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Math & Martial Arts
Grandmaster
Ken MacKenzie
Hapkido’s American Son

Get Grounded
Techniques for Real Life
FPO
Kubotan Keychain
Pocket Self-Defense
School Yourself
Math & Martial Arts
Grandmaster
Ken MacKenzie
Hapkido’s American Son

Contents
November 2009 / Volume 29 No. 6 / Issue Number 172
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Features
36 Rolling with Confidence
Katie Simmons has Spina Bifida and
Scoliosis, but that doesn’t stop her. Now
that she is training in the martial art of
Choi Kwang Do, her confidence has skyrocketed.
Read on as she tells her story in
her own words.
51 Grandmaster Ken MacKenzie:
Hapkido’s Founder Ji Han Jae’s American Son
Learn about Grandmaster Ken MacKenzie, the
right hand man of Grandmaster Ji Han Jae, the
founder of Hapkido.
60 Remembering Master Lee Kyo Woon
Read about the master who brought TKD
to the islands of Hawaii from Dr. Andy
Mencia, one of his direct students.
Learn how he quickly built a strong
program in Hawaii, which helped foster
the resentment and jealousy that
found him gunned down early in his
life.
64 Math & Martial Arts
Get technical with your TKD. Find out how a little
math can go a long way in your martial arts training.
70 Is Your Program Grounded?
Ground fighting isn’t just for MMA. It’s
a practical lesson in self-defense that
no student should be without. Find the
techniques you’ve been missing right
here!
Cover Photo by Laura Smulktis of ‘Legacy Photography’
taekwondotimes.com
Cover photo by Bill Bly.

76 The Kubotan Keychain:
Pocket Self-Defense
Learn about this highly recommended tool for
self-defense. Check out techniques that even a
novice can use to fight off an attacker with the
Kubotan keychain.
91 CKD Goes Global
Looking for a change in your school? The martial art
of Choi Kwang Do has successfully converted schools
around the world to their program while maintaining
their student enrollment. Read on to find out more.
Columns
42 Heart to Heart / Who am I?
46 Traditions / Revelations
69 MMA & You / MMA & TMA
74 Stretch Yourself / Treating Worn-Out Joints
81 Woman of the Times / I am Un-Offendable
84 The Supplement / How Fit Are You?
87 East Meets West / It Takes a Dojang to Raise a Black Belt
98 The Last Word / A Little Bit of Knowledge
Departments
11 Publisher Page / Keep a Watchful Eye
13 Readers’ Forum / Your Turn
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News / Martial Arts News
TKDT Schools of the Month / October & November
24 Killer Kicks / Awesome Pics from Readers
26 Big Break / Amazing Breaks from You
29 Black Belt Beginnings / Inspiration
94 Martial Arts Directory / Schools Near You
96 Correspondent Page / Our Global Community
97 Calendar of Events / Events Happening Soon
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Keep a Watchful Eye
The Presidential Elections of the ITF & WTF
In October of 2009, the two largest global organizations for Tae Kwon Do, the World Taekwondo Federation
(WTF) and the International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF) will be holding presidential elections for each of their
organizations. While the WTF will be holding their elections in Copenhagen, Denmark, at the 2009 WTF World
Taekwondo Championships, the ITF will be holding their elections in St. Petersburg, Russia, at the 16 th ITF
World Taekwon-Do Championships. These elections should be watched closely by the international Tae Kwon Do
community.
On the ITF side, the presidential election seems to be already decided, with Professor Chang Ung, the current
ITF President, being unchallenged at this time. While Professor Ung has certainly proved himself to be a great
leader for the ITF and a strong member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), it is still uncertain as to
why no one else has stepped up to run for President of the ITF. An opposing candidate should not be seen as a
threat to the current president, but as an opportunity to once again prove that Professor Ung is the best person for
the position.
On the WTF side, there are four different possible candidates to be elected. The first being the current
President, Chungwon Choue. A Korean native, he seems to have the influence and personality needed to handle
the position. Next, there is Soo Nam Park. Also a Korean native, he is very versed in Tae Kwon Do, runs a strong
German Tae Kwon Do publication, and is a current WTF Vice President. Next, there is Dr. Nat Indrapana of
Thailand, currently an IOC member as well, he also holds the position of a WTF Vice President. The final candidate
is Anthanasios Pragalos of Greece, the current President of the European Taekwondo Union. All four men
are definitely fine candidates. But, the diversity of the geography of the candidates
certainly begs the question: Can the Korean art of Tae Kwon Do be led by
someone not of Korean descent? Certainly, Tae Kwon Do is the national martial
art of Korea, but it has been shared throughout the world and become
the martial art of so many. Can Tae Kwon Do as represented by the WTF,
something that is so inherently Korean, be led by someone not Korean? It is
a tough question to answer, but one that will certainly arise when the elections
are taking place this October.
These presidential elections are something we should all keep a close eye
on. The possibility for merging the two organizations and the status of Tae
Kwon Do in the Olympic Games are two reasons that the presidential elections for
both federations are important to everyone in the Tae Kwon Do community.
The elections may directly affect the current Olympic status of Tae Kwon
Do and the ongoing
merger between the
ITF and WTF. Tae
Kwon Do Times
urges you to pay
close attention.

taekwondotimes.com / November 2009 13

Master Ott & GM MacKenzie
NEWS
Flowering Warrior 2009 Summer News
Olympia, WA—A special visit of the founder and president of the National Korean
Martial Arts Association (NKMAA), Grandmaster Rudy Timmerman, and the United
States Director of the NKMAA, Master Kevin Janisse was planned at the Temple of
Certain Victory, run by Chief-Master Robert Ott in Olympia, Washington. The two
renowned martial artists came to teach and share knowledge with Master Ott’s students.
Grandmaster Timmerman instructed types of Ki breathing techniques along with various
strikes, low kicks and self-defense maneuvers. Master Janisse instructed the group in Jang
Bong exercises and ended the workshop with sword cutting techniques. Learning from
such great Moosa left the students in awe.
Chief-Master Robert Ott then headed to the East Coast for a seminar with Grandmaster
Ken MacKenzie. During this seminar, the students trained hard and focused on Master
Ott’s specialized martial arts teachings. Then it was back to the Northwest for the Super
Summer Seminar at the Temple of Certain Victory. The first special guest instructor was Chief-
Master Daniel Sijtsma from Holland, Europe, who is the founder of the Korean martial art of Pro
Nung Hapkido, which translates into the ‘way of intuition.’ The following seminar was taught by the
Head special guest, Master Steve Seo, who is the son of Grandmaster In Sun Seo, and who currently
holds the title of Prime Official Instructional Director of the World Han Min Jok Hapkido Federation.
This seminar had over 40 participants who came from five different countries and eight different states in
the U.S.
Sin Moo Hapkido in the Balkans & Austria
Atco, NJ—Grandmaster Ken MacKenzie, ninth-dan and President of
the World Sin Moo Hapkido Federation under Founder DoJuNim Ji Han
Jae, was the featured instructor for the first Croatian Sin Moo Hapkido
Instructors Seminar in June 2009. The event, hosted by Colonel Mladen
Kuznik (sixth-dan, Croatian Headmaster for Hapkido), was held in Zagreb,
Croatia. Held at the Balkan Headquarters Dojang for both Hapkido and
TKD, the seminar was attended by masters, instructors, and students representing
Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Serbia. Master Mladen
Kuznik officially joined forces with DoJuNim Ji Han Jae’s World Sin Moo
Hapkido Federation in a federation-flag presentation and certificate ceremony
headed up by Grandmaster MacKenzie. Guest instructors for the
event included Chief-Master Scott E. Yates (New Jersey, USA) and Master
Soo Moo Hapkido in Austria
Perry Zmugg (Graz, Austria).
In the city of Graz (Arnold Schwarzenegger’s hometown), the annual Austrian Sin Moo Hapkido seminar was also
held in June. Hosted by Master Perry Zmugg, Chief-Master Scott Yates was the featured speaker. Chief-Master Yates
offered 22 hours of training for the participants. Additionally, a special
four-hour workshop was given on full-contact fighting by Grandmaster
Ken MacKenzie. Official World Sin Moo Hapkido Federation flags and
patches were presented by Yates and MacKenzie to Master Zmugg and
Master Juri Fleischmann of Gaggenau, Germany.
General Choi Memorial in North Korea
North Korea—On the recent anniversary of General Choi Hong Hi’s
death, his wife and Tae Kwon Do brethren paid homage to him at his
gravesite in North Korea. Considered to be the founder of Tae Kwon
Do, General Choi Hong Hi, former President of the ITF, passed in 2002.
ITF Goodwill Mission to Vietnam
Ottawa, Canada—ITF President, Dr. Chang Ung, sent an ITF delegation
of Senior Master Phap Lu, ITF Secretary General, and Master Phu
Honoring Gen. Choi
Nguyen, Vietnam native from Canada, to Vietnam on a goodwill mission to reactivate the ITF in
Vietnam. The mission included a seminar with more than 150 ITF instructors. The ITF delegation also met with the high
sports authorities and Olympic officials in Vietnam to discuss the possibility of the nation rejoining the ITF. Vietnam was
one of the nine founding member countries when the ITF was formed in 1966.
14 November 2009 / taekwondotimes.com

Black Dragon Fighting Society Re-Emerges
Nashville, TN—In July 2009, after 35 years, many of the original members of
the Black Dragon Fighting Society (BDFS) came together at a reunion hosted by
the U.S. Martial Arts Hall of Fame. These historic figures included Hanshi Frank
Dux, Grandmaster Ashida Kim, Grandmaster Vic Moore, Grandmaster Lawrence
Day, Grandmaster Ronald Peirce, and current Family Head of the Original BDFS,
Grandmaster Doug Dwyer. A small band of brothers, The Black Dragon Fighting
Society came together to tell of the old days and to let the world know they were
back with their original mission. These martial art renegades were known and are
still known for demanding equality; their history is full of such, true and little known
tales, such as decades ago when they forcefully took over a “Whites Only” hotel
hosting the United States Karate Association World Championship. Outnumbered ten
to one, the BDFS prevailed enabling its founding member Victor Moore to participate.
Being Black, Moore was not allowed into the whites only hotel or the tournament.
Victor Moore’s performance was so clearly superior than the competition of the day
that he became “The First Black USKA World Karate Champion.”
EVENTS
Left to Right: Grandmaster Lawrence
Day, Hanshi Frank Dux , Chris
Bashaw,Grandmaster Ronald Peirce,
Grandmaster Vic Moore, Grandmaster
Doug Dwyer, and Grandmaster Ashida
Kim.
World Youth Taekwondo Camp
Seoul, Korea—A ten-member TKD team from Uzbekistan arrived in Korea in July 2009 to receive training at a Korean
university in Busan in preparation for the World Youth Taekwondo Camp in Seoul and Muju, North Jeolla Province.
Also, a 21-member Russian TKD delegation traveled to Jeonju, North Jeolla Province, for the team’s training at the twoyear
Jeonju Vision University. Eleven athletes from Kazakhstan also arrived to undergo training at the Busan campus
of Dong-A University in Busan. Seven other countries are scheduled to send their young athletes, aged between 14 and
17, to Korea for their free training at Korean universities prior to the opening of the World Youth Taekwondo Camp,
which is jointly organizing by the World Taekwondo Federation and the Taekwondo Promotion Foundation. About 250
people, including 160 young athletes and three Olympic medalists, from 37 countries
are expected to participate in the inaugural World Youth Taekwondo Camp.
Training in Korea
Daegu City, South Korea—The Korea Jung Ki Hapkido & Kuhapdo Association
of America, under the direction of Master Mike D’Aloia and Master Sheryl Glidden
embarked on their annual training trip to Grandmaster Lim, Hyun Soo’s Jung
Ki Kwan in Daegu City, South Korea, the birthplace of Hapkido. The masters and
students practiced basic and advanced Jung Ki Hapkido exercises and techniques. In
addition, the participants practiced Chung Suk Kuhapdo (sword). Grandmaster Lim is a
long time disciple and a successor to Founder Choi, Yong Sul.
Training camp
participants
A Great Training Camp
Sequim, WA—Donn Schucker, President of the Schucker
Martial Arts Association, runs a tight camp. Held in St. Peters,
Missouri, this annual camp is three and half days of solid training. Practitioners
can participate in any or all of the hourly sessions. From TKD and Judo to Tai
Chi and MMA, from Jeet Kune Do and Jujitsu to a plethora of weapons, these
clinics are hosted by the best instructors in the business. This year, Dr. Greg
Lawton offered a ten-hour certification program on Martial Arts Sports
Medicine. The program gave students and instructors alike, practical
information on targeting vulnerabilities, identifying, grading and preventing
injuries, and a multitude of healing practices.
Chosun Trains at Buddhist Temple
Warwick, NY—Master Doug Cook of Chosun Taekwondo Academy and his
students recently visited Won Kak Sa Temple, a Buddhist retreat situated among
the rolling meadows of Salisbury Mills. There, they trained in Zen meditation.
“Meditation has been used in the martial arts of Korea, China and Japan for centuries,”
stated Cook. “ Aside from meditative practice, the Chosun students, joined
by members of several local TKD schools, executed advanced forms. At session’s
close, Master Cook and black belt Lisa Ehrenreich, coordinator of the event, presented
director Gi Kwan Sunim with a plaque in recognition of his knowledge and
kindness.
GM Passmore in the Sahara
GM Lim &
KJKHKA members
World Kuk Sool Association Celebrates 50 Years
Belton, SC—In October 2008, the World Kuk Sool Association celebrated
the 50 year anniversary of the founding of Kuk Sool Won by Grandmaster
In Hyuk Suh, in Houston, Texas. The celebration included the 2008 World
Choson students at WonKakSa Temple
taekwondotimes.com / November 2009 15

Self-defense training at Clemson
Championship Tournament, and a spectacular demonstration performed by Kuk
Sool Won Masters and Instructors from around the globe.
The 50 Year Anniversary Celebration and 2008 World Championship was
preceded by black belt testing at the Kuk Sool Won Ranch in Tomball, Texas.
Candidates for the first-degree black belt all the way up to candidates for the level
of Master Instructor (fifth-degree) participated in the testing. Kuk Sool Won black
belt candidates are required to test on a quarterly basis while in the testing cycle,
which must be administered and overseen by a Kuk Sool Won Master Instructor. It is
a requirement that their final test prior to promotion be in the presence of Grandmaster
Suh himself.
Freshman Women Learn to Kick Butt
Clemson, SC—In July 2009, the Clemson University WISE (Women in Science and
Engineering) Experience program welcomed 37 young ladies who are incoming freshman
science, math and engineering majors for a one-week camp. As part of
the WISE Experience program, Suzanne Ellenberger, Chief Instructor of
Choi Kwang Do Martial Arts at Clemson University, was asked to put on
a program of basic self-defense techniques for approximately 50 participants.
The students were taught how to throw a proper punch and execute
proper kicks. In addition, numerous Choi Kwang Do close range defense
techniques were taught and practiced on each other and Assistant Instructor
Gary Holcomb.
Specially Challenged Tournament a Success
Aurora, CO—Writer, motivational speaker and Tae Kwon Do columnist Master
Karen Eden was the guest of honor at the All-Star Specially Challenged Martial Arts
Tournament in Houston, Texas. In July, 65 specially challenged competitors from eight
different states competed in this first-of-a-kind tournament sanctioned by the AAU. “I
get truly touched by witnessing the joy on these guys’ faces when they accomplish what
many have said and they themselves had believed,” says Master David Lieder, school
owner and sponsor of the event.
All-Star Martial Arts school in Cypress, Texas, is one of only two known schools in the
country that has a curriculum specifically designed for specially challenged students. David
Lieder and his family teach wheelchair sparring, forms and weapons from a sitting position.
“This was incredible to watch,” says Master Eden. “I highly recommend that anyone with a love
for martial arts, experience a tournament like this. It’ll change your entire perspective.”
Third Annual Korean Martial Arts Festival
Crestview, FL—In April, martial artists traveled from ten different states and two providences of
Canada to attend the Third Annual Korean Martial Arts Festival. Hosted at Gordon Martial Arts, the
first night had three sessions that ran concurrently every hour to give the participants the opportunity
to train in various arts and subjects. The next morning started out with a demo from the session leaders
and then Grandmaster Timmerman (Canada) of World Kidohae Federation (WKF) and National
Specially challenged competitor
Libby Henley of, Cypress, Texas
acknowledges the crowd after
winning a gold medal.
Korean Martial Art Association (NKMAA) did a two-hour group session on joint locks and 12” sticks. Three more sessions
with Grandmaster McMurray (Texas) of WKF and House of Discipline did a group session on rope and belt techniques.
The final day was another round of three sessions and then one last group session with Grandmaster Timmerman doing a
group session on soft breaking.
Several styles were represented with TKD, Hapkido, Kuk Sool, Tang Soo, and Krav Maga. Master Troy Trudeau
(Tennessee) lead his sessions on using the cane. With an Arnis flavor, Master Monty Hendrix (North Carolina) gave a
session using short sticks and another on leg locks. Master Kevin Janisse (Oregon) did a session on pressure points with
Hapkido applications. Master Steve Kincade (Mississippi) did his sessions on Teuk Gong Moo Sool. Master Thomas
Gordon (Florida) did sessions on close quarter defense. Master Wesley Wing (Florida) lead the session on spinning kicks.
Master Chris DuFour (Florida) lead the session on Tang Soo conditioning board session. Fifth-degree Master Gregory
Bledsoe (Florida) lead the session on board breaking. Finally, Mr. Calvin Longton (Florida) lead a Krav Maga based session
on gun defense.
AKA Grand Nationals
Naperville, IL—The AKA Grand Nationals kicked off its 44 th year as the event returned once again to the Galt House
Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky. Some of the top names in sport martial art competitions such as Andrew Cabilan from
Canada, Kalman Csoka, Caitlin Dechelle, and Mackensi Emory were in attendance. Top teams were also in abundance
with Team AKA, Team Full Circle, Team Straight-Up, Team Prorank and Team John Paul Mitchell there.
16 November 2009 / taekwondotimes.com

Mickey Fecchinello winner of Jr. Black Belt
Forms Warrior Cup
Friday night kicked off the events with all the extreme and musical divisions as well as Jr. Black belt
weapons divisions and team divisions. Saturday morning started the day with traditional weapons followed
by the traditional forms, creative forms and sparring. The Night Time Finals kicked off with some great
music, a laser light show and an opening performance from Sideswipe Performance Team starring original
members Matt Mullins and Craig Henningsen.
The final event of the evening set high anticipations for the onlookers. The Adult Black Belt Weapons
Warrior Cup had the crowd on edge as the favorite; Kalman Csoka took to the stage. Through a series of
unfortunate events, which included a drop from Kalman during a signature sword roll, a tangle of the double
chain whip chain from Pat Underwood and a small stumble of the bo from Ross Levine, the competition
came down to Caitlin Dechelle and senior veteran competitor Jeff Liotta. Jeff executed a powerful performance
of a traditional bo form, but it was Caitlin’s extreme sword form which ended up winning the judges
over for the Warrior Cup win. Congratulations to all competitors for an outstanding show.
Chosun Hosts GM Richard Chun
Warwick, NY—He may not be as well known to the general public as Chuck Norris or Bruce Lee, but to
those in the martial arts community, Grandmaster Richard Chun is a true pioneer with thousands of students
worldwide. A ninth-degree black belt in the Korean discipline of TKD, Chun along with Master Doug Cook
of the Chosun Taekwondo Academy, taught a two-hour seminar at the Warwick Town Park in upstate New
York. The grandmaster focused on basic technique, self-defense, kicking
drills and classic forms. The training session was attended by 70 students
originating from schools in Orange County and as distant as Kings, Ulster
and Westchester Counties. Master Doug Cook, owner and head instructor
of the Chosun Taekwondo Academy and a columnist for TaeKwonDo
Times stated, “We were fortunate indeed to attract so many talented students,
masters and grandmasters to our event. The large attendance is truly
a testimony to the dedication of those who study traditional TKD with
passion.” One of the original five international master instructors to immigrate
to America in the 1960s, Chun and his family were forced to flee
their home and settle on Cheju Island when Communist forces invaded
Seoul, during the Korean War. Later, Grandmaster Richard Chun studied
at the famed Moo Duk Kwan or Institute of Martial Virtue in Seoul under
Chong Soo Hong. He is the author of five books and currently serves as
president of the United States Taekwondo Association.
GM Chun at Chosun
Sin Moo Hapkido 2nd Annual Global Conference
San Francisco, CA—The Sin Moo Hapkido Legacy Group hosted its 2 nd Annual
Global Conference in August 2009, in San Francisco. This international event had
participants from Austria, Brazil, Canada, Columbia, France, Mexico and all over
the U.S. The event was coordinated by Frank Croaro and the Sin Moo Hapkido
Legacy board members. The three-day conference started off with candidates
testing for first and second-degree black belts. Day two participants were able
to choose from a wide array of classes taught by the groups masters and grandmaster
instructors. Class topics included throw defenses, cane techniques, Hapkido
counters, meditations, clothing grabs, and traditional Sin Moo Hapkido techniques.
The event also celebrated the 25 th Anniversary of Sin Moo Hapkido and the 60 th
Anniversary of Do Ju Nim, Ji Han Jae’s contributions to martial arts, who made a
special appearance and taught special meditation and Sin Moo Hapkido philosophy.
He also explained Hapkido history and development of the art. A Banquet
was also held and hosted by John Beluschak and Farshad Azad. The Legacy Group
honored its founding board members, awarded rank certification to the examinees
and presented the founder with a special award recognizing his contributions.
TKD Team Visits Kentucky
Louisville, KY—Grandmaster Jung Oh Hwang and the students of Hwang’s
Martial Arts brought the internationally-acclaimed Yong In University Tae
Kwon Do Demonstration Team to Louisville as part of a fundraiser for Wayside
Christian Mission, with a goal to raise $10,000 and collect 200 six-pound cans
of food. Over 2000 people attended the program in July 2009 at Bellarmine
University’s Knights Hall. Demonstrations by graduating students from Hwang’s
Martial Arts three summer camps opened the program, followed by demonstration
teams from each of the four Louisville campuses. Each demonstration featured
choreographed martial arts skills, as well as free-form movements. The Yong In
team capped the afternoon with a high-flying display of board-breaking, kicking
techniques, and tightly-synchronized forms.
2nd Annual Global Conference
TKD team in Kentucky
taekwondotimes.com / November 2009 17

Dan testing participants
PROMOTIONS
CKD Dan Testing
Kennesaw, GA—Recently, Choi Kwang Do celebrated a record-breaking, packed
house event. At the standing room only IL and EE dan belt testing, there were nearly
100 adult and child participants. An additional 44 black belts participated in gup
testing. In addition to the local attendees, Mr. Raniero del Federico, Choi Kwang Do
school owner from Argentina was present. Also in attendance were four visiting dignitaries:
Dr. Varo D. Barragan, fourth-dan TKD from Panama, two student TKD instructors
also from Panama, and Mr. Dennis Vargas Mendez, TKD instructor from Costa Rica, who
have recently been training with Grandmaster Kwang Jo Choi.
Newly promoted black belts
Canada Promotions
Montréal, Canada—In July 2009, Master Alain Dumaine, seventh-degree black belt,
promoted 11 of his students to first-degree black belts. Aged 11 to 21, everyone succeeded,
with some receiving their junior black belt. After an entire day of performing patterns, selfdefense,
breaking and a theory exam, the eager candidates received their rewards.
American Street Karate Promotion
Baumholder, Germany—Chaplain’s Assistant Master Sgt.
Terry Montang was recently promoted to third-degree black belt in
American Street Karate in Baumholder, Germany, by Grandmaster
Danny Passmore of Texas. The certification was presented on base in
Germany where MSGT Montang teaches weekly classes in A.S.K. He is
also a life-long wrestler, trainer and coach. MSGT Montang’s son, Ethan,
is the 130-pound European Wrestling Champion.
Obituary
MSGT Montang & GM Passmore
Obituary for Grandmaster Kwang Sik Myung
“I have spent all of my life learning Hapkido, practicing Hapkido, teaching Hapkido, and researching Hapkido. I
have a much greater love, appreciation and interest in the Art than I did when I was younger and I will continue with
Hapkido for the rest of my life…”
—GM Myung
Los Angeles, CA—Kwang Sik Myung was born in North Korea but lived in Seoul for
most of his early life. He started his training in 1948, at the age of eight with exposure
to Kumdo through his father, and in Kong Soo Do attaining his Chodan at the age of 12.
He began his studies of what would be called Hapkido as a junior high school student,
with founder Young Sool Choi. For the years to follow, Hapkido became a way of life for
him. In 1968, soon after demonstrating Hapkido in Vietnam, Myung returned to South
Korea to found the Korea Yon Moo Kwan Association and later the World Hapkido
Federation in 1973 upon moving to the United States. As a pioneer, he saw the need for
a worldwide community and expression of his beloved art. He was a teacher for life,
passionately sharing his amazing skill with all levels of martial artists, relishing its true
beauty. He was an embodiment of Hapkido (harmony or love energy way) in his manner,
his personality, his grace and power with his art. In 1990, he was awarded a tenth-degree
black belt through the Korea Hapkido Association, its highest honor.
Grandmaster Myung may be best known through the martial arts community for his
GM Myung
extensive work on preserving the art of Hapkido through his books, videos and seminars.
He was truly at the forefront of his time for preserving and sharing his art through
the most modern methods available to him. In 1969, he published the first book on Hapkido and later a complete and
authoritative catalogue of book and videos. As the founder of the World Hapkido Federation, and as a teacher at his main
dojang in Tustin, California, he led many through an enjoyable journey through black belt and instructor level. He has
many dedicated students and family members who will miss him greatly. He is survived by his wife, daughter, son and
four grandchildren.
Some of his top students were the Mix family, Master Wilfredo Sellas, Master Michael Paleologos, Master Daniel Sng,
Master Roberto Proo, Master Demid Momet, Master Jose Manuel Reyes Perez, Instructor Pablo Peralta Barrera, Master
Michael Sirota, Master Emilio Iglesias, Master Nathan Robinson, Master Vince Sperduto, Master Yon Son Kim, Master
Richard Elzerman, Master John Tesch, Master Carlton Lundy, Master Roe Jai Myung, Master Joe Connelly, Master Dan
Paulson, Master Frank Babcock, Master Donald Han, and Master Tim Shin.
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TKDT School of the Month
White Tiger
October
White Tiger is located in Cary, North Carolina.
This custom designed facility offers four training
rooms: the Phoenix, Tiger, Tortoise and the
Dragon dojangs. The facility is also equipped with
a full weight room, tanning, suspended running
track, supervised childcare center with a 20-foot
spiral slide, rock climbing wall, cargo nets, zip-line
and flipping harness. The locker rooms are complete
with showers and cedar saunas. The school
was designed utilizing the principles of Feng Shui.
The calming Zen sand garden tops the hectic
office, while the 30-foot bamboo garden is surrounded
by the Koi Pond Cafe in the heart of the
school. Spectators enjoy stadium seating, surround
sound, Wi-Fi and closed circuit TV. The Masters’
lounge includes an outdoor grilling station and the
spacious patio overlooks to the wooded lot leading
to the creek below. There are indoor and outdoor
jacuzzis and a sun room with a projection theater.
The facility was designed and is owned and
operated by Master Rondy. She uses her former
Korean Tiger Professional Team experience to
continuously recruit Korean Team members for
instruction blended with American management
styles.
In addition to a wide variety of classes, White
Tiger students are involved with various teams
including the Leadership Team, Management
Team, Counselor Team (for camps and children’s
activities), the Redman Team (adrenaline stress
response training), Demonstration Team, Elite
Competition Team (national and international levels)
and the Community Care Team which raises
thousands of dollars for charitable causes.
To view the actual construction of the building and
have a virtual tour, visit: www.whitetigertkd.com.
(Left) Rock wall
(Below) Cargo Net
Testing on the main floor
Charity
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(Right) Limo
(Left) Cafe and
Proshop
Class room
(Left) Weightroom
(Right) Moon
bounce
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TKDT School of the Month
ATHA
November
American Taekwondo and Hapkido Academy
(ATHA) at the United States Military Academy
in West Point, New York, offers Tae Kwon Do,
Hoshinsul and Hapkido training to the children
of West Point Military Academy families. Masters
Mary and Jan Brown are celebrating their ten
year anniversary as the dojang’s senior instructors.
Master Jan Brown is a fourth generation teacher
and practitioner of Chung Do Kwan in the lineage
of the Kwan’s founder Great Grandmaster Won
Kuk Lee. The Browns emphasize the practical
application of the traditions, philosophies and techniques
contained in their program’s comprehensive
curriculum. The motto, “We engineer confidence
through practical application of technique,” demonstrates
the emphasis on practical application.
The ATHA is affiliated with the American
Chung Do Kwan Limited. In this family-run organization,
the Browns have found a dedicated group
of professional, caring and compassionate martial
artists.
Tae Kwon Do rank testing is conducted in accordance
with the Kukkiwon standards. Additionally,
students perform classic poomsae that were practiced
when the Kwans were established. Hapkido
training and rank testing is conducted encompassing
the World Hapkido Association and World
Kido Federation standards.
The Browns have successfully created a studentcentered
culture with the objective to cultivate wellrounded
martial artists.
A speed break demonstrated by Travis.
Master Mary Brown and son Jeremy make adjustments
during basic technique walking line drills.
Kyokpa, elbow strike, demonstrated by Thomas.
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Hoshinsul concepts and principles are
being taught by Master Jan Brown.

Zoe and Burkley executing advanced one-steps.
Hoshinsul, defense against a wrist lock,
demonstrated by Brandon and Jeremy.
A rainbow of belt colors and the smiling faces of the
ATHA family.
Thomas and Burkley executing advanced one-steps.
Students practice basic techniques during walking
line drills.
Students build muscle memory while executing Komo
#1 poomsae.
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Submit your Killer Kick photos, along with
your name, age, rank and location to
press@taekwondotimes.com or mail to:
Lewis Ryan, age 7, South
Wales
TKD Times
Attn: Killer Kicks
3950 Wilson Ave SW
Cedar Rapids, IA 52404 USA
Kevin Sciullo, 2nd dan, Wexford, PA
South Wales
Destiny Vergara,
age 7, New York
South Korea
Master DoHyun Chang (Korea, now in TN) & Master
Hyuk Jong Ju (Korea, now in Kansas City), former
White Tiger instructors & Tiger Team members.
Photographer: Rondy McKee
24 November 2009 / taekwondotimes.com

South Korea
Master WooHyun Cho & Korean Tiger Team
(Korea, now in Georgia)
Rhoda Hernando, age 17, California
Graham Conolly, Ireland
Ireland
taekwondotimes.com / November 2009 25

Big Break
Master Carol L. Griffis, 4th dan, Nashville, Tennessee
GM Klaus Schuhmacher,
Bangladesh
Curt Frantz, 4th dan, Cary, North Carolina
Photo by Eric Frantz.
Bangladesh
Dwayne C. Vines 2nd dan, Lakeland, Florida
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Brazil
Submit your Big Break photos,
along with your name, age, rank
and location to
press@taekwondotimes.com or
mail to:
TKD Times
Attn: Big Break
3950 Wilson Ave SW
Cedar Rapids, IA 52404 USA
Master DoHyun Chang performing with Korean
Tigers (Korea, now in TN) former White Tiger
instructor. The technique was called the superman
jump, punching 2 boards at the end before
landing in a cat roll.
South Korea
Master Alexandre B. Gomes, 6th dan, Brazil
Nicolas Gonzales, Puerto Rico
Photo by Hafizawaty Odusanya, Odusanya Photography.
Puerto Rico
taekwondotimes.com / November 2009 27

Focus On Our Readers...
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.
My Long and Winding Road
By Linda Dobson Porter
I started martial arts back in 1986 for the
same reason a lot of women married to black
belts did...I did not want to be a martial arts
widow. I trained in Tang Soo Do in the Boston
area. My teacher was a great big guy with an
even bigger heart. He made learning martial
arts fun, but was strict and commanded respect
in an egoless way.
I remember being so excited when I put on
my brand new dobak. It was way too big and
felt as if it had been dunked in starch. Trying
to learn basic form one was such a trip! I had
Son Liam & Linda Dobson Porter
a really hard time getting all the moves down
and it made no sense to turn all the way in the
other direction. I was so frustrated with it!
I was so hysterically bad! I trained hard and
learned everything I could and after about six
years got my red belt.
Flash forward 22 years. (I finally figured
out basic form one!) I moved to western
Massachusetts, divorced in 1994 and took four
years off from training. I found another martial
arts school, originally for my then six-year-old
son, Liam. I went to several classes with him
and became hooked myself. The style was different,
Japanese, but the forms were the same. I
stayed with my teacher for six years, having to
start over again, but that was okay. I
eventually moved on to another teacher
and on to my black belt.
During my time in martial arts, I
have met some amazing people; some
with unbelievably outrageous egos
who made it almost a personal goal to
create physical pain and then berate
you if you “reacted.” One student actually
suffered a broken femur! Others
were kind and truly great martial artists.
I have a wonderful teacher and
two “big brothers” that have pretty
much taken my son and me under
their wing. They are always available
for advice, training, and belt tests. The
fact that they teach an entirely different
style from us matters not.
I was to stay at this school for six
years and then realized that I wanted
to teach. I had since remarried and
my husband didn’t study martial arts,
but wrestled in high school and college.
He convinced me that we could
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convert the space in our barn to a training area.
I now own and operate Raven Moon Martial
Arts in Bernardston, Massachusetts. My son
Liam has been training with me all along and
recently tested for his second black stripe on
his brown belt. As the mom of a soon-to-be
black belt, I want to be careful that I am not
too easy on him, and I also want to be fair. My
son is working on overcoming an undiagnosed
learning disability. He has a great team at his
high school and they have worked diligently
with him and us to help him learn in his own
style. He makes his own action figures, mostly
Star Wars, and even has a space to display
them at a local comic book store.
I am amazed and impressed with my students,
who have never done any martial arts
before. They are learning quickly and rarely,
if ever, miss class. In the “old days,” I did a
lot of tournament sparring. Now, I am content
to watch my students spar and have all
the fun! One of my students has Asperger’s
Syndrome, a form of Autism. He has worked
very hard since he joined us nine months ago
and recently tested for his first green stripe on
his yellow belt. I believe that the discipline of
martial arts has been a huge factor in his success.
His mom reported that this year was the
first year that his report card showed all As and
Bs!
There is nothing more amazing to me than
to watch my students overcome a difficulty in
class, especially with forms. I tell them to let go
and trust their body, don’t think too much, just
let go.
A New Beginning
By Master Chuck Thornton
Being a martial arts teacher for many years,
sometimes the daily operations of running a
business can get to us. We start to wonder and
question why we chose this profession in the
first place. Then 4:00 rolls around, you walk
into the classroom and you see the smiling
faces of your students. They are ready, willing
and able to learn life skills that they will carry
with them throughout their existence. This not
only warms our hearts but brings a smile to our
faces every day.
One particular student has inspired me to
write about her. Her name is Galyna and she is
15 years old. She is from the Ukraine and was
adopted by Jim and Dana Hale. Although she
has only been training at USA Tiger for ten
months, you can see the limitless potential with
which this delightful young woman has been
blessed.
Galyna’s life has been anything but easy.
She never had a relationship with her parents.
Ukraine
To submit your story email it to
press@taekwondotimes.com.
15-year-old Galyna
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Galyna moved to the U.S. from the Ukraine.
Her mother died from kidney disease and her
father abandoned her and her siblings. When
she heard that someone wanted her to be
in their family she was really excited. When
the Hales arrived in Odessa, they couldn’t
believe what they saw. The housing for
these children was appalling. Their play
area was pathetic and the children had
no privacy in their rooms. There was
no air conditioning and being such a
large facility it is very hard to heat in
the winter. Before Galyna agreed to be
adopted, she had to know if she would
be able to continue her relationships
with her older sisters. The Hales
reassured Galyna they wouldn’t have it
any other way.
Shortly after moving to the U.S.,
Galyna began her martial arts training.
She thought it would be nice to start
something new in her life. When
she first came to class she was very
shy and self conscious and she was
uncomfortable in class when people were
watching. She felt that they would not
like her and was afraid they would think
she was different. It wasn’t long before I noticed
her confidence increasing. She started leading
classes and was even holding pads and helping
me teach the younger students. Galyna’s sweet
and confident persona is a good combination.
The kids love her and Master Justice and I see
a bright future ahead.
Here we are, many belts later. Galyna has
developed into a well-rounded martial artist.
Her kicks are strong and precise. Her boxing,
fast and ferocious. Her weapons, graceful yet
powerful. Her breaking, dynamic and enjoyable.
You would never know she ever had any
insecurities. Galyna said the things she likes
most about training in the martial arts besides
everything, is that it makes her work hard,
improves her mind, and makes her stronger.
Not only that, she likes that it makes her feel
good about herself.
Galyna’s life has completely changed for the
better. She has a new home and a loving family
that supports her. Galyna is very happy she
started training in the martial arts. So what
does the future hold for this talented young
student? She will continue her training and
start competing through the AAU in forms
and sparring. She has expressed interest in
films and she wants to earn her black belt and
become a full-time instructor. From where I
am sitting, there is no doubt about it, she will
accomplish these goals.
“The gift of adoption has been an
indescribable joy for our family.”—Jim Hale
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Master Thornton is a Martial Arts
Business Consultant and Co-Owner of USA Tiger in Richmond,
Virginia. Visit his Web site at www.usatigerma.com.
taekwondotimes.com / November 2009

My Martial Arts Story
By Zion James Duke (age 10)
My dad used to teach Tae Kwon Do at our
local YMCA and I would watch the classes and
sometimes volunteer to help by holding focus
mitts, targets and kick shields. Tae Kwon Do
looked like a lot of fun, so I finally asked my
dad if I could join the class. He told me that
if I started, I had to keep going and earn my
black belt. I promised my dad that I would not
quit and he allowed me to join the class.
Roundhouse and turning side kicks quickly
became the techniques I liked the most. I
remember when it came time for me to test for
my yellow belt and I had to break a board. I
was confident that I could break the board and
I did! I felt awesome when I got my new belt
and certificate.
Our team traveled to tournaments and I
would watch the competition but I did not
Zion and his trophies
10-year-old Zion (Left)
participate. I would get nervous just thinking
about it. Our team did pretty well and my dad
would tell me that I could compete
when I felt I was ready. Two years of
watching tournaments followed and I
kept working hard. In 2007, our family
opened a dojang and my new school
included new friends and new equipment.
In 2008, our team traveled to
Walker’s Annual Tournament of
Champions in Bloomington, Illinois. I
entered the forms division as an orange
belt. I got bored waiting for our division
to start and then they called our
names and it was finally time to compete!
I got nervous. I barely remember
doing my form but when it was over I
got third place. My dad was waiting for
me after they announced the winners
and he started to cry. I asked him what
was wrong and he said, “Nothing Son,
I’m just so proud of you.”
In 2009, I competed in several tournaments.
My dad had helped me create
a Jang Bong form because I wanted to
perform in the weapons division. My
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Why Train in a Traditional
Martial Art?
By Jim Tatone
Zion (2nd from left) at a tournament.
first tournament performing Jang Bong Hyung,
I received first place! I also received two other
awards for breaking and forms. I was excited!
My next tournament I signed up for weapons
and forms again. I met a really nice kid
named Lucas, who was also a green belt. He
took first place and I got second, but I made a
new friend.
I entered Grandmaster Soo Kim’s Open
Taekwondo Championship in Peoria, Illinois,
in the weapons, forms and breaking divisions. I
got first in forms, second in weapons and third
in breaking. I have won eight awards so far and
I plan on continuing to compete until I have
won more than my dad!
I am working towards achieving my blue belt
and help my dad teach on Saturday mornings.
I am the Assistant Coach for the Tiny Tiger
Taekwondo program at our dojang. I enjoy
working with the little kids and helping lower
belts learn their requirements and techniques.
Jang Bong is still my favorite thing to practice.
Thank you for reading my story. I hope it
encourages you to learn more about Tae Kwon
Do!
When someone is contemplating taking up
martial arts, there are many choices and options
available. There is a great variety of different
styles of traditional martial arts to choose from,
such as Karate, Tae Kwon Do, Hapkido, Judo,
Jiu-Jitsu, Aikido, Kung Fu, and many more
variations than one can imagine. There are the
reality self-defense schools like Krav Maga, and
there are more and more Mixed Martial Arts
schools. They all have something to offer, and
certainly a grappling style is not at all like a
striking style, so how does a potential student
determine what is right for them? They need
to consider all of their options, and what their
objectives are, and visit the different schools to
observe for themselves.
For my training, I was researching many
styles and schools in the area. I was not
impressed with some of the places that I visited,
which ranged from Tang Soo Do, Krav
Maga, Tae Kwon Do, Hapkido, and boxing/
kickboxing/fight training. My son Nick was
taking Tae Kwon Do, but his teacher wasn’t
consistently there to teach, so we found a small
studio in Canoga Park, California, named
Rifkin Pro Karate. We met Master Rifkin, and
he explained his mix of Karate, Tae Kwon Do,
and Aikido to us. He was very humble and
unassuming, and was both in excellent shape
and very proficient at his art. I was concerned
that Nick had already been learning Tae Kwon
Do, and he would have different material to
learn, but Master Rifkin assured us that he
would catch on.
As Nick was taking his lessons, I became
more impressed with Master Rifkin’s ability to
teach, and to bring a then four-year-old into his
class with older kids and keep them all chal-
taekwondotimes.com / November 2009

lenged. I could see he was a great teacher, but
was unsure whether I should start this program
for myself.
I then read an editorial in a magazine, in
which the author stated, “Never mind the style;
pick the instructor.” It was this article that convinced
me to sign up with Master Rifkin. That
was over six years ago. It was a great decision,
and that decision has made me a martial artist
for life.
My son Nick started his training at four
years old at Rifkin Pro Karate; he achieved
junior black belt at age ten. He is the youngest
student to achieve this rank at this school. He
is a great example for his fellow students.
People train in martial arts for many reasons:
health and fitness, weight loss, self-defense,
sport/competition, focus, discipline, and confidence
building. Some schools focus on just
one of these, but the beauty of a traditional
art is that it encompasses all of these elements.
You can be in a class, and although everyone is
doing the same material, they can all be doing it
for their own personal reasons. While you will
all be doing the same material, you can choose
what are the most important elements to you,
and focus on those.
I might be a little biased, but I believe that
Rifkin Pro Karate Center (RPKC) is a step
above the rest. That little dojo in Canoga Park
has been transformed into a top quality school
facility with two huge floors and a weight
room. Not only do we have superb instructors
in Master Rifkin, Mr. Dang, Mr. Layton, and
Ms. Smith, but we have very dedicated students
that are supportive of each other. I truly love
seeing my fellow students improve, and am
inspired by their efforts. I am now a black belt
and an instructor at RPKC, assisting my fellow
students to reach their goals. This is why I
train in a traditional martial art in general, and
Rifkin Professional Karate Center in particular.
Jim with son Nick doing forms.
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Rolling with Confidence
By Kathryn Simmons
Sitting in Chemistry class one day amidst
learning about alpha and beta particles, I first
heard about Choi Kwang Do at Clemson
University. One of my classmates had joined the
Clemson Choi Kwang Do Club and had already
begun learning the different techniques under
Dr. Suzanne Ellenberger in order to test for his
senior white belt. I was instantly curious because
martial arts had always appealed to me—I
thought it looked cool. Plus, I had never taken
any type of self-defense classes, so the only way
I truly knew how to defend myself was by either
punching really hard (now I know after training,
I would not have been punching the proper way)
or running them over with my wheelchair. I just
did not think I could learn the craft because
of my limited mobility. I was born with Spina
Bifida, and then was diagnosed with Scoliosis
when I was 13. However, after discussing my
concerns with Dr. Ellenberger, I quickly came to
the realization that there is more I can do than I
previously thought.
Not only was I able to learn different techniques,
but also had an incredible time. It was
amazing to see that everyone was like a big
family; we were able to cut up and have a good
time while we each learned our patterns and
prepared for testing. I have chosen to continue
training under Dr. Ellenberger and with Choi
Kwang Do because of these reasons and as a
result of what it has done for me. Choi Kwang
Do has improved me physically and mentally. I
have been able to become stronger so I can use
my legs in order to execute kicks. Eventually, I
hope to become more physically fit and even lose
weight. Becoming part of the team has improved
my mentality. There were times throughout the
school year when I was completely stressed, had
built up anger, or just needed to get out for a
little while. Going to practice and eventually belt
testing, opened me up to new avenues where I
now channel my feelings, and in such a way that
is beneficial to my health. Choi Kwang Do helps
clear my head so I am ready to take on whatever
is set in front of me next.
Typically, I am both a shy and outspoken
person. However, Choi Kwang Do has allowed
me to step out of my comfort bubble and meet
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GM Choi at CKD Class

Kathryn training
new people. When I went to CKD headquarters
in Kennesaw, Georgia, I met numerous people
whom I have found to contain the same familylike
attitude I experienced during practices.
There was always someone willing to help if a
mistake was made, and I sure made them. Each
time I tested for the next belt, I would be nervous
at the beginning, afraid to make an error.
Eventually, my nerves died down because I knew
that it was alright if I made a mistake. This gives
me room to improve and do better next time.
Considering I train and test in my wheelchair,
I know I cannot do every kick or every move.
As a result, some of the techniques are altered
to have the same effect, but in a way so I can do
them. I remember on certain occasions where I
was required to kick, it was quite hilarious to see
the surprised reactions of some people, including
Grandmaster Woo (Don Woo, eighth-degree
black belt) and Sajonim (Kwang Jo Choi, founder
of Choi Kwang Do). Because I am in a wheelchair,
they were not expecting to see me execute
the kicks in that particular way, but in an altered
form using my hands instead.
I further enjoyed becoming certified as an
Assistant Instructor and also training with
Grandmaster Choi. During the certification, I
was given the opportunity to role play, first as a
seven-year-old girl and then as an instructor. It
was a tremendous experience in itself to see how
much work goes into it even when assisting.
Instructors have to be prepared for virtually anything
at all times.
When training with Sajonim, I had the
chance to improve some of the techniques I
previously learned, including strikes, punches,
and kicks. It was a remarkable atmosphere,
filled with respect, serenity, and order. The
family-like attitudes I came across in my practices
at Clemson and during each testing, was
felt at headquarters as well. After the training,
I was able to learn and practice some words in
Korean. A future goal of mine is to be able to
learn and pronounce each term correctly, which
will be vital when I test for my black belt.
Choi Kwang Do has allowed me to enhance
the control I have over my emotions,
which is healthier rather than bottling
them up. I love being able to use the
In Class
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Kathryn’s confidence has skyrocketed with CKD
air shields to do this during practices and each
testing; they make it more realistic rather than
just hitting air. I have become stronger physically
as well. Some of the usual stretches are more
difficult for me to do. They have been replaced
with one where I am extending my legs for a
certain amount of time. It begins to hurt after
about a minute; however, combining this stretch
with what walking I am able to do will hopefully
build my legs up more and make them stronger
than ever. Learning this form of martial arts, I
also have a better peace of mind because I know
that I can protect myself if necessary. Currently
a yellow belt, I can hardly wait to continue training
in September when the semester begins
under Dr. Ellenberger, Grandmaster Woo, and
Sajonim, so that I may attain my black belt one
day in the near future.
“Katie was a student in my two semester
chemistry class at Clemson University last
year. She came to class as a shy freshman who
seemed somewhat unsure of herself. However,
even though the class was large, more than
100 students, I came to know her because she
was always present in the center of the front
row. Katie also came to see me during my office
hours to get clarification on points made during
class. It was in my office that Katie became
initially aware of and then interested in Choi
Kwang Do because I have pictures and a large
poster hanging on the walls of my office of my
Clemson Choi Kwang Do students. I remember
clearly one day after class, she quietly asked me
if I thought she could join the Clemson Choi
Kwang Do Club. When I told her that she absolutely
could join us, because Choi Kwang Do is
the martial art for everyone, there was an expression
of sheer joy on her face. Throughout the
year, and especially after she began training with
us, I have seen Katie blossom from that shy,
unsure freshman to a confident young lady with
an infectious smile. I have no doubt that Katie
will earn her black
belt and be successful
in her life endeavors.”
–Suzanne
Ellenberger, Ph.D.,
Clemson University
Choi Kwang Do
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Kathryn Simmons is a sophomore
English major at Clemson University. After obtaining her Master
of Fine Arts (MFA), she wants to work for a magazine and then
eventually an editing and publishing company. She hopes to earn
her black belt in Choi Kwang Do and continue training.
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Heart to Heart
Dear Readers & Fellow Martial Artists,
Typically, we tend to sit down and reflect on our lives
during the winter months, when our pace of life slows
down a bit and there is less activity outside, when nature
turns out the lights a lot earlier. But I encourage us all
to take a few minutes now and then, even throughout
all the hustle and bustle of the summer months, when
we seem to race from one activity to another. Take some
time out for yourself. Ask yourself why you are doing
the things you are doing. Is it because you want to? Do
you feel obligated? Are you bored?
And ask yourself the very important question: Who
am I?
Hear me out—and read on. This is not as simple as
it seems.
This is a question that is unique to human consciousness,
certainly fundamental, sometimes difficult, but
absolutely essential if you wish to express your fullest
potential in life. Suppose I were to tell you that you are
aware of only a limited portion of yourself, that you may
not have yet discovered your self, your true self, and that
you have yet to touch upon an enormous creative power
within you that can reshape your life completely.
Who am I?
A quick answer may bring this response, “I am an
engineer.” Or, “I am a person who likes people; I am full
of stress and anxiety; I am a mother; I am a nobody;
I am athletic; I am intellectual; I am shy…” Note how
often we tend to describe ourselves with positive or
negative personality characteristics that we’ve developed
or acquired over the
years and have
accepted as being
“us.” Most of us
do not look
much deeper
than that.
So, ask
“Who am I?”
now. What
do you want
to become?
Where are
you today?
What
have
you
accomplished or failed to accomplish? Do you have the
career you want, the relationships you want? Do you like
who you are? Are you happy? Have you realized your
dreams and goals?
The truth is you are exactly where you are because of
the way you answered, “Who am I?” Why? Because how
you answer the question determines what choices you
make for yourself moment to moment, every day of your
life.
You choose only what you believe is possible to choose,
and these choices determine what you do with your
life and who you become. If you believe you are shy, for
instance, you will not choose to be a performer, even if
your talent and inner desire are obvious. If you believe
you aren’t a good student, you may not choose a course
of study that could lead you to the job you’d really like. It
is very important then, to know the absolute truth about
yourself and your capabilities.
So, we are here together to ask the question; Who am
I—really?
If you are satisfied with your life at this moment, the
question may hold no interest for you right now. If, on the
other hand, you find yourself holding dreams that feel so
true, yet somehow out of reach that you feel unfulfilled,
frustrated, alienated, empty; a feeling you haven’t done
what you want. If there is more that you desire, more that
you want to accomplish; if you feel that even though your
life is satisfactory, in most respects, you nevertheless have
a yearning to realize a deeper sense of joy, peace, and purpose;
then it is time to extend your vision of who you are.
No matter who you are, no matter where you are, no matter
what obstacles and limitations exist around you at this
moment, you can change your life, your health, and your
state of mind completely. You can decide who you want to
become.
Who are you? Waiting quietly within you is a presence,
a force, a state of consciousness that gives you power to
overcome mental and physical limitations in your life;
power to harmonize and change discordant situations;
power to create and to achieve goals; power to experience
peace and joy regardless of the circumstances around you;
power to be who you really are.
I call this consciousness your Silent Master. When you
find this consciousness, within yourself, you take control
of your life. Before, you may have been drifting through
life. Now, you are driving through life. You experience a
new freedom, peace of mind, creativity, and harmony that
makes your life fulfilling, purposeful, joyous and dynamic.
You find yourself glad to be alive every day for the sheer
pleasure of experiencing life, of experiencing yourself!
I teach the art of Jung SuWon that will awaken you to
this powerful presence within, to enable you to recognize
and bring forth your Silent Master! Who is more qualified
to tell you who you are than your real self? You are
asking for your real self to show you that it is you. When
you ask, “Who am I?” you are subtly asking two questions:
42 November 2009 / taekwondotimes.com
By Tae Yun Kim

Grandmaster Tae Yun Kim is the founder and head of Jung SuWon. She is also the founder and CEO of Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions, a high-tech
computer control and monitoring industry located in the Silicon Valley. Grandmaster Kim is a best-selling author and motivational speaker.
First, Who am I, the self that I know, and second, who is
the “I” of the Silent Master? Of course, you are one!
Who am I? Remember, you are asking for something
incredibly simple and profoundly natural, something as
close as your own being, yet something as infinite as the
universe. Your Silent Master knows this question, and
knows the answer. Now you, through your mediation, can
also know, to make real your unity with your Silent Master.
This meditation requires much repetition and patient listening.
The understanding that results from it often doesn’t
happen all at once. The growing awareness can be so subtle
that you don’t realize you’re getting it until you have it.
But this meditation is the one that can be full of joyful
surprises. It’s definitely one that enlightens you in its own
way, in its own time. But imagine the results, imagine the
joy of day by day growing into a fuller understanding of
who you are—really, and the power you really have.
It’s this simple: your real self awaits your knowing. Let
it come slowly, like the dawn, if it must. For now, you, the
warrior, can know: You are one with the Universal Life
Force. The power that created galaxies, that formed oceans
of space, air, water, and consciousness, is the same power
that flows through you and beats your heart and gives you
consciousness! As this power flows through you, you, as
an individual focus of this power, co-create with this Life
Force, this universal Consciousness that knows only ideas
expressing Universal Love! And with this love, you create
expressions of peace, harmony, balance, joy, beauty, fulfillment,
and completeness. Then, wearing your clothing of
material form, you look out upon these expressions with
your physical senses and experience the challenge and the
victory of those earthly creations. And you say, “We are
One.”
Although you know that you are of this creation, you
know you exist apart from it. You know that you are the
sun behind the sun; that your fire burns eternally behind
everything that is known as time, and everything that
is known as place, and everything that is known as this
Universe. And your fire is infinite Love, Awareness, Truth,
Consciousness, which speaks to you and says, “Before you
are, I am. And I am You.”
Give this a try, my readers. Find a nice shady spot, or
some favorite place to read and ponder and meditate.
Always remember, the power is in you, it is your personal
choice what you do in your life!
He Can Do, She Can Do, Why Not Me!
From my heart to yours,
Dr. Tae Yun Kim
Great Grandmaster, Jung SuWon
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Traditions
Not long ago, I was reviewing poomsae with a
group of senior black belts, third-dan and up. One
in particular had been performing an advanced, traditional
form for many months. During the class, I
interrupted her to suggest a modification in stance.
After politely allowing me to finish my comment, the
student asked if the motion had been changed from
the time it had first been demonstrated to her. “No,”
I replied, “you are simply ready to receive a more
detailed understanding of this poomsae coupled with
its purpose and intent.” I then went on to make what
appeared to be a minor correction that significantly
improved the form overall. My grandmaster does
the same to me even now. Yet rather than question
his action, I smile and think how fortunate I am to
be drilling down in the hope of revealing the very
essence of Tae Kwon Do doctrine. And so the cycle
continues, as it has from the beginning, from master
to disciple, over the course of centuries.
Improvements, refinements and ultimately, revelations
are all fundamental conditions of meaningful,
traditional Tae Kwon Do training. These progressive
states of learning apply not only to the novice,
but even more so to the advanced practitioner.
Adjustments to basic technique, poomsae, hyung
or tul, self-defense and sparring, should be considered
a pathway to perfection rather than a road to
confusion and its accompanied stress. In the end, if
embraced with an open mind, modifications chisel
away at superfluous movement resulting in a profound
sense of enlightenment signaled by a heightened
stage of proficiency.
It can be said that Tae Kwon Do is taught most
effectively through a series of ever-diminishing circles
with the outermost shell representing the most elementary
understanding of a technique. Subsequently,
each successive circle brings the practitioner increasingly
closer to the technique’s core. This arduous, yet
fulfilling process, requires great patience and humility;
humility in the sense that the worthy student
must not view a modification merely as a change
indiscriminately propagated at the whim of a careless
instructor, but rather as a stepping stone on the
long journey to excellence, a reward earned through
diligent, mindful practice. To the curious, Western
mind, this process of distillation is often difficult to
grasp. Customarily, we are not content with unexplained
actions but frequently require detailed, verbal
clarification with a focus on finality in almost everything
we do. Yet, in terms of Asian martial culture
partially based on Confucian philosophy, training
without question is common; accepting technical
refinements with gratitude rather than query is the
norm.
To better understand this concept let us examine
for a moment the procedure for teaching the jab/
reverse punch. First, a proper fist must be formed; a
structure with which a great majority of beginners
are clearly unfamiliar. Then, a stable platform or
stance from which to execute this combination must
be developed. Finally, efficient use of body mechanics
needs to be explained. Most instructors I have
had the honor of working with go to great extremes
to clarify this formula, all the while realizing that
the novice can assimilate only so much information
in a given session. Yet, undoubtedly the white belt
in the formative stages of training barely scratches
the surface of this skill. Refinements are made until,
rather than merely throwing out the hands, the
student, at some future point in time, automatically
assumes a sturdy defense stance, begins to pivot the
hips, focuses on penetrating the target, executes the
combination, and further amplifies the strikes with ki
(internal energy) and confidence. If this process proceeds
without the instructor constructively correcting
the technique in compounded phases, increasing the
practitioner’s proximity to the kernel of the technique
and thus experiencing a catharsis of sorts, something
is amiss.
Nevertheless, the principle of enlightenment
through revelations attached to ever-diminishing
circles is nowhere more evident
than in poomsae training.
In times past, instruction
in Korean
poomsae, Japanese
kata, or Chinese
taolu, was often
limited to four
or five forms
over the course
of the martial
artist’s entire
lifetime giving the
practitioner ample
opportunity to learn
the required motions
correctly and in great detail,
going deep rather than wide.
In fact, great masters historically
recommended learning
poomsae Sip Soo (ten hands)
46 November 2009 / taekwondotimes.com
By Doug Cook

for the power and speed it generates, Chulki Cho
Dan (iron horse) for building a competent horse
stance, and, in the case of Karate-Do, kata Sanchin
(three battles), for internal and external strength,
to the exclusion of all others. This concept has
profound implications when viewed through the
lens of the offensive and defensive possibilities
embedded within formal exercises. These can be
interpreted in any number of ways dependent upon
the martial wisdom of the teacher in tandem with
a supreme willingness on the part of the student to
learn. Consequently, it would be virtually impossible
to demonstrate each component of a poomsae
within the scope of a single training session or even
a year’s worth of classes for that matter. Bit by bit,
excessive movement is chipped away, refinements
are polished, and hidden techniques are revealed
that principally must be viewed as revelations rather
than indiscriminate changes.
At the culmination of class, traditional Tae Kwon
Do schools everywhere frequently recite a student
oath. Ours includes a principle that represents a
central pillar of martial arts philosophy: establish
trust between teacher and student. In satisfying
this standard, it is the teacher’s responsibility to
transmit traditional, pure-form Tae Kwon Do skills
on to others worthy of the art unblemished by personal
preference. The competent instructor must
execute this in a manner that satisfies the spirit as
well as the human mind and body, particularly in
the case of poomsae, hyung or tul. If a technique is
taught before the spirit is prepared to accept it in
its fullness, it will be at best misunderstood or at
worst, taken for granted, diminished, and potentially
abused. By the same token, it is the student’s
obligation to absorb technical attributes with an
open mind, a degree at a time, with a vengeance,
until the true heart of the skill is realized. If these
gradual enhancements are viewed as refinements
rather than changes in routine, then an authentic
accumulation of knowledge will occur. If not, the
questioning mind will eclipse the potential for
enlightenment through the revelation of meaningful
martial doctrine and technique.
Master Doug Cook, a fifth-dan black belt, is head instructor of
the Chosun Taekwondo Academy located in Warwick, New York,
a senior student of Grandmaster Richard Chun, and author of
the best-selling books entitled: Taekwondo…Ancient Wisdom for
the Modern Warrior, and Traditional Taekwondo…Core Techniques,
History and Philosophy, published by YMAA of Boston.
His third book, Taekwondo–A Path to Excellence, focusing on the
rewards and virtues of Tae Kwon Do, will be released in 2009.He
can be reached for discussions or seminars at chosuntkd@yahoo.
com or www.chosuntkd.com.

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Hapkido’s Founder Ji Han Jae’s American Son
An Interview by Master Dan Allebach
Grandmaster Kenneth P. MacKenzie is a certified ninth-dan black belt in Korean Sin Moo Hapkido. In addition,
he holds a master rank in Tae Kwon Do and various black belts in other traditional martial arts. He
lives in southern New Jersey and, while operating his five full-time martial arts academies, serves DoJuNim
Ji Han Jae as the President to the World Sin Moo Hapkido Federation. Having given over 1000 public presentations
and seminars, and as an international seminar instructor and motivational speaker, Grandmaster
MacKenzie has been seen around the world in newspapers, magazines, books, and on television. He holds
a B.A. Degree in Law & Justice and has studied at Drexel University and Glassboro State. His volunteer
experience includes that with the YMCA, Red Cross and Big Brothers/Big Sisters organization. It has been
announced that Grandmaster MacKenzie has been nominated by DoJuNim Ji Han Jae for promotion to
tenth-dan black belt and is among a selected few who will lead Sin Moo Hapkido into the 21 st century.
Dan Allebach: Grandmaster MacKenzie, what
can you tell me about your earliest beginnings and
interests in the martial arts?
GM MacKenzie: I remember as a preschooler,
watching wide-eyed the Yudo ( Judo) classes at
my local YMCA on the eastside of Indianapolis.
I wanted so badly to join the classes, however my
parents didn’t allow it. Over the years, I was persistent
in asking again and again for permission.
My favorite movies as a youngster included Billy
Jack (I later met Tom “Billy Jack” Laughlin in Las
Vegas and we shared a memorable lunch together)
and Bruce Lee’s Game of Death featuring DoJuNim
Ji Han Jae. Both films highlighted Korean Hapkido.
Little did I know that Hapkido was to become my
art and Ji Han Jae to become my personal teacher...
it’s funny how karma works! Early on, I had studied
some boxing and wrestling. What I really wanted,
however, was to study traditional Asian martial arts.
As a young boy, I developed a number of illnesses
and was hospitalized numerous times. I had four
surgeries during those young years, one related to
the serious bone disease osteomyelitis, in which
I nearly lost my left leg. The doctors were able to
save my leg, but, the damage was extensive. It was
at this time that my parents, in an effort to encourage
me to rehabilitate my leg, finally allowed me to
train in the martial arts. This was in the 1970s and
what I was to learn was then called ‘Korean Karate.’
It included Tae Kwon Do (Song Moo Kwan lineage),
Hapkido, and kickboxing. This proved to be
the perfect therapy! In the beginning, learning the
martial arts was very painful and difficult. With my
leg pain constant and extreme, and major challenges
with balance, strength and flexibility, quitting would
have been the easy choice. My passion for what I
was learning along with my innate drive to achieve
my black belt, disallowed quitting as an option…I
was in this for the long haul!
Photo by Laura Smulktis
taekwondotimes.com / November 2009 51

When did you first realize that, perhaps Korean
martial arts would become a lifetime pursuit for
you?
What had once been an interest, soon progressed
beyond even a hobby. In an era where it was still a
mystery to most of the public, the martial arts had
indeed become and would remain my lifestyle. At
the age of eleven or twelve, I knew that it was for
me. I had selected the martial arts as my ‘Do’ (way
or path), and they had chosen me back. By the age
of fourteen, I had already set my sights on someday
becoming an instructor, and I dreamt of owning my
own school.
follow, I learned a lot about myself. I learned to
train harder every day, to build greater knowledge,
and to push my limits. Without a doubt, I learned
the most from those matches where I was not the
victor, always going back to the drawing board and
seeking to better myself.
In my early days of competition, I traveled with
champions such as Steve Ayscue, Bob Ott, Carl
Hettinger, and Dan Allebach. I used tournaments
as a ‘measuring stick,’ allowing myself to evaluate my
own level of skill and conditioning. Soon, I began
winning…and winning big. I went on to win over
500 matches, hundreds of trophies, several national
titles, and numerous grand championship titles in
both fighting and breaking (Kyuk-Pah). While I
did both contact and point fighting, the full-contact
events seemed more realistic and were always my
favorite! While many of my opponents went down
for the count…over twenty years of competition, I
was never either knocked down or out.
In 1995, I achieved a world record break, going
through 28 concrete blocks using a double knifehand
strike. I later went on to win three gold medals
and world titles in Korea in full-contact Hapkido
fighting.
As a promoter, I hosted the ‘Best of the Best’
Nationals for ten years. I now host the annual Gold
Medal TaeKwon-Do and Hapkido Federation’s ‘All-
Star’ tournament every winter and continue to support
outside events as both a referee and arbitrator.
Were you a martial arts competitor and what are
your feelings about tournament competition?
It is important for martial artists to challenge
themselves. The competitive spirit is part of the human
spirit. For achievers, it’s what drives us on and
allows us to discover our greatness in life. While the
biggest competition is always with ourselves and
from the inside, being challenged by another forces
us to reach down deep within, pulling out our very
best spiritually, mentally and physically. As martial
artists, we must strive to be better today than yesterday.
This is how we grow as individuals.
I remember my first tournament. I lost my very
first match. With that match, and the many to
Ji Han Jae & Ken MacKenzie
52 November 2009 / taekwondotimes.com

What important masters have influenced you?
That’s a big question with an even bigger answer.
The most important influence on me as a martial
artist has without a doubt been DoJuNim Ji Han
Jae (founder of Hapkido and Sin Moo Hapkido). I
have enjoyed training under him for my entire adult
life. He considers me his “American Son” and true
disciple.
I was also very fortunate to have experienced
training with General Choi Hong Hi, Tae Kwon
Do’s founder at an ITF training event and dinner
in Arizona. This was a great honor indeed. Other
strong influences would include Grandmaster
Jhoon Rhee (father of Tae Kwon Do in America),
Grandmaster Hee Il Cho, Dr. He-Young Kimm
(Han Mu Do), World Champion Bill Wallace, and
World Champion Joe Lewis. My earliest instructors,
Harry Watson (under Song Moo Kwan
Grandmaster Byung Hoon Park), Danny Doyle,
Ray Doman, Bruce Hart, Sr., Master Richard Kenvin,
Master Carl Beaman, and Professor Frankie
DeFelice gave me a solid foundation. In addition,
a number of my contemporaries, including Masters
John Godwin, Robert Ott, Scott Yates, Perry
Zmugg and Juri Fleischmann, have allowed me to
expand as a martial arts master. Senior Grandmaster
Rudy Timmerman of Canada has paved the way
and demonstrated to me the joys and possibilities of
a lifetime in Korean martial arts. Martial arts business
guru Fred Mertens has supported my growth
as an academy operator. World famous master and
mentor Robert Ott is my true martial arts brother
and has shown me the true meaning of pilsung and
the indomitable spirit.
Outside of your primary style of Sin Moo Hapkido,
what other martial
arts systems have
you experienced?
First, allow me to
make a point. Mastery
is paramount. I
believe that the chop
suey approach to
martial arts can be
flawed. It’s difficult
to become the jack of
all trades. Digging deep into one may be the wiser
choice. While I was fortunate that my first school
taught Tae Kwon Do, Hapkido, kickboxing and Jiu-
Jitsu, and that the arts seemingly worked together
in harmony, I recommend narrowing down one’s
focus and education in the arts.
Sin Moo Hapkido is my primary style. I have enjoyed
both good fortune and opportunity as a firstgeneration
Hapkido/Sin Moo Hapkido student
under the founder. For me, there has and continues
to be no better privilege than to learn directly under
and from the source. For comparison, I have also
experienced Hapkido under other varied and elder
masters, many while in Korea.
I have experienced and appreciated other Hapkido-related
arts such as Han Mu Do and Kuk
Sool. Having trained in and taught the art since
the 1970s, I am also a master-instructor in Korean
Tae Kwon Do and have studied both the ITF and
WTF (including at the Kukkiwon) styles. I have
enjoyed learning more about Tang Soo Do from
Hall-of-Famer, Master John Godwin and had the
honor of meeting Grandmaster Jae Chul Shin and
the late Grandmaster Hwang Kee. As a full-contact
fighter in the 1980s, I trained in Burmese Bando,
Muay Thai, American kickboxing and French Savate,
becoming one of the first Americans certified
in that art.
While in South Korea, I trained in TaeKyun,
Mu Yee Eh Ship Sha Bahn, Yudo (Olympic Training
Headquarters), Olympic-Style WTF Tae Kwon
Do, Sun-Do, Sun Moo Do, Kum Do, Kuk-Sool,
and Buldo Moo Sool.
In North Korea, I experienced pure ITF Tae
Kwon Do and trained alongside the North Korean
athletes at the Tae Kwon Do Palace. While there,
our team gave the first-ever Hapkido/Sin Moo
Hapkido demonstration
in North
Korea and toured
the ITF museum.
Visiting Japan, I
experienced Daito
Ryu Aiki-Jitsu,
KyoKushin Kai
Karate-Do, Aikido
at the Aikido
Hombu in Tokyo,
GM MacKenzie, GM Lim, GM Ji Han Jae & Dr. Kimm
taekwondotimes.com / November 2009 53

ITF Tae Kwon Do at the Japan ITF headquarters,
and Kodokan Judo.
While in China, I enjoyed Tai Chi, Shaolin Kung
Fu at the Shaolin Temple, and Gung Fu in Beijing.
I know that your relationship and position with
Hapkido’s founder, DoJuNim Ji Han Jae, is a close
and unique one. Can you elaborate?
DoJuNim Ji Han Jae and I first met back in the
1980s (DoJuNim says 1985), an encounter that he
refers to with fondness and a smile. Forever seeking
the secrets to the martial arts, I attended a large
event in the northeast and had immediately recognized
DoJuNim’s face from the Bruce Lee movie
Game of Death. He was the guy with the gold belt!
At the time, I was a 280-pound full-contact fighter
who owned and operated his own dojang. Viewing
one of DoJuNim’s basic techniques, I asked what
I thought to be a simple question: “Sir, does that
technique work on even a large person?” Much to
my dismay, the question was taken as a challenge.
Moments later, I experience more pain than I had
ever imagined. I couldn’t believe that a man of such
slight physical stature was able to inflict such pain
on me, and with such lightning speed and accuracy.
In physical agony, I was more than intrigued. I was
hooked and had to learn more.
I continued to attend every session that DoJu-
Nim Ji Han Jae offered. He kept a curious eye on
me, too. On the last night of the three-day event,
DoJuNim asked me to sit with him. He went on to
explain that the night prior he had seen us together
in a dream. He suggested that it was our destiny
and that our relationship was to expand greatly. He
was right. I soon began following him around the
country and world. Every time, I would show him
my Sin Moo Hapkido skills and my ambition to
further master them. In turn, and partly because of
my ‘Nak-Bup’ experience and ability to fall well, he
would choose me as his partner every time.
On one occasion, and in front of a wide audience
of martial arts students and masters, DoJuNim told
me, “just as every student wants the best teacher…
every teacher wants the best student too.” He would
go on to announce that this represented our unique
relationship. Hungry to learn, I took his words to
heart. DoJuNim appreciated my dedication, loyalty
and quest for both knowledge and training. I appreciated
his generous instruction and wisdom and
was eager to support him in spreading the art.
In the mid 1990s, DoJuNim decided to relocate
to New Jersey so that he could be closer to me, my
schools and students. I flew to California and drove
his packed van over 3000 miles across country. The
opportunity of having DoJuNim so close has been
one of good fortune. I am proud to have hosted
over 125 seminars with DoJuNim, and trained in
many more. Along with Masters Scott Yates and
John Godwin, I have had the opportunity to enjoy
more hands-on training hours with DoJuNim than
anyone worldwide.
Honoring DoJuNim Ji Han Jae, my students and
I have hosted World Sin Moo Hapkido Federation
banquets and founded the annual International
Hapkido Summit. In the 1990s, I served as the
Secretary General for Korea Sin-Moo Hapkido
and President of the North American Sin Moo
Hapkido, since replaced by the new governing body,
the World Sin Moo Hapkido Federation. With the
help of my black belts, I have organized large scale
events for DoJuNim celebrating his: 60 th birthday;
50 th anniversary in the martial arts; 70 th birthday
and; 50 th anniversary of Hapkido. At the 2009 International
Hapkido Summit, Sin Moo Hapkido’s
25 th anniversary was recognized.
Perhaps the greatest honor bestowed upon me is
that DoJuNim considers me to be and calls me his
son.
In 2005, DoJuNim bestowed upon me the title
of Chung Kwan Jang (highest Grandmaster). More
Awarding Ji Han Jae the Gold Federation pin
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ecently, I have accepted greater responsibility as the
President of the World Sin Moo Hapkido Federation,
a position requiring greater service to the
extended Hapkido/Sin Moo Hapkido family.
In your youth, did you ever imagine that you would
someday become a grandmaster in the arts?
Too many people live with limited thinking and a
lack of belief in their own potential. You must first
believe. Only then can you achieve! I remember
being told as a teenager that, because I was not
Korean-born, I could never become a master. I have
never believed in such limitations! Rather than fixate
on impossibilities, I search for possibilities.
The black belt represents a firm grasp on the basics.
Many traditional schools in and out of Korea
only consider you a real martial artist once you have
attained black belt status. Mastery is the ability to
perform, fully teach and scientifically explain every
movement, theory, etc. One cannot become a master
until he or she has promoted at least 24 students
to the black belt level, one representing each hour
of the day. The privilege of grandmaster is reserved,
and rightly so, for those few who have truly dedicated
their lives to the pursuit of excellence in their
martial art. They must have attained a certain age,
level of maturity and wisdom, along with many
years of formal study in the arts. In addition, they
must have produced a minimum of six masters
from the ground up, their own students. It is the
responsibility of black belts, masters and grandmasters
to expand and propagate their respective arts.
In my experience, reaching these levels was not
the primary focal point. Instead, it was the pursuit
of excellence and daily challenges that excited and
motivated me. The thrill was in the journey itself.
With high rank comes great responsibility. Masters
and grandmasters must always respect their positions
as role models, mentors, and leaders. In many
cases, we are like second-parents to our students.
In addition, it is our responsibility to serve and care
for the elder grandmasters, in my case DoJuNim Ji
Han Jae, and to serve as curators for our arts.
In my years as a martial artist, I have never
requested a belt promotion. In my opinion, this
action would have been dishonorable. It was always
my instructor’s decision to suggest and nominate
promotions. Several years ago, DoJuNim promoted
me to my
ninth-dan
black belt
in Korean
Sin Moo
Hapkido.
I reflected
back upon
my long
and personal
journey,
knowing
that I still
have a lot
in front of me. I also realized that this was cuttingedge,
as I am both American-born and Caucasian.
The moral of the story is this: We are all born with
a set of tools…it’s what you do with them that
makes the difference.
What can you tell me about your ‘MacKenzie’s’
schools?
At the age of only 19, I first opened my dojang
(MacKenzie’s TaeKwon-Do & Hapkido Institute)
on November 12, 1983. It was located in a local
YMCA. At that time, it was open to only children
and was the first in the United States to specialize
as such.
Today, my schools serve nearly 1000 active
students ranging in age from three to 85. With a
compliment of eight full-time staff and multiple
part-timers at five locations, I offer specialized
programs for preschoolers, children, teens, boys
and girls, men and women. I am proud to teach
some 175 black belts weekly along with 15 active
master-instructors, including Scott Yates, a World
Hapkido Games gold medalist and the youngest
ever to have attained eighth-dan under DoJuNim Ji
Han Jae. My schools also serve as the official headquarters
for Sin Moo Hapkido. Partnering with
Masters Scott Barnabie and Dan Allebach, and
with the support of talented Masters Bob Turley,
Dr. Mark Fabi, Bill Taylor, Jeff & Tina Blackman,
Andrew Lesser, and Rich Williams, I have enjoyed
the expansion of my New Jersey based organization
(www.GoldMedalFamilyKarate.com).
I also have students who maintain professional
sister-schools including Pierson’s TaeKwon-Do &
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Hapkido in New Jersey and LaVoice’s Lion’s Den in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is nice to know that we
have so positively impacted the lives of thousands,
with most Tae Kwon Do and Hapkido schools in
southern New Jersey able to trace their lineage back
to my organization.
Do you feel that children can really learn the martial
arts?
Yes, of course. My first school was only open to
youth. It was the first martial arts school in the
United States dedicated specifically to children.
Of course since then, we have expanded to all age
groups. Even as a teen, I recognized the benefits
to youth: focus, goal setting, self-discipline, selfcontrol
and self-confidence. Over 10,000 children
have gone through my program since 1983, many
of which have gone on to great achievements in life.
I now have black belts who have graduated from
every Ivy league university, and several from the
likes of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, etc….all
a true testament to the benefits of Hapkido training
for youth. I have always approached my youth
programs much as I imagine the ancient Hwa-Rang
(flowering youth) of the Silla Dynasty must have. I
believe in building the whole person, with patience,
one step at a time.
My own son and daughters have also studied
the martial arts. My son Dustin, now 17, has been
training since the age of two under my top student,
Chief Master Scott Yates. This relationship allowed
for Dustin to enjoy a normal student-teacher relationship
with Master Yates while sharing his joy of
training with me, simply as ‘the dad.’
Years ago, Hapkido was deemed appropriate
only for students age 13 and older. In 1994, based
on the recognized success of my youth programs,
DoJuNim put me in charge of developing a viable
Sin Moo Hapkido program for kids. An ongoing
experiment and always evolving, the all new World
Sin Moo Hapkido Federation children’s curriculum
takes into account the need for extra safety
measures, spotting, tumbling, and age-appropriate
training. The evolution of this curriculum was
completed by Masters Yates, Zmugg and myself,
in Graz, Austria in June 2009. Today’s generation
of Sin Moo Hapkido kids represent the future. I
expect them to take the art to the next level.
How do you feel that success and being a professional
martial artist makes you a better martial
artist?
Living the life of the full time martial arts professional
has enabled me to spend all of my time
perfecting my craft while sharing it with others.
I have enjoyed the freedom and time to dedicate
to reading, writing, research, curriculum development,
meditation, and practice. Financial freedom
has allowed me to travel, help others, give generous
donations, grant scholarships, and provide my family
with a life of dignity and opportunity. Success
is often the result of the combination of hard work
and working smart. As the popular martial artist,
businessman and motivational speaker Chief Master
Robert Ott (www.CertainVictory.com) says,
“You must first learn to take care of yourself before
you can effectively take care of others.” This is good
advice.
Have you trained in Korea?
Yes, indeed I have. My first trip to South Korea was
in 1997. I was invited and most honored to join
Dr. He-Young Kimm’s Hapkido and Han Mu Do
group in touring, training and competing in Korea.
I returned with Dr. Kimm in 1999 and again in
2002 with DoJuNim, each year winning the gold
medal at the World Hapkido Championships. I
recall DoJuNim telling me at the World Championships
that “Lions make lions, and rabbits make
rabbits.” What he was telling me was that I could
not allow myself to be defeated and still claim to be
among his top students. Losing was not an option.
At TaeKyun Headquarters in South Korea
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For this reason,
I have
never lost in
international
competition.
In 2005,
I joined Dr.
Kimm and
Grandmaster
WooJin
Jung, Tae-
KwonDo
Times Publisher,
on a
special and
rare ambassadorship
to
DPR North
Korea for
Photo by Laura Smulktis the 50 th
anniversary
of Tae
Kwon Do. There, we visited the Presidential Palace,
Children’s Performing School, Tae Kwon Do Palace
(ITF), Tan-Gun’s Tomb, and a Buddhist temple.
Six of my students and I performed the ITF tul
(pattern) Tan-Gun at the foot of the tomb honoring
Korea’s legendary founder. I also participated in
a meeting between other Tae Kwon Do, Hapkido
and Han Mu Do leading masters representing both
the ITF and WTF. Discussions included improved
relations and future cooperation between the two
Tae Kwon Do governing bodies. In 2006, I returned
with colleagues to South Korea, where we toured
the entire country and participated in seminars
with Grandmaster In Sun Seo. During that trip, I
was able to assist Chief Master Robert Ott, who
is blind, in ‘seeing’ the sights through my eyes. This
experience in fact ‘opened’ my eyes and allowed me
to truly experience the beautiful people, mountains,
rivers, landscape, art, architecture, traditional garb,
etc., in great detail as never before.
There were two distinct things that occurred that
seemed to have opened the doors to the world
for me. The first was becoming DoJuNim Ji Han
Jae’s worldwide assistant. The second was winning
the gold medals at the World Hapkido Games in
1997, 1999 and 2002. My travels have afforded
me the opportunity to further my training, experience
other cultures and languages, compete, and
teach Hapkido worldwide. To date, I have visited
the following countries: South Korea; DPR North
Korea; China; Japan; Finland; Sweden; Denmark;
Holland/Netherlands; England; Italy; Germany;
Austria; Slovenia; Croatia and; Canada. I have
additionally traveled to 45 states within the U.S.
I have found that the martial arts can serve as ‘the
common language’ amongst people. This remains
true even when politics, religion, and language
serve as barriers. The martial arts really do have
the power to break down walls, and ironically, to
ultimately bring people together!
What are some of your most memorable moments
in the martial arts?
There are so many! Among the most memorable
are all of the long talks with DoJuNim Ji Han Jae
on Hapkido history, his life experiences, philosophy,
techniques and planning. I would also include:
earning my black belt ranks (the old-fashioned
way); winning gold medals at the World Hapkido
Games and the All-Korean Martial Arts World
Championships in full-contact fighting; winning
my last full-contact kickboxing fight with Bill ‘Superfoot’
Wallace as my cornerman; meeting, training
with and enjoying dinner with General Choi
I understand that your Sin Moo Hapkido training
has led you to travel the world. Where have you
been and why?
GM MacKenzie & Master Ott
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Hong Hi; creating memorable moments for both
myself and students each and every day; teaching,
mentoring and guiding students towards their black
belts and ultimate success in life.
Outside of the martial arts, what other things,
including family and friends are important to you?
Do you enjoy any hobbies?
With his children, Tabby, Heidi & Dustin
My children are the most important thing in the
world to me. When people ask who I consider
myself to be, my answer is simple: ”I am both a
father and a martial artist.” Before you can understand
others, you must first know yourself. It is
good to know who you are. My son Dustin (17) is
a Tae Kwon Do black belt and is working towards
his Sin Moo Hapkido rank. My daughters Heidi
(15) and Tabby (13) are beautiful and are talented
athletes. I am fortunate that each of my kids are
honest, loving, academically inclined and physically
gifted…I am indeed a proud father! Through thick
and thin, it is your family that is always there. Both
my mother, Babs, who I lost to cancer in 2007, and
my stepfather, Don McDermott, were always there
to support me every step of the way. My father D.
Kenneth MacKenzie and stepmother Elisa are my
biggest fans. I thank my mother for my stubborn
and persistent nature and my father for my physical
gifts. I am also rich in that I am surrounded by the
best of friends.
My first hobby is everything martial arts. I collect
historical pieces, traditional weapons and have accumulated
a vast library. I have over 1000 books, more
than 450 of which are martial arts books, many
signed by the author. My grandmother was a librarian
and I learned to value literature at a young age.
I have also always been a classic car enthusiast.
My current collection includes a 1954 Austin
Healey 100-4 BN1, a 1955 Chevy, and a 1968
Jaguar XKE. I hope to someday race vintage cars.
In addition, I have two other unusual hobbies: Collecting
WWII memorabilia and pinball machines.
I am also an avid swimmer, and enjoy motorcycles,
camping, skateboarding and traveling.
What is your vision of the future for Korean martial
arts?
While Tae Kwon Do gained great popularity and
continues to thrive, I believe that Hapkido/Sin-
Moo Hapkido is just coming into its own. In the
coming decade, I look for Sin Moo Hapkido to gain
wider appeal.
As the President of the ‘World Sin Moo Hapkido
Federation’ (www.WorldSinMooHapkidoFederation.com),
DoJuNim Ji Han Jae’s world governing
body for Hapkido, I intend on expanding the art,
and bringing unity to the many Hapkido/Sin Moo
Hapkido factions.
Regarding the future, we all have some good
work to do ahead of us. As many academics would
agree, mankind faces greater global challenges today
than in any other time in recorded history. Disease,
war, poverty, starvation, downward-spiraling global
economies, global warming, etc., are but a few of the
real concerns. Even with this, the martial arts spirit
remains one of unshakable optimism.
Optimism dictates that the best is still to come.
Together, one student at a time, I believe that we
as martial artists and teachers can take the lead in
rebuilding this world…a better world, one student
at a time.
For more complete histories on Hapkido/Sin Moo
Hapkido and DoJuNim Ji Han Jae, membership information
and event schedules, etc., please log onto:
www.WorldSinMooHapkidoFederation.com
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Ji, Han Jae
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By Andrew Mencia
Imagine yourself living in your own country surrounded by
family and close friends and enjoying the company of a beautiful
wife who you recently married. Suddenly, you are asked to
relocate to Hawaii and to take the responsibility of putting
together a full Taekwon-do military Oh Do Kwan program.
By the way, when you arrive to this island, you learn that the
request was coming from a stoic general and you don’t know
any black belts to assist in getting this enormous task off the
ground.
Master Lee
Major General Harry Brooks was transferred from Korea
to lead the 25 th Infantry Division in Hawaii. Major General Brooks fell in love with “combat football”
and Taekwon-Do and he was determined to bring these disciplines to his new post.
To accomplish his goals, Major General Brooks requested from the U.S. and the Korean
Armies to provide him with the best qualified master to carry on this task in Hawaii. Master Lee
Kyo Woon was deployed to Hawaii with his young wife and a colossal responsibility. His English
was extremely limited, but his administrative abilities, determination and leadership were admirable.
Like a true leader with Special Forces tactics and experience, this young master coordinated
a meeting with a handful of black belts. During this meeting, the small audience listened to his
plans and objectives as explained by Master Lee in his
very limited English. When Master Lee expressed his
requirement that in order for anyone to be part of his
team, everyone would have to go back to white belt
and learn his training program right from beginner
level, his audience was reduced to one man. This did
not discourage the young foreigner; he concluded his
first experience by saying, “I will find more humble
people to join us.”
Master Lee’s wife was very disappointed and feeling
homesick. She suggested telling Major General
Brooks to find some American instructor and to
return back to Korea. Master Lee answered his wife
that she could go back if she was not willing to sacrifice
with her husband; but he would not back away
from his responsibilities without putting up a fight
first.
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Mr. Mcgee and I (Dr. Mencia) believed in Master Lee’s approach and all three of us began
organizing a program that was then approved by Major General Harry Brooks. The General gave
Master Lee an old warehouse of some 10,000 square feet, which Master Lee was responsible for,
making it functional to initiate Master Lee’s Tae Kwon Do training program. The warehouse was so
dilapidated that the initial training was done out in the open.
Master Lee instructed us to start by dusting and scrubbing “our new house” as he would refer to
this old warehouse. In the early 1970s, floor mats were nonexistent, hence Master Lee improvised
by using heavy rubber mats. When the Hawaiian sun was at its best, this warehouse was like a
natural sauna. One day during training, we observed an Army truck pulling into our warehouse.
We saw Master Lee jump from the front seat and start walking, swinging his arms like he used
to. “Mencia, get guys and take truck things,” he ordered in his broken English. We understood to
unload the truck.
The load was old parachutes. Master Lee instructed us to spread this material and he invented a
low ceiling made up of multicolor parachute cloth. When the job was completed, we could not stop
laughing, but the next day when that burning Hawaiian sun was upon us, we looked at Master Lee
with such admiration and respect for his intelligence and devotion to his students.
He would train his students so hard that many times we did not know where the energy to stand
on our feet was coming from. I remember Mr. McGee leaning over to me and saying, “Master Lee is
a slave driver.” Then, when Mr. McGee least expected, Master Lee was feeding us Korean food and
treating Mr. McGee’s pain with acupressure technique. Our love for this man grew so strong, that
he became a father figure to most of us who were closest to him.
Our instructor training would begin before sunrise, with a six to eight mile run followed by
stretching and body hardening. By nine a.m., the soldiers assigned to Tae Kwon Do would report
for training until 11:45 a.m., only to return for more at 1:00 p.m. until 4:30 p.m. Then, from 5:00
p.m. to 9:00 p.m., Master Lee continued training the civilian and military dependents. Saturdays
and Sundays were training by invitation only. Those students that were in the program and showed
good potential to become black belts were selected.
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Weekends were also demo days. Every weekend,
Master Lee arranged a demo at some park in Honolulu
or other gathering place on the island or we were demonstrating
at some TV station. I learned to drive by driving
Master Lee’s Volkswagen van all over town. We were living
such busy lives that the months and years would go
by at light speed, but that was part of Master Lee’s magic.
Master Lee and his elite group were well known at all
Hawaiian open championship circles. When full-contact
fighting was introduced to Hawaii, Master Lee was contacted
to provide competitors to face the top ranking competitors
that were coming from the mainland, including
top ranking Bill “Superfoot” Wallace. When the first few
fights started, Master Lee’s black belts were going for the
“kill,” knocking out the opponents at the first round. The
promoter came to Master Lee asking him to instruct his
black belts to show a little more showmanship. Master Lee
responded by saying, “This is true Korean fighting and that
is your show.” Mr. Bill Wallace fought Mr. Auggie Evans
(now a Tae Kwon Do master living on the west coast).
Master Park Jung Tae, Gen. Choi, and
Andy Mencia
Gen. Choi visits Master Lee in Hawaii
Master Lee Kyo Woon hosted demonstrations for several
Generals that were invited by General Brooks. Master
Lee also hosted then Vice President Gerald Ford and his Secretary of Defense.
Master Lee was very devoted to the Oh Do Kwan System and he spent all his adult life
teaching the military both in his native country of Korea and in the USA. Different from other
Korean instructors, Master Lee was of the belief that Oh Do Kwan was created by the same
person who gave birth to what the world knows as Tae Kwon Do; hence, if Oh Do Kwan was
one of the roots to the tree, we should maintain our loyalty to the tree that is there to protect
the root from harm. When the young master had over 2,500 active practitioners in Hawaii, he
and I invited the true founder to visit Hawaii. In the early 1970s, General Choi Hong Hi was
received to the island with full military protocols.
In 1974, Master Lee Kyo Woon was asked to lead with his students the demonstration to
commemorate the first anniversary of Master Bruce Lee’s death. In less than five years, this
young master who was a graduate in Oriental philosophy in his homeland, but who arrived to a
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strange land and culture, had developed
a monster of an organization in Hawaii.
Of course, jealousy will tag along,
especially in the Japanese styles that were
dominating Hawaii and were very influential
politically on the island. For every
competition to which he was invited,
Master Lee would make his internal
selection of his best students. “Competition
is an honor,” Master Lee would
teach his members. Master Lee would
sweep through open tournaments taking
home most of the awards. He was a very
proud Korean who taught not only his
national art of self-defense, but made
sure his students were exposed to Korean history, culture and language.
He was a man of fairness and transparency. I remember an incident where a 180-pound
American was bullying a 115-pound Japanese student. Both were students of Master Lee. Master
Lee called both into his office and stood in front of the six-foot, ten-inch American and told him,
“If I find you disobeying Won Hyo’s principles as it relates to friendship, you will have to bear
with me. Now give each other a hug and go and restudy Won Hyo.” Master Lee believed that any
form of discrimination would only weaken an organization. “As long as we express our differences
with respect to others, we can then and only then,
appreciate and learn from each other.”
In 1976, Master Lee and his wife were blessed
with a baby boy. Master Lee asked me to help him
buy a “safe” car for his family. He bought a Grand
Marquis that was so big that Master Lee asked
me to drive it home. Although he was thinking of
the safety of his family, the martial arts community
thought of this as his showing off his money
and power, and this was the furthest from the
truth.
A few months later, the young master who arrived
to this country leaving everything and everyone
close to him behind in Korea, was ambushed
by the Japanese mafia in the parking lot of a
restaurant. The police reported to me, since Master
Lee’s wife spoke no English, that at least four
gunmen shot the master from different angles.
Over thirty years have passed, and today there
are still people that have been influenced by his
teachings and keep his philosophies alive.
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By Erik Richardson
Over the course of centuries, the greatest
martial artists have been working to solve a very
complex set of physics problems, even though
they rarely thought of it in terms of physics,
about using the mass of the human body to create
the maximum amount of force. In trying to
understand a lot of areas of life, a little science
goes a long way. It is similarly true that a little
math can go a long way in understanding science.
We will look at a key equation from physics
involving mass and energy, and we will see how it
relates to the ongoing experiment to improve our
training and our success in martial arts.
Mass, Speed & Energy
At the heart of the physics of martial arts is
a simple equation for calculating kinetic energy.
We can think of any of the strikes and blocks
in martial arts in terms of energy. Energy just
means how much work something can do—
meaning the size of an object it could move and
how far it could move it. The “kinetic” part of
kinetic energy comes from the Greek word for
motion. Kinetic energy is the amount of work
something can do because it is in motion. The
equation for the kinetic energy of an object
is:
KE = ½ m.v 2
In this equation, m stands for the
mass of an object, and v stands for its
speed.
There are a couple of important things to
notice right away. The first is that the kinetic
energy of an object depends on both its mass and
its velocity (speed). In physics, the velocity means
both the speed and direction of an object. But
since we are looking simply at forward movement
in these cases, it works better to use speed and
velocity interchangeably.
The second thing to notice is that the velocity
counts for significantly more than the mass. To
appreciate the impact of the difference, let’s look
at three different scenarios. The first is throwing
a baseball at 40 miles per hour (mph); the second
would be increasing the size by 40 percent , such
as throwing a softball at 40 mph; and the third
scenario would be increasing the speed by 40
percent, like throwing a baseball at 56 mph.
1. Baseball @ 40 mph:
½ . (.1417kg) . (17.8 meters/second) 2 = 22.44
Joules ( J)
2. Softball @ 40 mph:
½ . (.2kg) . (17.8 m/s) 2 = 31.93 J
3. Baseball @ 56 mph:
½ . (.1417kg) . (25.03 m/s) 2 =
44.39 J
Joules is a measurement
of energy. By comparing
these numbers we
can see that increasing
the mass by 40 percent
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only results in about a 40 percent increase in
energy, but increasing the speed by 40 percent results
in an energy increase of 96 percent—almost
double. What’s more, it will keep increasing, and
a baseball thrown at 80 mph would show a 400
percent increase.
Importance of Technique
Predictably, the math becomes much more
complex when we talk about punches than
baseballs, because you have to factor in the mass
of the fist, the mass of the arm, and the distances
traveled by each part of the arm, etc. (Consider,
for instance, your bicep area does not travel as
far toward the target as the wrist area.) However,
the basic principle holds, and the single greatest
impact to your martial arts effectiveness is to be
had in training to improve your speed, which
comes from a combination of factors, including
efficiency of technique.
As one example of this, consider the importance
of positioning yourself so that at the point
of contact your arm is slightly bent. The reasoning
behind this is that once your arm is completely
extended, the forward speed will drop to
zero as you begin the recoil. If you hit when the
arm is no longer speeding forward, the energy
delivered will drop radically.
Kicks
Vs.
Punches
In addition to
training to improve
your speed and technique,
the same variables
of kinetic energy help us to
understand the relative merits of
kicks versus punches. While a
number of different studies have
been done, and a diverse range
of values have resulted, a good
basic comparison is provided by
using a maximum speed for a
forward punch of eight meters/
second (m/s) and for a front snap
kick of 12 m/s.
The difficulty of pinning down any
calculations mentioned above is highlighted
by a 2005 study in the British
Journal of Sports Medicine, involving
the force generated by Olympic boxers
from different weight classes. While the human
arm is, on average, approximately seven percent
of total body weight, the effective mass of the
punches thrown was only 2.9 kg, which would
only equal seven percent of someone weighing
92 lbs. (Of course, being elite Olympic-level
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Changing your Fitness Level
athletes, their average punch speed was over nine
m/s, but that is outside the meaningful range for
us mere mortals!)
We can, however, draw some useful information
from the comparative speed and mass of
kicks versus punches, since the human leg is
about 14 percent of total body mass, we start
to appreciate, in reflecting back on the equations
earlier, that a kick with twice the mass of
a punch, moving at 50 percent greater speed,
would result in significantly higher kinetic energy
at the point of contact. In fact, if you do the math
(with a punch at 2.9, as in the study mentioned,
and a leg at twice that amount), you will see that
it is six times as much! That means that it is
well worth significantly more time and effort to
improve your kicking speed and techniques as a
percentage of your overall training schedule.
There is a saying in boxing that, “80 percent
of fighting is conditioning, and 80 percent of
conditioning is running.” Now while that general
guideline may or may not be based on physics,
it does point the way to a couple of additional
results that follow from our new understanding
the equation for kinetic energy—namely that
conditioning counts for a lot. In order to set the
stage for these two principles, we must think
about the kinetic energy equation from the other
end, so to speak. So far, we have been looking at
the value of what comes out of the striking technique,
but the same equation tells us how much
energy has to go into the technique. That is, how
much energy does it take to get x mass moving at
y speed. (Yes, it would be nice if a punch created
more energy than we put into it, but it doesn’t
work that way!)
The first conditioning factor to consider is the
impact of dropping any extra weight you may be
carrying around. Because fat tissue stored on our
arms and legs adds mass without exerting more
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force, then a given amount of force applied to a
larger mass must result in a slower speed. True,
fat does burn to provide energy, but it does not
translate to strength or speed of our strikes. To
illustrate this, consider the following analogy: if
you are exerting your full force, can you push a
car with two loaded fuel tanks faster, or the same
car with one full tank and one empty tank? If we
drop that extra fat we’re lugging around, then the
same exertion in our martial arts practice would
result in significant gains to the speed of our
punches and kicks.
The second conditioning factor to consider is
the impact of adding extra muscle to your frame.
Now it is true that this will add mass to your
strikes, but in this case, you will not be adding
dead weight, like the fuel tank example. Adding
muscle is more like putting a bigger engine
in your car, because while it adds weight, it also
generates more speed and power. If you look at
research data on boxers, power-lifters, even if you
just compare the example above of kicking versus
punching, you will see that the increased mass
has an impact. But because increased muscle
mass affects the same fast-twitch fibers that help
determine muscle speed, there is the added result
of increasing our speed—which means a squared
result in energy delivered.
Naturally, there are many other equations that
come into play in the quest to perfect our various
martial arts. In addition to energy delivered,
there are factors like distance (a kick has to travel
farther than a jab), the probability of landing
(hence fewer spinning back kicks in certain kinds
of competition), the relative energy expenditure
of high-power versus low-power strikes, the
effects of centrifugal and centripetal forces, and
so on and so on. We hope this has given you a
new line of thinking that can help you bring out
more of your potential every time you hit the
mat to tweak the variables of your solution to the
ancient physics problem of using your mass to
generate maximum energy.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Erik Richardson is a Certified
Sports Nutritionist in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He teaches math
at the elementary and college level, and he is currently the Director
of Richardson Ideaworks, which focuses on personal and
small business consulting.
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Many of the people who will read this column have already taken sides.
They feel that MMA (mixed martial arts) and TMA (traditional martial
arts) are two opposing groups each competing for acceptance in the martial
arts market. My opinion is that MMA is so different from TMA that
you miss the point if you confuse the two or are threatened by one group
as opposed to the other. Here’s why.
MMA introduced the theme of “reality fighting” in sports competition.
In reality fighting opponents fight to the knockout using whatever skills
work. There is no need to identify styles or systems. There are no masters,
no grandmasters and no chain of command. If a skill or method works,
it is used. MMA is a sport for the moment. We watch it, we enjoy it, we
speculate about it and then we forget about it. Many of us also learn from
it.
It is true that the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) began as a
venue to promote Gracie Jujitsu as the one and only superior style. Rorion
Gracie and Art Davies developed the UFC in 1993 and matched fighters
from various styles against their hand-picked representative for the
Brazilian style of Jujitsu. His name was Royce Gracie. Between 1993 and
1995, Royce Gracie became the only three-time UFC tournament winner.
Royce then began to fight exclusively in challenge matches in which he
continued to win.
The original UFC theme, “There are no rules,” may have attracted
viewers that looked forward to an event in which blood letting and
knockouts were common fare, but it also attracted government scrutiny.
Senator John McCain called the reality fighting presented in the UFC
“human cockfighting.” The controversial fighting events were banned in
most states and eventually lost rights to the lucrative Pay-Per-View market.
The fact is that the “no rules” position attracted the barroom brawler
type epitomized by Tank Abbott. Abbott was a slugger with no style or
affiliations. He came to knockout the opponent or get knocked out in the
process.
Interestingly enough, when CBS decided recently to enter the lucrative
market for MMA sports programming they pinned their hopes on a
former “street fighter” named Kimbo Slice. Kimbo had gained a reputation
as being the tough guy in some of the most often viewed videos on
Youtube. When Slice was knocked out by a younger and smaller opponent
in the MMA ring, his defeat sank an entire MMA organization.
Look for Kimbo Slice to reemerge in the next season of The Ultimate
Fighter on Spike TV.
Near the mid-1990s, it became evident that the style versus style comparisons
were losing their appeal. The street fighter types recruited by the
UFC were equally unable to hold the viewer’s interest. To win acceptance
from government sanctioning offices and earn back the Pay-Per-View
market, the UFC developed rules and regulations to ensure the safety of
the fighters. Commentators for the UFC had introduced the term “mixed
martial arts” to indicate a fighter who represented no particular style. The
true MMA fighter trained to perfect his personal stand up and grappling
game and supplemented his progress with proper nutrition and fitness
training.
In the MMA scheme of things the term “style” represents “limitations.”
Bruce Lee had made the same type of observations in the late 1960s.
When I say my style is Tae Kwon Do, for example, I am saying that I am
limited to the kicks, punches, blocks, and forms that are taught in my
style. At this point the reader may be thinking, “Okay, he’s insulting my
style.” Not true. Remember, I have been a martial artist for over 40 years.
I have trained in MMA instruction and promoted MMA seminars. I can
see the easily identified differences in the two concepts.
The MMA sport martial artist identifies the body as the superior
weapon. The MMA stylist seeks the finest training in stand up and
ground. They seek to develop a muscular and fit body, often times
adorned with body art. Like the samurai of old they are trained to fight.
To accomplish the goals of their training they must engage in competitions
to determine who, on a given day, will win a contest within the
framework of selected rules. Sport fighters train to win!
The traditional martial artist takes a different view of his/her art. The
traditional martial artist identifies the mind as the superior weapon. The
traditionalist trains the mind through character development, discipline,
and self-denial. The goal of the traditionalist is to first avoid the fight,
but if necessary to fight in the confidence that victory can be measured
in many ways. While the MMA sport fighter is expected to engage in his
sport for up to ten years, the traditionalist trains for life.
MMA is very different than TMA. While MMA represents instant
gratification, TMA thrives on deferred gratification. MMA is just
right for today’s society, seeking the good life here and now. Others
take a different view. TMA teaches us to invest in our lifetime. Work
hard now and reap the benefits later. Indeed, TMA teaches that the
hard work we do now is enjoyable.
As a graduate student at Virginia Tech in the late 1970s, I
researched the social expectations of the traditional martial instructor.
I found that the physical skills associated with traditional styles have
always varied. To argue that my style has the best skills is folly. Skills
are little more than the carrot we wave in front of the student. What
the TMA dojang offers the student is a selected and organized peer
group. The TMA peer groups have identified certain values as being
most important. Hard work, dedication to a goal, honesty, integrity,
and indomitable spirit are exemplified by those in the group. Join the
TMA peer group and you will adopt the same values. Become part of
TMA and you become a leader.
Again and again, I found that students who had properly internalized
the values of a TMA school learned to set goals and accomplish
objectives to ensure the attainment of those goals. What we offer parents
is a select peer group that will assist their child in the attainment
of self confidence, self regulation, self discipline and an appreciation
for authority. But how do we attract the student whose only goal is to
shave his head like Chuck Liddell and develop his ground game?
In a national survey conducted for my graduate school research, I
found that physical skill have always varied even among proponents
of the same arts. To limit your choices to the position that we must
practice a skill one way and only one way is wrong. The UFC continues
to teach us that we must adapt our physical skills to the environment.
We can adapt the MMA skills to our TMA programs and have
the best of both worlds. Embrace MMA. MMA is not the enemy of
TMA. Learn the mount and guard. Discover the most effective clinch
position. Discover for yourself how a representative of your art could
defend against the MMA fighter. Don’t let stubborn pride allow you
to miss the opportunity that MMA offers.
At this year’s Karate College, the Brazilian Jujitsu and MMA classes
were among the most popular courses offered. Reality-based martial
arts classes came in a close second. Traditional martial arts classes
ranked third in terms of popularity. To be competitive in today’s market
we have to keep up with the trends. It’s easy to add MMA skills
to the TMA curriculum. You can teach
a basic one leg takedown to a side
mount and arm bar submission
just like you would teach any
other one-step sparring drill. If
you haven’t started researching
the new directions being
taken by martial arts today,
get started.
MMA and You
By Dr. Jerry Beasley
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By Ste
teph
en
DiL
iLeo
The student
mounts the
“Bob” bag in
the same fashion
he would
mount an opponent.
Student is free
to rain down
strikes with full
power. Student
learns how to
generate force
without the use
of his hips.
Where is it written that striking arts must
remain standing? That is a common misconception.
Somewhere along the way, the martial arts
community ordained standup as the world of strikers
and the ground as the exclusive domain of grapplers.
However, nothing could be further from the
truth!
The first recorded Olympic wrestling match
occurred in 708 B.C., but wrestling as an art may
have existed over 4,000 years ago in China. The
history of standup striking is also quite lengthy;
as early as 50 B.C., Koreans were practicing the
ancient striking art of Taek Kyon, which is the
forerunner to modern day Tae Kwon Do. The
fact is that determining which art was first may be
impossible, but more importantly, it may be irrelevant.
To ancient warriors, whether the fight was
decided by blows or by grappling was most certainly
not as important as winning the fight, which
at that time, meant surviving to fight another
day. The evolution of martial arts is about selfdefense,
a fact often lost in the hype of modern-day
competition. Based on that premise, fighters today
should be no less concerned about survival than
warriors of the past. Martial artists should not isolate
their thinking to any preconceived restrictions
about their particular style; in self-defense there are
no rules about which techniques to use and where
to use them.
Generally, standup styles like TKD limit their
training to striking only when on their feet. While
it is not true that all fights either go to the ground
or remain standing, it is true that all fights have the
possibility of either circumstance. Why would any
instructor or student want to gamble with their
life? In fact, Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighters
have proven that striking on the ground can
be extremely devastating. Consider the number
of matches that end in a knockout resulting from
“ground ‘n pound” tactics. With just a little adjustment
in technique and a big adjustment in strategy,
standup arts like TKD can be very effective on the
ground.
At first, when strikers hit the ground, a strange
spell comes over them and they forget to use all of
their hard-earned skills—knees, elbows, punches,
etc. Mr. Jim Del Real, chief instructor of the
Penn State Korean Karate club, suggests that the
most difficult challenge for students or instructors
is mental, not physical. Del Real is a former
Professional Karate Association (PKA) full-contact
fighter and he knows only too well the effects of
employing powerful strikes on the ground. Strikers
need to go back to their roots and remember that
the quality of techniques, not quantity, has more to
do with the outcome of a fight.
According to Del Real, the greatest challenge
students and instructors face is to let go of their
pride and accept that no single art is perfect or has
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all of the answers. Only those that have been forced
to change schools (or styles) can know the difficulty
in learning something new, based on a completely
different philosophy. Initially, there will be resistance.
Forcing students to train on the ground, who
are used to sparring and practicing self-defense
only on their feet, will be a challenge; however, until
students face their fears and begin to learn ground
tactics, they are not complete. The simple truth is
that standup striking and ground striking are flip
sides of the same coin. Mr. Del Real is quick to
point out, “Anything you can do on your feet, you
can do on the ground.”
Noting the differences between the stand up
game and the ground game is essential in determining
adjustments in technique. First, students
will realize that mobility on the ground is relatively
restricted. Hip motion, which is the key
method that a striker generates power, is greatly
reduced. Second, blocks are not as effective; and
third, head movement is limited, creating more of a
stationary target and thus, increased vulnerability.
The differences, however, are not all bad. In a top
position, gravity becomes your ally. Additionally,
the ground plays an important role in what
self-defense experts call the “hammer and anvil”
effect. With the ground supporting the opponent’s
head, the concussion or force of a blow is magnified
by the fact that there is no recoil for the target. In
this case, the head absorbs the full impact of the
strike. Finally, Mr. Del Real notes that perhaps the
greatest difference students will find with ground
fighting is that everyone is equal. For fighters that
understand the ground game, an opponent’s advantage
in height, weight and reach no longer pose as
much of a threat.
In order for standup strikers to know what techniques
work, it is important to have an understanding
of the different tactical positions commonly
used by ground fighters. While it is true that some
positions are better suited for attacking, ground
strikes can be launched in just about any situation,
and from all angles.
The most common position on the ground is
the full-guard. Grapplers will lie on their back and
use their legs to immobilize their opponent’s hips
while at the same time trying to control the head
and reduce striking space. A very similar tactic is
Student positions
for sidecontrol.
He then extends
his leg to
prepare for a
knee strike.
Student executes
a knee
strike with full
power to the
side of the bag.
The anatomical
correctness of
a “Bob” bag
helps to create
a realistic scenario.
called the half-guard, and as its name suggests, it is
characterized by both legs controlling only one of
the opponent’s legs which essentially results in less
control of the hips.
Side-control is literally where one fighter is on
top of another, chest pressed against each other
in perpendicular fashion so that the person on
the top restricts the movement of the one on the
bottom. This is an excellent situation for the top
fighter to launch knee strikes to the ribs of an
opponent.
Perhaps the only position designed specifically
for attacking is called the top full-mount. Simply
put, the top fighter has a completely dominate
advantage by sitting on the opponent above the
hips and beyond the control of the bottom fighter’s
legs. This allows the top fighter to throw unobstructed
strikes at the opponent’s head, usually
ending the fight.
taekwondotimes.com / November 2009 71

Top position
fighter is
controlled in
opponent’s
full-guard.
He then forces
his body upward
to create
space.
Immediately,
he follows with
an elbow to
his opponent’s
jaw.
With regard to distance, striking on the ground
is no different than the standup game. Striking
range is striking range. The issue is really one of
mobility; the space needed to achieve striking range
is easier to create when standing. A standup fighter
can change range by stepping forward and back,
altering a stance, or leaning to a side. Movement
will force openings that can be quickly exploited
with a well placed strike. Since one of the primary
defenses on the ground is to restrict mobility, the
capability (or the decision) to move may not be
there. Additionally, experienced ground fighters are
well aware of how to reduce the range by controlling
an opponent’s head. So what is the take-home
message? Finding the range to strike is more difficult
on the ground and the ability to do so may
determine the effectiveness of each blow. That
is why so many MMA fighters constantly try to
achieve a full-mount. This position creates ample
space while leaving the bottom fighter totally
defenseless.
What is the best way to create space? There
are a number of ways, two of which are the most
popular. First, when initially closing in on a downed
opponent, the striker can dive in with hopes of
connecting on the way down. This is risky as the
fighter on the ground has an opportunity to either
move out of the way or, more likely, will execute an
up-kick to the approaching striker. Diving in as a
tactic is generally something found in sport MMA
and not recommended for self-defense.
The second approach assumes the striker is
on top in the opponent’s full-guard as the latter
attempts to keep the range close for grappling.
One technique that a top position fighter
can use is called “posturing up.” It requires some
level of strength as the striker tries to elevate his
or her upper body, creating the necessary space to
attack. This maneuver is then immediately followed
up by strikes to the bottom position fighter’s head
and torso.
Asking what works is a loaded question. Most
fighters will tell you that the best technique is
the one that lands; however, some are clearly better
than others. For martial artists, according to
Mr. Del Real, the first rule to remember is that
there are no rules for self-defense—ever! Given
that strikers may have to work for the needed distance
that comes naturally while standing, it is no
surprise that Del Real endorses short, powerful
strikes. For him, there are three specific techniques
that produce the best results; elbows, European
uppercuts, and knee strikes.
Elbows are an excellent choice because they can
generate enormous power in a very short distance
from almost any angle. In addition, elbow strikes
are notorious for cutting opponents and inflicting
serious soft tissue damage. This technique is at the
top of the list because it is equally effective from
either the top or bottom position.
A close cousin of the elbow strike is the
European uppercut, which Mr. Del Real describes
as a boxing uppercut using the forearm as a striking
surface instead of the fist. The advantage of
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this technique is that it can be thrown from a
range of only a few inches, yet with devastating
results. Using the forearm against an opponent’s
chin, nose, or throat is an anatomical mismatch,
favoring the striker.
Finally, one of the most powerful strikes on the
ground should come as no surprise because it is
also one of the most powerful strikes on the feet—
the knee strike. This technique is most effective
from the top position side-mount. The amount of
damage a knee strike does to a downed fighter is
hard to imagine, especially when in self-defense, all
targets are fair game.
Mr. Del Real notes that a couple of staple strikes
for standup stylists are not a smart choice on the
ground. A jab or a cross punch requires too much
space to generate ample power. More importantly,
when a striker punches and extends the arm, skilled
grapplers will seize the opportunity to attack with a
submission attempt.
Training for ground striking can be separated
into two categories. First, there are specific fitness
exercises that will improve a striker’s ability to
deliver power without the use of his or her hips.
Second, certain drills will help students understand
the technical challenges of space and limited mobility.
Mr. Del Real encourages students to increase
strength in their core and shoulders to replace
the use of hip rotation employed in standup
strikes. Specifically, he endorses Roman chair situps,
knee-ups (from a suspended position), and
various types of push-ups.
From a technical perspective, one of the best
ways to practice “ground n’ pound” (without losing
students), is to use a free-standing heavy bag or a
“Bob” bag. Simply remove the bag and place it flat
on the ground so students can mount it and rain
down blows. Striking without the use of your hips
is a real wakeup call for most standup martial artists.
For many striking arts familiar with standup
encounters, the prospect of ending up on the
ground has always been a dilemma. The good news
is that it doesn’t have to be that way! With a little
adjustment in strategy and training, strikers can be
just as effective on the ground. According to Mr.
Del Real, the determining factor is really the student’s
ability to put their pride in their back pocket
and accept a new approach. Like everything in life,
progress is measured by the ability to accept change
and adapt.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Stephen DiLeo is a fourth-degree
black belt in Tae Kwon Do and a first-degree black belt in
Tang Soo Do. He is one of the chief instructors at the Altoona
Academy of Tae Kwon-Do with over 30 years experience and
has taught at numerous seminars and summer camps. Mr. DiLeo
is also a freelance writer and photographer.
Full-guard
allows the bottom
position
fighter to control
opponent’s
hips.
Half-guard allows
control of
only one side
of the top position
fighter.
Side-control
shows top
position fighter
fully dominating
opponent.
taekwondotimes.com / November 2009 73

Stretch Yourself
Osteoarthritis causes wearing out of a joint’s cartilage,
either from chronic abuse or from a sudden
trauma that unfavorably affected the joint’s mechanics.
Whether from hardening of the subchondral bone* or
from overloading muscles stabilizing the joint, the end
result is destruction of the articular cartilage, pain and
eventually loss of motion.
You can have osteoarthritis and not know it. The
affected joint may be fairly painless—just less stable
or less mobile than it should, and muscles around it
may be sore often. Or the joint may be painful too.
Destruction of the joint’s cartilage can progress quite
far without pain because the cartilage is not innervated
(has no pain receptors). Joint tissues that are
innervated, and send pain signals when irritated, are
the fibrous connective tissue of the joint’s capsule, the
muscles around the joint, and the bone underneath
the cartilage. So, when the cartilage is worn through,
the bone will hurt. Before that happens, the person
may feel pain in some parts of the joint impinging on
others due to poor muscular control (e.g., impingement
of the shoulder joint), as well as the soreness of
muscles overworked by compensating for poor joint
mechanics. Eventually the person may feel tightness
in the joint caused by increased volume of the joint’s
fluid, which distends the joint’s capsule. Distention of
the joint’s capsule causes inhibition (switching off ) of
muscles controlling the joint, and that leads to their
atrophy.
In any case, the pain is easy to deal with—there is
a multitude of painkilling pills and creams. Killing the
pain alone does nothing to stop the arthritic changes
in the joint, but it may permit arthritis sufferers to do
exercises that slow down or stop the progress of the
disease. What concerns the arthritis sufferers most is
the damage to the joint’s cartilage and the
resulting loss of stability and eventually
mobility of the joint. Yes,
at some stage of cartilage damage
the joint loses stability—
becomes lax—and seems
more mobile (e.g., the knee
may bend too much to the
sides or the front). Later
on though, the joint loses
mobility and eventually, in
the worst case, may become
fused. How does this happen?
While in some spots
the cartilage is worn away,
in some others it grows and
eventually blocks the joint.
This is not visible on
X-rays—not until
the overgrown
cartilage calcifies. Before that happens, both the worn-out
and overgrown cartilage can be revealed by MRI. (X-rays
of arthritic joints show only altered position of bones,
which indicates the amount of change in the cartilage but
does not show the cartilage itself.)
But back to the arthritis sufferers…Knowing that the
cartilage in the affected joint or joints is worn out, most
look for ways to restore it. They eat supplements, apply
creams and ointments, even have medication injected into
the joints. Of the supplements, glucosamine and chondroitin
are shown to do no harm, but there is little proof
of them helping. No cream or ointment can penetrate the
joint’s capsule to bring in the building materials, so the
best they can do is lower the pain and reduce inflammation.
After an injection into the joint’s cavity, the cartilage
may begin to grow, but not so selectively. The undamaged
cartilage, growing in the “wrong places,” will grow even
more—and the joint will be further blocked. This excessive,
uneven growth may have striking results in the knee
joints: Not only will their mobility be reduced but also
the legs may bend drastically, even more than 45 degrees,
either out (bow legs) or in (x-legs), and in the worst cases
one leg out and one leg in. Many people fall for miraculous
medicines, ancient or modern, from shamans or space
labs, that promise to selectively grow the cartilage where
it is damaged (and perhaps eat it away where it is not
needed). There are ways of selectively stimulating growth
of worn-out cartilage and removing the overgrown cartilage—but
these are not simple procedures like injections.
These are surgical procedures: Both the prolotherapy to
stimulate growth of the cartilage and the abrading of the
excessive growth require arthroscopy. They are not very
effective either; after all, people still get their knees and
hips replaced.
So what should you do to restore function of an
arthritic joint? First, stop any exercise or activity that
causes pain and inflammation (pain = damage = inflammation).
If an exercise causes any discomfort in the joint
during or after performing it, then it is not good and has
to go. Second, stop the inflammation. Inflammation damages
all tissues of the joint (cartilage, ligaments, tendons)
and causes atrophy of the muscles stabilizing and controlling
the joint. A long-lasting inflammation can cause
permanent destruction of muscles that cannot be brought
back to life by any means (e.g., fatty atrophy—muscle
fibers dying and being replaced by fat). Inflammation may
be stopped by creams, ointments, or gels such as Voltaren,
prescription anti-inflammatory drugs, and in the worst
cases by cortisol injections. Whatever it takes, the inflammation
has to be stopped for two reasons:
* To stop the damage
* To make the patient realize how it feels to not have the
inflammation.
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By Thomas Kurz

Some arthritis sufferers recognize a big flare-up but not a
low-level, continuous inflammation. They think that what
they feel is normal and keep on exercising and damaging
the joint. After a successful anti-inflammatory treatment,
they realize how the joint should feel when it is not
inflamed, so they can monitor their activity using that
feeling. Third, restore proper joint mechanics as much as
possible. Without doing this the joint will be damaged
again, the cycle of damage-inflammation-damage will
return, and the joint will be lost. Only after restoring the
proper joint mechanics can it be safe to exercise it.
The most effective methods of restoring proper joint
mechanics are those based on specific manual tests of the
joint’s function (actually of muscles controlling the joint)
that reveal the cause of dysfunction and at the same time
suggest a treatment. The treatment is done immediately
after each test, and then the muscles are tested again to
see if they control the joint correctly. The procedure is
repeated within one treatment session until the best possible
result is obtained. (Often several treatment sessions
are needed to get the desired result—because old habits
are hard to break and the patient’s neuromuscular system
tends to slip back into the old ways.) This is how dysfunctional
joints and other injuries are treated by specialists of
Applied Kinesiology, Active Release Techniques, Muscle
Activation Techniques, and Sports Chiropractic. To learn
more about those specialties, visit websites of their governing
bodies:
www.icak.com
com/main.html
www.acbsp.com
or are rehabbing after a surgery, it is best if the MAT
specialist you see is also a physical therapist. Anybody can
take MAT courses, but physical therapists (and surgeons
too, obviously) understand all implications of an injury.
They know properties of damaged tissues, regularities of
healing, and what can go wrong.
*Footnote: Healthy bone under the cartilage has some give, so
compressive forces acting on the joint are absorbed by both the
cartilage and the bone. When excessively loaded, the bone loses
that give; the cartilage alone has to absorb the pressure, so it
breaks down.
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of Sports Training: How to Plan and Control Training for Peak
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Defense. He also writes articles for Stadion News, a quarterly
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“This training is going to make believers out of all of you,” stated Sgt. Ed Thurston of the Fitchburg,
Massachusetts Police Department. Between his thumb and forefinger he dangled a five and a half inch
hard plastic club. The shaft was rounded and grooved. The butt of each end was flat. On one end, keys
were attached. “I have personally used this tool to take down and subdue a perpetrator who had about fifty
pounds of muscle on me and was loaded on angel dust. It was a struggle, but he wound up cuffed and a lot
more compliant than when the altercation first began.”
Sgt. Thurston continued, “This little device, class, is called a Kubotan. I also like to call it an attitude
adjuster.” I was soon to find out why. As a civilian martial arts instructor, I was honored to be invited to
this workshop. Sgt. Thurston was a certified Kubotan Instructor at the police academy. Over the next four
days of intensive training, the Sergeant would indeed make “believers” out of this entire class of students.
By Norman Mclinden
—John Adams, writer of the Declaration of
Independence and second President of the United
States
76 November 2009 / taekwondotimes.com

The Kubotan Keychain is a handy, versatile tool of self-defense. A civilian can
use it to keep an attacker at bay just by slashing with the key end. It can also be
used for powerful, blunt strikes. In the hands of well-trained law enforcement
officers, it can be used to restrain suspects without causing excessive physical
harm.
The Kubotan is said to be derived from the Yawara stick, used in some traditional
Japanese systems. Korean stylists can relate its strikes and joint locks to the
dan-bong. However, the Kubotan as a keychain was developed and trademarked
by Takayuki Kubota.
Tak Kubota was born in Kumamoto, Japan, and holds the title of Soke or
Grandmaster for his development of the Gosoku Ryū style of Karate. He was a
self-defense instructor for the Tokyo police department in the 1950s where he
was renowned for his expertise in practical applications of Karate. Kubota has
devoted his life to learning, creating and teaching the application of self-defense
techniques to military, law enforcement and civilian personnel. He is the president
and founder of the International Karate Association, Inc., and the inventor of the
Kubotan self-defense keychain. The word Kubotan is a combination of Tak’s surname,
Kubota, and baton.
Tak Kubota originally developed the Kubotan as a means of restraining a
violent perpetrator without causing unnecessary injury. Kubota made the keychain
popular in the mid 1970s when he started training the LAPD. Use of the
self-defense tool spread rapidly throughout the law enforcement community and
eventually became well known in civilian self-defense workshops.
Kubotans can be made of wood, aluminum or hard plastic. They are five and
a half inches in length and a half inch in diameter. A fob at the end allows you
to attach your keys. With modernization of the tool, Kubotans began to come
in a variety of colors with flat or pointed tips. My personal preference is a solid
black hard plastic with a flat butt. This is the original trademarked design of Tak
Kubota.
taekwondotimes.com / November 2009 77

—Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Roman playwright
We have all seen home videos taken of police using batons to bring a
suspect under control. Most often the public does not know the back story
leading up to this display of force. Policemen just come across as using
unnecessary violence. The other impact is the alleged criminal fails to comply
even after repeated strikes.
A well-trained policeman using a Kubotan will usually have immediate
compliance from a suspect. A few solid joint locks applying pressure to the
nerve clusters will have the offender rapidly in handcuffs and obeying all
orders given by the law enforcement official.
From what I have seen and experienced, we can throw away those
tasers and batons and give a well-trained officer a Kubotan. Attitude will
be adjusted immediately. The perpetrator will soon be shouting, “Don’t
Kubotan me, Bro!!”
— Miyamoto Musashi, samuri and author of The Book of Five Rings
In self-defense, immediate direct action is important. At a typical
Kubotan training, students are taught to hold the tool correctly, and then
slash across an attacker’s face with the keys. This is a good strategy. A quick
slash to the face and run! As with any type of weapon training, the student
must realize their weapon is an extension of their body. Slashing the keys
78 November 2009 / taekwondotimes.com

to the vulnerable areas of the face requires some precision. Practice makes
perfect. The best way to start a civilian workshop is teaching this slashing
motion. However, for striking you do not have to be this accurate.
One may think of the urban myth where bouncers and tough guys
clenched a roll of quarters in their fists to boost their punching power.
Holding a Kubotan in your fist will align your knuckles correctly and enhance
your striking power. You also have the advantage of striking with the butt of
the Kubotan.
There are literally no wrong strikes. Once educated in a few valid striking
points, the student can move naturally to jabbing the face, chest, groin areas.
Hit hard to the closest part of the body the attacker presents to you. Jabbing
the butt of a Kubotan into an assailant’s pectoral area is a painful shock and
can allow one the advantage of stunning and running.
A continuous series of strikes is a painful experience for any attacker.
Nerve clusters run close to the surface of the body. The main thing for the
student of self-defense to do is react, slash, strike, stun and run.
—Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and novelist
On the last day of my training, I was required to use my Kubotan to contain
and control one of my fellow students. As luck would have it, I drew a
partner who was half a foot taller than me with powerful arms and wrists. He
smiled as my test started. I could tell by his look he was not going to go down
easily. I locked the Kubotan to his wrist and he started bucking and resisting
like a wild mustang. His resistance died down as I rolled the hard plastic implement to his radial nerve.
After what seemed like a long struggle, I had my partner subdued and handcuffed and more than willing to
comply with my direct orders. I noticed that my partner was sweating a lot more then I was.
Sgt. Ed, the instructor, smiled at my final work. He asked my partner if it was worth resisting so much.
He got a very subdued “No sir” from my training buddy. Then the Sergeant inquired of me, “Are you a
believer now?” I nodded in the affirmative, fully realizing how important this tool, this Kubotan, was.
Yes, I am a believer in the Kubotan keychain. It is self-defense in your pocket and a magnificent tool for
police action and civilian self-defense. Attend a workshop taught by a well-trained professional and you too
will be a “believer.”
The author suggests those interested in Kubotan and law enforcement training visit Soke Tak Kubota’s
Web site at the International Karate Association at ikakarate.com.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Master Norman Mclinden is a seventh-dan black belt in Tae Kwon Do. He holds a fifth-degree black belt
in the Joe Lewis Fighting System and is a certified Kubotan Instructor. McLinden is the owner and Master Instructor of NorthEastern
Tae Kwon Do Academy, located in Bellingham, Massachusetts. He can be reached at nmclinden@msn.com.
taekwondotimes.com / November 2009 79

I am “un-offendable.” At least that’s what I keep
telling myself every time someone offends me.
A good friend of mine who literally mentored
me in the TV business, told me straight up when I
got my first TV break, “If you really want to make
it in this business, you’re going to have to learn how
to smile and keep your mouth shut.” It was the best
advice I ever got, and I soon found out why.
What a funny business. It seems you get hired
because you’re deemed “better” than all the other
candidates out there. Sometimes, you have to beat
out hundreds of other talents to just get a shot at a
major market position. Then once you get that job, all
they do is tell you how you’re not “measuring up.” You
get viewers calling in telling you how much they hate
your outfit or hair-do. If you let it, you’ll go home and
that business will just suck the soul right out of your
chest.
But not if you can learn how to smile and keep
your mouth shut. It’s a real battle over the flesh to do
it, but it teaches you how to not be offended. In the
long run, I’ve never seen it not pay off.
Those of you who have dogs know exactly what
I’m talking about when I say that man’s best friend
cannot be offended. I used to come home and head
straight for the bathroom. Seconds later, there was my
dog, busting through the door. I used to yell, “If you’re
going to do that, the least you
can do is close the door
behind you!” It didn’t
matter what I
said. Poncho, my
mischievous wiener
dog, would
just stand
there with his
tail wagging,
because, like
all dogs, he was
un-offendable.
Webster’s defines “offense” as something that
offends or displeases. In our martial arts training,
offense is the opposite of defense. More simply
put, offense is the attack mode. Yet, we don’t find
offense in being offensive because that’s just the
way it is. In their basic process, the martial arts are
the tactical training of offense and defense.
I remember when I was an orange belt. We had
a guest instructor from Korea teaching class that
week. He was really into hook-kicks, and I really
couldn’t do them. So the next night, I thought
I would be the good student, come in early and
personally ask him for help with this kick before
class. He didn’t speak much English, but he did
pull out a chair and say, “200 times each leg.”
Though I never did ask this particular instructor
for help again, his actions didn’t offend me, because
I fully understood that he was trying to help me
become a better martial artist.
I wonder if we can apply that same principle
to those in our own lives whom we find offensive.
Could it be that they have been placed as
a teacher on our own stage to make us a better
person? As a “master,” I have discovered that those
who have offended me have forced me to look more
closely at the things that I have not yet “mastered.”
The most offensive people in my life have
also taught me the hardest hitting lessons of my
life. Like how to be patient, tolerant and have
unconditional love.
All I know is, when I smiled and kept my
mouth shut on the job, whoever was being offensive
toward me had no other choice but to go
away. What else was there to say? By the way, I
also have a pretty mean hook-kick!
Karen Eden is a fourth-degree black belt and master in the art of
Tang Soo Do. She is also a published author, former radio personality
and TV journalist, who has appeared on CNN, FOX National,
and Animal Planet. She has also appeared in two major Hollywood
productions. Karen has written for and appeared in many martial
arts publications over the years. Her books include The Complete
Idiot’s Guide to Tae Kwon Do (Penguin Books) and I Am a Martial
Artist (Century Martial Arts). She is also the poet behind the popular
I Am a Martial Artist product line, also available through Century
Martial Arts, and Dojo Darling martial arts wear, available through
Karatedepot.com. Master Eden currently teaches at-risk youth
through the Salvation Army in Denver, Colorado. For contact or booking
information, email her at sabomnim@toast.net.
Woman of the Times
By Karen Eden
taekwondotimes.com / November 2009 81

I am “un-offendable.” At least that’s what I keep
telling myself every time someone offends me.
A good friend of mine who literally mentored
me in the TV business, told me straight up when I
got my first TV break, “If you really want to make
it in this business, you’re going to have to learn how
to smile and keep your mouth shut.” It was the best
advice I ever got, and I soon found out why.
What a funny business. It seems you get hired
because you’re deemed “better” than all the other
candidates out there. Sometimes, you have to beat
out hundreds of other talents to just get a shot at a
major market position. Then once you get that job, all
they do is tell you how you’re not “measuring up.” You
get viewers calling in telling you how much they hate
your outfit or hair-do. If you let it, you’ll go home and
that business will just suck the soul right out of your
chest.
But not if you can learn how to smile and keep
your mouth shut. It’s a real battle over the flesh to do
it, but it teaches you how to not be offended. In the
long run, I’ve never seen it not pay off.
Those of you who have dogs know exactly what
I’m talking about when I say that man’s best friend
cannot be offended. I used to come home and head
straight for the bathroom. Seconds later, there was my
dog, busting through the door. I used to yell, “If you’re
going to do that, the least you
can do is close the door
behind you!” It didn’t
matter what I
said. Poncho, my
mischievous wiener
dog, would
just stand
there with his
tail wagging,
because, like
all dogs, he was
un-offendable.
Webster’s defines “offense” as something that
offends or displeases. In our martial arts training,
offense is the opposite of defense. More simply
put, offense is the attack mode. Yet, we don’t find
offense in being offensive because that’s just the
way it is. In their basic process, the martial arts are
the tactical training of offense and defense.
I remember when I was an orange belt. We had
a guest instructor from Korea teaching class that
week. He was really into hook-kicks, and I really
couldn’t do them. So the next night, I thought
I would be the good student, come in early and
personally ask him for help with this kick before
class. He didn’t speak much English, but he did
pull out a chair and say, “200 times each leg.”
Though I never did ask this particular instructor
for help again, his actions didn’t offend me, because
I fully understood that he was trying to help me
become a better martial artist.
I wonder if we can apply that same principle
to those in our own lives whom we find offensive.
Could it be that they have been placed as
a teacher on our own stage to make us a better
person? As a “master,” I have discovered that those
who have offended me have forced me to look more
closely at the things that I have not yet “mastered.”
The most offensive people in my life have
also taught me the hardest hitting lessons of my
life. Like how to be patient, tolerant and have
unconditional love.
All I know is, when I smiled and kept my
mouth shut on the job, whoever was being offensive
toward me had no other choice but to go
away. What else was there to say? By the way, I
also have a pretty mean hook-kick!
Karen Eden is a fourth-degree black belt and master in the art of
Tang Soo Do. She is also a published author, former radio personality
and TV journalist, who has appeared on CNN, FOX National,
and Animal Planet. She has also appeared in two major Hollywood
productions. Karen has written for and appeared in many martial
arts publications over the years. Her books include The Complete
Idiot’s Guide to Tae Kwon Do (Penguin Books) and I Am a Martial
Artist (Century Martial Arts). She is also the poet behind the popular
I Am a Martial Artist product line, also available through Century
Martial Arts, and Dojo Darling martial arts wear, available through
Karatedepot.com. Master Eden currently teaches at-risk youth
through the Salvation Army in Denver, Colorado. For contact or booking
information, email her at sabomnim@toast.net.
Woman of the Times
By Karen Eden
taekwondotimes.com / November 2009 81

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The Supplement
We all have a myriad of reasons for getting involved
in martial arts. One goal many of us share is to
lose weight and achieve a greater level of fitness. It is
relatively easy to monitor weight loss by simply using
a bathroom scale or paying attention to the way your
jeans fit. On the other hand, fitness requires more effort
to measure.
Because martial arts training is typically medium
to high intensity and lasts for at least an hour in most
cases, it burns a maximum number of calories per
workout and is therefore great for anyone who wants
to lose weight fast. The average number of calories
burned while participating in an hour-long martial
arts class is approximately 700 calories per hour for
a 155 pound person. (Of course, this depends on the
form of martial arts that you practice and the intensity
of the workout, but this is an average number). This
compares to a 150 pound person running six miles per
hour (a ten-minute mile) for one hour.
However, a person’s weight is not necessarily an
indication of fitness level. Many people equate thinness
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So, how can you determine just how fit you are?
The intensity at which you exercise reflects the
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Consider these simple strategies for monitoring how
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your workouts. The quick and easy method is the “talk
test” and the more scientific method is “target heart
rate.” As a general rule, moderate-intensity activity is
best. If you exercise too lightly, you may not meet your
fitness or weight loss goals, but if you push yourself
too hard, you may increase your risk of soreness,
injury and burnout.
The talk test is a fast and easy method
used for measuring exercise intensity. By
judging your ability to talk during your
workout, you can determine how hard you’re
working. If you can carry on a conversation
of brief sentences but you cannot sing a
song, you’re probably exercising in the
recommended moderate-intensity
range. If you get out of breath
quickly, you’re probably
working too hard, especially
if you have to stop and catch
your breath. Experts generally
suggest that you should not be
breathless during your workouts.
However, if you’re doing interval training or a short,
high intensity workout, being somewhat breathless is
okay. Obviously, if you feel dizzy or lightheaded, you
should slow down or stop exercising.
If you want hard numbers then determining your target
heart rate and measuring your pulse is the way to go.
The harder you exercise, the faster your heart pumps.
As you get fitter and as your heart gets stronger, harder
bouts of exercise become easier, so your heart rate may
not be as high doing the same workout once you have
trained to do it. Target heart rates let you measure your
initial fitness level and monitor your progress in a fitness
program. This approach requires measuring your pulse
periodically as you exercise. To measure your pulse, stop
your exercise, place two fingers on the thumb side of
your wrist, or place your index and third fingers on your
neck to the side of your windpipe. When you feel your
pulse, look at your watch and count the number of beats
in 15 seconds. Multiply this number by 4 to get your
heart rate per minute.
Your maximum heart rate is about 220 minus your
age. The table shows estimated target heart rates for
different ages. Look for the age category nearest yours
and read across to find your target heart rate. When
starting an exercise program, aim at the lowest part of
your target zone (50 percent) during the first few weeks
and gradually build up to the higher part of your target
zone (75 percent). After six months or more of regular
exercise, you may be able to exercise comfortably at up
to 85 percent of your maximum heart rate. However,
you don’t have to exercise that hard to stay in shape.
Suzanne Ellenberger holds the rank of EE dan in Choi Kwang
Do martial arts. She works at Clemson University in South
Carolina, where she teaches both freshman chemistry courses
and a class in Choi Kwang Do martial arts. Suzanne also leads
the Clemson University Choi Kwang Do Club.
Average Maximum
Heart Rate
100 %
Target HR Zone
Age
50–85 %
20 years 100–170 beats per minute 200 beats per minute
25 years 98–166 beats per minute 195 beats per minute
30 years 95–162 beats per minute 190 beats per minute
35 years 93–157 beats per minute 185 beats per minute
40 years 90–153 beats per minute 180 beats per minute
45 years 88–149 beats per minute 175 beats per minute
50 years 85–145 beats per minute 170 beats per minute
55 years 83–140 beats per minute 165 beats per minute
60 years 80–136 beats per minute 160 beats per minute
65 years 78–132 beats per minute 155 beats per minute
70 years 75–128 beats per minute 150 beats per minute
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By Suzanne R. Ellenberger, Ph.D

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The subway is the best way to travel in Seoul. It is clean, safe
and easy to navigate and the stops are called out verbally in Korean,
English and Japanese. Even if you do own a car and can afford the
gas prices, which are three times higher than in the U.S., it is still
extremely crowded on the roads and almost impossible to find a
parking space in the city.
One day, Master Chang and I were riding the subway to our car,
on the way home from training. The subway was not particularly
crowded at the time. Two young women were talking while standing,
sharing the support of a pole. One woman had a baby snugly
tied to her back in a sling. The other woman had a toddler playing
around her legs. The women were engrossed in conversation and
the toddler made his way over to the subway door. He quickly
found the crack separating the doors and was trying to work his
little fingers into the rubber edging. I was pretty sure the little
tyke was not actually capable of opening the door on the speeding
subway car. But then again, you know we have child safety locks on
everything in our country. Do other countries incorporate the same
construction guidelines for safety? It was unnerving at any rate. I
was watching the mother hoping she would notice and do something,
but she was deep into the discussion. I was uncomfortable
saying something myself, knowing the child would not understand
a foreigner. I would probably terrify him and make him try harder
to open the door and jump to escape. So I made Master Chang do
it.
Master Chang looked over and saw what the kid was up to. I
expected him to turn to the child and say something like, “Ha jee
ma! (Stop it!)” With lightning speed, Master Chang spun around
and snap kicked the child in the rear end. Beautiful kick, nicely
executed, perfect snap...enough to lift the child from the floor
momentarily. Like any instructor who has taught a sparring class
and witnessed a student taking an unexpected blow, maybe a little
too hard, he sucks in a deep breath...your heart stops...time slows
to a crawl…you wait. Will the student kihap and come out fighting
or will you hear the blood-curdling scream of fear/surprise/pain/
mommy?
No such luck, it was the mommy scream. Now Mommy (finally),
and everyone else on the subway notices the little boy. Mommy
spins on her heels, looks at her son bawling (from surprise more
than from actual pain), and looks at the guy who obviously had
something to do with it. Again, time slowed to a crawl...how will
Mommy react? Will she scream? Will the entire subway crowd
gang up and jump us? Is she going to slap him? Is she going to call
her lawyer?
Still completely clueless to the situation, the mother and her
talkative friend both turned completely toward Master Chang and
bowed saying, “Gam-sa-hom-nee-da (Thank you).”
Totally not expecting that response, I quickly asked Master
Chang for an explanation. “I am an adult and he was a little boy.
The mother trusts that an adult would never purposely harm a
child, but will teach them a lesson when needed.” That mother
knew that whatever her child did, required whatever punishment
he received.
This was not an isolated incident. Another time, I saw my Tae
Kwon Do instructor discipline a couple of teenagers smoking outside
the dojang. “Are they students here?” I asked, “Do you know
them? Who are they?” My instructor said he did not know them,
but that they were teenagers who should be studying and not hanging
around smoking. I was told to go inside. I trained as close to the
door as possible, to keep an eye on what was going on. After taking
what was coming to them, the teenagers themselves bowed to my
instructor and thanked him.
Of course, I don’t condone kid kicking. But of all the things I
miss about Korea, the feeling of trust within the community to
look out for one another is one of the best. Turn on your local news
and you will quickly be reminded why we cannot and should not
trust complete strangers to raise, teach and discipline our children
in our own country.
It is overwhelming to think you can just change the world, but
through our training we learn to make desired changes within ourselves.
It is our first step in influencing the world around us.
Our dojangs are a micro-community. We are a group of children,
adults and families united together with a common goal. We all
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We all want to be healthier with more self-control and discipline
and to feel safe. We all aspire to be stronger in mind, body and
spirit. It is in this community that we can experience trust between
juniors and seniors. Everyone has their part to play. The seniors, the
higher ranking, have to take responsibility to teach and set examples
for the lower ranks. It is easy to ignore bad behavior or technique.
It is tempting to be everyone’s favorite instructor and be lax
on the details or the enforcement of rules. But just like a parent, it
is the instructor who truly cares about the students, who takes the
time and effort to teach the lesson, regardless of how unpopular it
may make him/her at the time. The juniors or lower ranking (and
parents) have to appreciate the lessons being taught. They have to
trust the ways and methods, understanding that there is a reason
for every rule, every regulation and every disciplinary measure.
Translated from the old masters...
If there is virtue in the spirit, then there will be honor in the
character.
If there is honor in the character, then there will be respect in
the home.
If there is respect in the home, there will
be harmony in the nation.
If there is harmony in the nation,
then there will be peace on Earth.
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black belt in WTF Taekwondo,
a fourth-degree in Hapkido
and a second-degree in
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Kwang Do schools. The program provides a smooth transition into Choi Kwang
Do without affecting the operational functioning of the school or the learning and
development of the existing student body.
Qualified school owners will be invited to Choi Kwang Do Headquarters in Atlanta,
Georgia. These school owners will be instructed and trained by the founder
of Choi Kwang Do himself, Grandmaster Choi. School owners will be provided
with theoretical and technical information about Choi Kwang Do, information
about the organizational structure, and a support team from Choi Kwang Do
Headquarters.
The January 2007 TKD Times front cover personality, Grandmaster Kwang Jo
Choi, is a well-respected martial artist with over fifty years of dedicated training.
TKD Times called Grandmaster Choi “A Force of Nature.” In March of 1987,
Grandmaster Choi introduced one of the most scientific martial arts in recent
times. At the age of 67, he is a living testament to his art in which the primary goal
is to prevent and reverse illness and disease and to promote optimal physical and
mental health and longevity by increasing energy and vitality.
Since its conception in 1987, thousands of instructors and students
have enjoyed the benefits of Choi Kwang Do
because of its close relationship with modern
scientific research. Choi Kwang Do’s natural,
easy-to-learn, sequential movements maximize
your body’s force-producing capabilities, but
more importantly, they increase opportunities
to enhance your health. It’s a unique
program based on modern scientific
principles from human anatomy, physiology
(the branch of biological sciences
dealing with the functioning of
organisms), psychology (the science of
mental life), kinesiology (the branch of
physiology that studies mechanics and
anatomy in relation to human movement),
neurophysiology (the branch of
neuroscience that studies the physiology
of the nervous system) and biomechanics
(human movement science). This phenomenal
relationship with cutting-edge
research enables Choi Kwang Do instructors
and students to enjoy this martial art while
maximizing health benefits and increasing the
GM Choi &
Alfredo Negron of
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico
taekwondotimes.com / November 2009 91

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proficiency of self-defense skills without the
limitations of injury.
With the introduction of the Conversion
Program in Korea, South America and Central
America, multiple school owners with various
martial arts backgrounds have successfully
converted their schools into Choi Kwang Do
schools. These instructors and students are
reaping the benefits of this martial art that
Grandmaster Choi has graciously shared with
the rest of the world. We would like to welcome
and congratulate our latest instructors
from Korea, Russia, Canada, El Salvador, Peru,
Panama, Mexico, Columbia, Brazil, Nicaragua,
Puerto Rico and Costa Rica, who have gone
through the Choi Kwang Do Conversion Program.
These instructors have taken the first step
Mohammed Nasir (white shirt) of Malaysia and fellow instructors
by learning the theoretical and technical curriculum of Choi Kwang Do and are currently in the process of
learning the organizational structure and appealing business model. We are currently working with instructors
from other countries to help them convert as well.
In Canada, we have Mr. Kariyawansa, who is a first-dan and Chief Instructor. Mr. Kariyawansa started
training in Tae Kwon Do in 1997 and converted to Choi Kwang Do in 2004. After a short break in training,
he returned to Choi Kwang Do training in 2007. In April 2009, Mr. Kariyawansa opened his own school
in Halifax, Nova Scotia, which was the only Choi Kwang Do school in Canada. Mr. Kariyawansa visited
headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, in July 2009 where he was personally trained by founder and Grandmaster
Kwang Jo Choi. Mr. Kariyawansa also visited many schools in Atlanta and was trained by Master
Pereira, seventh-dan, and Master Gallager, fifth-dan. Mr. Kariyawansa received training in Korean etiquette,
mannerisms and language by Grandmaster Woo, eighth-dan. Mr. Kariyawansa was also certified in the
Choi Kwang Do Business Model, School Owners Program and Examiner Program by Master Pereira of
Choi Kwang Do Martial Art International. Mr. Kariyawansa is extremely excited about his positive start in
Halifax, Canada, with a fully functional and professional support team backing him up from Choi Kwang
Do Headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia.
Mr. Kariyawansa is joined in Canada by Mrs. Tanja Reid-Matlock, first-dan and Chief Instructor in Toronto,
Canada. Mrs. Reid-Matlock was trained
by Mr. Spence, Jr., fouth-dan, in Georgia. She
was an elite athlete who started training in
Choi Kwang Do because she saw the benefits
of this great martial art that can be practiced
at all stages of life. Mrs. Reid-Matlock trained
diligently and purposefully with Mr. Spence, Jr.
with the goal of becoming a school owner. She
is a certified school owner with Choi Kwang
Do Martial Art International and is excited
about opening her brand new school in the
greater Toronto area.
In Montreal, Mr. Stephane Quirone, thirddegree,
has been in Choi Kwang Do for many
years and is a senior instructor with Choi
Kwang Do International. He is very excited
that Mr. Kariyawansa and Mrs. Reid-Matlock
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New CKD Instructors in Peru
Peru

have joined him in promoting Choi Kwang
Do all over Canada. He is also very enthused
about the future direction Choi
Kwang Do is heading, as many South and
Central American Countries are getting
involved.
In Russia, Mr. Skipalskiy, third-dan, and
his brother, Alexey, first-dan, are excited
about their new school in Moscow. Mr. Skipalskiy
has trained in Tae Kwon Do, Sambo,
Karate, Judo and Hapkido for many
years and is a third-dan in many disciplines.
Mr. Skipalskiy and his brother were also
accompanied by Ms. Ksenia Sedykh from
St. Petersburg Russia. These Russian Chief
Instructors and Head Instructors trained
Master Kyoung of Sugi, Korea (3rd from left)
and fellow instructors
in Atlanta, Georgia, directly with Grandmaster Choi. They were also taught
Choi Kwang Do business principles under the guidance of Master Pereira. These
instructors visited many Choi Kwang Do schools in Georgia to get a better understanding
of the functionality of this system and its use in the business world.
Currently, Hyo Kyung Kim, second-dan and Seon Young Park, third-dan from
Sugi, Korea, are training at CKD headquarters as well. These instructors have been
converted by Master In Hyun Kyong. They have experience in Tukong Moosul,
Yong Moo Do, Tae Kwon Do and Hapkido. Two years ago, Master Kyong himself
converted to Choi Kwang Do. There is an expansion program in place in Korea
under the direction of Master Kyong.
Mr. Alfredo Negron, fourth-dan from Las Piedras, Puerto Rico, traveled to Choi
Kwang Do Headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, to train with Grandmaster Kwang
Jo Choi. Mr. Negron is the first martial art instructor to train with the founder and
is introducing Choi Kwang Do to the beautiful island of Puerto Rico. Mr. Negron
started training in Karate in 1979 and changed to TKD in 1987. His wife Aidita
is a brown belt, while his children, Rafeal, second-dan, Christian, second-dan, and
Miriangeliz, third-dan, all run two professional TKD schools with two additional
classes in private schools, that have been converted to Choi Kwang Do. Plans are
being made for Grandmaster Kwang Choi to conduct a Choi Kwang Do seminar
in Puerto Rico.
We would like to congratulate Master Fernando
Yupanqui for converting 19 Tae Kwon Do schools in
Peru to Choi Kwang Do. Choi Kwang Do International
would also like to thank Mr. Raneiro Del Frederico
and Elena Santa Cruz for undertaking the conversion
program in Peru.
We are currently looking for other qualified instructors
from around the world to join this growing
multi-nation international martial art. Choi Kwang Do
has stood the test of time and this is the perfect opportunity
to elevate your martial art career to the next
level. For more information, visit choikwangdo.com.
GM Choi & Mr. Kariyawansa of Canada
Canada
South Korea
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The Last Word
C. M. Griffin holds black belts in several martial arts. He is involved in many facets of the performing arts from stunt coordinator to director. He has
written, produced and directed projects for television and for corporations. He owns and operates his own Hwa Rang Do school in Ohio.
Check this out: there’s an old saying that goes something
like: “A little bit of knowledge can lead to a whole
lot of problems.” Well, there’s a guy I know, we’ll call
him Ted. Ted can fall into the category of a “self-taught
master,” but with him there’s a slight difference. Ted is
a U.S. Army Vietnam veteran. Before being drafted,
he was a boxer and he also trained in Judo. After the
military, he worked out and trained with men who
later became grandmasters. Ted sparred with them and
did some classes. He grasped a lot of the principles of
the arts. He also went to seminars, workshops, bought
books, magazines and watched film of different martial
arts teachers demonstrating their techniques. (This
was before video.) Ted even learned forms, including
Naihanchi—Korean and Okinawa versions; Bassai—
Korean and Okinawa versions, Korryo and so on. The
thing about Ted is that he never officially joined or
paid a school in order to get ranked. All the grandmasters
know him and worked out with him. They respect
his skill and knowledge; he just never received a black
belt.
In the early 90s, Ted became interested in pressure
points, Ki and Chi Gung. He went to a few George
Dillman seminars as well as Dragon Society workshops.
He also attended Tai Chi and Chi Gung seminars,
bought the books, videos, etc. He never joined a
school or studied under one teacher, he relied on his
vast martial library, seminars and his own knowledge of
the arts.
Friends warned him that he should not “mess
around with Chi,” especially with “hard breath techniques,”
without an instructor to show him the basics
and correct his form. They also told him he needed to
meditate and learn proper breathing techniques. Ted
laughed and said something like, “I always start at the
top! I go right to the head! If I can understand the top,
then there’s no need for me to reach to the bottom for
all that foo fah rah! That’s for you guys to spend years
down there before you start doing anything!”
So he continued on his path. A couple years went by
and Ted developed liver problems, followed by heart
and lung complications. In a four year period, he was in
and out of the hospital for extended periods of time at
least six times. The last time he had bypass surgery.
Not too long after convalescing, Ted announced that
he mastered Chi. His energy flow was so strong he
could move people without touching them. He demonstrated
this ability on a number of people in different
schools. Unfortunately after each time, he had a severe
headache. Once, his headache was so severe it landed
him in bed for an entire day.
Ted had lost a lot of weight over the last few years.
He went from a lean 220 pounds to about 170. Ted is
a big man, about 6’2” or 6’3”, but he was becoming skin
and bones. His eyes were dull and his color was very
sallow.
Late last year, Ted dropped by a tournament. I introduced
him to an older Korean grandmaster I know.
When he saw Ted, he immediately told him he was “out
of balance.” This grandmaster, who is also a licensed
acupuncture doctor, then proceeded to list all of Ted’s
symptoms and ailments. Ted was shocked. The grandmaster
and Ted talked for over two hours. Afterwards,
Ted regularly saw the grandmaster. They worked on
Chi techniques, correcting Ted’s breathing, movements,
posture and everything else. Five months later, Ted’s
color returned and his eyes are bright and clear. The
doctors have even cut back on a lot of his medications.
Ted tells us some of the things that the grandmaster
does and says to him. We smile and remind him that
a lot of those things we told him years ago. He does
admit that his method of training was all wrong and
he has a long way to go before he really understands
how Chi works and what it can do. He is beginning
to understand about breath and its importance. Ted
meditates regularly now and prays too. (He remarkably
found a connection to the Almighty! Go figure!) Like
I said, a little bit of knowledge can lead to a whole lot
of problems. That brings up another adage: “When the
student is ready, the teacher will appear. Before then, the
mind and ears are closed.” That may not be the exact
quote, but you get the idea.
Chi, or Ki, is not something you can learn on your
own. Doing that is like playing
with electricity. No,
let me rephrase that:
it’s like trying to
capture lightning.
Unless you really
know what you’re
doing and had
excellent instruction
in what to
do, you will get
severely burned!
Later.
98 November 2009 / taekwondotimes.com
By C.M. Griffin

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