Ha!  I get to write today about my favorite trigram.  Weird, right?  Who has a favorite trigram??  Well, when you’re one of Master Pearson’s students and you get “tasked” with thinking about the trigrams…a lot…you start to develop a few favorites. There are several ways in which the trigrams relate to martial arts.  First and […]

For this week’s post, I recorded another episode of the Video Dojang Classroom.  I used a different program on my iPad this time, so I was able to upload the video directly to YouTube.  Again I apologize for the quality of the video, there is only so much that is possible while sitting in my […]

Shin Ho Kwan has just released a card game designed to teach the players all about the Trigrams.  To find out more, follow this link.

Back in the early 90′s, I was Dan Director for the US Taekwondo Union and in addition to taking care of all the Kukkiwon Dan and Poom certifications for the US, I was also tasked with promoting the martial art side of Taekwondo. To that end, I wrote an article for the Taekwondo Times on […]

Please accept my apologies.  This is not what I had in mind when I decided to do this second part of my weekly post.  Here was my idea.  I recently purchased a Wacom tablet so that I could record Statistics lectures (sample problems) for my online Fisher students.  I thought, this would be a great way to […]

Another week, another post, not another Video Dojang.  You heard it right.  I will be out of the USA until July 1st and will be unable to record anymore episodes of the Video Dojang until then.  I am going to attempt to post something new (yes a surprise) for the second half of this post, […]

The flag of South Korea is sometimes called the world’s most philosophical flag (Korea: Enchantment of the World, by Patricia K. Kummer). It has been in use since 1882, except that it was outlawed from 1910 (beginning of Japanese occupation) until 1945 (end of World War II) (Land of Morning Calm: Korean Culture Then and […]

Today I am going to continue to summarize what I am learning about the 8 Elements and their meanings from the book Journey To Mastery; Feng Shui for Life, by Dr. Kathryn Mickle, Ph. D. If you have been following my posts you may know that it has been a kind of journey for me […]

This week I thought I would talk about a somewhat more advanced topic: the martial artist type. As most of you know, within Shin Ho Kwan we practice the Taegeuk Forms as color belts. There are eight of these forms and each one is based on one of the eight trigrams. Without going into a […]