May 24, 2016

ITF-TAO would like to welcome Mrs. Sheena-Lee Carter and the students of Trenton Tigers Taekwon-Do at Canadian Forces Base Trenton, Ontario as our latest member.

Mrs. Carter is an ITF certified 4th Dan Black Belt with years of experience. We look forward to working with Mrs. Carter to keep the Original Taekwon-Do of the Founder alive in it’s purist form.

Welcome to the ITF-TAO family.

For more information, http://www.facebook.com/groups/trentonitftkd

May 16, 2016

On Saturday, May 14th, ITF-TAO Technical Director Mr. Mike Morningstar conducted a 5 hour technical seminar in London, Ontario.

The event was hosted by Mrs. Cathy Hadubiak, head instructor of Oakridge Taekwon-Do and was attended by students from Morningstar TKD and Oakridge TKD. Sixty participants from yellow belt to 4th degree black belt were put to the test with a very challenging warm up. Mr. Morningstar covered fundamental movements, kicking drills, patterns, step sparring and self-defence.

The last two hours of the day was devoted to the black belts.

May 9, 2016

On Saturday, May 7th, Oakridge Taekwon-Do promoted four students to 1st degree black belt. The test was conducted by ITF-TAO Technical Director Mr. Mike Morningstar and assisted by Oakridge Taekwon-Do Head Instructor Mrs. Cathy Hadubiak.

The four hour examination began with a physical test of 5 minutes of skipping, 30 push-ups, 30 sit-ups and 10 berpies. The actual test was divided into 5 categories: patterns and fundamental movements, self-defense, sparring (which included 3, 2 & 1-step sparring), breaking and theory (a written test was completed by all candidates prior to this date).

Congratulations on your promotions and good work promoting Taekwon-Do in the City of London.