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Recent posts from the blog
Better Together: Families in TKD
Without question, one of the coolest parts of running a dojang is when a student and their loved ones earn black belts in the same ceremony. As is the case with anything, there are both positives and negatives to families training Tae Kwon-Do together. But the good vastly outweighs the bad. Life pulls at you […]
Too Loud to Be Ignored: TKD in North America
BOOM. BOOM. BOOM. One of my dear friends, Grand Master Francois Balet, was lifting weights at a YMCA in Canada one day back in the mid 60s. That booming sound stopped his workout dead in its tracks. He went to find out where the sound was coming from. What he discovered changed his life. Balet […]
Colton: A True Success Story
It Changed His Life It was August of 2014. A few weeks before his sixth birthday, Colton started Tae Kwon-Do at Master Gorino’s. We had no idea how important that moment would be. Colton suffered from ADD. He had speech and reading issues as well as a learning disability. We were told that Tae Kwon-Do […]
The SWAT Team – Special Winning Attitude Teens
Shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic, I had a baby. No, Charlie didn’t get a new brother or sister. And my wife Tica felt no pain at all. This was my baby. I birthed it myself. And I named it SWAT. SWAT stands for Special Winning Attitude Teens. It is a group of students that I […]
I Didn’t Choose Tae Kwon-Do. It Chose Me.
Why did I learn Tae Kwon-Do? In many ways, it wasn’t up to me. I actually started out in Karate. I mainly studied Isshin-Ryū, which I spent a lot of time on and loved. Isshin-Ryū teaches practical stuff; street-usable things. But, unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you look at it), all through my training […]
The Belts and the Remarkable People Who Wear Them
Tabula rasa is the notion that humans are born a blank slate, and all knowledge comes from experience or perception. The White Belt symbolizes this. Purity. Innocence. The Yellow belt symbolizes the sun. A source of light and warmth, and new beginnings. The Green belt symbolizes growth. Like blades of grass. The Blue belt symbolizes […]