Introduction As part of my preparation for testing for 4th Dan, I was asked by my instructor, Grandmaster J.E. Donnelly, to write a short paper discussing my history with Taekwon-Do, and what my Taekwon-Do goals were for the future. In doing my research, I found that many people had written similar papers, but not very [...]

Lately, I’ve become interested in understanding why certain students seem to take to Taekwon-Do, and what changes their parents see in them over the course of time. Almost always, the student is there because the parent is trying to teach them a skill necessary for success — patience, focus, confidence, perhaps even some self-defense skills. [...]

(First posted to tkdunion.org on Oct. 11, 2011) I met Grandmaster Kim in 1976. He was a 5th degree blackbelt and had just opened his school in Bergenfield, NJ in 1975.