Greetings, It’s a new year for those of us who count our years from Winter Retreat to Winter Retreat. Yesterday I returned home after 3 days of martial arts, meditation, contests, cultural studies, cold weather, hot rooms and not much sleep. Those of you who have experienced the Shin Ho Kwan Winter Retreat know how […]

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  The snake years: 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001, 2013 According to the legend of the zodiac, in which Buddha invited all of the animals in the world to visit him, the snake was the 6th animal to reach Buddha. Depending on your source of information the description of the snake may differentiate slightly, but there […]

The eight trigrams hold great meaning in Chinese philosophy, as they are representations of naturally occurring processes. Movement and change, seasons, family members, animals, direction of the compass, personality and more are represented. If one looks at the basics of Chinese philosophy he/she will find yin, yang, and cycles. A cyclic world with yin and […]

Shin Ho Kwan’s philosophy regarding forms is that “forms are the foundation of Taekwondo and the basic movements are only the first step towards making the forms accessible.” Self defense and development of Taekwondo spirit are two significant goals and benefits of forms practice. The eventual goal for each student is to be able to […]

If you visited our blog yesterday you might have noticed things were a little crazy.  We were doing some “Spring Cleaning”.  All of our categories have been redone to better define the content of the blog.  We also replaced some of the highlighted post and changed the main menu to include: Best Posts and Weekly […]

Shin Ho Kwan is once again working on something huge and they will reveal it exclusively to HN Insiders.  Everyone that has signed up for the HN Insider will receive an email at Noon on June 1st, detailing the who, what, where, when, etc. of this next big “thing”.  If you haven’t signed up to […]

This week I am posting about the Shin Ho Kwan Rat (Ja in Korean) form. As black belts in Shin Ho Kwan we learn 12 forms based on the 12 animals of the Chinese Zodiac. For one of my other posts I wrote about these 12 animals. You can read that post here:  Chinese Zodiac […]

Master Pearson’s Weekly Post #59 As most of you know I teach statistics at a college level. This coming semester will mark the 90th time I have taught ECON221 - Statsitics 1. I started teaching this class in 1994. Basically, I’ve been teaching it a lot fora long time. Over the years of teaching I have […]