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New
ITF Testing requirements
The
ITF in it's efforts to continually grow and improve the
standard of Taekwon-Do has modified the training
requirements for the promotion of high level Black Belts.
Starting January 1st, 2010 the time requirements have
increased: previously the student trained for the number of
years of his or her current rank. i.e. a second degree would
train for 2 years until promotion, now the requirement is
the number of years for the rank that the students is
testing to. i.e. a second degree testing to third degree
would now train for 3 years, and so on.
Congratulations
to everyone who participated in Nationals!
Nationals
were a huge success. Thanks to everyone who participated and
helped out - it couldn't have run without everyone's work.
Please also congratulate those from Mightyfist
Taekwon-Do who made the
U.S.
team and will represent
United States
at Worlds 2011 in
New Zealand
, namely: Vivian Le, Ruri Kobayakawa, Stephen Ho, Benjamin
Chung, Irina Litvinyuk, Daniel Nguyen, Derek Nguyen, Arjun
Baokar, Colin Hong, Ramya
Annam
, Ammu Loganathan and Vaishnavi Raghuraman.
New
Testing Procedure
As
many of you know we have been trying out a new testing
procedure involving informing students of eligibility
earlier and testing theory and push-ups in advance of the
test. This has
been a great success with a much higher test pass rate. We
would like to formalize the procedure as follows:
1.
A student who has
attended the required number of classes will be told of
their eligibility to test at least 4 weeks in advance of the
test date.
2.
The student must
then demonstrate in class that they have learned all of
their theory 'word for word' and can properly perform the
required number of push-ups.
3.
A
TEST FORM WILL THEN BE GIVEN TO THE STUDENT FOR RETURN AS
SOON AS POSSIBLE
.
4.
The student must
still be attending class regularly to be further assessed in
advance of the test.
If
it looks like more work is still required in order to pass
the student will be recommended for a later test instead,
with additional training focus given in class.
ITF
Affiliation
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
Change of addresses
Please ensure that we have you up to date contact information i.e. telephone and
correct address.
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