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The 1st Korean Choi Kwan Do Seminar 10/10/2010. A big day in martial arts history.

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:29:06 -0800

Pil Suhng!

Join us for a big day in martial arts history.

The date for your diary 10th October 2010, this will be the date of Choi
Kwang Do's first Korean seminar, it will be a landmark event not only in
Choi Kwang Do history but also in Martial Art history. There are very few
martial artists with ability, credibility, connections and experience to
evolve a new Martial Art and then reintroduce it successfully to the people
of Korea through the original Tae Kwon Do Grandmasters and the remaining
founding founders of Korean martial arts.

These are the same grandmasters that Grandmaster Choi trained with back in
the day while he was spreading the word of Tae Kwon Do as a young Chief
Instructor in Korea and Malaysia. One of the obvious differences between
grandmaster Choi and many other grandmasters from that era is the fact
Grandmaster is still extremely physically capable as a martial artist and is
still very much progressing in terms of ability, speed, power, agility and
flexibility, while most of the original grandmasters stopped practising Tae
Kwon Do many years ago. The people of Korea have had longer than we in the western world to observe
the long term effects of Tae Kwon Do on adult students and this might
explain the fact that Tae Kwon Do has become mainly an afterschool activity
in Korea, taught to children with relatively very few adults actively
training including the instructors who actually teach the children. Korean
masters and grandmasters alike however have been amazed by Grandmasters
Choi's energy and ability at age 67 and by the fact he is still able not
only to participate fully but that he very much continues to set the
standard for excellence in the art.

Obviously as a native Korean Grandmaster Choi is able to fully communicate
the extensive science and research behind his art in their own language and
in a way the grandmasters can fully grasp and understand and explain in
detail his research on the long term effects of traditional martial arts
training. Never before has a martial art been developed outside east and
then taken back to such an influential group of martial arts masters in a
country like Korea. Grandmaster Choi has recently been spending a lot of
his time training the Korean masters, we do not yet know to what extent Choi
Kwang Do will be embraced by other Korean grandmasters and Tae Kwon Do
schools but those who have already had the opportunity to learn from
Grandmaster Choi are welcoming the changes with open arms.

Some very influential Korean Tae Kwon Do schools and organisations have
begun the conversion process to Choi Kwang Do, nobody really knows what
knock-on effect this have on schools and organisations outside Korea as the
Tae Kwon Do masters and grandmasters obviously carry a lot of weight and
credibility throughout the world of martial arts. Many of these
grandmasters trained or tested most of the overseas instructors in the
western world either directly or indirectly. There are estimated to be 20
million Tae Kwon Do practitioners worldwide. The founding grandmasters of
Tae Kwon Do embracing the evolved art of Choi Kwang Do could well signal the
beginning of a new era in Martial Arts. Students and instructors from Brighton Choi Kwang Do will travel to the
other side of the world as we have done before to support Grandmaster Choi
and the organisation at this landmark event. Please get in touch with us at
the school if you are interested in finding out more about this once in a
lifetime event. It will only happen once and we all have a chance to play a
small part in a big day in martial arts history.

Pil Suhng!

Eugene Butcher

Brighton Choi Kwang Do
01273 307 500

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