About Taekwon-Do

A little history about Taekwon-Do:

General Choi Hong Hi

Father of Taekwon-Do

Born 1918, Kilju

Died 2002, Pyongyang

 

General Choi Hong Hi, Founder and President of the International Taekwon-Do Federation died on June 15th, 2002, in Pyongyang, People’s Democratic Republic of Korea.

 

 

Taekwon-Do was founded by General Choi Hong Hi. On April 11, 1955, the name Taekwon-Do was oficially adopted for the martial art General Choi Hong Hi had developed using elements of the ancient Korean art Taek Kyon and Shotokan karate, a martial art he had learned while studying in Japan.

 

The philosophical values and the goals of Taekwon-Do are firmly rooted in the traditional moral culture of the Orient. On the technical side, defensive and offensive tactics ae based on principles of physics, particularly Newton's Law, which explains how to generate maximum force by increasing speed and mass during the execution of a movement.

 

Always striving for excellence, General Choi presented Taekwon-Do as in a state of continous evolution, open to changes that would improve its effectiveness. Since the beginning Taekwon-Do has never stopped evolving, driven by the srong will and a lot of hard work by its Founder.