August 9, 2011
Morningstar Taekwon-Do is proud to announce the re-opening of their Barrie location. The Barrie Dojang was closed in December of 2008, just shy of their 10th year anniversary.  Classes will resume as usual on Monday October 3rd, 2011 under the guidance once again, of 4th Dan, International Instructor Mr. Derek Morningstar. Class times and location will be posted on www.mstartkd.com in the near future.
June 29, 2010
On Saturday June 25th, Morningstar Taekwon-Do held their annual Technical Seminar at Sheridan College in Oakville. Ninety participants from Oakville, Barrie, London and Hamilton attended. The first 4 hours of the session was for all levels and covered physical conditioning, kicking, basic movements, self defence and patterns Chon-Ji through Choong-Moo.  The last hour was for Black Belts and covered 2-step & 1-step sparring and patterns from Kwang-Gae to Yon-Gae.
June 21, 2011
On Saturday June 4, 2011 history was made…..it was the first time that the CanAm Championships were held outside of Canada since it’s inception in Oakville in 2000. Competitors from across Canada, USA and even a team from Jamaica gathered in the City of Brotherly love, Philadelphia, PA for what turned out to be a fantastic day of high level competiton. Congratulations to Mr. Fran Ott and Mr. Sean Sutton for hosting a very professional and well organised event. We look forward to 2012 when the CanAm’s will once again be held in Philadelphia.
May 26, 2011
On May 21, 2011 Ott’s Taekwon-do hosted Pizza-Bowl 2011.  The event raised $20,000 in only 10 weeks of preparation. The funds raised went to two organizations that help children in the area.  Proceeds from the event went to the Make-A-Wish Foundation and helped to sponsor a Disney Vacation for a child from the Philadelphia area. The other portion of the funds went to an organization called Frankie’s Fight. This group helps families who are battling childhood cancer by helping with their financial difficulties. (i.e. Paying their mortgage, utility bills and any transportation expenses they may incur.)
The event was a huge open air party that lasted from 12:00 pm to 5:30 pm and it included a D.J. and two live bands that donated their time to be there. The weather was PERFECT from the time everyone arrived until the party was over and THEN it rained. Karma. Do good and good things happen. Preparations are already being made for Pizza-Bowl 2012. Everyone’s invited!
May 18, 2011
Through the efforts of a few of our members we have been able to raise just over $10,000.00 for the relief efforts in Japan and the Japanese Red Cross! Congratulations to everyone who supported Japan in this time of need!
May 18, 2011
TAO Technical Director Mr. Mike Morningstar recently conducted a 7-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 Woodstock, Oakville and London. Twenty-seven participants from yellow belt to 3rd degree black belt were put to the test with a very challenging warm up.
Mr. Morningstar covered fundamental movements, kicking drills, patterns, 3-step sparring and self-defense. The last hour of the day was devoted to black belt patterns. This was the 4th annual training workshop hosted in London.
May 5, 2011
On Thursday April 21, Morningstar Taekwon-Do put on a demonstration night in support of the relief efforts in Japan. The all black belt demonstration team performed various aspects of Taekwon-Do for a packed house at their main Dojang in Oakville. Before the demostration night, Mr. Lee Benson, TAO VP-USA made an offer to match whatever was raised. The students and members of Morningstar TKD were up to the challenge and raised $3000.00.  Mr. Benson came through and matched it penny for penny. Thank you to all those who donated and a special thanks to Mr. Benson for his generosity.
May 4, 2011
On Saturday April 30th twenty-five Johnson’s TKD students attended a training seminar conducted by Mr. Rudy Johnson in support of the Japan tsunami relief efforts. The seminar was a total of three hours long. It began with a series of intense warm-ups, followed by basic techniques and some combo kicking drills. Mr. Johnson then covered patterns from Chon-ji through to 2nd Degree patterns. All those who attended trained hard and kept those affected in Japan in mind. A total of $420.00 was raised. “We would like to thank everyone for supporting this extremely worthy causeâ€�
May 2, 2011
On Saturday, April 30th from 9:00am to 12:00pm HwaRang Warriors TKD held a demonstration to raise funds for the relief efforts in Japan. A total of  $1049.03 USD was raised. The demonstration was held at Juniata Park Located at J & Cayuga Street in Philadelphia. The Demo team performed two shows which consisted of  patterns, step sparring, self defense, combinations, breaking and free sparring.
April 29, 2011
On April 16, 2011, TAO Senior Advisor Master Vincent Affatigato conducted a 3 hour class at the International Taekwon-Do Academy in Phoenix, Arizona. Master Affatigato encouraged the participants to spend a greater amount of time outside the dojang working on conditioning as well as dallyon. Overall, it was an amazing session which challenged the participants to push themselves beyond what their mind may limit while training.
In conjunction to the class, Master Affatigato welcomed two new schools into the Original Taekwon-Do Federation. The newest members are the Hwa-Rang Warriors from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Integrity Martial Arts from Flagstaff, Arizona.
