About Tae Kwon-Do

Tae Kwon-Do is a Korean Martial Art with a two thousand year history. Originally it was a fighting skill used for self defence. Over the centuries it has evolved into an art, a sport and a winning way of life.

The founder of Tae Kwon-Do, Major General Choi Hong Hi 9th Degree Black Belt, describes Tae Kwon-Do as the scientific use of the body in the method of self defence; a body that has gained the ultimate use of its faculties through intensive physical and mental training. As 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 the mental conditioning that separates the true practitioner from the sensationalist, content with mastering only the fighting aspects of the art.

He continues by saying that Tae Kwon-Do definitely enables the weak to posses a fine weapon together with a confidence to defend him or herself and defeat the opponent as well. Of course wrongly applied, Tae Kwon-Do can be a lethal weapon. Therefore through mental training students are prevented from misusing it.

Even if Tae Kwon-Do is practised for the sake of exercise alone, the enjoyment derived will justify the time invested and spent. As an exercise, it is equally suitable for the old and young, male and female.

Why TKD24?

Because our founder Major General Choi Hong Hi 9th Dan compared a day in the life of a man with a day in the life of Tae Kwon-Do, 24 patterns denote a pattern for each hour of the day. Therefore Tae Kwon-Do can be practised throughout a lifetime.