Pakistan: Magic Carpets and Martial Arts (1975)
A 1975 Black Belt magazine profile of Saleem Jehangir, Hwa Chong’s University of Michigan student and the pioneering teacher who established taekwondo in Pakistan in 1971.
World Kangdukwon Federation
Category: <span>Michigan</span>
UM-TKD Club’s 60th Anniversary
University of Michigan TaeKwonDo Club spokesperson Master Steven Busch has announced the date of the University of Michigan TaeKwonDo Club’s 60th Anniversary Reunion dinner.
R.I.P. Dr. Dennis R. Burke
Kangdukwon Taekwondo has lost a stalwart friend in the late Dr. Dennis Burke. “We have lost a wonderful cosmopolitan and friend,” says Master Chong.
“I have given you a compass. Now use it!”
Hwa Chong, the Kwan Jang Nim of Kangdukwon Taekwondo, continues to urge Taekwondo students of all ages and levels to grow and evolve both as martial artists and as human beings. Taekwondo training and principles, he says, should be understood and applied at all levels and all periods of our lives, otherwise we fail to live up to our full potential as human beings.
The Jim Young Photo Collection
Tang Su Do and Taekwondo in 1960s Michigan U-M TKD Club founder Jim Young’s archival collection of martial arts photos
Down the Rabbit Hole: Taekwondo, Black Holes and Finnegans Wake
Fifty-some years ago, I encountered Taekwondo. Little did I know that it would propel me on a life long journey that grows more amazing with each passing day.
World Records topple to former WKF Chairman
Jim Wigginton is breaking multiple world records by climbing the highest mountains, leaping out of airplanes and diving to the lowest part of the ocean in an effort to raise awareness of thyroid cancer, which took his wife from him almost seven years ago.