martial Arts System (TEMAS), the Atlantic-Pacific Tang Soo Do Federation, the United Tang Soo Do Alliance, the Traditional Tang Soo Do International, as well as members of a Japanese Karate Association and other independent Tang Soo Do practitioners.

Grandmaster Ah Po presented rank promotions in his organization to the following four of his students who had undergone a formal Ko Dan Ja testing process: eighth-dan to Grandmaster Darryl Khalid, Founder of Universal Tang Soo Do Alliance; eighth-dan to Grandmaster Charles Ferraro, Founder of Tang Soo Do Mi Guk Kwan Association; seventhdan to Grandmaster Brian Manna, Founder of The Educational Martial Arts System (TEMAS); and seventh-dan to Master Steven Propst, Owner and Chief Instructor of Yuba Sutter Tang Soo Do Academy.

(L-R) Grandmasters Brian Mann, Darryl Khalid,Andy AhPo, Charles Ferraro, and Master Steven Propst

(L-R) Master Daniel Heath Woolman, Sr. Master Kenneth Schuster, Sr. Grandmaster Hae Man Park, Grandmaster Manny Sosa and Master James Rowland

Pakistan Promotions Karachi, Pakistan—International Master Instructor and owner of several dojangs throughout Pakistan called Zubairi’s Martial Arts Centre, Rizwan Mustafa Zubairi was promoted to seventh-dan black belt by the Pakistan Taekwondo Federation (PTF) and to sixth-dan black belt by the World Taekwondo Headquarters, Kukkiwon in Korea, in June 2008. His thesis was on “Taekwondo in Pakistan.”

Three of Grandmaster Zubairi’s students were also promoted. Student Wajid Raza Isfahani received a third-dan from the PTF and a seconddan from the Kukkiwon, while students M. Sarwar Rana and Manzoor Hussain both earned Master Zubairi second-dans from the PTF and first-dans from the Kukkiwon.

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Readers’ Forum Letter Gets Others Talking Dear Editor, Many thanks for publishing Mr. Len McCoy’s letter The Mystery of Tang Soo Do (Reader’s Forum, May 2008). I don’t often see Tae Kwon Do publications give evidence or reflect the debt owed to Ginchin Funakoshi Sensei. So many Tae Kwon Do books and articles deal with Tae Kwon Do’s history as if it fell out of the sky or is completely a Korean phenomenon.

Korean martial arts, whether Tae Kwon Do, Tang Soo Do or Hapkido, have embraced many elements from Shotokan Karate and Aikido. I believe this adds to the unique contribution Korean martial arts have provided to the martial world and should be accepted as normal in an ever-shrinking international scene.

Thank you TaeKwonDo Times for not ignoring this reality.

—Miguel Grave de Peralta Dear Editor, In response to Len McCoy, this will probably never be completely solved since all the principles are dead, but to help clarify Hwang Kee in the History of Moo Duk Kwan stated he learned the Karate forms from a book on Okinawan Karate at the station where he worked. Won Kuk Lee also stipulated that he had taught Karate to Hwang Kee. Since both are deceased, I suspect that it’s probably a combination of both.

A good reference material is the Korean Martial Arts Handbookk by Glenn Jones.

—Dave Hacker Read the article that sparked the debate. The Kwans: Crucibles of Creation by Master Doug Cook is online now at taekwondotimes.com.

Column Inspires Dear Editor, The article (Bye-Bye Bus Stop, Woman of the Times column, May 2008) was so true and I made a sign of the quote by Dr. King: (“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy.”) A few words but says it all.

—Joe K.

Merger Raises Question Dear Editor, I am in favor of the merger of the WTF (World Taekwondo Federation) and the ITF (International Taekwon-Do Federation).

As a Tae Kwon Do practitioner, I have learned great lessons from people in both organizations. But there is one question no one seems to be asking. If the people involved with the alleged merger are only communicating and coordinating with the ITF represented by Mr. Ung, aren’t the other two groups intimately tied with the original ITF being left out?

Given that the ITF split into three groups after the death of General Choi, and considering the historical facts of that split along with recent court decisions in Austria, wouldn’t it be wise to include all ITF factions in the negotiations? Most of the world is bored by the politics involved in martial arts organizations. I believe it would be better for the WTF, international martial arts, and especially the world of Tae Kwon Do if all the groups merged to form one organization. It would be a concrete testament to the real power of Tae Kwon Do. —Miguel Grave de Peralta

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By Kathrin Sumpter I’m a 43-year-old mom and wife living in a Sequim, Washington. There was a time in my life when I would get approached on a regular basis by strange men—men old enough to be my father, making comments to me of a sexual nature. The remarks were never outrageous enough to warrant an outraged response, just bad enough to make me feel crummy. I’d lower my head and drop my shoulders. I’ve never been a snappy-answer kind of girl.

I’m the one who thinks of the perfect quip after the fact.

So, the most I could ever manage would be an awkward laugh in an effort to just make the whole thing go away.

If 90% of communication is body language, then I was screaming, “Pick ME to harass!” That does not for a moment excuse their inappropriate behavior. But, I was the common thread in each scenario. Doesn’t their conduct speak volumes about them? At the time, I thought there was something wrong with me. I remember wondering where my spine was. Why was I so defeated?

How could these strangers have such power over me? I was an easy, quiet target for these men, who (in the physical sense) are really quite harmless; just dishonorable.

I had been practicing Tae Kwon Do for a couple of years, but the last incident of this kind was particularly more offensive than the others. It was the turning point for me. I stepped up my training in a big way, physically and academically. I began reading the works of the masters and training on nearly a daily basis. Very quickly, martial arts was no longer a choice for me. It became who I am; the cornerstone of my identity. Things started to change for me. For one, my skin got thicker. I also began to develop a savvy for identifying which people and problems were worth my time.

I can tell you that today, I still get approached on a regular basis. But, by women, old enough to be my mother,

Black Belt Beginnings tells the inspiring and motivational stories of students climbing the rank system and achieving black belt. To submit your story of 750 words or less, email it to press@taekwondotimes.com.

asking for help. No longer am I the target victim, but I’m now the competent person that senior women feel safe to approach. I go to the same places, shop in the same stores. What’s changed? Not those men!

They weren’t struck with some great epiphany that signals them to refrain from making indecent sexual comments! It is I who have changed. It is martial arts that has helped me find and cultivate my inner strength.

Living in a small town, you can bet that I still see these men from time to time in a store or a parking lot. I recognize them, but they walk right past me. Perhaps it’s my body language that signals them to continue on without comment. I am beyond reproach.

In a surprising twist, I now feel compassion for those men. I have discovered that people who are brazen and mouthy on the outside are probably pretty damaged and weak on the inside. The ones that are kind and gentle on the outside are usually pretty strong on the inside.

These are truths that I pass on to my 12-year-old son, Sam. He is progressing quite nicely in his Tae Kwon Do and he now has a strong mom to guide him. It’s shaping the man that he’ll become. Just another testimony to the martial arts; the benefits ripple.

I opened my own school two years ago and I offer a variety of self-defense clinics. In some of the clinics, the curriculum covers sexual harassment, and I’m able to draw from my experiences. Then students ask that universal question about martial arts, “Have you ever had to use it?” I can say without hesitation that I use it every day. My interaction with the world is a reflection of my own self-esteem.

Tae Kwon Do has changed my life in so many amazing ways, physically and spiritually. This is just one notable difference in my life. Sexual harassment is a thing of the past for me. I’m grateful to my art for helping me find my inner strength. An inner strength that resonates outward.

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By Morgan Hege In high school, I started to get out of control and go down the wrong path. I had no productive outlet for my frustration. I was disorganized, doing poorly in school, lacked self-control, and had a short temper.

Although I was athletic, I found myself uninterested in sports. I started being a bully to my friends and fellow students, pushing them away and growing more and more isolated. What neither they nor I knew at the time was that I was unhappy with myself, so I was taking out my frustration on them.

It was at this time of my life that I decided to start Tae Kwon Do lessons for all the wrong reasons; I wanted to learn how to beat people up! I looked at several different martial arts studios around the area, spoke to the instructors, and then on a referral visited Grandmaster Chun’s Taekwondo Center in San Marcos, California.

When I first walked in, I knew this place was different. The studio was more like a boxing gym than a playground. This place was the real deal. There were three canvas and leather punching bags wrapped in duct tape hanging from chains. Mirrors lined the walls. And the air smelled of sweat. A large sign hung across the archway to the training floor. It read, “House of Discipline.” And by the looks of the black belts practicing, it meant it!

I didn’t know it at the time, but I had walked into a black belt demonstration class. They were intense!

Several were from Camp Pendleton, the nearby Marine Corps Base, and at least one was a Navy Seal. These guys were awesome. Two were practicing their selfdefense moves, doing arm bars, and throwing each other around like rag dolls with moves that looked like they were straight off the battlefield. The rest were practicing Kyorugi, free fighting while wearing boxing gloves and head gear and going full contact from what I could tell.

Their kihaps were so loud I could feel the echo in my chest. I was hooked.

When I met Grandmaster Chun, he bowed, and introduced himself. He told me this was the last class of the evening, and asked me to come back the next day. I was disappointed. I wanted to start right away! That night all I could think about was what I had seen, and the fact that I was going to start doing the exact same thing the very next day…

Little did I know! The next day I went in early, and nobody was there except Grandmaster Chun. He got me started practicing Bahro Chirugi—straight punch.

If he wanted straight punch, I would give him straight

punch. After about half an hour of practicing by myself, Grandmaster came by and I was dripping sweat. He watched, nodded and said, “Good, now do Sae Bun Chirugi, triple punch.” I was frustrated. I told him I wanted to do more advanced stuff. I wanted to practice the spinning hook kicks I had seen. I had just done a couple hundred punches, and now he wanted more?

Grandmaster Chun smiled, and asked if I enjoyed the demonstration the night before. I nodded, and he turned around and left me to practice. The message was clear. If I wanted to do the cool stuff, I had to learn the basics. I felt like I was in a nightmare version of the Karate Kid movies.

The next day I was really sore. That is when I realized why nobody else was there that day; I guess they were all recovering from black belt demonstration! I had hoped to get to do some free fighting, or at least punch the heavy bags. But besides learning how to punch and kick, I was learning something else without even realizing it; patience and practice.

Over the next several months my wishes to fight were granted, and after two broken ribs, a broken nose, and countless bruises, I eventually learned that there were plenty of people tougher than me in the world! It turned out to be just what I needed. The disciplined atmosphere, combined with strenuous physical exercise helped me clear my mind and regain control of my life. I soon started treating people outside the studio with the respect I was learning inside the studio.

That was 17 years ago and today, I am a third-dan black belt and train at Grandmaster Chun’s Taekwondo Jidokwan Center with many of those same Marines and Navy Seals I saw in action that first night.

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Black Belt Beginnings

Being Prepared

By Benji Magnelli, 10 years old I like learning self-defense in Tae Kwon Do at Iron Phoenix Martial Arts in St. Henry, Ohio from Master Shawn Hamblin. We practice a lot in class and I have even practiced at home a lot too. One of my younger friends is in my class and sometimes we practice together.

I joined Tae Kwon Do because I wanted to learn how to protect myself and I wanted to be able to protect my family when I grow up. Before I took Tae Kwon Do I did not know what I would do if I was ever in a dangerous situation. I like being prepared.

Now I know exactly what to do and I am willing to do it.

Fear can stop people from taking action because they either do not know what to do or they are afraid they will do the wrong thing.

I am not afraid because my Sensei has told me exactly what to do and I have done it in class so I know I can do it on my own.

There are five tenets in Tae Kwon Do. They are courtesy, integrity, perseverance, self-control and indomitable spirit. These are good qualities for everyone to have in their life.

One of the things taught in class has been selfcontrol, which is when you really want to do something but it is wrong and you choose not to do it. Instead you choose to do the right thing, even when the right thing

is hard to do.

One day I was at school and somebody was making fun of the martial arts and I got very angry and I wanted to beat him up but I used self-control.

My parents say that every time you control what you are thinking about you get stronger.

When I do Tae Kwon Do I am more in control of myself physically and mentally. It has made me physically and mentally stronger. I used to be able to do only 15 push-ups now I can do 80 push-ups. I did the best I ever did in my life in the President’s Physical Fitness Challenge in fifth grade because I am physically and mentally stronger. I used to be unsure of myself and this would hold me back but now I am more confident.

When I first started my goal was to be an orange belt.

When I got to be an orange belt my goal changed. Now is to be a black belt in high school because I know I can do it.

I’ve learned a lot about myself. I know I can do anything I decide to do.

Has TKD changed your life?

Tell us!

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No Longer g Doubting

By Tiffany Chau I remember myself stepping through the doors of a Tae Kwon Do dojang for the very first time. The loud and powerful chorus of the kihap of the awe-inspiring black belts rattled and echoed off the walls.

The forceful snaps of the kicks and mighty throws of punches immediately amazed and astonished many of the visitors and families whom were watching intently close by.

I admit it; I was a little scared inside.

After all, my first day was a sparring day.

Oh, boy! What am I going to do? I frantically questioned myself. I glanced at my belt, purely white as fresh-fallen snow. Then I bashfully explored my surroundings. All around me were my fellow classmates, each with a color of the rainbow, enveloping me in a sea of white and colorful spectrums. I’ll never make it! My mind raced as I dared myself to run home and break free. I don’t have a chance!! I hissed and screamed at myself. I don’t belong here! My heart chided me. But the class had already begun to line up, bowing before stepping onto the blue spongy mat. I tried not to hesi-

tate; I didn’t want to turn back. I gulped, took one last breath, entered with the others, and little did I know that I was able to prove myself wrong.

Now, looking back at that one November evening, I can quickly realize how much I have changed ever since.

I would chuckle at how timid I was, how scared I was, how I didn’t believe in myself. How surprising it is that something so fragile yet beautiful as Tae Kwon Do can change all of that!

Tae Kwon Do has definitely lifted me up from a vile and hostile swamp of uncertainty and soared me into a land waiting for me to discover, a land waiting for me.

Tae Kwon Do has given me the strength to pick myself up after a cartwheel, the will to keep kicking, to keep on fighting back. Tae Kwon Do has laid me a path of respect, respect for others, and respect for myself. Tae Kwon Do has encouraged me to keep holding on, to keep believing.

With every sogi, I stand boldly and strong, unafraid.

With every chigi, I feel so balanced and strong, nothing can penetrate these walls of confidence and ambition.

With every chagi, I feel that anything is possible, nothing is ever unconquerable because, like anything else, I can say that I have a Tae Kwon Do spirit.

I’m laughing and smiling right now, and I bet that you are, too. It really is truly amazing how Tae Kwon Do can change us all for good. Tae Kwon Do is a flag that is perched up on the highest peaks of our hearts, fluttering with pride in the endless breezy sky. And forever may this flag wave. I salute this flag every day and tell the November-me, Hey, as a matter of fact, I do. I do belong here...here with Tae Kwon Do.

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By Michael Tang

Just two years ago, the author, an Olympic hopeful for the 2008 U.S. Tae Kwon Do Team and a former U.S. Team member and national champion, nearly lost his life to senseless violence. As blood gushed out of the stab wound to his heart, Michael Tang fought his hardest battle—to live. * * * * * It was Tuesday, August 22, 2006, and I received a text message from a close friend and former coworker asking me to come to River City Billiards and support a local boxer with whom we had both grown up in Haverhill, Massachusetts. His name is Jeff Fraza and he was fighting that night on the television show The Contender. Jeff and his brother, Derek, have been boxing for as long as I can remember. At first, I wasn’t going to attend because I usually don’t go to bars or clubs, even though I have worked in them for most of my life.

But, I figured it was a Tuesday night and I thought to myself, “What could possibly happen on a Tuesday?” Besides, it was a get-together to support Jeff and his big break. So I text messaged my friend to let him know that I would try to make it to the party and support Jeff after I finished teaching my Tae Kwon Do class.

I finished teaching at 9:00 p.m. and headed to the party. I got there and was greeted by many people that I had known from growing up in town and working at the bar. (I worked there off and on for about five years and had left the year before.)

Haverhill has about 60,000 people but everyone knows, or knows of, each other for the most part, not to mention that I have been in the local news for my Tae Kwon Do accomplishments for about the last ten years. But tonight, there was a group of people with whom I was

unfamiliar. I later found out that they were in a local gang and they all seemed to know Jeff and his father, who was Jeff ’s coach. That seemed kind of odd to me. I kept my distance.

Jeff ’s brother, Derek (also a boxer), came over to say hello and I congratulated him on the recent success of his family. We talked for a while and then congratulated Jeff and his father and wished them all of the best. After talking briefly with Jeff, I said hello to the bar owner, a close friend and someone I have known since childhood.

The Contender started and there was a lot of energy and anticipation in the bar. The local newspaper was there and everyone was very excited to see Jeff ’s fight. I watched the fight with some close friends and distanced myself from the crowd. I remembered asking a friend what was up with the guys with Jeff and his family. He replied, “I don’t know. I think they grew up together.” The show continued and Jeff ’s fight was shown.

Let’s just say that it was not Jeff ’s night, nor was it going to be mine, or my brother David’s night, as I would later find out. Jeff lost a NOT so close fight.

The show ended and Jeff stood up on the bar to thank everyone for their support over the years and posed for a picture for the local newspaper with the group of people that were unfamiliar. Little did they realize that the police would use this very photo to identify the suspects.

It was about 12:30 a.m. and the bar was getting ready to close. A friend walked over to tell me that an argument was starting at the back of the bar and that I may want to break it up. I informed him that I no longer worked at the bar and that I didn’t want to get involved.

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At that point, I saw that my brother David was standing with some other bar staff in the middle of the confrontation trying to calm down the two parties. My brother, who worked at bar but had the night off, had stopped in for a few minutes to say hello.

My stomach turned. I have worked in the restaurant and bar business for most of my life and I knew something was going to go wrong, and fast.

The group of males who I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know were yelling and screaming and started pushing everyone near them. I turned to my sister (who had also stopped by to say hello) and tossed her my cell phone and told her to call 911. I started to run over to the crowd and yelled to my brother to get out of there. As I said this, I saw a guy smash a bottle over Davidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s head from behind and a group of guys started hitting him as he fell to the ground. There were too many people in my way so I ran around the bar and at the end of the bar was my brother, lying in a fetal position in a pool of blood on the floor. Above him were three guys kicking him in the head and body.

One of the guys was holding a large knife and warned me not to come any closer, but I had to help my brother. Everything was happening so fast.

I got the three guys off my brother and was trying

My hand was cut from the knife but I thought that was it. I attended to my brother who was covered in blood. His head had been split open and he had been stabbed in the chest and back.

Then my friend ran over to me and said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mike, your chest!â&#x20AC;? I looked down and saw dark red, almost black, blood running down my chest. I had been stabbed.

I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe it. Me and my brotherâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;two guys who never cause any problemsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;this couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be happening to us! It all seemed like a bad dream.

I looked over to see if my brother was okay. My friends were trying to stop his bleeding. We were looking at each other in disbelief. David said to our friends, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Just get the blood out of my eyes and help Michael.â&#x20AC;?

At this point I was having trouble breathing. I felt like I had been back-kicked in the chest. I sat

.Z CSFBUIJOH XBT HFUUJOH TIPSUFS BOE NZ WJTJPO XBT HPJOH CMBDL to get him behind me and out of the bar when they started to attack me. I just kept on trying to shield David. At that point, another guy was standing at the top of the stairs, looking at me like he wanted to kill me. As I was running backwards out of the bar with my brother, he and the rest of the guys attacked me. I struggled with him and then used him as a shield against the other attackers.

As I got outside the police were already arriving and I ran up to the car and told him there arc guys in there stabbing people. He asked me if I was okay and I said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yes, but they got my brother.â&#x20AC;? At that point, I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t realize the extent of my injuries.

down on the curb and everyone was standing over me. My little sister was hysterical from what she had just seen happen to both of her brothers. I told her everything was going to be fine and not to worry. I was so scared. Not for myself at this point, but for my brother.

I kept asking him if he was okay. No one knew how bad the injuries were yet. As I sat there, my breathing was getting shorter and my vision was going black. My friends were trying to put pressure on my chest to stop the blood loss but it was not helping. I knew that it was up to me. I had to calm myself to slow down my heart rate. I thought that if taekwondotimes.com / September 2008

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Michael Tang and the Harvard TKD Team

I could do that, then I could slow the blood loss.

That is when more police showed up along with the fire department and my ambulance. They were all people that I had grown up with in Haverhill.

They told me that everything was going to be okay and that they were going to take care of me and my brother. We were put into separate ambulances. I told them not to contact my parents. I didn’t want them to hear any news until we were okay. I didn’t think my parents could handle the news that both of their sons had been stabbed. As the door was closing, I told my brother and sister that I loved them.

In the ambulance on my way to the hospital, I knew something was seriously wrong. The medics were not calm. They had a look on their faces that was not comforting. I was scared. My mind was racing, I thought to myself, “This can’t be it, I can’t die like this. My life isn’t finished. I haven’t done anything. My family...my girlfriend—the love of my life…I never got to say goodbye. I can’t be the son, brother or boyfriend that was murdered in a bar. That’s not going to be me, I am not going to do that to them.”

At that point I knew I was going to do all I could to stay alive. I prayed to God and asked him to help me, to give me the strength I needed to stay calm and alert…to live.

As I was being brought into the emergency room I saw a doctor and nurse standing outside. I overheard the doctor say, “50-50 chance.”

I said, “What!?!”

They replied, “We were not talking about you.”

I looked around and replied, “I don’t see anyone else in here.”

They proceeded to transfer me to the bed and cut my clothes off, take my vitals, x-ray, etc. I was in a lot of pain and the tubes that they were shoving down my throat and sticking into my chest

didn’t make it feel any better. The doctor told me that they were going to transport me by helicopter to a Boston trauma center. There was nothing that they could do; they were not equipped to handle this sort of injury at this hospital. What next?

As I was being loaded into the helicopter I couldn’t help but think about how much I hate flying. Funny, huh? Here I am, stabbed in the chest, about to die and I am afraid of flying.

During the flight, I could feel that I was getting significantly weaker. It was hard for me to keep my eyes open so I started to rock my head trying to keep a beat in my head to stay conscious.

I also was writing the alphabet with my toes on the stretcher…A, B, C, D, E, F, G... The medic asked me if I was okay, if I was trying to tell him something. I told him that I was just trying to stay conscious. I was afraid that if I was to fall asleep, that would be the end.

I was soon at the hospital in Boston. As I was brought to the emergency room, I remember saying to myself, “I hope they can help me here.” At that moment, one of the attending surgeons came over to me and introduced himself. He put a document in front of me and told me that they were going to need me to sign this. “Why?” I asked. ‘’Are these my last rights or something?” He said that they didn’t know where I was bleeding from and that they were going to have to open up my chest. “You want me to sign this, so you can cut open my chest!?” I said.

“Can we wait until my family gets here?”

“There is no time,” he said.

“I need to know how my brother is first,” I said.

“Please, find out. Is there an alternative?”

He said that my lungs were partially collapsed and that I was bleeding internally and if they didn’t

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Â&#x2122;* IBWF UP MJWF * EJEOÂ&#x153;U HFU UP TBZ HPPECZF Â&#x161; open me up that I was going to DIE! I told him that he should play poker. I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe that he looked me straight in the face and said that without a blink. I was trying to laugh it off. It was the only thing I could do.

I was scared. I told him that they would have to forgive me for joking around but this doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t happen to me everyday. I asked him if I signed the paper and they did the procedure, would everything be okay? â&#x20AC;&#x153;We will do our best,â&#x20AC;? he told me.

I told him that is not something you tell a guy who is about to die. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You tell me everything is going to be fine,â&#x20AC;? I said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have to live. I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get to say goodbye.â&#x20AC;?

He just looked at me and nodded his head.

At that point I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say anything else. I was speechless. All I could do was believe that the doctors and their team were going to do their best to save my life. As the nurse was putting the mask

over my face, another nurse informed me that my brother was going to be okay. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thank you, Father,â&#x20AC;? I said to myself.

I realized that my life was in their hands and that I never would know if I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make it. I just had to have faith.

Five hours later, I woke up. The doctors informed my family and me that the knife had penetrated my heart and that it was a miracle I survived. I had been given a second chance.

Along with being the Head Coach of Harvard University, Michael Tang owns and operates two martial art school in Massachusettes and Rhode Island. Michael also coaches an Olympic-Style Taekwondo Team called Team New England. If anyone would like further information on his programs please contact him at CoachTang@Mac.com For more on Michael Tangâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brush with death and the road to recovery, log on to taekwondotimes.com!

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You know a tough fighter when you see him. He shrugs off blow after blow like they’re nothing. Why? Because he’s conditioned himself to a high degree of toughness.

Toughness is the ability to minimize damage.

Note that toughness is not the ability to absorb damage. A tough fighter who appears to shrug off powerful blows has developed his body to shield vulnerable areas from impact and also knows to redirect force away from his body.

Toughness comes from the development of three aspects:

Muscle mass Acclimatization Technique

your ribs and internal organs from impact. And your quadriceps muscles cover the peroneal nerve on the outside of your upper legs as well as the anterior femoral nerve on the inside of your upper legs, both of which are the primary targets for leg kicks.

To build muscle mass, you need to do a high number of reps of resistance exercises at a relatively light, but still challenging, weight. For example, you can do four to six sets of 12-25 reps of an exercise.

However, training for muscle mass, training for maximal strength, and training for strength endurance all exhaust muscles. Since exercises for

Sure, some fighters are blessed with thick skulls and tight-fitting jaws, and this does give them an advantage when taking headshots. But by far the biggest factor is proper conditioning.

Toughness is an attribute that is much more important in fighting than in other sports. So while it’s usually ignored in other conditioning books, toughness is a major part of Fighter’s Mind / Fighter’s Body.

Muscle Mass & Toughness Muscle not only contributes to power, but also provides an additional advantage to fighters. It serves as a dense insulation for absorbing impact and protecting the body, as well as for stabilizing parts of the body, such as how your neck muscles stabilize your head against impact.

Building muscle mass is not necessary for power.

You only need strong muscles, not big muscles, to generate power. However, muscle mass improves your ability to minimize impact damage. It protects your organs from impact. A thick neck helps to protect you from chokes and cranks, and the muscles of the neck and shoulders act as shock absorbers for the vertebrae, spinal cord, and jaw. (In fact, the neck is one area where isolation machines can be useful.) The core muscles of the torso shield taekwondotimes.com / September 2008

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muscle mass and strength endurance use the same strategy—high reps—you can combine them.

But you should perform these strength endurance/mass workouts on different days than your maximal strength workouts, preferably with two to three days of rest between workouts, during which you can work on technique, agility, and non-muscular endurance.

If you use isometric strength training, work on mass building by doing sets of longer durations, such as 30-60 second holds. Shorter durations build muscle strength without much mass; longer durations help build more mass.

When determining which exercises you’re going to do, keep in mind all of your conditioning goals.

Don’t focus all your effort only on building mass to the exclusion of speed or maximal strength.

The programs in this book strive for a balance of training various attributes in different sessions, and use only exercises that won’t negatively affect other attributes. However, inherent in any balance is a sort of compromise. If your primary short-term goal is to build mass, then reduce activities that counter this goal, such as long aerobic sessions and strict caloric restriction.

Also keep in mind that extra mass, even useful muscle mass, can push you up into higher weight brackets. If this is a concern in your sport, then track your weight in a goal journal and record it along with your goal weight.

Developing a Knockout-Proof Neck and Jaw A fighter with a “good chin” can take a solid hit to the jaw. A fighter who can’t handle the impact is said to have no chin, or a glass jaw. Knockouts result from concussions, or brain compressions, caused by snapping the head rapidly in some direction. In addition, compression of the nerves at the attachment of the jaw can cause enough pain to overwhelm the brain. Both can cause loss of consciousness. A strong neck stabilizes the head.

This, combined with developing technique to evade or roll with punches, and building jaw strength, is your best defense against headshots and knockouts.

Neck training is one area where many boxers and kickboxers sometimes tend to lag behind other athletes such as American football players, who train their necks very aggressively to prevent concussions that might force them to miss games in their busy game schedule. Neck mass and strength are also very important for grapplers and throwers. A strong neck helps you break-fall and resist chokes better, while at the same time reducing the likelihood of receiving a head injury or knockout from falls.

Developing an Iron Core The torso is a big target. You can help shield yourself by packing mass on your abdomen, chest, and back. Your opponent won’t be hitting you from just one angle, so you’ll want to make sure you develop muscle mass at all angles. This includes developing the lower back erectors, latissimus dorsi (lats), the pectorals, and the upper, lower, and oblique abdominal muscles.

The erector muscles of the lower back protect the kidneys, which are vulnerable in your lower back just above your waist.

The latissimus dorsi and abdominals help protect your ribs. The pectoral muscles and upper obliques help protect your liver, which is located in the upper right part of your abdomen.

Most bodyweight exercises lend themselves well to sets of high repetitions. Good exercises include push-ups, pull-ups, sit-ups, and reverse crunches.

Make sure to modify the exercises as your strength improves so that you keep improving.

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Developing Strong Roots Traditional kickboxing wisdom states that if you can’t walk, you can’t fight. Thus, arts such as Muay Thai spend a great deal of focus on attacking the legs. These attacks generally focus on the common peroneal nerve of the outer thigh and, to a lesser extent, the anterior femoral nerve of the inner thigh.

Building muscle mass to cover these nerves will make them more resistant to attack.

Squats and lunges are good exercises for building leg mass. When focusing on muscle mass, remember to perform sets of high repetitions. For example, you can start with bodyweight squats in four sets of 25. As this becomes easier, you can add weight or change to one-legged squats. Be sure to balance muscle development of the inner and outer quadriceps, as well as the front and back of the legs.

Muscle imbalances will increase your chance of injury and also hinder your technique.

Acclimatization “Iron Mike” Tyson said, “Everybody’s got plans... until they get hit.” The more mentally prepared you are to take a hit, the less it will interrupt your game plan. Acclimatization is a form of mental conditioning. Essentially, you’re conditioning yourself to become used to pain, impact, the mental shock of being hit, and other stimuli that can break your focus. By conditioning yourself to ignore pain, you can more easily retain the focus you need to keep your hands up and stay on the offense.

For fighters, acclimatization includes getting accustomed to impact on your shins, quads, torso, and head, depending on the rules of your sport.

But acclimatization also includes getting used to environmental stimuli such as the feel of ropes on your back and the yelling of the crowd.

To help develop unbreakable focus, work on a poker face.

Whenever you’re training, maintain a smile or a strong, aggressive look. Never let

your opponent, or even your training partner, see you fatigued. Between rounds, breathe deep from your lower abdomen, and stand up tall. Don’t slouch or rest your hands on your knees. Smile if you can between rounds. If you can muster the energy, skip the stool and stand. All of these things can unnerve your opponent while also reminding you that you’re tougher than he is.

Technical Training for Toughness Technique is a major component of toughness.

Surviving headshots is much more about reaction— agility, rhythm, and suppleness—than about stiffness. Muscle mass will help absorb impact when you do get hit, but learning to roll with punches allows you to deflect the impact instead of absorbing it. This kind of technique must be conditioned to the point of being reflexive. This includes rolling with punches to the head or body, rolling away from shin kicks to the upper leg, or performing fading shin blocks. Defending yourself in a fight doesn’t leave much time for conscious reaction. If you’re kickboxing, for example, then before you fight you must already be conditioned to bring up your leg for a shin block as soon as you see your opponent start a leg kick, as well as absorb it properly with good technique. This is one area of toughness where you can work with your coach or trainer.

This article was an excerpt from the book, Fighter’s Mind / Fighter’s Body and was printed with permission from the publisher and author.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Tony Li is an instructor of HiepTinh-Mon World Martial Arts, certified personal trainer, certified fitness nutritionist and speed-agility-quickness trainer. To buy his book, Fighter’s Mind / Fighter’s Body, visit bushidopublishing.com.

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I]Z Danbe^X <VbZh Welcome back, my dear and faithful readers, What a year it has been so far! We have witnessed natural catastrophes, political upheaval, wars, and all kinds of events all over the globe.

And of course we are getting ready to watch the Olympics!

Everyone is talking about the Olympics these days and it seems they are being used for so many different purposes than they were originally designed for. But whatever turn they have taken, still, the Olympic Games are an incredible arena to participate in, to represent your country in, and to show the best you can be, for whatever your reason may be.

And I am pretty sure that whatever the sport—the participants already know how to train physically to achieve their personal peak: they know what to eat; what protein powder to drink; what combination of nutrients is best; what days to train hard and what day to ease off.

I have been training Olympic athletes for many years. All of them exceptional with incredible talent, they had the discipline to do their workouts. But somehow, they had not yet made it to the top.

That’s when they came to me. Think about it—these were some of the best physical athletes, training like crazy, doing everything “right”—why weren’t they winning? And why did they come to me, a martial arts grandmaster? Why would skiers, ball players and runners come to me?

You, my readers, already know through your martial arts training that the physical side of training isn’t everything. It is important, yes, but it is definitely not everything. Athletes, like everyone else, perhaps even more so, need to find the perfect balance between body, mind and spirit.

The first thing I teach athletes, no matter who you are, no matter where you are, no matter what obstacles and limitations exist around you at this moment, is that you can change your life, your health, and your state of mind completely. You can decide who you want to become. You may have been drifting through life before, so now you need to be driving through life.

What is the first step? Take charge of your thinking! Everything that has taken form in your life—your body, your home, your job, your relationships and yes, your results in your sport—began first as an immaterial thought, which can be a specific visual image or simply a general attitude and feeling. When you look at everything you have manifested in your life now, you’re looking at a picture of the quality of your thinking and feeling. This is because negative energy creates negative manifestations.

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thoughts, for example, eventually create broken relationships, wars and weapons, physical diseases of all kinds, and of course, defeat.

Positive energy and thoughts create positive manifestations, including victory. It is really very simple. But what may be difficult is to identify and remove all the thoughts that produce destructive results.

You need to learn to take charge of what you manifest by taking charge of your thinking! Can you see now that you can be your own worst enemy? Why? Because you are the one that monitors what you think. Instead, you need to be your own best friend.

Everything external in life was first internal in thought, so no permanent change can come about merely by attempting to fix external conditions. Yet that is usually what we try to do. When we see the symptoms of something wrong, we usually try to get rid of them instead of getting rid of the mental condition that’s causing the symptoms. Those athletes, when they didn’t win, used to just train harder, eat even healthier, and tried different ways to get more fit.

And yet, still no better results!

Well, first we have to identify the cause of any problem before we can treat the problem effectively. Unless you realize that you have caused your situation by your own thinking, you will accept this as your truth and you won’t change.

As an Olympic hopeful, you will probably already have a purpose in your life. However, do you also have an unflinching determination so you can achieve this purpose? The thing about determination is that it only works when you want it to. Unswerving determination is one of the most important factors in reaching your goal. Only you can make your determination work for you. And if you use it, your determination will attract to you all the other factors needed for your success—the right associates, the right information, and being in the right place at the right time.

You will also need to be willing to learn from mistakes you are making since they are essential to making progress. The object here is to succeed, not to count your mistakes. How did we humans ever get the idea that to be perfect we couldn’t make mistakes? Never making a mistake does not make us perfect. Never repeating a mistake after we learn from it is as perfect as we need to be. See, part of the fear of making mistakes is pure laziness. is the worst thing that will happen if you make a mistake? You will have to abandon that course of action and take another, which means, in short, a lot of work. If you are mentally lazy, making mistakes will be one of the best excuses you have for giving up, for deciding that maybe your goal isn’t so important after all. What a senseless waste that would be. Why expect so little out of life?

Mistakes are not harmful in and of themselves. What is harmful is our attitude toward mistakes. But if you are willing to make mistakes, look at them, regard them as feedback, and keep right on making them until you achieve your goal, then you have the right attitude.

In addition to all this, to be a successful Olympic athlete, you need to practice visualization. This is not daydreaming or wishful thinking. It is focused imagining, with the power of your will and persistence behind it. It is an immaterial activity that takes form first as a mental image, then as a material image. Those mental images must absolutely support what you want to create and should be visualized with as much detail and clarity as possible. If you give equal time to images contrary to your objective, it would be like trying to dig a hole and fill it at the same time.

Unfortunately, when we have idle time, many of us have a habit of running all sorts of negative pictures through our minds. But now that you are aware that visualization is a powerful part of the creative process, use this wonderful tool to lend momentum to achieving your goals. Allow only those images in your mind that support you and others, and see how quickly things change.

You also will need to not only understand, but deeply realize that your body and your mind are one. Even simply knowing that your

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Certainly this is the starting point. Just as you discipline your mind, you must discipline your body to conform to your mental objectives. Your bodily actions must be at one with your mental efforts. If you want to achieve Olympic success, holding negative visual images at the same time with your positive images, such as being on the winner’s pedestal, is a very counterproductive process.

Please understand: your body is your mind, that is, your body is a material picture of concepts in your mind. Therefore, your body will have a natural propensity to conform to your thinking. You will have a natural inclination to take physical actions that are in accord with your thinking.

In reality, you don’t think about your body. Your thinking is your body. But, if you insist on regarding your body as separate from your mind, this belief will take form as your body being outside your control. Your belief of separateness will cause your body to seemingly have a separate mind of its own, and then it can say things like “I am ill; I am too weak; I can’t; I won’t.” This mistaken belief of a separate mind and body does not change reality, but it certainly denies it and you lose your power.

Your body and mind are different aspects, different manifestations of the same life force. Knowing this, you can take charge of your body and cause it to do and be what you need.

Because your body and mind are one, they are in intimate communication with each other. You can look at your body and gain insight into the quality of your thinking; and you can look at your thinking to determine how to shape and direct your body. Doesn’t a healthy tree produce healthy fruit? Just so, when your thoughts are healthy, your body reflects this condition.

Your body is the living temple of your consciousness. Your body is meant to be well and whole and to beautifully carry out the instructions of your mind like a faithful servant.

Your body and mind are designed to act as one at all times. This may take much focus, determination, and concentration on your part. For instance, now that you have set as a goal to train for the Olympics your minds says, “This is an important priority; I want to win; I want to use all my time to build up my speed and endurance by practicing every day.” If you still insist on partying till late, eating improperly, and skipping workouts—is your body at one with your mind? How likely are you to succeed under these circumstances?

Clearly, if your participation in the Olympics, your winning, is a priority, if you truly want to win, you will have to take control of your body and mind and make them conform to each other.

Remember, what you do with every moment of now is all that matters. There will never be a tomorrow to realize your goals. When you know your mind and body are one right now and only right now, when you let this principle reach into every aspect of your life, then you will be in the driver’s seat and you take control. You are on the way to victory!

So, whether you are an Olympic athlete, or you just want to improve yourself through sport—it is the same principle. See the difference!

Enjoy watching the Olympic Games and perhaps try to see how each athlete performs and what differentiates a winner from just a participant.

With love, from my heart to yours, Dr. Tae Yun Kim Great Grandmaster HE CAN DO, SHE CAN DO, WHY NOT ME!

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By Bill Heeney

Meet the U.S. Olympic TKD Team and share their excitement as they talk about their amazing experiences as world-class athletes and their aspirations for gold.

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Coach of his younger siblings and head coach of an extensive stable of awardwinning competitors, Jean Lopez also has won medals in more than 30 events around the globe. He has been Head Coach at numerous Pan American and World Taekwondo Championships as well as the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, where his students, Steven Lopez and Nia Abdallah, won gold and silver, respectively.

Bill Heeney: Was it your idea to begin training in Tae Kwon Do? What are the top characteristics a competitor should have if they want to be a world-class athlete?

When did you start training, and who were your early instructors?

What characteristics should a coach have to be successful?

When did you open your school and realize you could be an Olympic-class coach?

Do you have any plans after your coaching career?

What was it like to be involved in TKD3D, the virtual Tae Kwon Do simulator and instructional program?

Are you going to prepare the team any differently than in the 2004 Games?

Earlier today, I talked to a 77-year-old man who still trains three times a week, alongside another 96-year-old.

How long do you plan to stay involved in Tae Kwon Do? Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an average day like for someone preparing for the Olympics?

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The Head Instructor at Peak Performance Martial Arts in Miami, Florida, Moreno has competed in three Olympic Games. He won a silver medal at both the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain, and the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, Korea, when Tae Kwon Do was a demonstration sport. He also made the 2000 Olympic Team in Sydney, Australia, where Tae Kwon Do made its debut as an official sport. After retiring in 1992, Moreno returned to competition in 1998.

He is an eight-time National Team member.

TKDT: When did you start training and who were your early instructors?

Who are your role models in life?

When did you open your first school?

As a strong competitor yourself, what drove you to win again and again?

After the Olympics in Beijing, what next?

What characteristics do you feel make a great champion?

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Having started training as a small child, Steven, 29, is the oldest of the trio of Lopez competitors. A two-time Olympic gold medalist, in 2000 and again in 2004, Steven won every major tournament in which he participated. Since 1994, he also has won four Pan American gold medals and five World Taekwondo golds, and was nominated three times for the Sullivan Award, an award given by the Amateur Athletic Union to honor outstanding amateur athletes. In 2004, he was named one of People’s ‘50 Hottest Bachelors.’

Bill Heeney: As a youth, did you dream of being a world-class competitor?

Being named one of People’s 50 Hottest Bachelors—this is for our female readers—do you have a significant other?

Do you think that there is a difference between Tae Kwon Do as a martial art and Tae Kwon Do as a sport

How did changing weight classes affect the way you train and compete?

What’s the best advice you’ve ever received, and what kind of advice would you give to someone who wants to follow in your footsteps?

Video games are becoming as big a part of mainstream media as movies and television. Since the late ’80s there have been regular Olympics-themed games released, but very little representation of martial arts in the games. Would you be interested in being part of its development?

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Mark also began Tae Kwon Do at the age five, and at 17 was the youngest male athlete to ever win a medal at the 1999 World Taekwondo Championships. He won the gold in nine consecutive U.S. Junior Olympic Championships from 1990 to 1998, and has medaled in three U.S. Opens, won five National Collegiate gold medals, and was National Collegiate Taekwondo Association’s Male Athlete of the Year in 2002.

Bill Heeney: When you were young did you dream of being a world-class competitor?

What’s the best advice you’ve ever received?

What advice would you give for others who want to compete at your level?

How do you view Tae Kwon Do as a sport and as an art?

The advertising and entertainment fields have used many world-class athletes in their projects. Is there anything happening with the Lopez family?

TKD3D is a revolutionary Tae Kwon Do training system. The two-title set of interactive training programs uses state-of-the-art technology of Motion Capture with realtime 3D animation to provide athletes with innovative ways to master the art and sport aspects of Tae Kwon Do. TKD3D allows users to closely follow the performed techniques, while in full control of the camera angles, zoom and playback speed. This means each user can focus on the details he or she is interested in at the level they are training at right now.

Coupled with features like step-by-step voice over, kick trajectory and distance meter visualizations, TKD3D proves to be a powerful tool for beginners, intermediate and advanced athletes alike.

You were involved in TKD3D, the Tae Kwon Do simulator and training program. What was that like?

The TKD3D set includes two CD titles—Winning Sport Tae Kwon Do and Mastering WTF Style Tae Kwon Do—each covering different practices of Tae Kwon Do and both featuring world-class athletes and coaches in their perspective field.

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At 24 years old and the youngest of the siblings, Diana has won three Female Athlete of the Year awards, two from USA Taekwondo and one from the U.S. Olympic Committee. In 2004, she was an Olympic Team alternate. From 1991 through 2001 she won gold in eleven consecutive Junior Nationals, two Junior World Championships, and three U.S. Opens. She is currently a senior at Wharton County Jr. College, studying education and plans to continue her studies and earn a master’s degree. She hopes to be a teacher, and possibly a Tae Kwon Do coach like her brother.

Bill Heeney: How does it feel to be on the Olympic Team?

What would it mean to you to win a gold medal?

Who do you think your biggest competition will be in Beijing?

What have you taken from the study of Tae Kwon Do that you apply to life?

Do you think you’ve missed out on anything by devoting so much of your life to Tae Kwon Do?

When you started Tae Kwon Do, did you ever think you’d be answering so many questions or getting so much attention?

Do you think having your brother as your coach, and a brother who is a former Olympic gold medalist makes a difference for you as a competitor?

How do you think being an Olympian will change your life?

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Charlotte Craig is the fourth and youngest member of the team. A 17-year-old high school junior from Murrieta, California, Craig studies under coach Jimmy Kim at the Jimmy Kim Taekwondo Center in Laguna Niguel, California. At 10 years old she earned a bronze in the 2001 Junior Olympics, her first major competition award. Since then, some of her major victories include medaling at the following five Junior Olympics, the 2004 through 2007 U.S. Opens, and the 2005 and 2007 Pan American Games.

Bill Heeney: How excited are you to be a member of the U.S. Olympic Team?

What would it mean to you to win a gold medal?

How did you get started in Tae Kwon Do? Do you miss not participating in other activities because of your training schedule?

What has being a world-class athlete and a student of martial arts taught you?

What are your plans for the future outside of training or competing?

Do you think having a former Olympic champion as a coach has helped you more to get where you are today?

What role did your parents play in helping you become an Olympic Team member?

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With over 3000 registered members, and countless unregistered participants, NASKA, the North American Sport Karate Association, is one of the most popular tournament circuits in the nation today.

Beginning in 1986, NASKA has since incorporated many top rated tournaments into its circuit such as the AKA (American Karate Association) Grand Nationals, which is one of the oldest sport Karate tournaments (in its 43rd year), and the U.S. Open Martial Arts Tournament, which can be seen each year on the ESPN network. NASKA has also seen its fair share of celebrities come out of its competition rings such as Arlene Limas, Cynthia Rothrock, Ernie Reyes Jr., Mike Chat, and Matthew Mullins.

Winning Isn’t Easy The life of a NASKA competitor is not an easy one. They spend countless hours training for the event, endure the high costs totaling close to a $1000 each tournament, and often miss a day of school in order to attend. The tournaments themselves can be up to three days long and may well go into the late hours of the evening and begin very early the next day. Plus there is the inevitable waiting for a division to start. Since there are no limits to how many competitors can be in a division, some events may have 20 people in a single setting.

So, why do so many young people and their parents travel all over the country to participate in these events? What type of life do the kids lead outside of the tournament world and what is it that they really get out of competition?

Kids That Compete I sat down with several black belts on the NASKA circuit to get some insight on the ‘what’ and ‘why’ of being a competitor. When I spoke with them about participating in their first NASKA tournament, both the newcomers and the veterans of the circuit shared one common experience—the first time they stepped into the ring was the one of the most nervous moments of their lives.

“It was a very scary and nerve-racking feeling when I first started competing,” says 10-year-old Gabriel ‘Gabby’ Wolf. “I started competing when I was seven years old in the AKA circuit, because it was a requirement for my belt test.” Now, a new member of Team AKA, lead by coach Sensei John Sharkey, Gabby will compete as a black belt for the first time in 2008. “I am real excited and nervous, but I know it will be fun.

Last year I competed as an under black belt competitor and won my divisions in Youth Weapons and Youth Forms. I have also made a lot of friends across the country from competing in NASKA. My family is the main source of motivation and is very supportive of my efforts so I am really looking forward to this year.”

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A fellow class member and Team AKA teammate, Sebastian Talbott, will also start his NASKA competition year as a black belt for the first time. “I was nervous when I first began tournaments. After competing in the AKA circuit, I’ve gotten used to meeting new people and competing with them. I just look at it as just friendly competition and I have fun.” Sebastian, now 13 years old, had his first competition five years ago at a local Tae Kwon Do tournament. “I was asked to do the first tournament, but after that I just got into it from there.” A year later he joined the AKA circuit and won a national title in Youth Sparring.

Since then he has won three other national titles in Youth Weapons and Youth Forms.

“Currently my goal is to keep working towards bettering myself as a martial artist and a competitor, since there are so many talented people in my division in NASKA. My future goal is to be able to travel a lot more on the NASKA circuit and see different places.”

For the veteran competitors on the NASKA circuit, such as Team AKA members Cole Eckert, Jasmin Wali, Sami Suddeth, and Luke Broadlick, going to a tournament is like going to a playground to meet all your friends. “I have made great friends on the NASKA circuit and we all love hanging out together,” states 12-year-old Cole Eckert, who has been competing on the NASKA circuit for eight years. “My first time to compete was very exciting and I love it even more now because I am with my friends doing what I love to do the most—Karate.”

Luke Broadlick says it’s like being with family when you are at the tournaments. “I won my first local tournament and had a blast, but my first NASKA tournament was very intimidating. It was scary but fun, and I knew it was something that I wanted to do,” says the 16-year-old, now going on his fourth year in competing in NASKA. “My friends and fellow competitors keep me motivated to do better each time I go.”

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While friends may have been a motivation for Luke and Cole, 15-year-old Jasmine Wali had two different types of motivators. “I was once told by an instructor at a tournament that I didn’t have the attitude to be a champion. Every time I think of that instructor, I am motivated to work harder, push longer and go faster.

My other motivators are Sensei John Sharkey, Sensei Phil Truesdale and Sensei Jeremy Talbott at Sharkey’s Karate (Naperville, Illlinois). They are always providing a positive learning environment and the constant encouragement that makes me feel good about myself. That makes me want to win for not only myself, but for them also.”

Sometimes it is the competition itself that will keep the competitor driven, like 13-year-old Samantha ‘Sami’ Suddeth who is motivated by NASKA’s seeding rule. For those not familiar, seeding is a process that allows competitors ranked at the top in the forms and weapons divisions, to be one of the last to perform. Many feel this is an advantage in the sport.

In the case of fighting, if there is a bye available (automatic advancement to the next round), the seeded competitors are given the bye. This process is usually determined by the outcome of the first three tournaments of the season. It is this incentive coupled with Sami’s influences from former world champions Matthew Mullins, Craig Henningsen, Brendon Huor, and coach Sensei John Sharkey, that keep her going—even after nine years of competing.

Sans Karate So what is life like outside of sport Karate? When it comes to Gabby, she spends her extra time playing soccer, “Outside of my Karate life, I enjoy playing on a traveling soccer team. My friends who don’t do Karate are so proud of me and like to learn some of the moves I do.” Sebastian is on the school track team as well as the cross-country team, enjoys skateboarding and has been an honor roll student.

Cole is a lacrosse player and splits his free time between that and chatting on the computer with his friends from all over U.S. “My local friends are jealous of all the travel that I get to do, but think that the type of martial arts I do is really cool.”

Jasmine continues playing on the school volleyball and track teams; participates in honor band and student council, and enjoys competing in academic competitions as well. Luke is currently working on his acting career, while Sami enjoys gymnastics and hanging with her friends, “My friends think what I do is very cool.”

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Life Lessons With all the time and effort spent in becoming the best at their sport, one has to ask if they are learning anything about life through these experiences. Sami is quick to reply, “Never take anything for granted and dreams come true if you work hard.”

Luke supported her statement, saying, “You have to work hard for what you really want.”

Cole joined in, “You can’t always win every event you do, but if you work hard and put in your best effort, you are always a winner in life.”

“I have definitely learned confidence and that I can do anything I set my mind to,” states Gabby.

“I would have to say that as long as I believe in myself there is no problem so big that I can’t overcome,” comments Jasmine.

Sebastian sums up with, “I definitely learned that my successes are not only based on hard work, but what I do if I don’t succeed the first time. You have to keep trying and learn from your mistakes.”

Life on the NASKA circuit, or any sport Karate circuit for that matter, will definitely have its trials and tribulations. It is neither an easy road nor an inexpensive one. However, with the right coaching, support and attitude, a competitor can achieve many positive goals in life.

Read Jeremy Talbott’s online column, Real Life Lessons of the Dojang, at taekwondotimes.com.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Sensei Jeremy Talbott is the Director of the American Karate Association and an instructor at Sharkey’s Karate Studio in Naperville, Illinois.

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The Platinum Set-23 Dvds+Book

GET IT ALL: ¡ Commando Krav Maga (Vol.1-5) ¡ Survive Vicious Ground Attacks (Vol.1&2) ¡ Survive Any Gun Confrontation (Vol. 1&2) ¡ Best Of The Israeli Fighting Systems (Vol. 1&2) ¡ Vicious Knife Attacks (3 Disc Series) ¡ Military Krav Maga (One Vol.) ¡ Street Survival (One Vol.) ¡ Combatant (One Vol.) ¡ Elite Combat Fitness QUICK FIT Library (6 DVDs plus Book) Item DPP13 / $594.95

Clinic on Stretching and Kicking

This DVD shows all you need to know about stretching and flexibility for kicking. You will see the dynamic stretch that is most important for kickers; the essential details of Side Kick and Roundhouse Kick that will let you kick high and with power without any warmup; step-by-step drills for Front Kick, Side Kick, and Roundhouse Kick and for combinations of kicks and punches. 101 minutes.

Item DPP08 / $29.95

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Featured Books The Book of Teaching & Learning TaeKwonDo

Official publication of the WTF Best WTF publication to date!!

Consisting of 12 chapters the book details how taekwondo was introduced as an Olympic sport and the tasks facing taekwondo people of how to maintain its Olympic status after the 2012 London Olympic Games.

It also explains about the spirit, thought and values of taekwondo, as well as physical and mental disciplines, and fair play, one of the key elements of Olympism.

68 pages of poomsae diagrames.

448 pages total, Hardcover.

Item B041 / $69.95

Taekwon-Do: The Korean Art of SelfDefense

By General Choi Hong Hi A well-condensed version of General Choi’s Encyclopedia, the book is 765 pages in length and focuses on the self-defense aspects of Taekwon-Do as well as its hisory and development. Additional postage required.

Item B015 / $99.00 (Hardcover) Reduced to $89.99!

Choi Kwang Do

Grandmaster Kwang Jo Choi explains the science behind Choi Kwang Do and how its practitioners can live more productive, longer and healthier lives. The manual also covers the Choi Kwang Do curriculum up to second-degree black belt, including step-by-step instructions for performing basic techniques, patterns, speed drills, defense drills, target training and close-range defense. Additional postage required.

Item B037 / $99.00

WTF Taekwondo Textbook

Produced by the Kukkiwon, this 766-page textbook is a compilation of all available updated data regarding TKD and focuses on the scientific analysis of theories as well as the three-dimensional llustrations of major physical motions. It also stresses the aspect of spiritual enrichment so that a practitioner may cultivate a noble integrated character.

Additional postage required.

Item B039 / $84.99

Taekwondo: Korean Traditional Martial Arts: Philosophy & Culture

Grandmaster Kyong Myong Lee, a certified WTF ninth-dan, writes this 300-page, full color, coffee-table sized book offering a panoramic overview of TKD. Item B034 / $59.95

Authentic Tang Soo Do

Learn authentic Tang Soo Do Korean Karate) from an internationally known and respected authority, Grandmaster Chun Sik Kim, known for his dynamic technique, as well as his knowledge of Tang Soo Do. Item B035 / $124.95

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Encyclopedia y p of Taekwon-Do

By Gen. Choi Hong Hi This one of a kind encyclopedia has 15 volumes consisting of 5000 pages with 30,000 photos. The encyclopedia is the culmination of General Choi’s lifelong research into TKD’s history and development.

Additional postage required.

ORDER NOW, LIMITED SUPPLY! Item B014 / $295.00 (Hardcover) (English Version) Reduced to $275.00!

Taekwondo Kyorugi: Olympic Style Sparring

Learn sparring secrets of Olympic Gold Medalist and four-time World Champion Kuk Hyun Chung, WTF Deputy GeneralSecretary Kyung Myung Lee, and ranslator and editor Sang H. Kim. This text identifies the strategies, echniques, conditioning, and raining of top competitors.

Item B027 / $12.95

Freestyle Sparring

Woojin Jung has written the ultimate freestyle sparring book for beginners to advanced martial artists in all hard-style disciplines.

Regardless of skill level, the skills, drills, tactics, and conditioning taught will make you a faster, stronger and smarter fighter.

Item B033 / $19.95

The Making of a Martial Artist

Bring the role of martial arts into your everyday life. This book offers practical lessons on harmonious iving and helps turn dreams into reality.

Item B002 / $20.00 (Hardcover)

Martial Meditation: Philosophy and the Essence of the Martial Arts This 370-page textbook by Dr. Daeshik Kim and Allan Back examines the essence, distinctions and dynamics between art, sport, martial arts and martial sports and their historic and philosophical perspectives.

Item B021 / $22.75 (Hardcover) Reduced to $9.95!

Eastern Spirit, Western Dreams

This 226-page memoir captures the true hardships and joys of a small town, South Korean farm boy, TKDT Publisher Woojin ung, who lives out his American dream.

44% DISCOUNT FOR TKDT READERS! Item B038A (English) / $14.00 Item B038B (Korean) / $14.00

Mastering Taekwondo Sparring: The Basics A comprehensive look at all aspects of sparring and how to become the complete Taekwondo fighter.

Item B029 / $29.95 Reduced to $19.95!

Best Instructor + Best School = Best Life!

This 329-page book written

by Grandmaster Woojin Jung is a must-have for school owners, instructors and students with a dream. Not only a helpful guide for new students to find the best instructor possible, this book is also a guide for new and established instructors and school owners on how to successfully manage and maintain a martial arts business. Endorsed by prominent martial artists from around the world and from many different styles, Grandmaster Woojin Jung’s book is a testament to his dedication to the martial arts and his business know-how. With more than 150 photos, Best Instructor + Best School = Best Life! will help the student, the instructor and the school owner find and run the business of their dreams.

Item B030 / $25.00

Gold Medal Mental Workout for Combat Sports Package

This set includes one book, one training log and four CDs. Use the techniques of Gold Medal Mental Workout, proved against the best in the world, to unleash the master within you.

Let Dariusz Nowicki, the top East European sports psychologist, show you how the science of psychology can combine with yyour skill and physical y training to make you a winner! Item BPP01 / $59.95

Stretchingg Scientificallyy

This book written by TKDT columnist Tom Kurz will help you attain maximum height in your kicks and to be able to kick at that height with no warm-up!

Learn how to stretch safely and quickly to achieve and maintain your maximum flexibility; how to make your muscles grow stronger and longer so you stay flexible all the time; how to do splits even if you are over 40 or 50; and how to kick high and do splits with no warm-up; how to develop each of the three kinds of flexibility—dynamic, static active and static passive—to suit every athlete’s needs.

214 pages. g Softcover.

Item BPP02 / $25.99

Explosive Power and Jumping Ability for all Sports

How well you jump and how powerfully you punch, pull, or throw depends on your explosive power, on your special endurance for explosive movements, and on your speed, coordination, and flexibility. This book tells you how to develop each of these abilities. 138 pages. g Softcover.

Item BPP03 / $23.95

Science of Sports p Training

This book uses the sports training know-how of internationally known training specialists to improve your speed, strength, power, endurance, coordination, and flexibility, as well as technical and tactical skills, while avoiding overtraining and injuries. Apply time and energy-saving methods in your training. Master your techniques faster, react quicker, last longer, and prevent injuries. Improve your speed, strength, endurance, and coordination. Integrate physical training with mental training. 424 pages.

Softcover.

Item BPP05 / $39.95

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Featured Books Children and Sports p Training The needs of boys and girls in sports training are dramatically different. Learn how to match the right sport with the right child, the right training program for the age and gender of the child. Learn the “sensitive ages” for development of movement abilities (endurance, coordination, speed, strength, flexibility).

250 pages. Softcover Item BPP04 / $29.95

The Will Power

This complete martial arts book by Maurice Elmalem has over 700 photos, illustrations and instructions, plus special training drills for fighting, endurance, speed and power.

Learn breaking, self-defense, fighting applications, and how to become the best of the best.

Paperback Item BPP06p / $29.99 Hardcover ItemBPP06 h / $34.99

Breakingg Unlimited

JJKD Without Limits

The Bible of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu

Fighting g g Dynamics y

Success and the Creative Imagination: The Unique q Power of Do

Tae Kwon Do, Volume I & II

Breaking Unlimitedd by Maurice Elmalem is the only book written solely on the art of breaking. It features step-by-step instructions on how to break wood, glass, bricks, ice, cinder blocks, and more, in many different ways. Paperback Item BPP07 / $29.99 A special book for studying and perfecting the “soft art” of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. It details step-bystep the technical aspects of various techniques and submissions using easy to understand photos. Paperback Item BPP09 / $29.99

Discussingg the martial art founded byy legendary g y Bruce Lee, Jeet Kune Do, the book contains: lessons from the ring, g sparring, p g overcomingg adversity, y free ego g training, g the two arts, environmental impact, modern martial arts, Bruce Lee’s five ways y of attacking, g and firearms training for martial artists. Paperback p Item BPP10 / $29.99 This explosive p book byy Maurice Elmalem covers all aspects p of figghtingg with over 1000 p photos, various figghtingg styles y of martial arts demonstrated byy movie stars, historians, celebrities and ggrandmasters. An essential book for everyone y to have for its ideas on p protection, survival and selfdefense, Fighting g g Dynamics y offers students information on how to improve p and develop Olympic y p style y fighting g g techniques, q meditation, jjudging, g g and speed p strikes to eliminate opponents pp quickly. Paperback Item BPP08 / $29.99

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Champions 2000: 14th Men’s & 7th Women’s WTF Championships p p Video

Volume A contains men’s and women’s fin, fly and men’s bantam competitions.

Item T021A / $35.00 Reduced to $4.99!

Volume B contains women’s bantam and men’s and women’s feather & light matches.

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Volume C contains men’s and women’s welter, middle and heavyweight championships Item T021C / $35.00 Reduced to $4.99!

Sang Kyu Shim’s book provides a rich model of the way one can bring diversity of expression to the unity of understanding and fulfillment.

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Written by Dr. Daeshik Kim, this two-volume set is analytical, yet easy to understand. Volume One contains all of Poomsae (forms), Taeguek 1-8 and Palgwe 1-8, required to earn a black belt from the WTF. Volume Two illustrates Poomsae from Cho Dan to Grandmaster.

Item B003 / Vol. 1 / $15.00 Reduced to $4.99!

Item B004 / Vol. 2 / $15.00 Reduced to $4.99!

Featured Training Products & Novelties Re-Useable Breakingg Boards

Endorsed by the Korea Taekwondo Association, the board’s rectangular shape and padding make it easier to hold while its slide groove enables faster and easier reassembling. Board color corresponds to belt level.

Item K007 Yellow (Easiest) $24.95 Blue (Easy) $24.95 Red (Harder) $24.95 Black (Hardest) $28.95

The Ultimate Martial Arts Board

High strength plastic construction allows the board to be re-breakable time after time. A rubber palm pad provides a cushion for the holder. Different colors represent level of difficulty.

Item K011 White $34.95 Orange $34.95 Green $34.95 Blue $34.95 Brown $34.95 Black $34.95

Double Focus Target

Two separate pads are bound together to create a training aid that enables you to actually hear the strength of your kick. A sturdy, elastic wrist band ensures that the target will not leave the holder’s hand.

Item K002 / $24.95 Reduced to $19.95!!!

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Jangg Bongg Sul (Longg Pole)

This three-section staff easily screws together to form the six-foot long bong that has been a part of Korean martial history for over 4,000 years. with a durable core surrounded by a padded covering that will cushion str Item K008 / $29.95

Karate Kritters

They’re back! These cute little toys make karate sounds when you squeeze their belly. Each stands 6” tall.

TIGER—Item KKT1 / $9.95 BEAR—Item KKB1 / $9.95

2005 Classic Digital g Editions CD

Contains digital copies of all TKDT magazines from 2005, featuring cover sto Maurice Elmalem, Dr. Trevor Grandmaster Lim, Hyun Soo, and Gary Schill, Sang Koo Ka Rivera. Price includes shipping Item CD05d / $9.95 (Domes Item CD05i / $17.95 (Interna

Belt Display p y Rack

Display your belts in this stylish rack. The rack measures 12” x 25”. Belts not included.

Item DR01 / $31.95

Goodwill Tour T-shirt Bamboo Fighting g g Fans

Learn fan warfare with this fabric fan with a bamboo frame.

Item FF01 / $12.95 – Red or Black

2006 Classic Digital Editions CD

Contains digital copies of all from 2006, featuring cover st Kimm, Dewain Perry and La Tullier and Michael McGee, Dan Paulson, Al Agon and D includes shipping.

Item CD06d / $9.95 (Dome Item CD06i / $17.95 (Intern

Mark the historic Goodwill Tour of the North Korea TKD Team in the U.S. The official logo features a black belt handshake between North Korea and the USA and speaks of Harmony, Friendship and Peace in English and Korean characters. This 90/10 t-shirt is available in adult medium and large in both gray and white.

Item S001/ $10.00

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