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TKD Power™ is an authorised learning cente that only promotes the true, and unadulterated, art of Taekwon-Do as taught by the Founder, General Choi Hong Hi (1918-2002).
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All TKD Power™ schools are supervised by highly skilled educators of Taekwon-Do who hold genuine internationally recognised certification.
Taekwon-Do is suitable for men, women and children of all ages, shapes and sizes, and helps to promote health, fitness and well-being, as well as an unrivalled system of self-defence.
What is Taekwon-Do?
"To put it simply Taekwon-Do is a version of unarmed combat designed for the purpose of self-defence.
It is more than just that, however. It is the scientific use of the body in the method of self-defence; a body that has gained the ultimate use of its facilities through intensive physical and mental training.
It is a martial art that has no equal in either power or technique. Though it is a martial art, its discipline, technique and mental training are the mortar for building a strong sense of justice, fortitude, humility and resolve.
It is this mental conditioning that separates the true practitioner from the sensationalist, content with mastering only the fighting aspects of the art.
This is one of the reasons that Taekwon-Do is called an art of self-defence. It also implies a way of thinking and life, particularly in instilling a concept and spirit of strict self-imposed discipline and an ideal of noble moral rearmament.
The nearest description of it is almost a cult. Translated literally "Tae" stands for jumping or flying, to kick or smash with the foot. "Kwon" denotes the fist-chiefly to punch or destroy with the hand or fist. "Do" means an art or way - the right way built and paved by the saints and sages in the past.
Thus taken collectively "Taekwon-Do" indicates the mental training and the techniques of unarmed combat for self-defence as well as health, involving the skilled application of punches, kicks, blocks and dodges with bare hands and feet to the rapid destruction of the moving opponent or opponents."
General Choi Hong Hi
Founder of Taekwon-Do
References:
Choi, Hong Hi, 1999. Taekwon-Do (The Korean Art of Self Defense) also known as The Condensed Encyclopedia. 5th ed. Canada: Comdo.
