About Taekwondo

Taekwondo is a martial art that helps your children grow physically and teaches them discipline, respect and focus. Due to this reason, as your children grow and change World Champion Tae Kwon Do must also grow and change.

Taekwondo is like academic school in many ways. Students work hard and study for testing (held approximately every two months). They must learn basic skills and techniques before moving on to more difficult skills and techniques. This is why we have a belt system. With each new belt students learn new kicks, forms, self-defense, sparring techniques and Korean terminology (covered on tests). When a student shows that he/she has learned the technique, they are awarded a tip on their belt (red: endurance, white: attendance and attitude, blue: sparring and kicking, green: breaking and self defense and yellow: forms). Once a student has obtained all five tips they will be given a testing application that must be completed and turned in before testing. Test dates and times are posted two weeks in advance. Please pay close attention to our information board for this as well as other important information.

Schedule changes occur approximately every four months due to the number of students in a given level (see below). Levels: (white to high white belt is level one, yellow to high green belt is level two, blue to high red belt is level three and deputy black and above is level four). This schedule change gives students an opportunity to learn in a class with only their level or in a class with all levels. Breaking the schedule up like this saves class time by keeping students who are working on the same skills in the same class. For example, all level one students work on the same form, kick, sparring techniques and terminology while level two works on a different form, kick, sparring technique and terminology. By the end of each level the students will have learned all the techniques needed to pass and move to the next.

Do you want to take your TKD experience to the next level? Give yourself or your child the ultimate goal. Earn a Black Belt from World Champion Taekwondo! The Black Belt Club gives you all of the opportunities necessary to earn a Black Belt in Taekwondo. Members of the BBC are eligible to come to unlimited classes (multiple in one day). They are invited to come to weapons class where they can fine-tune the weapons skills needed to become a Black Belt. Members are also eligible to be invited to the Leadership/Demo teams.

Leadership and Demo Team is another opportunity for Taekwondo students to better themselves. When a student is invited to the Leadership/Demo team they will have an opportunity to learn demonstrations from a World Champion. The Demo/Leadership team meets on Saturday mornings to work on improving leadership skills (teaching classes and helping other students) as well as preparing demonstrations that are performed at special events.