Tae Kwon Do News

Students from the Mesquite Tae Kwon Do Center finished the competition season in Austin, Texas, at the USA Tae Kwon Do Junior Olympics and U.S. National Competition with four gold and one bronze medal.

One of the best and most admirable traits one can have in life is discipline. This special attribute allows one to know that throughout your life the ability to have a focus on your life that can be admired by others.

Natalie Drew spends most of her week breaking boards, practicing with swords, nunchucks and sparring.

The old man falls, hits the pads, smack! Everyone inside the gym turns, gasps and anxiously wonders if he'll ever stand again.

A new Tae Kwon Do school has opened in Hales Corners at 5152 S. 108th Street in the Edgerton Plaza.

StarPhoenix reporter Jeremy Warren gets hit by partner Jenna Graff; Warren gets an elbow to the head from partner Jessica Hamel during a women's self-defence class at the YWCA Photograph by: SP Photos by Greg Pender, The StarPhoenix On Thursday night, in a small room at the YWCA, all the women I have wronged vicariously got their revenge.

Ainsley Walters, Gleaner Writer DEFENDING champions Jamaica yesterday pulled off a classy victory over International Taekwondo Federation champions Argentina in the final of the US Open World Continental Team Fighting Championship in Orlando, Florida.

The Hernando County Recreation Department is offering these programs: Total Fitness Makeover, 8 to 9 a.m. Saturdays, starting July 18, Delta Woods Park, 3400 Deltona Blvd., Spring Hill.

An airborne Alex Wang, 15, of New Jersey aims for a number of targets during a board-breaking competition.

On May 23 a Brazilian heavyweight named Lyoto Machida destroyed previously undefeated American Rashad Evans in two lopsided rounds in the championship bout of the 92nd Ultimate Fighting Championships.

The three local Tae Kwon Do students with their trophies after competing at the Kees Canada Cup 2009 Tae Kwon Do tournament in Saskatoon on June 6. From left to right, Brandi Fengstad, Alex Seckinger and Brandon Gieni.

Juanita Inez Kniffen was bowling at the Farmington Family Fun Center recently when she says she drew a circle in the air above the head of a good-looking man ... with her foot.

Young martial artists from around the country are competing in the Taekwodo Junior Olympics at the Austin Convention Center.

Rector's Dalton Shaw is the American Taekwondo Association's new World Champion in the first degree black belt division for competitors aged 17 to 29.

Two US Marines kick and punch each other in a cloud of dust as their shaven-headed instructor bellows "Fight, fight, fight!" Under the blazing hot sun, they grapple in a ring drawn in the sand as their fellow soldiers shout encouragement.

Chima Simone couldn't think of a better place to spend the recession than the "Big Brother" house.

Courtney Murray lives in Thomasville, but has studied and trained in Taekwondo over the past three years in Tallahassee.

Hundreds of taekwondo students from all over Texas kicked and chopped their way through the 2009 Junior National Taekwondo Championship .

Summer kicked off with testing and belt promotion at the YMCA for students of Stevens Taekwondo Academy.

They may not fight crime or seek vengeance but Vermilion now has its very own brother-sister taekwondo black belt pair.