General News

We would like to mention that Mightyfist Taekwon-Do and Morris Martial Arts, Inc. are not associated with any North Korean Organizations.  We have been made aware that other TKD schools in the area have been describing our school as the North Korean Taekwon-Do School.

General Choi Hong Hi, the founder of Taekwon-Do was born in 1918 in Myong Chung a district which now resides in North Korea. General Choi served in the South Korean Army where he developed Taekwon-Do, he also formally named it Taekwon-Do on 11th April 1955. and one of his dreams when he was alive was that all of Korean would be united peacefully. 

The ITF was formed in 1966 in Seoul South Korean, but after a falling out with the South Korean governnment General Choi moved the ITF headquarters to Vienna, Austria, the headquarters has since moved to Rome, Italy. The ITF is a democratic organization comprised of Taekwon-Do Students and Member Organizations which represent Continents, Countries and Schools.

The WTF (World Taekwon-Do Federation) was formed in 1973 by the South Korean Government after General Choi left to live in Canada and has it's own qualities. 

The WTF style is heavily focused on competition aspects of sparring and has often been described as "Sport Taekwon-Do".  The ITF style is more Traditional with longer stances and emphasis on Technique and Power and is described as "Martial Taekwon-Do".

For further information please visit the ITF website at www.itf-tkd.org or for independent reading at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taekwon-do and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choi_Hong_Hi

New Black Belt Promotions

Please join us in congratulating our newest ITF Black Belts Mr. Darien Nguyen, Miss Irina Litvinyuk, Mr. Stephen Ho, and Mr. Derek Nguyen.