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Social struggles know no age. I get a lot of students – adults and children alike – that are, for lack of a better word, awkward.Of

“Your Effort is Your Success.”Grand Master Park used to have a poster in his dojang with that phrase on it. It became somewhat of a

Master. Even many, many years after earning that title, it’s a word that I am still not used to saying or hearing. The journey to become a

If kicks are more powerful and have a longer reach than punches…why would you ever throw a punch?That’s a question that I am often asked,

“Martial Arts is not about being better than the other person, it’s about being better than you were yesterday.”Frankly, I think that’s not entirely true…Martial

Most Tae Kwon-Do practitioners don’t consider themselves athletes. Even though there are many athletic aspects of what we do – strength, conditioning, flexibility, etc. – for

Raise your hand if you are currently donating money to some kind of gym every month, and never actually going.That’s no accident. It’s how gyms

I always train with the same mindset: when the situation calls, be able to break it.Breaking a board or brick is hard on its own.

I was recently asked, “Master Gorino, when is it most fun for you to train? When is it the least fun?” I almost didn’t understand the

The early days of Tae Kwon-Do were anything but glamorous.In the 1960’s, General Choi, widely considered the father of Tae Kwon-Do, took a team of