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Welcome to the Market Lavington Tae Kwon-Do Homepage! |
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A Wales & West Tae Kwon-Do Dojang! |
Tae Kwon-Do is for everyone! Men, women and children of all ages take part in Tae Kwon-Do training. We have
entire families training at our Dojang. Tae Kwon-Do will improve your fitness, flexibility and most of all, your confidence. It
will help you to control or channel your aggression should the need arise. Right from the first lesson you will start developing
a whole new range of skills and capabilities. Increased self-confidence, based upon actual ability, will also increase your
self-esteem. Tae Kwon-do is safe, practical and most of all, it's FUN! In addition, in these uncertain times, more
and more people are turning to the martial arts for self-protection and Tae Kwon-Do can certainly provide this. It is a superb
form of self-defence and also a great way to keep fit.
Tae Kwon-Do is a Korean martial art and the national sport of
South Korea. It is the world's most popular martial art in terms of the number of practitioners. Matsoki, or sparring, is also
an official Olympic sporting event! Fancy doing something special in 2012? Translated from Korean: 'Tae' literally
means to jump, kick or smash with the foot; 'Kwon' means a fist chiefly to punch or destroy with the hand or fist; 'Do' means
art, way or method. So, Tae Kwon-Do is loosely translated as "the way of the foot and the fist". Tae Kwon-Do is now
practiced in 188 countries with over 70 million practitioners and 4 million individuals with black belts throughout the world.
The consistently increasing popularity of Tae Kwon-Do has resulted in the varied evolution of the martial art into several
domains: as with many other arts, it combines combat techniques, self-defence, sport, exercise, meditation and philosophy. Tae
Kwon-Do is also used by the South Korean military as part of its training. Traditional Tae Kwon-Do is typically not
competition-oriented but stems from military roots with great emphasis on offense. Modern Tae Kwon-Do, on the other hand, tends
to emphasise control and self-defence. "...Tae Kwon-Do is an art of self-defence which aims at a noble moral rearmament,
high degree of intellectual achievement, graceful techniques, formidable power and beauty of physical form, it can be considered
as a part of one's daily life, just as are breathing and thinking." |
General Choi Hong Hi (1918-2002) The Founder of Tae Kwon-Do |
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Our students train at our Market Lavington Dojang, but are attracted from many of the surrounding villages (including:
Easterton, West Lavington, Urchfont, Potterne, Wedhampton, Littleton Panell, Great Cheverell, Cheverell Parva, Erlestoke, Marston,
Tilshead and many others!) If you would like to see precisely where we are, please click
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If you would like know more about what we do, please click here. |
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Tenets: |
| Courtesy |
| To be polite to one's instructors, seniors and fellow students. |
| Integrity |
| To be honest with oneself. One must be able to define right and wrong. |
| Perseverance |
| To achieve a goal, whether it is a higher grade or any technique, one must not stop trying; one must persevere. |
| Self Control |
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To lose one's temper when performing techniques against an opponent can be very dangerous and shows lack of control.
To be able to live, work and train within one's capability shows good self control.
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| Indomitable Spirit |
| To show courage when you and your principles are pitted against overwhelming odds. |
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