When I started Taekwondo in the 1980’s with the United Kingdom Taekwondo Association (UKTA) breaking boards in colour belt junior gradings was a big thing. You had to break a wood or plastic board to pass any grading from, as far as I recall, Green Belt. Black Belts were required to break house bricks. Breaking […]
Taekwon-Do Encyclopedia by General Choi Hong Hi
The above book is now available from Amazon as an Ebook. Click on the link above to go straight to Amazon. It is the condensed Encyclopedia of Taekwon-do. I purchased a copy of this book in 1995 at a Grandmaster Gen Choi Hong Hi Instructors Training session in Reading, UK. Back in 1995 it cost […]
TaeKwon-Do and Me – The Instructor
After eight years in Taekwondo, in 1995 as I was progressing to Black Belt I was encouraged to start up a Taekwondo club in Banbury. After an International and National Instructors qualification I decided to take on the challenge. The internet wasn’t a popular option for marketing in the mid 1990’s so it was posters […]
TaeKwon-Do and Me
My training in Tae Kwon Do began in 1986 whilst serving in the military at Hereford, I wasn’t in the Special Air Service but I was stationed at their Headquarters as a Staff Clerk. An MOD Policeman, Paul Eden invited me to attend his Tae Kwon Do class in the gym. My only experience in […]