Saturday 02:00pm – Student Arrival 02:30pm – Initiation Ceremony (Mr. Worden) 03:00pm – Physical Class 04:00pm – Mental Class 05:00pm – Work Period 06:00pm – Dinner (Indonesian Food) 06:30pm – Dinner Cleanup 07:00pm – Physical Class 08:00pm – Mental Class 09:00pm – Break 09:30pm – Origami 10:00pm – Physical Class 11:00pm – Martial Art Documentary […]

The first Video Post is now available for viewing.  Unfortunately, due to YouTube’s limitations, only Shaffer and Walsh are featured in this post.  Stay tuned for future posts featuring Master Pearson, Ms. Doll and others.

This morning we had the opportunity to assist Master Pearson in his bi-monthly weapons seminar in Cincinnati. February’s theme was the spear…what a great weapon! We’ve been waiting for this one for a while and our students were really excited for it also. We had a great turn out! First we practiced some basic spear […]

As Master Shaffer wrote in the previous post, we had gotten through a bunch of activities and work sessions during the eight and a half hour car ride, and we were feeling more than a little tired when we plodded into the Taekwondo school carrying our luggage at 10:18 PM. Also as Master Shaffer wrote, […]

Cincinnati…49 miles away. We’ve been in the car now for about 7 and a half hours and here’s what we’ve already done… – Played with our balls – not as gross as it sounds (see below). – Planned programmatic and administrative aspects of our upcoming Black Belt Winter Retreat – Reviewed and memorized pressure points […]

After some time to rest up from the session, I fondly look back at the activities we performed and the things we learned. As a whole, even though I still feel sore, in just about every way I had a tremendously positive experience at our first session. More than ever, it was impressed upon me […]

We thought our readers might like to see what a typical Hagsaeng Naebu Weekend looks like.  Check out this schedule we just received for our upcoming meeting on January 22nd… Saturday 4pm: Arrival 4:30pm-5:30pm: Initiation Ceremony 5:30-6:00pm: Work Period 6:00-7:00pm: Dinner and clean-up 7:00-8:00pm: Physical Class 8:00-9:00pm: Mental Class 9:00-10:00pm: Physical Class 10:00-11:00pm: Mental Class […]