www.taekwondo-terengganu.com

2012 New Year's Motivation

2012-01-02T17:18:00.002+08:00

Open To All Ages

Kuala Terengganu Do-Jang 2012 Sessions:

(Tingkat 2, No.14 Tmn. Sri Intan, Jln. Sultan Omar, Kuala Terengganu)

Every SUNDAYS & WEDNESDAYS : 8:00pm - 9:30pm

Signboard :-

* Taekwondo GTF/ITF/WTF

Kemaman Do-Jang 2012 Sessions:-

(Taman Chukai Utama, Kemaman, Terengganu)

Children & Adults [8:30 pm ~ 10:30 pm]
	MONDAYS	TUESDAYS	WEDNESDAYS
	TKD	Muaythai & Freestyle	TKD

Taekwon-Do dalam Tiang Seri Negara

2011-07-07T11:04:00.000+08:00

Tuanku Mizan Lancar Buku

"Tiang Seri Negara: Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di-Pertuan Agong Semenjak 1957"

SERI Paduka menerima buku Tiang Seri Negara: Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di-Pertuan Agong Semenjak 1957 yang diserahkan Azizah sambil diperhatikan Tengku Razaleigh pada majlis pelancaran buku itu di Kuala Lumpur, semalam.

KUALA LUMPUR: Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin Isnin berkenan melancarkan buku "Tiang Seri Negara: Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di-Pertuan Agong Semenjak 1957" di Kelab Taman Tasik Perdana Diraja di sini.

Turut berangkat ke majlis itu ialah Tunku Laxamana Negeri Sembilan Tunku Naquiyuddin Ibni Almarhum Tuanku Ja'afar dan kerabat-kerabat diraja. Hadir sama Timbalan Menteri Pengajian Tinggi Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah yang mewakili Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak dan Panel Penasihat penerbitan buku itu Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah serta Tan Sri Dr Arshad Ayub.

Buku itu, yang ditulis oleh Pengerusi Eksekutif Arus Intelek Sdn Bhd Datin Azizah Mokhzani, memaparkan sejarah kewujudan institusi diraja serta peranan dan bidang kuasa yang ada pada Seri Paduka sebagai Ketua Negara.

Ia juga menceritakan keperibadian dan liku-liku hidup setiap raja atau sultan yang bersemayam di takhta kerajaan sebagai Yang di-Pertuan Agong.

Sementara itu, Najib dalam ucapannya yang dibacakan Saifuddin, berkata penerbitan buku itu dapat membuka mata dunia bahawa Malaysia memberi sumbangan yang unggul dan unik kepada corak dan amalan demokrasi sedunia di mana Yang di-Pertuan Agong dilantik mengikut pemilihan dan kaedah penggiliran dan bukan semata-mata kerana keturunan sahaja. "Justeru, sistem pentadbiran di negara ini adalah begitu demokratik sekali," katanya.

Najib berkata buku itu yang mengandungi pesona dan keperibadian Yang di-Pertuan Agong itu juga wajar menjadi koleksi setiap agensi kerajaan dan swasta serta badan-badan korporat agar dapat diakses oleh warga kerja masing-masing, katanya.

"Dengan cara ini kita boleh meningkatkan darjah dan memperkasakan lagi institusi ini yang menjadi identiti negara di samping memperkasakan sistem pemerintahan raja berperlembagaan di mata dunia," katanya.

Sementara itu, Azizah berkata ilham untuk menerbitkan buku itu lahir ketika Yang di-Pertuan Agong ke-12 Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin ibni Almarhum Tuanku Syed Putra Jamalullail berangkat menziarahi allahyarham suaminya, Datuk Mokhzani Abdul Rahim, yang menerima rawatan di sebuah hospital di Kuala Lumpur.

Beliau berkata keprihatinan Yang di-Pertuan Agong memberi inspirasi kepadanya untuk menulis buku itu, selain beberapa kisah mengenai Yang di-Pertuan Agong terdahulu yang dibaca turut menguatkan lagi azamnya.

"Peristiwa dan kisah itu membangkitkan apresiasi saya terhadap peranan Yang di-Pertuan Agong di mana peranan-peranan itu dipengaruhi oleh keperibadian dan latar belakang masing-masing.

"Terfikir saya, sekiranya tidak dibukukan kisah-kisah baginda ini, maka akan lenyaplah sebahagian warisan negara daripada pengetahuan generasi akan datang, malah negara akan kerugian harta intelek yang penting," katanya.

Buku setebal 352 muka surat itu, yang mengandungi 620 foto termasuk foto bersejarah, diterbitkan Arus Intelek Sdn Bhd dan dijual pada harga RM499.

(sumber : Berita Harian Online & mStar Online)

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Gambar-gambar koleksi peribadi Tuanku dan raja-raja termasuk "diperkenan" sebelum dicetak.

Syawal & Walimatul Urus

2010-09-21T10:23:00.002+08:00

Syawal 1431H menjadi sejarah penting buat dua jurulatih En.Mohd Badri Ubaidillah (3rd Dan) dan Puan Junainah Salimah Abdullah (3rd Dan) yang diijabkabulkan sebagai suami-isteri.

Sambutan Syawal kali ini dilihat istimewa bagi rakan-rakan mempelai, di samping menyambut Hari Raya, kenduri kahwin mempelai ini memudahkan kami bersua muka sesama kami yang hadir di samping meraikan Aidilfitri. Sederhana tetapi indah lagi bermakna.

“Wahai golongan pemuda sesiapa yang mempunyai kemampuan di kalangan kamu hendaklah ia berkahwin kerana ianya boleh menundukkan pandangan mata dan memelihara kemaluan. Sesiapa yang tidak mempunyai kemampuan hendaklah ia berpuasa kerana puasa memjadi pelindung kepadanya”. [HR Al-Bukhari]

Sabda Rasulullah lagi yang bermaksud:

“Apabila seorang hamba telah berkahwin ia telah menyempurnakan setengah dari agamanya maka hendaklah ia bertakwa untuk yang setengah lagi”
[HR Al-Baihaqi dalam Asy-Syu’ab, dinilai “Hasan” dalam Sahih Al-Jami’]

Akhirnya sentiasalah kita berdoa dengan doa yang di ajar oleh Allah:

ربنا هب لنا من أزواجنا وذريتنا قرة أعين واجعلنا للمتقين إماما.

Dan doa yang di ajar oleh Abdullah Bin Mas ‘ud ra kepada para syabab:

أللهم أرزقني امراة إذا نظرتُ إليها سرَّتني، وإذا أمرتُها طاعتني،

وإذاغِبت عنها حفظت غيبي في نفسها ومالي.

Maksudnya: “Wahai Tuhan, rezekilah kepadaku isteri yang apabila aku memandang kepadanya akan menggembirakanku, apabila aku menyuruhnya (melakukan sesuatu) dia akan taat kepadaku, apabila aku tidak ada dia akan menjaga kehormatan dirinya dan hartaku”.

SELAMAT PENGANTIN BARU
"Mat Yie & Ju"

Grand Master Trân Triêu Quân

2010-02-24T09:49:00.002+08:00

ITF (yang berpengkalan di Amerika Syarikat) sedang berkabung atas kehilangan presidennya Grand Master Trân Triêu Quân. GM Trân adalah salah seorang peneraju awal seni taekwon-do di bawah pengasas General Choi Hong Hi dan yang berbakti dalam perkembangan taekwon-do tradisional.

GM Sabree bersebelahan mendiang GM Trân di Singapura pada 1988

(Sabree's Photopage)

www.tkd-itf.org

It is with great sadness that the ITF inform you all of the tragic death of our President Grand Master TrânTriêu Quân, 9th Degree Black Belt, following the recent earthquake in Haiti. We have just received information from the Trân family regarding the discovery of Grand Master Trân from the rubble of the Hotel Montana in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

The Trân family will be available to receive condolences at the Centre funéraire du Plateau, 693 Nérée-Tremblay Avenue, Québec, G1N 4R8, on Friday, February 19, from 17h00 pm to 21h00, and on Saturday, February, 20, from 9h00 to 12h00 and from 13h30 to 15h00. On Saturday, a Buddhist religious service will be held at 12h00 and a closing ceremony will take place at 15h00. Another ceremony aiming to honour GM Trân Triêu Quân will be held on Sunday, March 21st, 2010.

Read more...

Kejohanan Seni Bela Diri MSP 2009

2010-01-17T09:49:00.004+08:00

Program: Kejohanan Seni Bela Diri MSP 2009
Anjuran: Majlis Sukan Politeknik Malaysia

Tarikh: 27-31 Disember 2009

Tempat: POLISAS, Kuantan

Acara penutup tirai tahun 2009 ini disertai oleh Pasukan Politeknik Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin, Terengganu (PSMZA) telah berjaya membawa pulang 2 Emas, 2 Perak dan 2 Gangsa.

PSMZA diketuai oleh jurulatih kanan PTNT En. Abdul Rahman Muhammad. Persiapan kontinjen ini dibantu oleh dua wakil jurulatih PTNT iaitu En. Aizuddin Mah Hussin dan Cik Asiah.

PSMZA kini diterajui oleh salah seorang Ahli Majlis Talipinggang Hitam Senior PTNT iaitu En.Abdul Rahman Muhammad (2nd Degree), bertugas sebagai pensyarah di PSMZA dan kini melanjutkan pelajaran di peringkat Sarjana TESL.

Rahman juga kini giat menjalani latihan peribadi di Pusat Latihan Taekwon-Do & Kickboxing Kemaman.

Syabas kepada pemenang dan peserta.

Kejohanan Jemputan N9

2009-12-22T12:47:00.005+08:00

LAPORAN KEJOHANAN TAEKWON-DO JEMPUTAN NEGERI SEMBILAN

19 & 20 Disember 2009

Dewan Wawasan Politeknik Port Dickson,Negeri Sembilan

8.30 pagi – 6.00 petang

Kejohanan Taekwon-do Jemputan Negeri Sembilan ini telah melabuhkan tirainya pada 20 Disember 2009 yang telah dirasmikan oleh YB Tan Sri Haji Mohd Isa bin Dato’ Haji Abdul Samad Adun Bagan Pinang Port Dickson.

Kejohanan ini disertai sebanyak 11 persatuan dari seluruh negeri termasuk Persatuan Tkd Negeri Terengganu di bawah Pusat Latihan Kemaman (KEMTA) yang telah menampilkan 6 peserta iaitu :-

1) MOHD AIZUDDIN B MAH HUSIN

2) SYED IBRAHIM BIN TUAN SEMBOK

3) MOHD AIMAN B RIDZUAN

4) MUHAMMAD AMIRUL HAFIZ BIN SAHIBOL FADZILAH

5) ALIFF AZROI LIEW B AZLAN LIEW

6) AHMAD TAKHAIRI B MOHD HAMDAN

Pasukan ini telah berjaya membawa pulang 3 Emas, 4 Perak dan 2 Gangsa. Berikut nama pemenang-pemenang pingat:-

NAMA	ACARA	PINGAT
MOHD AIZUDDIN B MAH HUSIN	IND.FREE SPARRING BLACK BELT MICRO WEIGHT A-17	EMAS
	IND. PATTERN BLACK BELT A-17	EMAS
ALIFF AZROI LIEW B AZLAN LIEW	IND. FREE SPARRING(KATEGORI B ) U-12	EMAS
SYED IBRAHIM BIN TUAN SEMBOK	IND. FREE SPARRING(KATEGORI C ) A-17	GANGSA
MOHD AIMAN B RIDZUAN	IND. FREE SPARRING(KATEGORI A ) A-17	PERAK
	IND. PATTERN	GANGSA
AHMAD TAKHAIRI B MOHD HAMDAN	IND. FREE SPARRING(KATEGORI B) A-17	PERAK
MUHAMMAD AMIRUL HAFIZ BIN SAHIBOL FADZILAH	IND. FREE SPARRING(KATEGORI C ) A-17	PERAK
MOHD AIMAN B RIDZUAN	TEAM FREE SPARRING A-17	PERAK
SYED IBRAHIM BIN TUAN SEMBOK
AHMAD TAKHAIRI B MOHD HAMDAN
MUHAMMAD AMIRUL HAFIZ BIN SAHIBOL FADZILAH

Syabas kepada semua peserta dan pemenang!!

Salam Aidifitri

2009-09-16T21:36:00.003+08:00

Warga PTNT mengucapkan
Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri
Maaf Zahir & Batin

Selamat Berpuasa : Ramadhan 1430H

2009-08-24T11:45:00.002+08:00

KEJOHANAN TKD TAHUNAN ANTARA SEKOLAH TERENGGANU 2009 KALI KE-27

2009-08-03T09:06:00.013+08:00

31hb Julai 2009
Gerbang Persilatan, Majlis Sukan Negeri Terengganu, Gong Badak, Kuala Terengganu
8:30 pagi - 10:30 malam

"SYABAS KEPADA SEMUA PESERTA DAN PEMENANG"
"TERIMA KASIH KEPADA JAWATANKUASA DAN PEGAWAI YANG MENJAYAKAN"

ANUGERAH PASUKAN TERBAIK

PASUKAN Bawah 12 Terbaik
IPD Marang

PASUKAN Bawah 17 Terbaik
IMTIAZ Dungun

PASUKAN TASKA Terbaik
IPD Marang

ANUGERAH PESERTA LELAKI TERBAIK

TASKA
DANIAL OZARIZAN (ANNUR KT)

BAWAH 12
1) M.KHAIRUL AMZAR (NIBONG)
2) MUHAMMAD SYAMIL IMRAN (TELEMONG)
3) MUHAMMAD FIRDAUS ROSMAN (SK KG BARU KERTEH)

BAWAH 17
1) M.NURHILMI (STEMZA)
2) A.HARIS ASHRAF (IMTIAZ DUNGUN)

TERBUKA
AHMAD ZULFADLI (STEMZA)

ANUGERAH PESERTA PEREMPUAN TERBAIK

TASKA
NUR MISHA NABILA (IPD MARANG)

BAWAH 12
SYARAFINA ALIFAH (SRI AL-AMIN DUNGUN)

BAWAH 17
NASUHAILA (KT CENTRE KIDS)

TERBUKA
NASUHAILA (KT CENTRE KIDS)

"BERDISIPLIN MELALUI TAEKWON-DO"

Kejohanan Taekwon-Do Kebangsaan MGTF 2009

2009-06-25T17:05:00.006+08:00

Terengganu : 4 Emas (+1 Teknik Khas) - 2 Perak - 7 Gangsa

Nasree Najmi muncul pemenang emas terbanyak kejohanan dengan kutipan peribadi 3 Emas dan 2 Gangsa. Dua lagi emas kontinjen disumbang oleh peserta veteran Hj.Saiful Ashari dalam acara Pattern 4th Degree dan Nor Raidah dalam acara Middleweight Free Sparring.

Kedah dicabar hebat Terengganu
Oleh TAUFEK RAZAK
sukan@utusan.com.my

SHAH ALAM - Kedah yang sedang memburu kejuaraan keenam berturut-turut dicabar hebat Terengganu pada hari pertama berlangsungnya Kejohanan Persekutuan Taekwondo Global Malaysia (MGTF) di sini, semalam.

Sehingga lewat petang semalam, Kedah berjaya memungut lima pingat emas manakala Terengganu empat, kesemuanya menerusi acara seni pelbagai kategori.

Pengurus Terengganu, Najmi Abdullah berkata, pihaknya berharap dapat menyekat penguasaan Kedah buat kali pertama dalam tempoh enam tahun.

"Memang Terengganu tidak kuat dalam acara seni ini tetapi dengan berjaya merapati Kedah, kami mempunyai peluang untuk menyekat mereka.

"Ini kerana kekuatan dalam acara tempur adalah seimbang. Jadi hari terakhir esok (hari ini) akan menjadi penentu," katanya.

Bagi pengurus Kedah, N. Nandakumar, beliau memang mengakui tentangan sengit yang diberikan Terengganu kali ini tetapi percaya pasukannya masih di landasan untuk muncul juara buat kali keenam.

"Kami letak sasaran untuk meraih lapan emas tahun ini dan perlukan tiga lagi yang saya rasa cukup untuk muncul juara keseluruhan," katanya.

Hari terakhir saingan hari ini acara tempur akan berlangsung membabitkan pelbagai kategori.

Kejohanan Taekwondo MGTF Ke-10 dirasmikan Ketua Menteri Melaka, Datuk Seri Mohd. Ali Rustam di Politeknik Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah, semalam.

Kedah ungguli taekwondo MGTF

Oleh NOR SEDEK ISMAIL
sukan@utusan.com.my

SHAH ALAM - Hasrat Kedah untuk menjuarai lima tahun berturut-turut pertandingan taekwondo peringkat kebangsaan tercapai apabila diumumkan johan keseluruhan pada Kejohanan Persekutuan Taekwondo Global Malaysia (MGTF) yang berakhir di sini, semalam.

Kedah membolot 10 emas, empat (perak) dan dua (gangsa) untuk melayakkan mereka membawa pulang piala pusingan Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin bagi dua tahun berturut-turut.

Hadiah kepada pemenang disampaikan oleh Presiden MGTF, Amir Mohd. Noor.

Kejayaan itu juga menghampakan pasukan Terengganu yang mengekori rapat dengan empat pingat emas berbanding Kedah sudah mengumpul lima emas pada pertandingan kelmarin.

Namun, atlet-atlet tempur dari Pantai Timur itu gagal menambah bilangannya dan terpaksa berpuas hati di tempat kedua.

Pengurus pasukan Kedah, N. Nandakumar berkata, kejuaraan itu bertambah manis kerana sasaran awal yang diletakkan hanya lapan emas dan mempertahankan kejuaraan tahun lalu.

''Tetapi kita dapat 10 emas iaitu melebihi jangkaan dan ini satu bonus kepada atlet-atlet Kedah.

''Kemenangan ini memang menggembirakan kami kerana usaha dan latihan keras sejak Mac lalu membuahkan hasil," katanya ketika ditemui di lokasi pertandingan di Politeknik Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah, di sini.

Nandakumar menambah, strateginya sekarang ialah untuk melahirkan lebih ramai atlet taekwondo berkualiti bagi memastikan Kedah mengekalkan kejuaraan pada tahun depan sekali gus menyimpan terus piala pusingan tersebut untuk kali kedua.

MASUM 2009 Champion

2009-06-11T12:29:00.003+08:00

Juara Kategori Welterweight, Nasirewan Najmi mewakili UITM bergambar bersama pemenang. Di sebelah kanan beliau adalah pemenang gangsa En.Jaysuman mewakili UTM (pernah bernaung di bawah pasukan PTNT, kini bernaung di bawah ITF Johor).

Nasree's Ignition

2009-06-04T12:02:00.002+08:00

KEJOHANAN TAEKWON-DO PG GLOBAL

2009-05-05T17:07:00.006+08:00

KEJOHANAN TAEKWON-DO PG GLOBAL DI POLITEKNIK SEBERANG PERAI
25 April 2009

Kontinjen Terengganu kali ini menghantar dua bas yang diwakili oleh PSMZA Dungun dan IMTIAZ Dungun. Beberapa ahli muda dari Pusat Latihan Kemaman, SK Rantau Petronas, SR Islam Al-Amin Dungun dan UiTM Dungun juga turut serta dalam kontinjen ini.

Pegawai PTNT diwakili oleh Hj.Saiful Ashari (Pengadil), En.Abd. Rahman Muhammad (Pengurus), En. Aizuddin M Hussin (Pembantu Jurulatih) dan Pn.Normaizaiah Awang (pemerhati).

Pungutan pingat keseluruhan : 6 emas, 6 perak dan 14 gangsa .

KEJOHANAN TAEKWONDO JEMPUTAN KEBANGSAAN UiTM PULAU PINANG 2009

2009-03-11T23:16:00.012+08:00

KEJOHANAN TAEKWONDO JEMPUTAN KEBANGSAAN UiTM PULAU PINANG 2009
28 Feb - 1 Mac 2009

Ketua kontinjen & jurulatih Kelab Taekwon-DO PSMZA Dungun, En. Abd. Rahman Muhammad melaporkan:-

Pasukan Taekwondo PSMZA telah di membawa pulang sebanyak 12 pingat iaitu 2 pingat emas, 4 perak dan 6 gangsa. Pasukan Taekwondo PSMZA juga telah mendapat tempat ke 5 dari keseluruhan 11 pasukan yang bertanding. Di bawah ini disenaraikan nama-nama pelajar PSMZA yang membawa pulang pingat.

1. Emas
a. Hamizah binti Zainal Abidin
Pattern individu perempuan kategori senior colour belt
Sparring individu prempuan kelas A colour belt

2. Perak
a. Hamizah binti Mat Zakaria
Pattern individu perempuan kategori senior colour belt
b. Suzilawati binti Abdullah
Sparring individu perempuan kelas B colour belt
c. Mohd Shahrul Ashraf bin Shakri
Pattern individu lelaki kategori senior colour belt
d. Pingat Perak Team sparring lelaki kategori colour belt
Mohd Shahrul Ashraf bin Shakri
Mohd Sharifuddin bin Mohd Ariff
Jivan Raj a/l Nalinasekar
Suresh Kumar a/l Subramian

3. Gangsa
a. Suzilawati binti Abdullah
Pattern individu perempuan kategori senior colour belt
b. Nurul Afiza binti Mat Zahir
Pingat Gangsa sparring individu perempuan kelas B colour belt
c. Mohd Shahrul Ashraf bin Shakri
Sparring individu lelaki kelas E colour belt
d. Che Nur Faziana binti Che Mat
Sparring individu perempuan kelas C colour belt
e. Suresh Kumar a/l Subramian
Sparring individu lelaki kelas D colour belt
f. Nor Hawa binti Ismail
Sparring individu perempuan kelas A colour belt

Klik Untuk Album @ Picasa :

SYABAS KELAB TAEKWON-DO PSMZA DUNGUN

Notice Board

2009-01-10T10:52:00.004+08:00

Re: Official Portal

The official portal of Association i.e. http://www.taekwondo-terengganu.com is under re-construction at the time being and will be inaccessible for 7 - 12 days. We will also be having a new mirror-site at http://www.tkd-trg.com .

Taekwon!

-Webmaster-

New Year 2009

2009-01-01T09:57:00.005+08:00

SELAMAT TAHUN BARU

HAPPY NEW YEAR

2009

Whilst we celebrate - keep in mind the war is still on...

FREE PALESTINE

(Picture from barbaragrover.com)

AIDIL-ADHA

2008-12-07T09:31:00.002+08:00

وَمَنْ يُعَظِّمْ شَعَائِرَ اللَّهِ فَإِنَّهَا مِنْ تَقْوَى الْقُلُوب
"Sesiapa yang membesarkan syiar Allah (berkorban) maka ia adalah dari tanda ketaqwaan hati" (Al-Hajj : 32)

KEJOHANAN SENI MEMPERTAHANKAN DIRI 2008

2008-12-02T14:54:00.006+08:00

TERENGGANU GTF UNDER 21 TEAM EXCEL...

KEJOHANAN SENI MEMPERTAHANKAN DIRI 2008
(NATIONAL MARTIAL ARTS CARNIVAL)
27-30 November 2008
USM Penang

Main Organiser:
Ministry Of Youth & Sports of Malaysia

MGTF Taekwon-Do event organiser:
Malaysian Global Taekwon-Do Federation

Under Construction. Pictures:-

From Karnival 2008 (Penang)

M.Abu Dzar - Gold medalist for Terengganu Team

From Karnival 2008 (Penang)

Terengganu with Sabah team.

From Karnival 2008 (Penang)

Pioneers

2008-11-05T15:42:00.002+08:00

A Glance Information To Our Young Members
Extracted from Netherland ITF website:-

Pioneers

General Choi Hong Hi

General Choi Hong Hi was born on November 9th, 1918, in the Hwa Dae Myong Chun District of Korea. At the age of twelve he started to study Taek Kyon, an ancient Korean method of fighting...
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Park Jung Tae

Grand master Jung Tae Park, a fearless perfectionist, was revered throughout the international tae kwon do community. Among the first instructors to carry the national Korean sport ...
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Rhee Ki Ha

When I was a kiddy there was no Taekwon-do at all. As you know, in Korean history we were all under the Japanese empire for more than 36 years. My father did Judo and I followed him...
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Hwang Kwang Sung

Grandmaster Hwang was born in Teagu Korea. Taegu is the third largest city south of the 38th parallel, and is south east of Seoul and north of Busan. At the age of eleven, he started his martial...
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Charles Sereff

It takes 30 years to achieve the distinction of 8th Dan Black Belt. Master C.E. "Chuck" Sereff reached this goal in 1990, a few years short of his 60th birthday. Along the way to becoming a Master...
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Park Jong Soo

Master Park was born in 1941 in Chung-Nam, Korea. He holds a 9th Dan black belt in Tae Kwon-Do. At the age of 14, and since then, he has been the instructor of the Police Training Centre...
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Nam Tae Hi

Grand Master Nam Tae Hi began his martial arts training in 1946. Every day after school he would go to the Dojang to train, not returning home until almost midnight. He did this 5 days a week...
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Kim Ung Chol

At the end of 1985 Master Kim Ung Chol came to Bulgaria. He was the first Taekwon-do ITF master to visit our country and he established the foundations of this martial art in Bulgaria...
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Choi Jung Hwa

Grandmaster Choi Jung Hwa was promoted to XI Degree on the 50th Anniversary of Taekwon-Do, April 11th 2005. Choi Jung Hwa was born on Cheju Island, Korea in 1954. His earliest...
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Kong Young Il

A first-generation student of General Choi, Hong Hi, the Father of Taekwon-Do, Grand Master Kong, Young Il's Taekwon-Do roots are in the Oh Do Kwan in Won Joo, Korea. Today...
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Sabree Salleh

Dr. Sabree Salleh is one of a few non-Korean who was personally trained by the late General Choi Hong Hi - The Founder of Taekwon-Do, and Past-President of International Taekwon-Do...
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Hwang Ho Yong

Mr. Hwang Ho Yong was born on May 11th, 1956 in small town Sin-Uiz in DPRK more accurately near Chinese borders. He has started to do Taekwon-do at the age of 13 but at first he...
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Phap Lu

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RAMADHAN & AIDILFITRI

2008-09-18T15:34:00.006+08:00

Salam Ramadhan Al-Mubarak & Salam Aidilfitri.

Semoga menjalani ibadah dengan sempurna dan saling bermaafan demi perpaduan.

Kepada ahli Taekwon-Do PTNT yang akan kembali untuk sambutan Hari Raya berwaspadalah sentiasa di jalan raya.

Untuk pengamal Taekwon-Do secara amnya di Ramadhan yang mulia ini jagalah kesihatan dan berjimat cermat ketika berbelanja.

Selamat Berbuka & Bersahur.

Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri.

Bagi Pihak PTNT untuk semua,

Master Najmi bin Abdullah (7th Dan)

-Presiden & Ketua Jurulatih Negeri

Hj.Saiful Nizam Hj. Ashari (4th Dan)

-Setiausaha Agung & Timb. Ketua Jurulatih Negeri

Sasung Dr.Sabree In Combat Warrior E-Magazine

2008-09-11T23:04:00.005+08:00

AUGUST 2008 Cover

Grandmaster Dr. Sabree Salleh
9th Dan TaeKwon-Do
is one of a few non-Korean who was personally trained by the late General Choi Hong Hi (The Founder of Taekwon-Do, and Past-President of International Taekwon-Do Federation).
FULL STORY >

The Feud Continues

2008-09-11T21:28:00.003+08:00

`Pro-NK’ Taekwondo Master Returns
By Kim Rahn
Staff Reporter

The son of the founder of the International Taekwon-do Federation (ITF), one of the two global taekwondo organizations, came to South Korea after living overseas for 34 years where he was allegedly involved in pro-North Korea activities. He claimed the North Korean authorities took the initiative of the martial arts group and sent spies overseas under the name of taekwondo masters. Choi Jung-hwa, 54, son of the late Choi Hong-hi who founded the federation, arrived at Incheon International Airport Monday.

His return to South Korea came after he expressed his will to come through the Korean embassy in Canada in June at the South Korean government's approval. Choi's father founded ITF in Seoul in 1966 with nine countries being the founding members. But the former general sought refuge in Canada in 1972 following discord with the then authoritarian Park Chung-hee administration, and the ITF's headquarters moved to Canada as well.

ITF has been developed with support from North Korea, and North Korean International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Chang Ung currently heads the federation. In 1973, South Korea established another taekwondo group, the World Taekwondo Federation, which later led to the adoption of taekwondo as an Olympic game. After his father's death in 2002, Choi concluded Chang took the ITF leadership through improper procedures, claiming the North Korean authorities used taekwondo for political purposes. He set up a separate ITF in Canada which he led.

``After taking control of the ITF, the North trained spies and sent them overseas, disguising them as taekwondo masters,'' Choi said in a media briefing at the airport. He also said that North Korea ordered overseas ITF masters, including himself, to assassinate former South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan. Choi said he plotted to assassinate Chun who was to visit Canada in 1982, but the Canadian police were alerted to the plan in advance and he fled to North Korea. He then moved to several Eastern European countries, and turned himself in to the Canadian police in 1991, serving a jail term. The authorities and the intelligence agency will investigate him for his alleged involvement in the assassination plan and pro-North Korean activities. He is likely to be indicted on espionage charges.

``I'll actively cooperate with the authorities,'' Choi said. He also said he wants to meet Chun to apologize, and lawmaker Park Geun-hye, daughter of former President Park, to settle the feud of the previous generation.

rahnita@koreatimes.co.kr
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2008/09/117_30745.html

MGTF NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP 2008 - A Success

2008-09-03T10:58:00.014+08:00

TERENGGANU emerged First Runner-Up behind Kedah-Kulim.

The Top 10 Contingents (Total 24 contingents) :-

1. Kedah B (Kulim) : 6 Gold - 1 Silver - 5 Bronze
2. TERENGGANU: 5 Gold - 1 Silver - 2 Bronze
3. Kedah A : 4 Gold - 4 Silver - 1 Bronze
4. Sabah : 3 Gold - 2 Silver - 2 Bronze
5. Pulau Pinang B : 2 Gold - 4 Silver - 1 Bronze
6. Melaka : 2 Gold - 3 Silver - 2 Bronze
7. Wilayah B : 1 Gold - 3 Silver - 1 Bronze
8. Negeri 9 : 1 Gold - 0 Silver - 2 Bronze
9. China B : 1 Gold - 0 Silver - 0 Bronze
10. Kelantan A : 0Gold - 1 Silver - 2 Bronze

Terengganu's 5 Gold from:-
1. Nasirewan - Men 1st Dan Ind. Pattern
2. Nasree - Men 3rd Dan Ind. Pattern
3. Nasree - Men Lightweight Free Sparring
4. Putri - Women Microweight Free Sparring
5. Men Team Free Sparring
(Nasree/Nasirewan/Syafiq/Amirul/ Hj.Saiful/Badri)

Terengganu's 1 Silver from:-
1. Nasirewan - Men Midleweight Free Sparring

Terengganu's 2 Bronze from:-
1. Hj.Saiful - Men 4th Dan Ind. Pattern
2. Aizuddin - Men Microweight Free Sparring

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"Tahniah Kepada Perwakilan dan Penyokong Kontinjen Terengganu Yang Setia"

- Ucapan Khas kepada pengiring kontinjen: Sdr.Ku Amirul dan Sdri. Amal Hakimah

"Tahniah Kepada Penganjur dan Penggerak Kejohanan Yang Berhempas Pulas Menjayakan Program"
"Tahniah Kepada Krew Dins Taekwon-Do Academy & MGTF Yang Bersengkang Mata"
"Tahniah Kepada Peserta Yang Bertanding Di Atas Lunas Semangat Kesukanan & Setiakawan"

Sports Minister On Taekwondo

2008-09-02T00:28:00.004+08:00

Sports

August 31, 2008 21:24 PM

Ismail Sabri To Solve Taekwondo Quandary

SHAH ALAM, Aug 31 (Bernama) -- Youth and Sports Minister Datuk Ismail Sabri Yaakob plans to meet all three taekwondo associations in the country to solve ongoing problems besetting the associations and among them.

"I am in the midst of solving the problems which have affected our participation in sports events like the recent Beijing Olympics," he told reporters after presenting prizes to the winners of the National Invitation Taekwondo Global Malaysia 2008 here Sunday.

He was commenting on a proposal by the Malaysian Global Taekwondo Federation (MGTF) for the formation of a federation encompassing the three taekwondo bodies as a solution to the problem.

Malaysia was represented by two women taekwondo exponents, Elaine Teoh and Che Chew Chan, at the recently concluded Beijing Olympics but neither delivered any medal.

Ismail Sabri said he hoped that the problems affecting the MGTF and the two other associations, the Malaysian Taekwondo Association and the Malaysian ITF Taekwondo Federation, could be solved quickly to enable taekwando to be included in the Malaysia Games in Melaka in 2010.

The Sukma committee had decided to exclude taekwondo from the biennial games, he added.

"Taekwondo used to glorify the country's image in the international arena. Despite the problem, we still managed to send our exponents to the Beijing Olympics," he said.

In the National Invitation Taekwondo Global Malaysia 2008, Kedah B Kulim emerged overall champions to lift the Yang di-Pertuan Agong trophy.

Twenty-one teams from Singapore, China and Malaysia took part in the three-day inaugural tournament.

-- BERNAMA

http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v3/news_sports.php?id=356513

31 Ogos, 2008 20:27 PM

Ismail Sabri Akan Jumpa Persatuan Taekwondo Selesai Masalah

SHAH ALAM, 31 Ogos (Bernama) -- Menteri Belia dan Sukan Datuk Ismail Sabri Yaakob akan berjumpa dengan ketiga-tiga persatuan taekwondo di Malaysia bagi menyelesaikan masalah dalaman masing-masing dan yang melibatkan sesama mereka.

"Saya memang dalam proses untuk menyelesaikan masalah yang ada dalam sukan taekwondo yang mempunyai tiga persatuan. Saya turut dimaklumkan seperti dalam Olimpik (Beijing) baru-baru ini, turut timbul (masalah) pasal persatuan," katanya kepada para pemberita selepas menyampaikan hadiah kepada pemenang Kejohanan Taekwon-Do Global Malaysia 2008 Jemputan peringkat Kebangsaan di sini Ahad.

Jawatankuasa Tertinggi Sukan Malaysia (SUKMA) sebelum ini turut memutuskan untuk tidak mempertandingkan acara taekwondo pada Sukma 2010 di Melaka, ekoran masalah berlarutan yang dihadapi persatuan taekwondo.

Pada Olimpik Beijing, Malaysia menghantar dua atlet taekwondo wanita iaitu Elaine Teoh dan Che Chew Chan yang gagal membawa balik sebarang pingat.

"Daripada segi sejarah, taekwondo pernah menaikkan nama negara dalam arena antarabangsa. Tahun ini kita masih menghantar atlet taekwondo kita ke Olimpik walaupun ada masalah," kata Ismail Sabri.

Beliau berharap Malaysian Global Taekwondo Federation, Malaysian Taekwondo Association dan Malaysian ITF Taekwondo Federation dapat menyelesaikan segera masalah mereka supaya sukan tersebut boleh dipertandingkan semula dalam Sukma di Melaka.

Beliau juga berkata beliau akan berbincang dengan persatuan taekwondo berhubung cadangan untuk menubuhkan satu badan yang menaungi ketiga-tiga persatuan tersebut supaya pemilihan atlet terbaik bagi mewakili Malaysia dapat dilakukan dengan lebih berkesan dan tidak hanya dibuat oleh sebuah persatuan sahaja.

-- BERNAMA

http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v3/bm/news_sports.php?id=356505

Bad Day For Olympic Taekwondo: Part 1

2008-08-25T14:58:00.003+08:00

BANNED FOR LIFETIME?
"Keputusan Pengadil Taekwondo Olimpik Disanggah Dengan Tendangan Ke Muka"

The biggest drama of the day came with Matos' response after being disqualified against Chilmanov.

Matos shoved the referee and kicked him in the head in a furious reaction.

The Cuban took gold in the 2000 Olympics, but he did not take kindly to being disqualified halfway through the bout for taking too long to return to action after an injury.

Matos was leading 3-2, when he fell to the mat after being hit by his opponent. Fighters have a maximum of one minute's break for injury, and the referee removed him from the competition as soon as the time elapsed.

Matos pushed and kicked the referee, drawing blood from the mouth, then attacked the Swedish judge before spitting on the floor and being escorted out of the arena.

Both Matos and his coach Leudis Gonzalez have been swiftly handed a lifetime ban from all World Taekwondo Federation championships, subject to confirmation by the International Olympic Committee.

Snippet:-
"Pengadil kena serang, tak sempat nak block, atau tak tahu nak block sebab tak belajar, asyik main sparring je guna kaki. Semua yang terlibat bagaikan tidak ada pertimbangan, baik yang menyerang dan yang kena serang, ini padahnya terlalu bergantung kepada undang-undang bertulis kejohanan yang tak terbatas dengan timbang-tara pemikiran. "

MGTF NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP 2008

2008-08-20T14:35:00.005+08:00

THE STAR

Wednesday August 20, 2008

Return of MGTF national meet

By NG WEI LOON

AFTER a lapse of one year, the Malaysian Global Taekwondo Federation (MGTF) National Championships will be making a return at the Stadium Malawati in Shah Alam on Aug 30 and 31.

Defending champions Kedah, who have kept the challenge trophy for good with their three consecutive victories between 2004 and 2006, will be starting off as favourites.

MGTF vice-president (technical) Yeow Cheng Watt said the teams would be vying for the new Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin Challenge Trophy.

“Terengganu and Selangor are also considered among the serious contenders for the overall title this season.

“Although it is an MGTF event, we are also inviting competitors from the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) and International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF) to compete in the meet. Our aim is to promote healthy integration among the taekwondo followers regardless of their background. Besides staying competitive, the event is about reinforcing sportsmanship and fostering closer friendship,” he added.

The organisers are expecting about 300 exponents to take part in the individual and team sections of the pattern and sparring events.

Among the five weight categories for the women’s and men’s individual sparring events are micro, light, middle, heavy and hyper.

For the individual patterns, the women will be vying for honours in three sections (first, second, third degree black belt) while the men’s will be showing their flair in four categories (from first to fourth degree black belt).

Other events include team sparring, mixed pattern and team pattern comprising five members in a side.

“Each contingent can field a representative for each of the three elements in the men’s special technique events.

“The three kicking routines are jumping high turning kick, jumping high front kick and jumping high 360° reverse hooking kick,” said Yeow.

Following Negri Sembilan’s chief coach Chee Moon Tiow’s one month stint in Guangdong, two teams from Shantou and Meizhou cities in the province are also expected to be in the fray.

A total of 17 exponents including two women competitors will be featuring for the two teams.

Chen Wei and Ye Tao Fei, who are both fifth degree black belt holders, will be leading the sides from Shantou and Meizhou respectively.

Organising chairman Muhd Shahnaz Azmi said the Malaysian line-up would also feature in an exhibition match against the visitors from China as the grand finale of the meet.

“The competition venue can accommodate up to 12,000 spectators.

We are offering free entry to the two-day tournament and hope that the public will join us for the occasion,” added Shahnaz.

For details, call 019-257 4977 (Shahnaz) or visit www.mgtf.org.my.

ISTAC 2008 Second Phase (Under 17 & Open)

2008-08-04T12:15:00.023+08:00

ISTAC 2008 FASA KEDUA (Bawah 17 & Terbuka)

KEJOHANAN TAEKWON-DO TAHUNAN ANTARA SEKOLAH-SEKOLAH NEGERI TERENGGANU KALI KE-26
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26TH TERENGGANU INTER-SCHOOLS ANNUAL TAEKWON-DO CHAMPIONSHIP
"ISTAC 2008"

SABTU, 2hb Ogos 2008 - Gerbang Persilatan MSN Gong Badak Kuala Terengganu

ISTAC 2008 anjuran Persatuan Taekwon-Do Negeri Terengganu (GTF) dan Sekolah Imtiaz Terengganu disempurnakan dengan jayanya. Upacara Penutupan kejohanan dirasmikan oleh YB Dato' Senator Hj Abdul Rashid bin Ngah yang pernah memimpin Persatuan ini suatu ketika dahulu. Jikalau SK Kg Baru Kerteh berjaya mempertahankan kategori Kontinjen Terbaik Bawah 12, ISTAC kali ini memperlihatkan kemunculan kontinjen baru merampas kejuaraan kategori Kontinjen Terbaik Bawah 17 iaitu Imtiaz Dungun. Sekolah Imtiaz Dungun pada ISTAC 2007 yang diadakan di Kerteh mendapat tempat kedua di belakang SMK Tg Mizan Zainal Abidin (STEMZA) yang menjadi penyandang tiga tahun berturut-turut.

Peserta Terbaik keseluruhan ISTAC 2008 pula dirangkul oleh pelajar IMTIAZ Kuala Berang iaitu Usamah bin Zaid berjaya mengumpul 4 pingat emas dan berjaya menarik perhatian panel pemilihan kontinjen negeri dengan persembahan yang baik.

Pungutan mata keseluruhan kontinjen adalah seperti berikut:-

KONTINJEN			MATA
IMTIAZ DUNGUN			58
STEMZA			55
IMTIAZ KUALA BERANG			54
SHAMS			43
CENTRE-KT			42
KHAIRIAH			21
SMASZA			18
IMTIAZ BESUT			17
MARANG			8
IMTIAZ KOSPINT			7
SMK.MENG.TEL			7
UDM			7
KEMTA ADULT			6

Akhbar Sinar Harian, 2 Ogos 2008

Pembetulan/Ralat Pada Akhbar:
Kesilapan cetak oleh Sinar Harian iaitu "WTF" yang sepatutnya "GTF"

ALBUM ISTAC 2008 - Kuala Terengganu
http://picasaweb.google.com/sasung77/ISTACU17

Video Gallery:-
http://www.youtube.com/snaco77

SUKMA 2008 : ENIGMA TAEKWONDO TERENGGANU

2008-07-24T16:56:00.012+08:00

SINAR HARIAN
24 Julai 2008
Tajuk: "Berjaya di tempat lawan"

KUALA TERENGGANU – Selepas berhasrat mewakili Terengganu dalam Sukan Malaysia (SUKMA) XII dinafikan, dua atlet taekwando negeri ini nekad mewakili negeri lain bagi membuktikan kemampuan sebenar mereka.

Dua atlet yang dimaksudkan itu ialah Norashikin Mohamad, 17, dan Nasirewan Najmi, 20, yang telah membantu Kelantan meraih pingat gangsa masing-masing menerusi acara finweight (47 kg ke bawah) dan lightweight (67-72 kg).

Menurut Norashikin, meskipun sedih sebab gagal mewakili negeri kelahiran sendiri, dia tetap berasa puas dapat membuktikan keupayaannya meraih pingat berharga itu pada pihak tertentu di negeri ini.

“Saya memang layak mewakili Terengganu tempoh hari, namun akibat taktik kotor yang dimainkan segelintir pihak, peluang yang sepatutnya menjadi milik saya telah diberikan kepada orang lain.

“Apa pun, saya tetap berasa puas sekarang sebab kejayaan meraih pingat gangsa ini secara tidak langsung membuktikan keupayaan sebenar saya yang telah dinafikan pihak terbabit sebelum ini,” katanya kepada Sinar Harian, di sini semalam.

Ujar anak kelahiran Binjai Rendah, Marang ini lagi, kejayaan dalam penyertaan sulungnya dalam edisi SUKMA itu telah membakar semangatnya untuk mewakili Terengganu dalam SUKMA XIII di Melaka pula pada 2010 nanti.

Sementara itu, Nasirewan memberitahu, dia cukup kecil hati apabila pihak jawatankuasa pemilihan menggugurkan namanya daripada mewakili Terengganu dalam SUKMA XII baru-baru ini.

“Alasan yang diberikan bukannya sebab saya tidak layak tetapi mereka mahu mengambil atlet luar yang tentunya membawa pulangan komisen lumayan kepada ‘kantung’ kelab mereka," katanya.

SNIPPETS:-

Nasirewan Najmi adalah salah seorang peserta acara Taekwondo Sukma 2008 yang menjawat kerusi Timbalan Setiausaha PTNT (GTF) dan jurulatih. PTNT kini dibimbing oleh bapanya sendiri Master Najmi Abdullah mengucapkan ribuan penghargaan kepada MTA Kelantan dan MTA Terengganu di atas peluang dan kepercayaan yang diberi kepada atlet di bawah PTNT.

Tohmahan bahawa atlet GTF dan ITF tidak layak dalam sistem WTF nyata meleset. Bukan Nasirewan sahaja telah membuktikan bahawa beliau mampu bersaing dalam arena Taekwondo WTF walaupun dipupuk dan diasuh dengan sistem Taekwon-Do Tradisional, tetapi pejuang sebelum beliau seperti abangnya sendiri, Nasree Najmi dan para senior sebelumnya yang melonjakkan nama universiti dengan rekod kecemerlangan yang terpahat dalam beberapa siri kejohanan WTF dan Karate-Do. Peluang harus dibuka dan kerjasama antara badan Taekwondo harus dieratkan. Persoalannya sejauh manakah pihak beraliran WTF sanggup memberi peluang secara konsisten kepada badan-badan di bawah GTF dan ITF? Adakah hanya sewaktu mereka ketandusan pemain atau 'fighter'?

"To be, or not to be...."

Rujuk kandungan blog Petaling Jaya Taekwondo Club - adakah ini boleh diterima menjadi kebanggaan Negeri Terengganu tercinta? Inikah produk sebenar Kelab/Akademi yang serius mendabik dada yang hanya mereka sahaja yang layak menjadi nakhoda Taekwondo Terengganu? Tepuk Dada Tanya Iman. Apabila Riya' Menguasai Diri Dan Kezaliman Mengepalai, Kebenaran Dengan Sendirinya Akan Muncul.

Rujuk blog Taekwondo Kuantan, luahan senario tidak bersefahaman antara badan Taekwondo dalam negeri Pahang.

From My Desk.
Hj.Saiful Nizam Ashari (4th Dan)

ISTAC 2008 First Phase (Kindergarten & Primary)

2008-07-22T09:18:00.010+08:00

26th ISTAC - Phase I: 19th July 08 : Kerteh

KERTEH, Saturday, 19/7: The 26th Terengganu Inter-Schools Annual Taekwon-Do Championship - Phase 1 was successfully held at Dewan Ilmu Bakti, SK Kg Baru Kerteh.

SK Kg Baru Kerteh again emerged as the Best Primary School contingent with 3 of their participants declared as Male and Female Best Performance.

Ceremony for Crystal Cup presentation will be held on 2nd of August 2008 at Kuala Terengganu.

U12 Best Team: SK Kg Baru Kerteh - 70 pts.
Runner-Up: SK Rantau Petronas - 30 pts.
Third Place: SK Teluk Kalong - 23 pts.

U12 Best Male Participant:
Ahmad Firdaus bin Rosman (SK Kg Baru Kerteh) - 7 pts.

U12 Best Female Participant:
Wan Auji binti Wan Roslan (SK Kg Baru Kerteh) - 7 pts.
Siti Rabihah binti Rosman (SK Kg Baru Kerteh) - 7 pts.

Best Individual with more than one (1) medal:-
SK Rantau Petronas Individual Best Performance:
-Luqman Nurhakim bin M Salehuddin

SK Telok Kalong Best Individual Best Performance:
-Yasmeen binti Ahmad Nasser

KT Center Individual Best Performance:
-Raseena

SK Mengabang Telipot Individual Best Performance:
-Mohammad Indra Shamsuri bin Amzam

Link to Album:
http://picasaweb.google.com/sasung77/ISTAC2008U12

TAEKWONDO : KESAN KESINAMBUNGAN PENGANJURAN SUKMA 2008

2008-07-20T13:53:00.006+08:00

DESK OF SECRETARY GENERAL
Hj.Saiful Nizam Ashari
Email: snaco77@gmail.com

TAEKWONDO : KESAN KESINAMBUNGAN PENGANJURAN SUKMA 2008

Salam sejahtera.

Dalam komentar saya yang lepas berkenaan perjalanan acara Taekwondo dalam SUKMA 2008 di IKBN Wakaf Tapai, Terengganu, saya tidak menjangka hal ini berterusan sehingga Menteri Belia Dan Sukan membuat kenyataan berkenaan status sukan ini untuk SUKMA mendatang.

Kata-kata dan bebelan beberapa pengurus pasukan Taekwondo semasa SUKMA 2008 umpama doa yang dimakbulkan. Seiring itu saya ungkapkan kembali petikan akhbar Harian Metro 18 Julai 2008:-

"‘Apalah daya saya’
Oleh Nor Hairulnizam Wahid
hairulnizam@hmetro.com.my

JIKA diikutkan pandangan peribadi Menteri Belia dan Sukan, Datuk Ismail Sabri Yaakob (gambar), beliau mahu keutamaan diberikan kepada acara yang bakal dipertandingkan di Sukan Olimpik.

Tetapi apakan daya, tuntutan daripada pelbagai pihak menyebabkan acara seperti tenis dan taekwando diketepikan, sebaliknya acara bukan Olimpik seperti silambam disenaraikan dalam 25 acara dipertandingkan dalam Sukan Malaysia (Sukma) di Melaka pada 2010.

Selain tenis, sukan pilihan yang turut digugurkan dalam acara Sukma ialah judo, ragbi, kenu, golf, bola tampar dan lawan pedang.

Menurut beliau, ini berikutan ada sukan disifatkan sebagai sukan berunsur budaya (culture sport) seperti silat dan wushu, menyebabkan silambam turut terpilih sebagai acara Sukma.

Malah katanya, bola jaring yang bukannya sukan Olimpik turut dipertandingkan kerana ia adalah sukan wanita dan akan menimbulkan rasa tidak puas hati jika ia digugurkan.

“Saya setuju jika acara di Sukma dihadkan kepada 25 acara memandangkan Olimpik sebagai sukan terbesar dunia hanya mempunyai 28 acara.

“Sukan Olimpik sepatutnya menjadi keutamaan tetapi banyak yang perlu dipertimbangkan. Kalau pandangan saya sendiri tentulah keutamaan patut diberi kepada acara Olimpik kerana Sukma adalah batu loncatan ke Olimpik,” katanya.

Bagi taekwando yang digugurkan akibat masalah dalaman persatuan sukan terbabit, Ismail Sabri berkata, peluang masih terbuka andai mereka mampu mengakhiri masalah yang masih berlanjutan.

“Kita akan cuba menyelesaikan masalah terbabit,” katanya selepas merasmikan mesyuarat agung tahunan Persatuan Ekuestrian Malaysia, semalam.

Dalam majlis sama katanya, Kementerian Belia dan Sukan (KBS) turut bersetuju untuk menyumbang RM2 juta menerusi Institut Sukan Negara (ISN) untuk pembangunan sukan itu dalam tempoh lima tahun."

Antara sebab yang dinyatakan ialah kegagalan badan-badan Taekwondo berorientasikan sistem WTF untuk bergabung dan bersatu. Penulis seolah-olah kecewa dengan pengguguran acara Taekwondo dan menyifatkan acara-acara yang tidak ada dalam Olimpik yang dimasukkan dalam SUKMA seperti tidak wajar berbanding acara Taekwondo. Umum memahami kata-kata Menteri tersebut adalah bersusur-galurkan kes pembatalan pendaftaran MTA pada suatu ketika dan tatkala MTA dihidupkan kembali ia berhadapan dengan beberapa penubuhan lain seperti MTF dan MTCA. Masing-masing bergelut dalam soal pengiktirafan.

Kegagalan badan-badan ini bersatu sudah tentu memberi kesan dalam penganjuran SUKMA. Barangkali SUKMA 2008 di Terengganu sudah cukup menunjukkan kesengetan dalam mutu pengadilan sehingga ke cacian-cacian pihak tertentu berkenaan "match-fixing" oleh badan yang mengendalikan acara ini. Mungkin juga wujud tindakan boikot beberapa negeri

Adakah kerajaan bersedia memberi ruang kepada badan Taekwon-do kebangsaan di bawah aliran ITF dan GTF untuk mewujudkan acara Taekwon-Do gaya Chang-Hon di dalam SUKMA kelak walaupun ianya tidak ada dalam Olimpik. Sekiranya International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF) di bawah Korea Utara berjaya melaksanakan memorandum penggabungan ITF dan WTF sehingga wujudnya satu sistem baru Taekwon-Do dalam Olimpik yang mempunyai imej kedua-dua badan tersebut barangkali kerajaan harus menimbangkan pembabitan ITF dan GTF yang ada dalam negara ini demi penyatuan semua. Setidak-tidaknya satu persekutuan yang terdiri daripada Menteri sendiri harus diwujudkan bagi memayungi semua cabang Taekwondo dalam negara ini.

ISTAC 2008

2008-06-28T10:13:00.011+08:00

26th Terengganu Inter-Schools Taekwon-Do
Annual Championship

"ISTAC 2008"

Under-12 :-
19th July 2008 (Saturday)
-Updated
SK Kg Baru Kerteh, Kemaman, Terengganu
Jointly Organised:-
Persatuan Taekwon-Do Negeri Terengganu (GTF)
Persatuan Taekwon-Do Daerah Kemaman (GTF) "KEMTA"
SK Kg Baru Kerteh

Under-17 & Open :-
1st & 2nd August 2008 (Friday & Saturday)
Indoor Stadium - Gong Badak **
Jointly Organised by:-
Persatuan Taekwon-Do Negeri Terengganu (GTF)
IMTIAZ School Of Excellence

-** subject to changes

SUKMA 2008

2008-06-12T12:33:00.019+08:00

SUKMA 2008 DI TERENGGANU:
ACARA TAEKWONDO
Oleh: Hj. Saiful Nizam Ashari - Setiausaha Agung PTNT
Email: snaco77@gmail.com

"Salam Sejahtera".
Sebagai rakyat negeri Terengganu saya berbangga temasya Sukan Malaysia (SUKMA) Ke-12 berjaya meletakkan kontinjen negeri saya di tangga teratas yang sebelum ini kerap kali dipegang oleh kontinjen Selangor.

Sebagai pengamal dan peminat seni Taekwon-Do atau sukan Taekwondo, sudah tentu saya mencari ruang untuk hadir menyaksikan acara Taekwondo yang diadakan di Institut Kemahiran Belia Negara - Wakaf Tapai, Marang.

1. ISU MUTU PENGADILAN

Saya mungkin bukan individu yang sesuai mengkritik dalam hal ini. Bagaimana pun sebagai yang menyaksikan insiden-insiden dan "atmosphere" perlawanan, penulisan ini hanyalah satu tanggapan dan pandangan yang sudah tentunya boleh dibahas.

Setiap acara sukan yang diadakan dalam setiap temasya tidak lari dari komen dan kritikan dalam segenap hal seperti pengurusan penganjuran, tempat, fasiliti, mutu pengadilan dan sebagainya. Malah setiap temasya sudah tentu wujud perkara-perkara baru positif yang menarik perhatian.

Bagi acara Taekwondo, gaya WTF dimasukkan sebagai acara dalam SUKMA. Saya pada mulanya difahamkan ianya bukan acara wajib seperti olahraga. Ini bermakna acara Taekwondo menjadi 'option' penganjur samada ianya perlu diadakan atau tidak. Jika ianya suatu pilihan, suara sumbang mencadangkan sukan ini tidak dipertandingkan pada SUKMA mendatang sehingga resolusi persefahaman dicapai antara badan Taekwondo kebangsaan yang masih bergolak dan berkecamuk. Sukan Taekwondo dalam SUKMA bagaimana pun adalah acara wajib dan sudah tentu akan terus dipertandingkan. Beberapa persoalan timbul atas akibat apa yang telah berlaku dalam penganjuran SUKMA kali ini.

Sebagaimana Taekwondo, sukan subjektif ala kombat seperti Silat, Karate dan Tinju pastinya wujud kontroversi dari sudut keputusan pengadil dan biasanya tidaklah begitu ketara. Bagaimana pun keputusan-keputusan acara Taekwondo telah menjadi buah mulut bukan sahaja di kalangan yang menyaksikan (penonton) malahan kebanyakan pengurus atlet negeri-negeri yang menyertai.

Di dalam akhbar Sinar Harian bertarikh 11 Jun 2008 :- (dipetik melalui versi online):-

Presiden WTF kesal mutu pengadilan acara taekwando
KUALA TERENGGANU – Presiden Persatuan Taekwando Selangor (WTF), CK Karan melahirkan kekecewaannya terhadap mutu pengadilan acara taekwando Sukan Malaysia (SUKMA) XII di Institut Kemahiran Belia Negara (IKBN), Wakaf Tapai, Marang baru-baru ini. Sinar Harian difahamkan, isu itu timbul apabila keputusan perlawanan dikatakan sengaja diatur pihak penganjur pertandingan yang dikepalai pengurusan pusat taekwando swasta terkenal di negeri ini.

Saya sebagai penonton telah menjadi saksi beberapa insiden yang tidak menyenangkan. Sejak hari pertama sudah ada yang bersungut dengan keputusan berat sebelah kumpulan pengadil yang dipilih oleh penganjur pertandingan. Yang ketara di hadapan mata saya pengurus kontinjen Kedah melahirkan rasa kecewanya di luar gelanggang melalui kata-kata dan menyifatkan kejadian ini boleh merosakkan matlamat utama aktiviti Taekwondo. Wajah kecewa juga jelas kelihatan kepada peserta-peserta yang kalah, ini kerana mereka yakin keputusan berpihak kepada mereka atas apa yang telah mereka persembahkan, namun lain pula keputusan yang diterima mereka. Pengurus tersebut dengan lantang menyatakan acara ini lebih baik tidak diadakan lagi pada SUKMA yang mendatang kerana sikap pengadil-pengadil yang jelas seperti "dibeli" dan "mengampu" tuan rumah seolah-olah ada habuan yang bakal diterima.

Hari Kedua masih lagi kedengaran suara-suara sumbang beberapa jurulatih dan pegawai pasukan negeri. Saya memasang telinga dan mendapat tahu pada malamnya jam 3 pagi cabutan dibuat semula kerana bantahan keras dibuat oleh beberapa pegawai berkenaan susun atur perlawanan yang dilihat berpihak kepada tuan rumah yang sudah awal-awal mengenal pasti tahap pihak lawan.

2. ISU BADAN PENGANJUR ACARA

Secara konvensional penganjuran acara dalam temasya kebangsaan haruslah diurus oleh Badan Sukan di Peringkat Negeri. Ini kerana kontinjen-kontinjen menggunakan platform "negeri". Bagi "layman dalam Taekwondo" atau "orang biasa", mereka memahami kuasa mengurus tadbir atlet dan acara diberi kepada Persatuan Taekwondo Terengganu (MTA/WTF).

Apakah ada syarat temasya Sukan Malaysia (SUKMA) dalam mengiktiraf dan memberi kuasa penganjuran kepada badan sukan di peringkat negeri; jika ada termaktub dalam sebarang aturan Majlis Sukan Negara / Majlis Sukan Negeri, maka ianya haruslah menjadi intipati utama yang harus diketengahkan. Atau sememangnya MSN mempunyai bidangkuasa yang tidak terbatas untuk melantik sebarang kelab atau badan sukan yang sesuai atau dengan kata lainnya yang paling disukai olehnya.

Menurut petikan di atas acara ini diuruskan oleh "pusat taekwando swasta terkenal di negeri ini". Terma "swasta" itu sendiri sudah jelas melambangkan tujuan pusat itu ditubuhkan dan motif utama setiap operasinya. Ditambah pula dengan beberapa insentif berbentuk wang yang ditawarkan oleh Kerajaan Negeri untuk badan pengurusan sesuatu acara, bertambahlah lagi tanggapan dan kepercayaan orang ramai terhadap unsur negatif yang mungkin telah berlaku.

Pusat yang dimaksudkan mengguna pakai terma "Kelab" atau "Akademi" yang sewajarnya menjadi ahli persatuan di bawah kelolaan badan peringkat negeri. Bagi sesebuah "Akademi" yang menjalankan Taekwondo, dahulunya ia boleh didaftarkan sebagai satu entiti perniagaan di bawah Pendaftar Perniagaan (ROB). Dengan wujudnya Akta Pembangunan Sukan 1997, semua Akademi yang menjalankan "bisnes taekwondo" haruslah berdaftar semula dengan Pejabat Pesuruhjaya Sukan Malaysia dan harus mempunyai undang-undang tubuh sebagaimana pengurusan sebuah persatuan.

Umum mengetahui modus-operandi sebuah Akademi adalah bertemakan keuntungan dan kerajaan belum menghalang kegiatan ini diusaha secara komersil. Tumpuan bantuan dan peruntukan haruslah diberi kepada badan-badan sukan yang berdaftar sebagai sebuah persatuan terutama persatuan di peringkat negeri. Agensi kerajaan yang terlibat secara langsung dengan badan sukan yang mewakili negeri adalah seperti Majlis Sukan Negeri dan Jabatan Belia Dan Sukan Negeri. Dua agensi ini menjadi saluran utama pergantungan sesebuah persatuan berdaftar.

3. ISU ATLET ANAK JATI YANG TIDAK MEWAKILI TERENGGANU

Perkhabaran yang tidak enak didengar ialah apabila seseorang menyatakan sebilangan besar atlet yang mewakili Terengganu bukan berasal dari negeri ini ,bukan berlatih di sini , bukan bernaung di bawah kelab "tersebut" dan diserap masuk kerana dibayar. Pernyataan yang dibuat di sini mungkin benar dan mungkin tidak benar, ini hanyalah satu khabar angin yang saya luahkan semula. Apapun, "jika tiada 'angin' masa kan pokok boleh bergoyang ?"

PTNT walaupun mengamalkan gaya taekwondo tradisional, ahli-ahli dididik sebagai seorang pengamal seni bela diri atau "martial artist" yang mampu mengadaptasi bentuk perlawanan. Sudah terbukti ahli-ahli PTNT yang melanjutkan pelajaran di menara gading telah berjaya melibatkan diri dan menonjol dalam acara Taekwondo WTF dan juga Karate bahkan ke peringkat antarabangsa. Tohmahan badan yang mengelolakan sistem WTF bahawa atlet ITF/GTF tidak mampu bersaing boleh diketepikan dan tidak harus lagi menjadi modal semata-mata untuk kepentingan diri.

Beberapa atlet PTNT diserap masuk ke dalam Kontinjen Karate Terengganu dan seorang jurulatih PTNT menggunakan platform MTA-Terengganu untuk mewakili Kelantan dalam temasya SUKMA ini. Bahkan dikatakan bahawa atlet MTA-Terengganu yang rata-ratanya anak jati negeri ini seramai 9 orang diserap masuk ke Kontinjen Taekwondo Kelantan. Kenapa? Tidak ada ruang untuk bekerjasama dengan "Kelab" yang diberi tanggungjawab dan kepercayaan oleh Majlis Sukan Negeri.

Sikap pengelola yang dilantik MSNT sejak awal lagi terserlah dalam beberapa siri penganjuran pemilihan untuk mewakili Pasukan Taekwondo Terengganu. Beberapa siri langsung tidak melibatkan badan pengelola Taekwon-Do negeri seperti PTNT dan MTA-Terengganu pernah bertindak memboikot acara pemilihan yang jelas wujud tindakan mengatur perlawanan dan membeli pengadil.

Di mana "Moral Culture" yang wujud dalam seni Taekwon-Do? Adakah nilai-nilai yang perjuangkan oleh Pengasas Taekwon-Do tidak ada dalam WTF (ramai yang percaya pengamal WTF negara ini hanya berorientasikan acara perlawanan). Saya pernah berinteraksi dengan pengamal WTF bangsa asing yang datang ke Pusat Latihan saya, mereka bersikap lebih terbuka dan pengetahuan mereka dalam seni Taekwon-Do tidaklah secetek yang disangka. Masalah terma WTF, ITF atau GTF tidak menjadi hal utama di tempat mereka kerana gaya-gaya ini boleh bersatu dan bekerjasama. PTNT bersikap lebih suka bekerjasama dan membantu bila perlu tetapi sikap sebaliknya pula ditunjukkan oleh badan tertentu, seolah-olah Taekwondo ini hanya "dimiliki" oleh mereka. Tindakan ini boleh dikategorikan sebagai sifat pengecut dan tamak yang hanya merugikan negeri ini.

4. ISU PERSATUAN TAEKWONDO DI PERINGKAT NEGERI

Sebagai salah seorang pegawai persatuan taekwondo di peringkat negeri yang memperkembangkan kegiatan Taekwon-Do ala tradisional, gaya yang dikenali sebagai ITF dan GTF, saya merasa kecewa dengan beberapa tindakan agensi yang tidak berapa mengendahkan pengelola di peringkat negeri. Walaupun PTNT menjadi ahli sekutu MSNT, beberapa mesyuarat penting berkenaan perkembangan seni dan sukan ini tidak dijemput. Sehingga kedengaran dalam siri mesyuarat bersama badan-badan taekwondo dengan MSNT mereka telah mengklasifikasikan taekwon-do yang diperjuangkan dan diajar oleh PTNT kepada atletnya adalah bersifat ganas dan tidak boleh sama sekali dijemput masuk ke dalam acara ala WTF.

Berapakah bilangan badan taekwon-do / taekwondo yang diisytihar di peringkat negeri yang ada dalam negeri Terengganu ?

Secara amnya badan pengelola taekwon-do di peringkat negeri terdiri daripada:-
1. Persatuan Taekwondo Terengganu (MTA/MTF) yang bergabung dengan badan kebangsaan Persatuan Taekwondo Malaysia (MTA) ...... gaya WTF
2. Persatuan Taekwon-Do Negeri Terengganu (GTF) yang bergabung dengan badan kebangsaan Persekutuan Taekwon-Do Global Malaysia (MGTF) ....gaya tradisional - GTF
3. Persatuan Taekwon-Do Terengganu (ITF) yang bergabung dengan badan kebangsaan Persekutuan Taekwon-Do Antarabangsa Malaysia (ITFM) ..... gaya tradisional - ITF

Apabila muncul kemelut penggantungan pendaftaran Persatuan Taekwondo Malaysia (MTA) oleh Pesuruhjaya Sukan Malaysia suatu masa dahulu, penubuhan badan yang menggantikan MTA ialah Persekutuan Taekwondo Malaysia (MTF), status pendaftaran badan-badan sukan di peringkat negeri yang menjadi ahli MTA masih lagi kekal dan tidak terbubar. Namun implikasi bubar - tubuh baru - rayuan - wujud semula dan sebagainya telah mengundang banyak keliruan.

Badan pengelola kebangsaan untuk taekwon-do tradisional seperti ITF dan GTF hanya mengambil sikap tidak campur tangan dan menjana kegiatan mengikut takwim tersendiri. Mungkin tidak ada usaha oleh pihak kerajaan untuk mewujudkan secara rasminya satu Majlis atau Persekutuan yang menjadi payung kepada tiga-tiga aliran utama ini seperti MAKAF untuk Karate dan PESAKA untuk Silat. Cadangan menyatukan ketiga-tiga badan ini barangkali mustahil berikutan usaha kerajaan dalam penyatuan MTA, MTF dan MTCA juga melihat kebuntuan.

Kerajaan harus menyedari terdapat bakat-bakat yang hebat yang dilahirkan oleh dua badan Taekwon-Do tradisional yang mampu menyaingi atlet WTF. Taekwon-Do tetap Taekwon-Do. Matlamat pendidikan dan pembelajaran seni mempertahankan diri harus dijadikan suatu yang utama. Adakah pihak berwajib tidak terpanggil dengan idea pemayungan dan persefahaman di kalangan badan-badan Taekwondo? Atau wujud isu-isu tersembunyi yang melibatkan sensitiviti orang yang berkait atau yang mempunyai kepentingan?

Perlawanan melibatkan salah seorang atlet PTNT yang mewakili Kelantan.

Gathering A Success At MGTF HQ - Part 1

2008-06-09T23:31:00.008+08:00

Shah Alam, 8th June 2008

A Gathering conducted by Grandmaster Dato' Dr. Sabree Salleh involving MGTF Seniors and young prodigees was held with success at MGTF Headquarter, Shah Alam. Speech of motivation given by the Grandmaster on the event date was followed by training and upgrading session for the seniors. Among newly promoted seniors were the MGTF President; Master Amir Md. Noor, Master Ricky Low, Master Chong Teck Hong, Master Keith Tan and Master Chee Moon Piow.

The most long serving in Terengganu, the traditional taekwon-do practitioner, Master Najmi Abdullah (7th Dan) was successfully undergone the upgrading test together with other 6th Dan MGTF members amongst which were Master V.Sivalingam, Master John Mohd and Master Roland Chong Tae Kwon.

Free Sparring Sessions involving PTNT
(High Quality versions are viewable
at http://www.youtube.com/snaco77 )

Grandmaster Park Jung Tae

2008-05-15T12:53:00.004+08:00

The Late Grandmaster Park Jung Tae
Founder of Global Taekwon-Do Federation (GTF), one of the Pioneers of Taekwon-Do, being called as "Technical Perfectionist"

Grandmaster Dato Dr. Sabree Salleh

2008-05-14T23:19:00.007+08:00

Short documentary on Grandmaster/Sasung Dato' Dr. Sabree Salleh (9th Dan), Global Taekwon-Do Federation (GTF)

MITF Promo Video:-

Dr. Sabree Salleh is one of a few non-Korean who was personally trained by the late General Choi Hong Hi (The Founder of Taekwon-Do, and Past-President of International Taekwon-Do Federation). Sabree was born in Kangar, Perlis, Northern Malaysia. He started training in martial arts at the age of seven in the traditional Silat Kuntau Melaka, Silat Sending, Silat Gayung, and Thai Boxing.

In the early 60’, Sabree began to learn Taekwon-Do from the Korean instructor C.K Choi. He also studied under J.C. Kim Choi Kwang Jo & Choi Yik Seong.

In 1970 Sabree further his education at MARA Institute of Technology (ITM) Petaling Jaya, Selangor. There he established ITM Taekwon-Do Club and the Kuala Lumpur Taekwon-Do Association. He taught Taekwon-Do to the FELDA Club, The Eurosian Club, Malayan Banking Club, the Sultan Idris Teachers Training College Club, MARDI Club and the Tun Abdul Razak School (SDAR) Club in Seremban.

Sabree formed the Malaysian Taekwon-Do Federation (MTF) and became its first Secretary General. While in Kuala Lumpur Sabree also trained under Lee Byong Moo, Low Koon Lin. He was then hand-picked by General Choi Hong Hi to be his student.

While at ITM, Sabree represented MTF demonstration team to Indonesia, Brunei, Thailand and Philippines. In 1973, he represented ITF to demonstrate along with the elite members of South Korean Navy Taekwon-Do experts.

He continued his education at Glasgow College, Scotland. He became the instructor for Rhee Ki Ha Taekwon-Do Academy and also the instructor for the United Kingdom Taekwon-Do Association (UKTA). He continued his Taekwon-Do training under Gen Choi Hong Hi and Master Park Jung Tae in Toronto, Canada

With ITF instructors, he conducted training in Mexico, Panama, Honduras, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia and El Salvador. He also gave demonstration in Northern Ireland, Poland, Italy, Spain, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Syria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq.

In 1979, Sabree continued his education at Brooks Institute, Santa Barbara California. He founded the Sabree’s Taekwon-Do Academy in Goleta, California and in Tjuana, Mexico. He was the Director for the United States Taekwon-Do Federation (USTF) Western Zone. He was also ITF, Under-Secretary General, Chairman of Public Relation and Executive Director. He was also the council member of North American Taekwon-Do Federation (NATF).

He continued his training under Master Han Cha Kyo in Chicago, Lee Suk Ki of Edminton , Canada. With ITF instructors he conducted training and seminars in Puerto Rico, Greece, Italy, Austria, East Germany, Romania, Poland, Spain, Belgium, Russia and Jamaica. In 1982, he was the instructor for USTF team for the ITF Inter-Continental Championships in St. Foy Canada. In 1983 he was an instructor of the ITF Summer Camp held in Montreal, Canada and Vermont, USA. Sabree was the instructor for USTF team at the 4th World ITF Championship in Glasgow Scotland. He was the Chief Referee for the All Europe Taekwon-Do Championship in Budapest, Hungary.

In 1984, Sabree completed taking 20,000 photographs for General Choi Hong Hi 15 volumes of Taekwon-Do Encyclopedia.

Sabree returned to Malaysia in the early 1985 where he worked full time as a Lecturer, Professor and Dean of University Technology MARA University (UiTM) for 17 years. In 1986, he founded the Malaysian International Taekwon-Do Federation (MITF) and was MITF President and Chief Instructor (1986-1998). He was promoted to 7th Degree Blackbelt in 1989. In 1991 he became the Secretary General of the Asia Pacific Taekwon-Do Federation (APTF).

Sabree headed the Malaysian National Team to the ITF World Championships. The 5th in Athens Greece in 1987, the 6th at Budapest, Hungary in 1988, the 7th at Montreal, Canada in 1990 and the 8th at Pyongyang, North Korea in 1992. In 1990 he also headed Malaysian National team to ITF 1st Children Championship in Moscow, Russia and in 1991 at the Asia Pacific (APTF) Championship in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. In 1995 and 1997 to APTF Championships in Tokyo Japan.

Sabree conducted seminars/demonstration with Gen Choi to New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Uzbekistan and Russia. In 1994 he represented ITF in the Asia Olympic Council Conference in Bangkok Thailand.

In 1994, Sabree organized the 9th World ITF Taekwon-Do Championship in Terengganu, Malaysia with 86 countries National teams participated. Malaysia succeeded to attain the 4th place. It was officiated by the Prime Minister of Malaysia.

Sabree received many awards and medals from the Malaysian Government for his contribution to the Martial Arts. This include two ‘Knighthood’ (Dato’), DPMT in 1994 and DSSA in 1999. He also received the ‘Order of Friendship 2nd Class” from President of DPR Korea in 1994. He is the first non-Korean to receive this award for his contribution in promoting of Taekwon-Do worldwide. He was promoted to 8th Degree Blackbelt by ITF and 7th Degree Hapkido by Korean Hapkido Association, Seoul, Korea.

Sabree founded The Malaysian Global Taekwon-Do Federation (MGTF) in 1999 and become MGTF President & Chief Instructor from 1999-2005. MGTF is a National Taekwon-Do Organization registered and recognized by Malaysian Government. He was also The Senior Vice-President of The Global Taekwon-Do Federation (GTF) from 1999-2005.

In 2001, after over 45 years involment in Taekwon-Do, Sabree Salleh was promoted to 9th Degree Black Belt by Grand Master Park Jung Tae himself of The Global Taekwon-Do Federation (GTF), Canada, and by The Korean Pro-Taekwon-Do Federation (KPTF), Seoul, Korea. Sabree also received 9th Degree Black Belt from the World All style Combat Organization (WASCO), Italy. Currently he is also WASCO Vice- President.

In 2005, Sabree with other Malaysian Martial arts senior instructors formed The Malaysian Martial Arts Grand Masters Martial Association (MAGMA). He is now an Advisor/Founder member to MAGMA.

Sabree’s was admitted to be a member of WHFSC –THE WORLD HEAD OF FAMILY SOKESHIP COUNCIL (The most prestegious World Grand Master Council) in 2007.

He was awarded WHFSC INTERNATIONAL HALL OF FAME AWARD 2008, at WHFSC 16th Annual International Award and Symposium at The Crowne Plaza Hotel, San Antonio, Texas, USA on May 24th 2008.

RETRO: 9TH WTC 1994 VIDEOS

2008-05-14T19:49:00.002+08:00

Recovered CD No.1

#1/7 of CD1: Opening Ceremony at outdoor Stadium Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah, Speech by Malaysian Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir Mohamad & Founder of Taekwon-Do Gen.Choi Hong Hi

#2/7 of CD1: Final Events : Team Pattern

#3/7 of CD1

#4/7 of CD1

#5/7 of CD1

#6/7 of CD1

#7/7 of CD1

Save Our Turtles !

2008-04-22T13:54:00.013+08:00

Persatuan Taekwon-Do Negeri Terengganu (GTF)

is urging you to join

Persatuan Ma' Daerah Khazanah Rakyat

(Ma' Daerah The People's Heritage) "MEKAR"

and Save Our Marine Turtles !

The program is part of WWF Malaysia's program.

There are ways to contribute.

Please visit http://madaerah.org/

Tuan Hj. Amran Salleh, Chairman of MEKAR

is also the Pioneer of Taekwon-Do Class at Kg. Baru Kerteh, had since become the host of two consecutive Terengganu Inter-Schools Taekwon-Do Annual Championship (ISTAC), and much expected to run the third in 2008. Under his patronage, Kg.Baru Kerteh TKD Class is made-known to public and had once been acknowledged as the most active running training ground in Terengganu. For his noble effort in saving our turtles, let us contribute ....

Congratulation: New Terengganu Chief Minister

2008-03-31T14:08:00.011+08:00

Persatuan Taekwon-Do Negeri Terengganu (GTF) congratulate YAB Dato' Ahmad bin Said of Kijal, Kemaman for being appointed by Terengganu Royal as new State Chief Minister.

Long Live Menteri Besar.

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ABOUT OUR 13TH CHIEF MINISTER

YAB Dato' Ahmad bin Said actively involved in domestic political arena since age 19 as Vice-Chairman of UMNO Teluk Kalong Branch, Kemaman. Later he became committee member of Pergerakan Pemuda UMNO Bahagian Kemaman from 1982 to 1986.

His charismatic figure and competency in politics with strong party spirit and struggles had eventually made him elected by the people and became Member Of State Legislative Assembly (ADUN) of Kijal on 1st of August 1990.

He perpetuate the position as Adun of Kijal in the 8^th General Election (PRU) (October 1990) and 9^th PRU in 1995. However, the political scenario during 10^th PRU (1999) fails to favour him as he lost to opposition.

Even so, in 11^th PRU in 2004 had reversed back his political profession when he succeeds in winning people’s heart after he beat his challenger from Pas with the majority of 3,496 votes.

Thereof, he was appointed as the Chairman of Local Government and State Housing (2004-2008) representing the Barisan Nasional government after the party mandated by the people in 11^th PRU.

Apart from that, he also had been selected as Ketua Pemuda (Youth Chief) of UMNO Kemaman and Ketua Pemuda UMNO Perhubungan Negeri. The fact remain that he maintained the post of UMNO Kemaman Chief since May 2001.

Being Teluk Kalong local, born in Kemaman on 15^th of February 1957, he was deeply nurtured and grows in village life and his strong spirit had made him successfully put his feet into University Science of Malaysia (USM) in Bachelor of Political Science (Hons).

Prior to his tertiary education, he acquired knowledge in Maktab Adabi Terengganu, Kuala Terengganu (1975-1976) after finishing his primary and secondary in Sekolah Kebangsaan Teluk Kalong, Kemaman (1964-1969) And Sekolah Menengah Chukai, Kemaman (1970-1974).

Father to eight children of five boys and three girls, he is the person who is dedicated and committed with the task with deep experience in the administration of the State Government base on his high profile at various departments.

He began his career in administration as Assistant District Officer of Kemaman (1982-1985), then Second District Officer of Kemaman (1985-1986) and the Principal of Pusat Pupuk Semangat (1986- 1987). From 1988 until 1990, he became Assistant District Officer of Setiu before being selected to contest in Pilihan Raya Kecil Dun Kijal in 1990.

After winning the By-election, and became ADUN Kijal, he was appointed as Yang Dipertua Majlis Daerah Kemaman from 1990 to 1995.

His political career increased further and sealed him as the 13^th Menteri Besar of Terengganu on 30^th of March 2008.

He determines to continue the struggles of former Menteri Besar, Dato' Seri Idris Jusoh. Dato' Ahmad Said also promises to fulfil trust of Allah SWT as decent as possible.

Content extracted and translated from Malay version in Terengganu Government Official Website www.terengganu.gov.my

Kemaman Training Center

2008-03-29T23:26:00.018+08:00

KEMAMAN TAEKWON-DO DO-JANG,
FREESTYLE MARTIAL ARTS & KICKBOXING STUDIO

Persatuan Taekwon-Do Daerah Kemaman (GTF),
PT.11260 2nd Floor, Taman Chukai Utama, Fasa 3,
24000 Kemaman, Terengganu
** In front of SEN HENG, same building with UMW TOYOTA and POLIKLINIK UTAMA

Trivia: First World Senior Championship

2008-03-29T22:24:00.002+08:00

DO YOU KNOW?

The First ITF World Senior Taekwon-Do Championship was held in Montreal, Canada in 1974.

RETRO: Ultimate Warrior 2007

2008-03-28T08:59:00.004+08:00

Ultimate Warrior 2007 was organised by Sports & Youth Ministry open to all styles. The system is more on Muay-Thai style with restrictions. We were the only taekwon-do body sent participants. Other style were from Muay-Thai (mostly from Besut and Thai), amateur boxing and silat. The champion emerged from amateur boxing member. Our members gave good fight especially from Nasree and Idris both reach semi and quarter. Our team members led by Mr.Najmi : Nasree, Nasirewan, Badri, Idris and Aizuddin. We salute their courage as no other taekwon-do bodies within Terengganu dare to send fighters!

Idris' Fight:-

Nasree's Fight:-

UMT COMMUNITY PROGRAMME 2008

2008-03-23T09:13:00.015+08:00

22nd March 2008
COMMUNITY PROGRAMME ORGANISED BY UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA TERENGGANU (UMT) AT SK TANJUNG GELAM, KUALA TERENGGANU
"Program Bersama Komuniti 2008 - Permata Hatiku - Oleh Penuntut Subjek Pemasaran Sosial UMT"

SK Tanjung Gelang (primary school) was chosen for the community service programme which include exhibition on importance of joining social and sports activities and towards student-parent awareness.

Our Association was invited "at urgent basis" to perform taekwon-do demonstration. We were given understanding that the school is already has their taekwondo club under WTF style but is unable to provide demonstration especially on self-defense. Audience were much entertained and the VIPs are willing to extent good relationship with our Association. We have no intention of taking over WTF class but very glad to assist their instructor (who eventually was there during the programme) in boosting morale of students.

Cikgu Wan Ali became the Spoke-Person for the Association. Performing members were Cikgu Zamri, Hj.Saiful, Nasirewan, Nasuha, Nasuhaila, Naserwina and Asiah. The Demo Team is not an official Terengganu Demo Team. The team gathered a day before event to setup movement at our newly opened Kuala Terengganu Martial Arts Center. It was instructors training day though not all showing up because of short notice, Mr. Najmi appreciated those who came. The attendees were Cikgu Wan Ali from North Kuala Terengganu, Cikgu Zamri from Hulu Terengganu, Mr.W.Ahmad from Besut, Tn.Hj.Saiful and Mr.Tun Mazukie from Kemaman whilst Nasirewan, Nasuha, Nasuhaila, Naserwina and Asiah from Kuala Terengganu. The new Center is equipped with hi-quality training carpet, martial arts training accesories and mirrors will accommodate training in Taekwon-Do, Kickboxing, Karate and Aerobic. Each of these disciplines are handled by different instructors.

Courtesy Visit To Xtreme Gym

2008-03-18T09:48:00.009+08:00

26th Feb.2008
PTNT representatives Mr.Najmi & Hj.Saiful paid a courtesy visit at Mr. AVS Bathi's Xtreme Martial Arts & Kickboxing Do-Jang in Sri Hartamas, Kuala Lumpur. It was a casual meeting to watch Mr.Bathi's kickboxing class running.

The Do-Jang provides trainings in Kickboxing, Taekwon-Do and Silat Gayung of Terengganu for both adults and children. Mr. Bathi himself is a silat practitioner trained under Malay guru.

Xtreme Martial Arts & Kickboxing is a member of World Kickboxing Association (WKA). In 2005 it was recognised by Malaysian Sports Commisioner with registered name Persekutuan Kickboxing Malaysia (MKF/WKA).

Portal Being Hacked

2008-03-03T12:38:00.005+08:00

www.taekwondo-terengganu.com back to normal!

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Our Official Portal been hacked!!!!

We came to know that www.taekwondo-terengganu.com was hacked by Turkish extremist with this message:-

"This website has been HACKED in a mass for protesting Geert Wilders and his ugly attack against Islam, and for announcing to the whole world that the corresponding insults are baseless.

Our attacks will continue until All the world hears the truth, as in our Denmark and Sweden Protests.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Our aim is not to harm your system.

2008 Chad- Karargah [Nederland]

We have lodged complaint with the hosting company.

RETRO: TRG TEEN TEAM @ KEDAH OPEN 2007

2008-02-23T11:23:00.003+08:00

KEDAH TAEKWON-DO OPEN (GTF-ITF-WTF) CHAMPIONSHIP 2007
Star Parade, Alor Setar, 27 May 2007
News in Bahasa : http://www.taekwondo-terengganu.com/berita4.htm

TERENGGANU TEEN CONTINGENT (REMAJA TERENGGANU)

2 Gold - 3 Silver- 6 Bronze

RETRO: 9TH WTC 1994 VIDEOS

2008-02-20T14:57:00.010+08:00

UPDATED !!! : 14th May 2008

The 9th World ITF Taekwon-Do Championship 1994 at Kuala Terengganu was organised by Terengganu State Government and Ministry of Cultural & Heritage of Malaysia.

Original videos shot by TV3 and edited by Blog Moderator for collection and webviewing purposes. The video is still under cutting process and will be viewed in this blog in time. This huge event becomes a proud and inspiration to our members in Terengganu.

#1/7 of CD1: Opening Ceremony at outdoor Stadium Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah, Speech by Malaysian Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir Mohamad & Founder of Taekwon-Do Gen.Choi Hong Hi

#2/7 of CD1: Final Events : Team Pattern

#3/7 of CD1

#4/7 of CD1

#5/7 of CD1

#6/7 of CD1

#7/7 of CD1

Video # 1/3 of CD2

Video # 2/3 of CD2

Video # 3/3 of CD2

Brief History of Taekwon-Do in Terengganu (#1)

2008-02-19T22:33:00.015+08:00

"REMEMBERING THE FORMATION OF TAEKWON-DO IN TERENGGANU "

OUR Association represents the original Taekwon-Do body in the state of Terengganu, Malaysia which have been practicing Chang-Hon style under the auspice of original body of ITF. The Association is registered with the Sports Commissioner Office of Malaysia.

It was first registered in 1979 under Malaysian Societies Act 1966 and was formerly known as Terengganu Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF), this association was then fall under new gazetted law for sports bodies i.e. Sports Development Act 1997, the name since changed bearing "GTF" at the end due to affiliation with the Malaysian Global Taekwon-Do Federation as to distinct with the other two national taekwon-do bodies. PTNT hence is the first registered taekwon-do body in the state of Terengganu and the first received and promoted the original taekwon-do for this region.

Prior 1978:

Taekwon-Do in Terengganu and east coast states of Malaysia was introduced by one Korean Master Yun Young Ku of International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF). Master Yun was known in Taekwon-Do world as one of highly capable master and was the General Secretary of ITF. No official body governing taekwon-do activity during this era. Mr.T.Thomas was the Chief Instructor after Master Yun left. Among early taekwon-do exponents and pioneer students in Terengganu under Master Yun were Mr.Najmi Abdullah (current Chief Instructor), Mr. Aw Chong Tiong (current Chief Instructor for MTA (WTF) Terengganu) and Mr. Ong Yu Tiang (former goalkeeper of Malaysia & Terengganu soccer team).

1978-1999:

Terengganu Taekwon-Do Federation was duly registered under Societies Act 1964. Became member of Malaysian Taekwon-Do Federation under Master Low Koon Lim (now Grandmaster) and Malaysian International Taekwon-Do Federation (MITF) under Master Sabree Salleh (now Grandmaster). In 1980's this Association had become the largest taekwon-do state governing body covering important affiliates such as the Special Police Force and most of schools in all districts. Terengganu received visit by Master Leong Wai Meng (now Grandmaster) for special training session conducted in 1980's. In 1994 our Association with MITF and Terengganu Government successfully hosted the 9th World Taekwon-Do ITF Championship.

2000-2007:

By virtue of Malaysian Sports Development Act 1997, all sports bodies registered under Societies Act 1964 shall be registered with The Commissioner of Sports. Terengganu Taekwon-Do Federation's constitution was reenacted and changed its name to Persatuan Taekwon-Do Negeri Terengganu (GTF) [known as PTNT] or Terengganu State Taekwon-Do Association (GTF) in year 2000. The words "GTF" was inserted due to shifting of parent body i.e MITF to Global Taekwon-Do Federation (GTF) of Toronto in 1999. MITF then change its name to Malaysian Global Taekwon-Do Federation (MGTF). Statement of mission carried by the GTF founder, the late GM Park Jung Tae that GTF was able to become a bridge towards strategic cooperation with World Taekwondo Federation of Kukkiwon as there was a memorandum signed between the two bodies.

GTF's founder GM Park Jung Tae died on April 11, 2002 whilst ITF's founder Gen. Choi Hong Hi died on June 15, 2002. Both personalities were vital figures in the development of original Taekwon-Do. The passing of GM Park Jung Tae left bitter mark and uncertainty with WTF. On the other hand, ITF's legacy is continued with better prospect towards merger of two great Taekwon-Do organisations. Merger talks and memorandum of understanding between ITF and WTF had taken place.

2000-2002 Now

1st Dan to 2nd Dan Tuls

2008-02-19T16:50:00.005+08:00

Performed by Mr.Lauritz of Greenland during International Instructor Seminar 2007 at Melaka.
The seminar led by Grandmaster Leong Wai Meng of ITF Vienna put a focus on Sine-Wave motions theory in every Chang-Hon set of patterns.

RETRO: National Championship 2003 - Kuala Terengganu (#1)

2008-02-17T15:43:00.008+08:00

RETRO : Malaysian National Taekwon-Do Championship 2003 (#1)
Organised by Terengganu Taekwon-Do Association & Malaysian Royal Police.

This event was held at Terengganu State Indoor Stadium at Batu Burok, Kuala Terengganu. This venue was the same place where the 9th ITF World Taekwon-Do Championship was held. Terengganu and Kedah emerged as Co-Champion. The MGTF National Championship was officiated by His Majesty Sultan of Terengganu, Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin who is an exponent of Chang-Hon Taekwon-Do style. Terengganu Taekwon-Do Association would like to express high gratitude to the Terengganu Police Contingent for succesfully organising this national event with such great and beautiful preparations especially in Opening Ceremony.

Amateur videos below was taken by our team member Mohd Qasim Ghafar and his family.

Terengganu "A" Team Pattern :
-Mohd Badri, Nasree, Hj.Saiful, Nasirewan & Mohd Qassim

Micro-Weight Event: Final :
- Nasree (Trg "A") vs Idris (Trg "B")

Team Free-Sparring Event : TRG v KDH

RETRO : Go Martial Arts IIUM 2005

2008-02-13T15:23:00.006+08:00

GOMA was organised by International Islamic University of Malaysia in 2005. The alike were organised annually but only in 2005 they called it Go-Martial Arts. We are very proud when one of our instructor became the champion and his name now is very much popular as he is also selected in IIUM Taekwondo Team and Karate-Do Team. His achievement extends not only for the University as he managed to become National Athlete in both sports. Our instructor Nasree brought glory to the University, the Country as well as our Association's pride.

Demonstration Night

FINAL - OPEN MARTIAL ARTS
Our Nasree (in Blue headgear/glove) emerged as "Champion"
Event hosted by International Islamic University of Malaysia.

Retro Ultimate Warrior 2006

2008-02-12T09:01:00.002+08:00

Ultimate Warrior was introduced by Malaysian government in 2006 to promote martial arts event in Taekwon-Do, Karate-Do, Pencak Silat and Muay Thai. The Youth & Sports Ministry prior 2006 had been organising National Day Martial Arts Carnival under the programme known as Rakan Waja Diri where most of martial arts organisations in Malaysia shall host their respective events and each represents Malaysian states.
This Ultimate Warrior had replaced the Carnival. In 2007, the events was reduced into one i.e. Free Sparring in Muay Thai style and only for Men with 2 weight divisions.

Demonstration by Terengganu Participant
- Nasree Najmi (3rd Dan)

Free-Sparring : TRG v KDH

CHANG HON Tuls

2008-02-06T12:27:00.001+08:00

Not to confuse with ITF President, Prof. Chang Un. It may sounds similar but Chang Hon or Chang-Hun Taekwon-Do was developed by Choi Hong Hi (1918 - 2002). Chang Hon, meaning "blue cottage" was Choi's pen name given to him by his calligraphy teacher. Chang Hun Taekwon-Do is mainly based on Taekyon and Shotokan Karate. Choi studied Taekyon in Korea under Han Il Dong and Karate in Japan under the supervision of Master Giichin Funakoshi, the founder of Shotokan Karate.

Chang Hon Taekwon-Do has 24 patterns (tuls), each representing an hour in a day. The patterns are known for the combination of fast and slow, light and forceful movements together with extensive footwork. The patterns are performed with a sine wave motion that uses gravity to achieve maximum power.

The names of the patterns, the number of movements and the directions in which the practitioner moves were designed to symbolise either heroes or events from Korean history. Officially there are only twenty four patterns practised by ITF organisations, so it may seem odd to give twenty eight below. The reasons for this are as follows: The ‘patterns’ known as ‘Saju Jirugi’ (‘Four Directional Punch’), ‘Saju Makgi’ (‘Four Directional Block’), and in certain organisation ‘Saju Tulgi’ (‘Four Directional Thrust’) are not officially ‘patterns’. They are exercises used to introduce new students to ‘classical’ movements (such as low stances and footwork) in Tae Kwon-Do.

This leaves 25 patterns. The one that should not be there ‘officially’ is Ko-Dang. Ko-Dang was replaced in the ITF syllabus by Juche. The official reason for this was that Ko-Dang was considered inadequate though many suspect it was for political reasons. As a result, whilst most ITF schools teach Juche, some traditions and organisations like Global Taekwon-Do Federation (GTF) continue to teach Ko-Dang. Hence Ko-Dang has been included mainly for historical interest, but also because there could the rare case of someone who needs to know it instead of Juche. With Ko-Dang excluded there would be the correct number – twenty-four. In our Terengganu organisation, both Juche and Ko-Dang are practised because both have its quality and beauty.

Ref: Team Durham - University of Durham | Pictures: Kidokwan Martial Arts International

Self Preservation

2008-01-30T12:29:00.002+08:00

Taekwon-Do is not only about self-defense. Martial arts include way of life and self-preservation. Speaking about self-preservation, our closest topic is health which come next the way you consume food and gain energy. Below is a documentary about human engaging in food business mainly animal products.

EARTHLINGS is a feature length documentary about humanity's absolute dependence on animals (for pets, food, clothing, entertainment, and ... all scientific research) but also illustrates our complete disrespect for these so-called "non-human providers." The film is narrated by Academy Award nominee Joaquin Phoenix (GLADIATOR) and features music by the critically acclaimed platinum artist Moby.

With an in-depth study into pet stores, puppy mills and animals shelters, as well as factory farms, the leather and fur trades, sports and entertainment industries, and finally the medical and scientific profession, EARTHLINGS uses hidden cameras and never before seen footage to chronicle the day-to-day practices of some of the largest industries in the world, all of which rely entirely on animals for profit. Powerful, informative and thought-provoking, EARTHLINGS is by far the most comprehensive documentary ever produced on the correlation between nature, animals, and human economic interests. There are many worthy animal rights films available, but this one transcends the setting. EARTHLINGS cries to be seen. Highly recommended!

THE GRINCH WHO STOLE TAEKWON-DO

2008-01-17T14:15:00.001+08:00

Once upon a time in Who-ville, the home of the merry and warm-hearted Whos, the ancient martial art of Taekkyon was developed as a method of protecting the Whos from invaders, including the Whats, a radical group that believed it should rule Who-ville and the world. Over the centuries, the art was refined until it became known as Taekwondo. Who warriors trained in Taekwondo and it became their primary method of hand-to-hand combat. Taekwondo became known as the way of the warrior, and it as well as the warriors were highly respected by all Whos.

Every Who down in Who-ville liked Taekwondo a lot , but the Grinch, greedy and green with a heart "two sizes too small," who lived on snowy Mount Crumpit, a steep, high mountain just north of Who-ville, did not. As he looked down on Who-ville, he grew greener with envy of the success of Taekwondo and he wondered how he could capitalize on its success and make himself even more greenback dollars.

The Grinch saw that the Whos were fascinated by the martial arts; they seemed spellbound by the martial art exolits they were seeing in movies and reading about in magazines. The more the Grinch thought about the success of Taekwondo, the more he thought, "I must control this whole thing!" I have watched it grow for many years now! I MUST take control of Taekwondo! ...But HOW?"

Then he got an idea! An awful idea! THE GRINCH GOT A WONDERFUL, AWFUL IDEA! He noticed that the few civilian Whos that were training in Taekwondo were making lifetime commitments to the art. Recognizing that money could be made from such commitments, the Grinch made plans to capitalize on the situation by stealing control of Taekwondo; however, he needed to do it without the Whos becoming aware of what was happening.

"I know just what to do!" The Grinch laughed in his throat and he made a many striped black belt. And he chuckled, and clucked, "What a great Grinchy trick! "With this black belt, I'll look just like a Taekwondo grand master!"

The Grinch crept into Who-ville unnoticed, took over a few Taekwondo schools, made himself the supreme grandmaster of Taekwondo, gradually took control of the Taekwondo organizational structure, and moved the organization headquarters to the top of Mount Crumpi. By requiring that each Taekwondo school be registered with Mount Crumpi, he insured that all the schools would have to obey his commands if they wanted to register and certify their student black belts. The Grinch required all the schools to send him a portion of their student fees and he sat back with his faithful, but dim, dog Max and enjoyed all the riches.

Being green, greedy, and egotistical, the Grinch soon wanted even more money. One way to get more money was to increase the enrollment in his Taekwondo schools; but, since Taekwondo was a martial art, it meant that the schools were tough on their students and their rank requirements so high that few students could ever become black belts. The Grinch found that by changing Taekwondo from a martial art to a martial sport that everyone could play the sport, and, by lowering rank requirements until anyone of any age could become a black belt, he could increase student enrollment and greatly increase his coffers.

Then the Grinch realized the potential of the Who children. If he started them young enough, enticed them with easy to attain black belts, and made them indentured instructors, he could open more schools, enroll more students, make more money, and gain more power in the Taekwondo community.

Over time, Taekwondo became know as a children's sport that helped build confidence and character in children without the aggressive behavior and injures of other sports. As the Whos lived in peace and ignorant bliss, the Taekwondo warrior became a relict of the past and was frowned upon.

Everything seemed rosy for the Grinch, but then he found that he had not killed the spirit of Taekwondo after all. As he stared down at Who-ville, the Grinch popped his eyes and shook, for what he saw was a shocking surprise! After all his efforts to change Taekwondo into a sport, there were still a few traditional Taekwondo believers in Who-ville who were teaching the martial art of Taekwondo. Although these traditionalists were a pain in his pocketbook, the Grinch continued to spread his sport throughout the land, even into the Olympics.

Then, on a clear September day, the Whats attacked and killed thousands of the Whos and threatened to kill them all. In fear, the Whos turned to the Taekwondo athletes for help, but regrettably, the athletes only knew how to score points, not kill Whats.

Then someone remembered when there used to be Taekwondo warriors in Whoville. The Whos sought the help of the few remaining traditional Taekwondo warriors who came to their aid and fought the evil Whats. The Taekwondo athletes liked to take some credit for beating back the Whats, but the Whos were not fooled. They once again realized the need for Taekwondo warriors, and they respected and appreciated them.

Now a dream for the future of Who-ville, the Who, and Taekwondo.

After seeing the success of the traditional Taekwondo warriors in their defeat of the Whats, the Grinch stood puzzling and puzzling: "How could it be so? They did it without uniform decorations, fancy patches, or tournaments! He puzzled for hours, until his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he had not thought before! "Maybe Taekwondo doesn't come from a store. Maybe Taekwondo...perhaps...means a little bit more!"

The Grinch realized the error of his ways, and returned his version of Taekwondo to its roots and began to train Taekwondo warriors to help protect the Whos and Who-ville. And what happened then...? Well...in Who-ville they say, that the Grinch's small heart grew three sizes that day!

by taekwondo-tutor : Master Chief Hartman

Retro ITF Terengganu : Classes & Demo

2008-01-08T16:36:00.000+08:00

Mr.Najmi with his PERKAYA Class 1990 (the orphanage house)

Mr.Kanna performing 5-planks breaking

Former TRG Chief Minister (Dato Seri Amar DiRaja Wan Mokhtar Ahmad), Mr. Najmi Abdullah, Master Sabree and Terengganu ITF members at Sekolah Menengah Agama Atas Sultan Zainal Abidin Kuala Terengganu (SMAASZA)

9-Year-Old demo couple at Kraftangan Terengganu

Brick and Plank breaking demo by Trg Veterans

Komupsamneda Indonesia ITF

2008-01-06T09:52:00.001+08:00

Having great dinner and "durian" with Dr. GM Leong Wai Meng together with Indonesia ITF team. Then dinner again at Mamak Stall (Indian Cuisine).

Pictures sent by Mr. Rico C. Fransz of Indonesia ITF during.

3-step sparring for yellow belt performed by Nasree Najmi of Terengganu and Rico of Indonesia.

"Komupsamneda" means Thank You Very Much.

Last Testament of Choi Hong Hi

2008-01-02T14:49:00.002+08:00

I am the man who has the most followers in the world. I am the happiest man who has done everything to do in my life. It is fortunate you have come. Is Mr. Chang Ung here?

Mr. Rhee Ki Ha, it is good that you have come. I am glad that my son and daughters like you most. You probably might know Mr. Chang Ung well. It is time to introduce Mr. Chang Ung proudly in public. Please carry on propaganda that Mr. Chang Ung is the tallest and in the highest position in the ITF.

If only I had been as tall as Mr. Chang Ung I could have had less opponents. However, as my body was so tiny that there were many opponents. Thus all alone I could not but fight against them for so long. But I have never been worn out for the justice was on my side. I have always worried about a successor to the president. However, my mind is set at ease for there is Mr. Chang Ung.

Mr. Hwang Kwang Sung, your duty is very big and important as a spokesman, and chairman of the Merger Committee. It was my wish to merge the Taekwon-Do into one. Please get on your own duty responsibly.

Mr. Park Jong Soo had immigrated into Canada in 1967. Before that he educated Taekwon-Do in Europe. In 1972 went to Canada where Mr. Park Jong Soo resided leaving my children behind without informing them. In those days Taekwondo was not widely spread, so that I used to say to crave the words of Taekwon-Do on my coffin. Now Taekwon-Do has developed on a large scale.

Mr. Leong Wai Meng is a man of conscience indeed, He has given great contribution to educating the Taekwondo. As I thought his finance is in good condition I drew his name out on the stockholders list of the Chang Hun Foundation.

Mr. Hwang Jin is doing well on the way of Mr. Chon Jin Sik. So I appointed him as a member of the Consultative Committee. Please enlarge the Consultative Committee into 9 members. Here I appoint Mr. Jong Jae Hun.

My followers.

Taekwondo never exists without the DPR of Korea. You should know this. The ITF is an international organization and does it need to argue about ideology? Does the United Nations belong to the Africans because the Secretary General a black man? Please give up this kind of idea. Taekwondo must be Korean centered.

Choi Jung Hwa lied to me at the airport. I was again deceived. You ought to tell the public throughout the internet that I did not forgive Jung Hwa. I forgave him as a father but the Taekwondoists would never forgive hi. Before Jung Hwa apologizes to Taekwondoists the world over, he will never be forgiven. While I am still alive you should send the message to the internet the soonest as possible.

On 11th June 2002 in Pyongyang (16,30-17,10h), DPR Korea.

The ones who heard the last words of General Choi.

Mr. Rhee Ki Ha
Grand Master and the Vice-President

Mr. Tom MacCallum
Master and the Secretary General

Mr. Leong Wei Meng
Master and the Chairman of the Consultative Committee

Mr. Hwang Kwang Sung
Grand Master, spokesman and special aide

Mr. Park Jong Soo
Grand Master and a member of the Consultative Council

Mr. Hwang Jin
Master and a member of the Consultative Council

Mr. Hwang Bong Yong
Chairman of the Korean TaeKwon-Do Committee

Mr. Jong Jae Hun
Secretary General of the International Martial Art Games Committee

Mr. Rang Bong Man
Secretary General of the Korean TaeKwon-Do Committee

On September 22, 2002, 70 representatives from 46 countries attended a memorial service for General Choi. The solemn and memorable service was held in Pyongyang, North Korea, the birthplace of General Choi. A special Congress of the ITF was also held on September 22, 2002 to uphold the General's last wish to elect Mr. Chang Ung as the new president of the International Taekwondo Federation. In his last words, and before nine officials of the ITF, General Choi named Mr. Chang Ung as the new president of the International Taekwon-Do Federation.

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Remembering The Coming of Taekwon-Do To Malaysia And Efforts Of Gen.Choi

2008-01-02T11:30:00.000+08:00

There are many international Taekwon-Do organizations. The two largest and most influential are the International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF) and the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF). The two organizations have internal problems, including fraud, embezzlement, and power struggles, as well as conflicts with each other. As usual, the ones who suffer most are the students, who only want to learn and practice Taekwon-Do.

In 1965, Choi retired from the South Korean army as a two-star general (major general) and was appointed as the country's first ambassador to Malaysia, by President Park. (Some claim Choi was not a general because you must be a four-star general be called a general. While it is true that that only a four-star has the rank of general, all generals [1, 2, 3, and 4 star] are commonly referred to as general. When a one-star rear admiral (lower half) is introduced, he or she is referred to as admiral. The same holds true for colonel or lieutenant colonel, commander or lieutenant commander, first lieutenant or second lieutenant, etc. A military person may correctly be referred to, for the rest of their life, by the last military rank at which they honorably served.) Through Choi's efforts, Taekwon-Do spread through Malaysia and reached national acceptance when, in 1971, the art was demonstrated in the Merdeka Stadium at the request of Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman. In 1965, Ambassador Choi was appointed by the Korean government to lead a goodwill mission to West Germany, Italy, Turkey, United-Arab Republic, Malaysia, and Singapore. This trip was significant in that for the first time in Korean history, it declared Taekwon-Do as the national martial ar t of Korea. Although Choi briefly returned to Korea to start an international branch of the KTA, he never gained much political influence in Korea.

On March 22, 1966, Choi formed the International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF) in Seoul, Korea, with the consent of nine countries. The federation established associations in Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, West Germany, Turkey, Italy, Arab Republic of Egypt, Korea, and the United States. This was the first time that the headquarters of an international organization had been established in Korea. The ITF was formed as a private organization and was never the international arm of the KTA.

The next few years saw the exponential growth of Taekwon-Do, with Choi, through the ITF, tirelessly traveling the world to teach and expand his art, especially to the youth of the world. While he was working internationally, others were establishing a stronghold in Korea, which led to his loss of influence within Korea.

A goodwill trip (one of many he made to numerous other countries) to North Korea (he was born in 1918 in Hwa Dae, Myong Chun District in what only became North Korea in 1953) by a Taekwon-Do demonstration team in 1980 caused General Choi to fall in disgrace in the eyes of South Koreans. (Although there was controversy over the trip, Choi did nothing illegal or treasonous). Due to the controversy over the trip, Choi, who was 54 years of age at the time,resigned as president of the KTA and, with the unanimous consent of member countries, moved the ITF to Toronto, Canada. (It was his choice to move the Canada and not to the United States. There was nothing to prevent him from moving to the United States.) Since the ITF was a private organization, not a governmental entity, Choi was allowed to take the ITF with him to Canada.

In Canada, Choi felt that he would be wise to teach Taekwon-Do in North Korea and trained the instructors who would do the job. Through North Korea, he felt that Taekwon-Do could spread to other socialist and third world countries. He made up his mind to produce Taekwon-Do instructors in North Korea who were not contaminated by eastern commercialism. In this way, he felt the true Taekwon-Do, philosophy, and techniques could be developed. In addition, he thought that this movement would stimulate and motivate instructors in the free world.

North Korea is a member of the original International Taekwon-Do Federation and South Korea is a member of the World Taekwon-Do Federation, founded 7 years after the ITF was founded. The unification of Taekwon-Do would motivate various groups to work for the unification of peninsula. Taekwon-Do instructors in Korea do not have the same freedom of voice that the overseas instructors do. Therefore, overseas Taekwon-Do instructors will probably play a bigger role and serve as a bridge between South and North Korea. To open the door between the two sides, overseas instructors should visit and attend seminars, demonstrations, and championships of both Federations. Frequent contact between instructors of the two groups would eliminate mistrust. Creating this type of environment would be a very important step for the Reunification of Korea.

With Choi out of the South Korea, rival martial arts academies organized an international rival to the ITF, the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF). The WTF is discussed in the next section.

As evidence of the almost total loss of influence of Choi in Korea, the book Olympic Politics, states that, during the September 30, 1981 vote by the IOC to decide on Seoul for the 1988 Olympics, Kim Un-Yong dealt with the rumor that Choi, then living in Canada, would stage an anti-Seoul demonstration. Kim did not believe the rumor, but he put five Taekwondo instructors on standby in case of trouble; however, nothing happened.

In October 1982, General Choi met with Mr. Csandi, Chairman of the Programming Committee of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), in Budapest, Hungary, to discuss IOC recognition of the ITF. In April 1984, Choi visited Mr. Juan Antonio Samaranch, President of the International Olympic Committee, in Lausanne, to prove to him that the ITF was the only governing body of true Taekwon-Do.

In September 1984 Choi Hong Hi invited key instructors such as Lee Su Hi, Rhee Ki Ha, Park Jung Tae and Choi Jung Hwa to Pyongyang to finalize the publication of his Encyclopedia of Taekwon-Do.

A desire to establish a strong location for spreading Taekwon-Do throughout the world, especially in socialist, Third World countries, and politically disadvantaged countries, led the ITF to consider leaving Canada. In December 1984, the Fifth ITF Congress meeting in Vienna unanimously decided to relocate the ITF to Vienna, the capital city of Austria. In 1985, the ITF moved to Vienna and Choi published the Encyclopedia of Taekwon-Do, which documented all Taekwon-Do techniques.

On September 20, 1985, during the administration of Kim iL Sung (North Korea) and General Chun Doo Hwan (South Korea) visitors and art performers of South and North Korea were exchanged simultaneously between the two countries. It was the first time in 40 years since the division of the country that separated families in two Koreas had an opportunity to meet their lost families. An art performance was held at Pyongyang Grand Theatre by the South, and at Seoul National Theater by the North on September 21 and 22.

On June 11, 1986, Choi took the DPRK Taekwon-Do demonstration team to the People's Republic of China. The members of the Korean Taekwon-Do team made a wonderful performance and created a stir in the capital of Beijing, and in the cities of Xian and Jinam. It was Taekwon-Do's first appearance in China and the performance made a deep impression on the people. This visit eventually became the motivation for the Chinese people adopt Taekwon-Do as a martial art.

In 1994, the 9th World Taekwon-Do Championship was held in Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia. ITF in Malaysia was lead by Master Sabree Salleh (now a GTF Grandmaster). It was regarded the best ITF World Championship ever been organised and number 9 is Choi's favourite. This championship was officiated by former Malaysian Prime Minister, Tun Dr.Mahathir Mohamad and patronised by the current Sultan of Terengganu, who happened to be an exponent of ITF Taekwon-Do.

Taekwon-Do Tradisional & Taekwondo Sukan

2007-12-31T15:17:00.001+08:00

SUATU PERBANDINGAN
Oleh: Tuan Hj. Saiful Nizam Ashari - Setiausaha Agung PTNT
Email: snaco77@gmail.com

ITF (dan juga GTF, di dalam artikel ini saya akan gunakan terma ITF kerana ketulenan dan populariti) dianggap sebagai satu badan yang memperjuangkan Taekwon-Do "tradisional" atau yang asal dan sebenar manakala WTF sering dirujuk sebagai Taekwondo "moden" yang berorientasi dan bermatlamatkan Olimpik.

ITF menggunakan gerakan pattern "Chonji" yang dicipta oleh Gen.Choi Hong Hi dan Mejar Nam Tae Hi. WTF pada asalnya menggunakan pattern "Palgwe" untuk tahap talipinggang berwarna. Kemudian WTF menggantikannya dengan "Taeguk" sebagai siri yang baru untuk setiap tahap talipinggang. ITF juga mempunyai pattern yang berlainan pada setiap tahap dan dipanggil "Tul" pada belakang setiap nama pattern.

Perbezaan ketara seni Taekwon-Do ITF berbanding seni lain seperti Karate adalah pergerakan 'sine-wave motion' - yang mana asas ini tidak ada dalam WTF. Setiap gerakan pula disertakan dengan teknik hembusan nafas (ada dalam sesetengah cabang Karate) - asas ini tidak dititik berat oleh WTF. Teknik hembusan nafas perlu dipelajari bagi mencapai matlamatnya iaitu untuk penjanaan kekuatan dalaman.

Di dalam Free-Sparring, ITF mengamalkan Separa-Sentuhan / Semi-Contact bertujuan meminimumkan risiko kecederaan semasa latihan dan pertandingan. ITF membenarkan penggunaan tangan untuk tumbukan ke arah muka. Latihan tendangan ITF mempunyai teknik yang pelbagai dan tidak semestinya menjurus untuk tujuan pertandingan sahaja.

WTF menumpukan latihan tendangan yang sesuai digunakan dalam pertandingan. Penjanaan tendangan pantas dan cepat. Prinsip 'sine-wave motion' dan teknik pernafasan tidak langsung ada dan penggunaan body-pad (dan pelbagai alatan perlindungan anggota badan) membolehkan peserta menjana teknik secara Full-Contact. Oleh sebab ini ahli Taekwon-Do tradisional mengklasifikasikan WTF sebagai pengamal Sukan Taekwondo dan bukan Seni Taekwon-Do.

Kedua-dua sistem ITF dan WTF masih mengekalkan larangan teknik humbanan dan serangan di bawah aras pinggang. Walaupun falsafahnya juga berlainan, persamaan masih juga wujud iaitu asal usul Taekwon-Do adalah dari Korea (bukan Korea Selatan atau Korea Utara), teknik-teknik penjanaan tendangan yang kuat dan berkuasa sama-sama wujud dan dinilai dengan pecahan papan.

Perbandingan secara ringkas boleh diurai seperti berikut:-

Taekwon-Do Tradisional bermatlamat melatih seseorang maju dalam diri dari segi jasmani dan rohani. Taekwondo Sukan berorientasikan kemenangan ke atas lawan.

Taekwon-Do Tradisional mencerminkan nilai Ketimuran manakala Taekwondo Sukan mencerminkan nilai Barat.

Taekwon-Do Tradisional menumpukan "proses dan jalan" untuk mencapai matlamat manakala Taekwondo Sukan berorientasikan "keputusan".

Perbezaan adalah anugerah yang seharusnya dikaji untuk tujuan perpaduan dan keharmonian bukan untuk pergaduhan. Sehebat mana sekali pun sesuatu organisasi memperjuangkan seni Taekwon-Do melalui platform sukan dan perlawanan, pemimpin Taekwon-Do tidak harus leka bahawa keinginan manusia sejagat adalah untuk kebaikan. Justeru langkah yang diambil oleh ITF dan WTF dalam meja perbincangan adalah tindakan yang betul dan dipuji. Saya yakin majoriti warga Taekwon-Do mengenepikan ideologi politik dan aliran berharap dua badan dunia ini dapat merintis jalan perpaduan.

PTNT yang mengamalkan Taekwon-Do Tradisional menekankan keupayaan menjana teknik bukan sahaja yang ada dalam latihan rutin Taekwon-Do yang biasa seperti latihan menendang dan menumbuk, tetapi teknik-teknik yang dianggap penting untuk dipelajari oleh individu bagi tujuan "Pertahanan Diri".

Keupayaan mengawal dan menjana teknik pula bergantung pada individu dan bukan pada badan pengelola. Lebih penting lagi bagaimana sesuatu ilmu diperturunkan perlu merujuk siapa "jurulatih" dan kemampuannya menunjuk ajar. Keunikan Taekwon-Do dan matlamat murninya dalam pendidikan musnah dengan wujudnya persaingan secara tidak sihat. Justeru matlamat pembangunan sahsiah insan seharusnya dijadikan titik utama dalam pembabitan seni mempertahankan diri Taekwon-Do, dan bukannya matlamat "menang pingat" atau "wakil negeri". Hanya ahli Taekwon-Do yang berkebolehan dan sememangnya bagus yang layak bergelar "wakil negeri" atau "wakil negara" tanpa mengira dari badan atau organisasi.

"Taekwon!"

International Instructor Seminar 2007

2007-12-17T10:13:00.002+08:00

Bersama peserta Greenland; Lauritz Heillman dan Angutinnguaq Tittussen

Seminar Kejurulatihan Taekwon-Do Antarabangsa 2007 di Melaka pada 14 - 16 Disember 2007 dikendali sendiri oleh Dr.Grandmaster Leong Wai Meng (9th Dan), Naib Presiden ITF . Latihan bertumpu pada fitness, sine-wave motion dalam pattern, tatacara grading, aplikasi 3-step / 1-step sparring, pengenalan 3-step sparring secara solo untuk white-belt dan teknik latihan free-sparring.

Rutin memanas badan dan stretching dilakukan agak kerap setiap kali rehat kerana dewan latihan yang digunakan cepat sejuk. Program ini pula diadakan semasa musim tengkujuh. Seminar ini menguji kesabaran dan ketahanan peserta tanpa mengira tahap Degree/Dan serta umur. Sememangnya untuk menyertai seminar ini seseorang perlu bersedia dengan stamina dan kesihatan yang baik.

Sistem grading dalam seminar ini akan dipertimbangkan untuk diaplikasi dalam setiap grading di bawah PTNT.

Retro GTF Terengganu

2007-12-09T11:45:00.000+08:00

Where Students Go For Kicks!

Keratan akhbar New Straits Times bertarikh 14 November 2000 ini dipetik ketika sesi latihan di Jalan Pejabat, Kuala Terengganu. Gambar Nasree Najmi mempersembahkan teknik bersama Allahyarham Reno, pasangan demonstrasi sejak mereka berumur 8 tahun.

Retro ITF Terengganu

2007-12-04T16:17:00.001+08:00

Keratan Akhbar Metro Isnin 17 November 1997

Ketika ini PTNT dikenali sebagai Persekutuan Taekwon-Do Terengganu (ITF). Jurulatih-jurulatih di bawah naungan PTT-ITF ketika ini amat bersemangat memajukan kelas masing-masing dengan pembabitan pelbagai pertandingan dalam dan luar negeri ini.

Gotong-royong 1995

ITF Korea Utara ke USA

2007-12-04T10:10:00.000+08:00

Jambatan Persahabatan
Sumber: The Gazzette
Penulis: Adam Belz

CEDAR RAPIDS - A near capacity crowd at the Paramount Theatre recoiled with Sun Hui Kim as she jumped back from a stack of bricks she had tried but failed to break with her right elbow.

It must have hurt. But just then, for the first time last night, one of the North Korean tae kwon do black belts on stage broke a half-smile. It was Kim.

She looked sideways at the crowd, held a finger in the air to say "just you wait," and returned to the stack of three bricks sitting on cinder blocks at the center of the stage.

Laughter went up in the crowd and scattered applause broke out to encourage the young woman with short, straight black hair.

Kim gathered herself and attacked the bricks again, putting all of her weight into it. This time the bricks fell in six neat pieces between the cinder blocks, and the crowd exploded into yelling and applause.

Everyone was relieved, and as she walked to the side of the stage, Kim waved, smiling all the way.

The North Korean National Tae Kwon Do Demonstration Team stopped in Cedar Rapids last night, at the Paramount Theater, 123 Third Ave. SE, drawing a crowd of around 1,600.

The tae kwon do team's five-city tour across America is largely the work of Cedar Rapids businessman and tae kwon do instructor Woo Jin Jung. He organized it in order to build friendship and good will between North Korea and the United States.

The demonstration is full of acrobatic technical displays like board-breaking, brick-breaking and demonstrations of tae kwon do forms.

The technical work was often breath-taking, eliciting regular oohs and ahs from the crowd. A man sprinted and flipped over two of his standing colleagues to break boards held far above their heads with his feet at the peak of the flip.

The sparring sessions played out almost like short dramas or ballets. For instance, a boyfriend and girlfriend are assaulted by three toughs in black jackets, and together they send the creeps reeling.

Sometimes the demonstrations were funny, as when the boyfriend who'd had to rely on his girlfriend's fighting skills for protection picked up a stick and popped one of the fallen attackers in the stomach with it.

"I want to show the (North Koreans that the United States) is not missiles all over, not tanks all over," Jung said. "The Midwest, it's beautiful here ... I want to show the real U.S., not the political U.S."

But he also wants to show North Koreans to Americans.

The United States does not have normal diplomatic relations with North Korea. Sporadic negotiations are ongoing, but contact between citizens of the two nations is extremely rare.

Yet Jung's personal crusade to warm the countries' relationship has come full circle.

He was born in 1942 in Ulsan, on the southeast corner of the Korean peninsula. He emigrated to the United States 36 years ago, has trained 4,600 black belts here and owns the New Life Fitness Center.

The 65-year-old has visited North Korea several times and took a delegation of martial arts specialists there in May 2006. In the capital city, Pyongyang, he organized a tae kwon do demonstration that drew a crowd of 2,400.

Though he insists he is a "tae kwon do person, not a political person," he longs for the reunification of Korea and sees the North Korean demonstrations here as an important way to ease the international tension.

The tae kwon do demonstrations drew 4,000 in Los Angeles and 1,000 in San Fransisco, Jung said. Later this week, the team will be in Louisville and Atlanta.

Tomorrow he said they'll cook Korean barbecue at Palisades Kepler State Park west of Mount Vernon.

Kim Hyong Park, the secretary of the Korean Tae Kwon Do Committee in North Korea, was standing back stage before the performance. He was wearing a red pin with former President Kim Il-Sung's picture on it.

He said seven days is not enough time for him to decide what he thinks of the United States, but he said Americans have been very kind.

"We are martial artists," he said. "We came here to show, and to build friendship."

Kejohanan TKD Tertutup Bwh 12 Tahun

2007-11-21T15:00:00.000+08:00

Kejohanan Taekwon-Do Tertutup Bwh 12 Tahun DTA/PNB
akan berlangsung seperti berikut :-

Tarikh : 1hb Disember 2007
Masa : 8.00pg ~ 6.00ptg
Tempat : Pusat Rekreasi, Tgkt 40, Menara PNB, Jalan Tun Razak, KL.
Anjuran: Dins Taekwon-Do Academy

International ITF Seminar 2007

2007-11-20T15:25:00.000+08:00

PTNT telah dijemput untuk menghadiri
Seminar Jurulatih Taekwon-Do Antarabangsa ITF 2007.
Tarikh: 14-16 Disember 2007
Tempat : Pusat Dagangan Dunia Melaka (MITC), Ayer Keroh

Kebenaran untuk penyertaan telah disampaikan sendiri oleh Pengarah Eksekutif ITF, Master Ri Yong Son kepada Setiausaha Agung PTNT dan telah mendapat maklum balas dan sokongan positif Master Tan Chek Si, Setiausaha ITFM.

Rombongan jurulatih PTNT akan diketuai oleh En.Najmi Abdullah. Seminar ini akan dihadiri oleh Grandmaster Leong Wai Meng, Timb.Presiden ITF .

-Setiausaha Agung PTNT-

Taekwon !

2007-11-19T16:44:00.000+08:00

Taekwon ...

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