USKF NEWSLETTERWinter 2013 • Volume 1 • issue 4

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Steve Tucker and Son Billy in Red

in memory of billy tucKer

The United States Kido Federation would like to provide condolences to one of our Federation Family Members Steve Tucker. Mr. Tucker is the owner of one of our charter schools, Open Circle Martial Arts in Ashland, NE. In October of this year Mr. Tucker lost his oldest son Billy.

Billy was one of a growing number of individuals who have fallen victim to a lethal dose of a legally sold ar-tificial form of marijuana that is being marketed to the public as potpourri. Mr. Tucker is taking his family’s pain and turning it into a positive. He is working with lo-cal law enforcement, prosecutors, and drug prevention coalitions to educate the public about the dangers of drug abuse in hopes that no other family will ever have to go through what his is experiencing. Billy spent 10 years of his life studying TaeKwon-Do before this fatal choice took his life.

president’s note

I am amazed and excited about all that is happening in the USKF family this quarter. What a great time to be part of this amazing, growing organization.

All the USKF competitors and officials that attended had a great time at GM Kauffman’s and Master Vio-la’s tournament in Salem, Ohio. Everyone who attend-ed this annual event was made to feel like family. Stay tuned for more up-coming events from the Kauffman School of Self-Defense. I, also, want to take a moment to plug Master Snowberger’s Battle at Brandywine on April 12, 2014 in Indiana and the USKF flagship tourna-ment, the Omaha National Martial Arts Championship on April 26, 2014 in Nebraska.

News from GM Rosenbach and the RTWB group; all eight RTWB schools will now be offering TaeKwon-Do and Hapkido rank certifications from the USKF. RTWB will also be creating a USKF competition team for their schools.

The 2014 USKF Black Belt Hall of Fame is filling up quickly. Please make sure you get your nominations and/or acceptance paperwork in as soon as possible. At the time of publishing the event is already at half capacity. Among the confirmed 2014 inductees are martial arts legends GM Robert Dunn president of the Jun Tong TaeKwon-Do Federation, GM Patrick Hickey president of Kwanmukan International, and Kyle Frank-lin Managing Director of TaeKwonDo Times Magazine.

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the deVelopment of the KWAns

By: Grandmaster Robert Dunn

Kwan in Korean literally means building or hall, but when used in martial arts it can also refer to a school or clan of martial artists who follow the same style and/or leader. At the time, there were 9 major Kwans through-out Korea and once someone joined a particular Kwan, it was very difficult to transfer to another Kwan. When someone wanted to transfer to another Kwan, his origi-nal Kwan Jang had to authorize and approve the trans-fer, but in reality the Kwan Jang usually threatened the member using authoritative means in an effort to per-suade the potential transferee to not leave. This was a critical issue in those days.

moo duK KWAn

After Independence Day, the Moo Duk Kwan started as the “Transportation by Rail Committee Tang Soo Do Bu” at the railroad system at Yong San Station, Seoul. The Department of Transportation allowed the Tang Soo Do Dojang as a traffic service, but the exact date is unknown. We only know that it was founded after 1946.

HWANG Kee claimed that he learned Kuk Sool when he worked for the Southern Manchuria Rail-road in 1935, but other Tae-kwon-Do seniors denied this claim saying that there was no evidence.

Moo Duk Kwan was nearby the Yong San Rail-road station, so it

was called the “Railroad Dojang.” The first Moo Duk Kwan dan holder was KIM Woon Chang. Others were: 1) HONG Chong Soo; 2) CHOI Hui Suk; 3) YOO Kwa Young; 4) NAM Sam Hyun; 5) KIM In Suk; 6) LEE Bok Sung; 7) HWANG Jin Tae; 8) WON Yong Bup; 9) CHUNG Chang Young; 10) LEE Kang Ik, and others who were all railroad personnel. The Moo Duk Kwan used the trains to open a school in different railroad station’s storage rooms and spread its power. When someone said Moo Duk Kwan, one would think about

the railroad.

When the Moo Duk Kwan had rank testing’s, the Chung Do Kwan’s LEE Won Kuk and Song Moo Kwan’s RO Byung Jick visited and built a good friendship, but re-garding Dan certificates and promotions, they had dis-agreements with HWANG Kee.

In 1955, the Moo Duk Kwan Central Gymnasium was opened near Seoul Station in Joong Gu’s Dong Ja Dong, Seoul. In the same year, nine more annex schools were opened and it held the friendly China-Ko-rea International Tang Soo Do Championships.

But in 1960, the Moo Duk Kwan had a big change. The Moo Duk Kwan was no longer 1953’s Korea Tang Soo Do Association, and it was changed to a Korean tradi-tional name: “the Korea Soo Bahk Do Association.”

Later the Moo Duk Kwan had big headaches because of HWANG Kee’s persistence in not unifying with the KTA. Finally, in March 1965, KIM Young Taek and HONG Chong Soo led the Moo Duk Kwan unification with the KTA without HWANG Kee.

After that incident, LEE Kang Ik became the next Kwan Jang, but soon after resigned with HONG Chong Soo becoming the third Kwan Jang. After, OH Se Joon be-came Kwan Jang. The Moo Duk Kwan’s customs were the strongest among the first five big Kwans.

chAng moo KWAn

YOON Byung In, who taught Moo Do with CHUN Sang Sup in the Cho-sun Yun Moo Kwan, founded the Chang Moo Kwan in 1946 at the YMCA in Jong Ro, Seoul. He spent his childhood in Manchuria and learned “Joo An Pa,” a Chinese martial art. Right before Independence Day, he went to Japan to study abroad and learned Ka-rate, receiving the 5th Dan rank. Nihon University’s Ka-rate founder TOYAMA Kanken saw YOON Byung In’s

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Event Black Belt Judges

Natasha Lasky (OH) and Amanda Norman (NE) Center - Jason Frymire (IL)

ne-de-u-KAn-tAe AnnuAl tournAment noVemeber 16, 2014

Salem, OH - Kudos to GM Rod Kauffman and Master Mike Viola for putting together an amazing family ori-ented event. Martial artists traveled from all over Ohio, Delaware, Indiana, Illinois, and Nebraska to be part of this northeast Ohio tradition.

Left: GM Rod Kauffman and Master Mike Viola

the essence of teAching

By: Grandmaster Robert DunnFrom The Jun Tong TaeKwon-Do Federation Instructor Develop-ment Course

Teaching is a means of imparting knowledge through specific lessons. The martial arts teacher is a specialist who guides the students through the development of certain physical and mental skills. A teacher must be a person who is an “expert” in the subject he teaches. In the field of the martial arts, this expertise should be based on solid professional knowledge and experience in the martial art being taught. Teaching is an integral part of the martial arts. With-out “Qualified Instructors”, there can be no future for the martial arts. The spirit of the martial arts prospers through the student/teacher relationship. It is the pass-ing of knowledge from one generation to the next that gives the martial arts its rich history and culture. For the serious martial artists, the student/teacher relationship becomes a bond for life and is highly respected.

When a student reaches a level at which he is quali-fied to teach, he often recognizes for the first time just how talented his teacher is. He realizes that being a good fighter does not automatically mean he is a qual-ified teacher. Without a certain degree of experience in all areas of the martial arts, it is difficult to teach. An instructor must be well-rounded and experienced in as many facets of his martial art as possible. This is the reason the Instructor Development Course was designed, so a “new” black belt could benefit from the knowledge of his master instructors and become a more qualified instructor.

If you flip through the ads of your local martial arts schools, you might get the impression that being some kind of champion is a pre-requisite for being an instructor. In reality, your teaching skills are more im-portant for the growth of a student than the number of trophies you have won. A qualified instructor must have the proper tools to teach his students, knowledge and experience. Above all, he must be confident in his teaching skills; this develops with the proper amount of “seasoning-time”.

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Chinese martial art and was impressed. Later, they ex-changed their martial arts and became good friends.

YOON Byung In’s passion towards martial arts was so high that he received the 5th Dan in Karate. He was the Karate Team Captain at Nihon University. This showed his martial art ability was high.

Right after Independence Day, he became the Physical Education instructor at Kyung Sung Agricultural School and started teaching Moo Do. Later, in 1946, YOON opened the YMCA Kwon Bup Bu in nearby Jong Ro, Seoul.

He had a good relationship with Cho-son Yun Moo Kwan’s CHUN Sang Sup, and once CHUN and YOON were called brothers because they trained so much together. CHUN Sang Sup’s younger brother CHUN Il Sup said, “YMCA Kwon Bup Bu’s YOON Byung In and LEE Nam Suk trained with the Cho-son Yun Moo Kwan in the beginning, so I can say the Yun Moo Kwan and the YMCA Kwon Bup Bu were brother Kwans.”

YOON Byung In was basically a traditional Moo Do man. His body was small, but was trained with martial arts and full of energy. His behavior was blunt. He did not know how to wear his clothes and shoes fashion-ably. He wore a pair of oversized US Army boots and his left baby finger was cut off, so he had to wear a pair of special white gloves, even in the summer.

He taught his martial art “Ju An Pa Kwon Bup” to his students according to their body sizes, so the students could learn martial arts that suited their body specialty.

Before the Korean War, on June 24, 1949, the YMCA

Kwans, continued from page 2Kwon Bup Bu held a Yun Moo Demonstration. PARK Chul Hee demonstrated the “Jak Do Kwon”, PARK Ki Tae demonstrated “Bong Kwon” and Chung Do Kwan’s SON Duk Sung, UHM Woon Kyu and LEE Yong Woo demonstrated “Chan Jo”.

YMCA Kwon Bup Bu practice sessions started at 4:30 PM. In the beginning, more than 500 members were recruited, but after three months, only 180 members were remaining because of the severity of the training. After YOON disappeared, LEE Nam Suk opened a Kong Soo Do school and started teaching.

After the Korean War, LEE Nam Suk and KIM Soon Bae reopened the YMCA Kwon Bup Bu as the Chang Moo Kwan. The Chang Moo Kwan was represented with a symbol of two dragons. But according to LEE Chong Woo, the Chang Moo Kwan name was used by YOON Byung In as a favorable name before the Kore-an War.

YMCA Kwon Bup Bu graduates were: 1) LEE Nam Suk; 2) KIM Sun Gu; 3) HONG Jung Pyo; 4) PARK Chul Hee; 5) PARK Ki Tae; 6) KIM Ju Gap; 7) SONG Suk Joo; 8) LEE Joo Ho; 9) KIM Soon Bae and others. 2nd Kwan Jang LEE Nam Suk and 3rd Kwan Jang KIM Soon Bae had conflicts with HONG Jung Pyo and PARK Chul Hee. This led to HONG and PARK leaving the Chang Moo Kwan and opening their own school, the Kang Duk Won, in nearby Shinsuldong, Seoul, in 1956.

Historic photo taken after the 2nd Chang Moo Kwan demonstra-tion at Seoul YMCA February 19, 1949. The diamond surrounding his head identifies Grandmaster Byong In Yoon. The square sur-rounding his head identifies Grandmaster Lee Nam Suk. On December 21, 1948, participants at the 1st. Promotion Test at

Ministry of Communications Chang Moo Kwan Department posed for commemorative photo. Grandmaster Byong In Yoon is 5th from the left, and Grandmaster Lee Nam Suk is 4th.

Be sure to check future editions of this newsletter for the rest of The Development of the Kwans.

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Teaching the martial arts involves giving others the knowledge required to perform specific physical move-ments and sharing the spirit of the martial arts with them. Unfortunately, there is not a secret method or trick that will make an instructor’s teaching style suc-cessful. Your method of teaching will be determined by your character, style, cultural heritage, personality and martial arts background. This means that there can be as many different teaching methods as there are teach-ers.

There are fundamental formulas that you can apply to your teaching style to make it as effective as possible. Listed below is the formula that we will be using. This formula has 5 principles of effective teaching: Planning, Motivation, Recognition of Individuality, Practice and Performance Assessment.

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The United States Kido Federation will be holding a re-treat at the all inclusive Barcelo Maya Resort in Rivera Maya, MX in May 2014. USKF Instructors will be hold-ing specialized classes on the beach of this beautiful resort the both mornings. Retreat travel plans are be-ing made through Michelle Freudenburg at AAA Travel. Contact Michelle at MCFrudenburg to book your travel plans to paradise.

Be sure to check future editions of this newsletter for more of The Jun Tong TaeKwon-Do Federation Instructor Development Course.

upcoming eVents

usKf referee seminArMarch TBA, 2014

bAttle At brAndyWineApril 12, 2014 (Indiana State Championships)Contact Master Jim Snowberger for information at765-412-7441

omAhA nAtionAl mArtiAl Arts chAmpi-onshipsApril 26, 2014(World Game Pre-Qualifier - USKF AAA)Contact GM Jeff Helaney for information at 402-215-6003

united stAtes Kido federAtion blAcK belt hAll of fAmeApril 26, 2014Mainland Presentations Omaha, Nebraska402-215-6003 or info@uksido.org

united stAtes Kido federAtion blAcK belt hAll of fAmeMay 10, 2014Puerto Rico Presentations

united stAtes Kido federAtion blAcK belt retreAtMay 24 and 25, 2014Barcelo Maya, Mexico

usKf referee seminArDate TBAHoffman Estates, IL

sdy open mArtiAl Arts chAmpionshipAugust TBA, 2014Hoffman Estates, IL Contact Jason Frymire at 847-373-5034