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The Blog Has Been Created...

... And there is a long way to go. But we are optimists. :)

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Winds of Change

It is now more than 3 years since my return to Taekwondo. Ten years of pause from active training were devastating for my overall physical condition and now I truly realize what I was missing all that...

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Master Kim

I always wondered what feeling must rule the soul of a man who leaves his country and almost all his life to go to distant foreign land and start his own Taekwondo school. How much must he miss all he...

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The Eternal Question

Funny, I was recently re-annoyed with good old well-known question I face since I ever started to train TKD: Why (or often "how") Taekwondo differs from Karate? This time, asked by my girlfriend who is...

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Some Narcissism

First of all, I do not like to be photographed because I am not photogenic - lines of my face, skin color and some other things including faults in (recent) digital imaging technology produce strange...

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"One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it"

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present."How much truth in how few words... Just to end the day with some nice thoughts. These are both...

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How to Choose a Taekwondo School

Interesting bit of information. Anyone looking for a good Taekwondo school, or wanting to make his one be really good, go have a look here. With so many schools around, picking a right one could be a...

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My Back... Hurts!

Every now and then. Let us say it happens two to three times a year and is - I am almost completely sure now - connected to significant weather changes. Yes, I do sit a lot because I work in IT, and...

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Red Eagle About to Fly Away???

I know, I know, who the.... is Red Eagle? In a few words, great master with high ranks in more martial arts, who came to train for some months in our school in order to prepare for his 5th Dan TKD...

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He is leaving after all...

Well, yesterdays' blog prognosis came to be true - Master Red Eagle really leaves us due to business matters, his flight taking off Monday. A bit sorry to leave he is, which I believe him, he must have...

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How to Take a Punch

OK, while Her Majesty walks around Slovenia, let me express pleasure that someone wrote a great article about something many TKD practitioners widely forget in modern days. As WTF Taekwondo is (after...

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Some videos

This time I have decided to let Master Kim enjoy his own narcissism. As he provided me with his camera and some Hi8 material and asked if those can be set on his web page (remember...

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He made it!

Master Red Eagle has achieved his 5th Dan rank. Deserved. He trained with great devotion several months despite problems at work, and when he returned to Texas, USA, he got tested and promoted to...

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Forgot to be proud...

... Although that was not some awsome achievement, I would still like to mention that I participated in Slovenian Poomsae State Championship, and won it in "Veterans" category. Like last year. And also...

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Visit from Korea

Yesterday we were proud to train (and drink some beers later, too) with friendly club members who came two days ago directly from Korea. Three older masters (hey, my age - is that old?!?) and three...

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Visit from Korea - Update

Well, yes, there was more. Our Korean visitors stayed for longer time and actually we got another one, Master Na Seok Kyun joined us as 4th Master and gave us some more special training experience....

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Even Masters feel Pain

Yes. Master Kim also. Knowing how flexible he is (like a chewing gum from my point), I was shocked when I learned he had an "accident" damaging his inner hip muscle, and now he is grounded for some...

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Finally!

More about that later. :-)

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Tight-packed Dobok Recepy

While preparing some meaningful material for a new post about our brand-new Gym, let me share with you - my Friends and Readers - a nice method of arranging your Taekwondo uniform (Dobok, 도복) "Korean...

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Back in Black (belt)

It may be not kinda record, but not writing the blog for more than one year must be something. Reasons? Laziness, lack of time, lack of material... all together.That does not mean that there were no...

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The Inflation

 It is already some time since I decided to give it a go and pass the exam for 3rd Dan grade. Decided, prepared, made it and had lots of fun all along.People who do not know me will say "Yeah, what is...

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