11 Year Old from San Antonio wins four taekwondo world titles in one day
Original Article from KENS5 SAN ANTONIO — Jade Napier kept trying to find her niche, but it seemed to elude her. Ballet did not hold her interest, and neither did gymnastics or soccer. When she got to an invitational self-defense class, it seemed like love at first fight. “I learned like ten things within the first…
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Great Grandmaster Suh Chong Kang (1929-2022)
GGM Kang was born and raised in Shineuju, in the northern part of Korea. His lifelong pursuit of martial arts started in 1938 at the age of 9 with Judo; then in 1944 he began training at Chung Do Kwan to eventually become the first 10th Dan Black belt in Taekwondo in 1980. He was…
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Would a Proposed Virginia Law Outlaw Martial Arts and Firearms Training?
The following story appeared on Snopes website: An amendment to a law that was already on the books makes no mention of key points raised on junk-news sites. In late November 2019, conspiracy sites started posting an article originally published by Natural News, that falsely reported the state of Virginia will consider legislation outlawing martial arts…
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ATA Moving Its Convention to Phoenix
The American Taekwondo Association’s annual World Expo – will be moving from Little Rock to Phoenix in 2021. The Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau reported on Friday (Oct. 25) that the ATA International tournaments would move to Phoenix in two years. In the meantime ATA officials will still bring the 2021 Fall National Tournament…
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