Of Tae Park Tae Kwon Do January 28, 2011 TKD Email List All Instructors are a s k e d a n d encouraged to have their students provide their emails so they can be kept informed via the newsletter of both tournaments information. Please pass out an email registration form at every opportunity; classes and tests, so we can build a good system of communication for important information. Lists can be faxed to Amanda at 616.957.2077 or emailed to her at amanda@realico.com. Upcoming Events Black Belt Class Central Studio Beginning January 14, 2011 7pm - 8pm on Fridays 1-3 Dan Contact Senior Master Rodgers for more information. Color Belt Testing Saturday, March 5, 2011 Westwood Middle School, Grand Rapids, MI National Seminar, Color & Black Belt Testing Fri. & Sat., March 11-12, 2011 Lewis Institute TPTKD Dyersburg State Community College, Dyersburg, Tennessee Inside this issue: 2011 State Games of Michigan Tae Park WCTKD Championships January Article Senior Master Rodgers January 8th Testing 5 January Board Agenda 6 January Board Briefs 7 2-3 3 4 Newsletter Additions If you have any upcoming events or anything that you want included in the upcoming newsletter, please let Amanda Wall know! All announcements, events, thank yous, congratulations, pictures, updates, etc are welcome and appreciated!! The newsletter is a great place to inform the whole TPTKD community what is going on with individual institutes! We are always looking for new ideas and additions!! Brain Food Riddles 8 WCTKD Sports Participation Grant WCTKD has a sports participation grant. The grant can only be awarded to an individual one time per calendar year and a lifetime maximum of four times. This grant allows individuals the opportunity to expand and grow in Tae Kwon Do. The Participation Grant has both eligibility and application guidelines and has to be approved by Grandmaster Park. If you are interested in a WCTKD Sports Participation Grant, please feel free to contact Master Heglund at jimh@realico.com. Useful Links www.worldclasstaekwondo.com www.stategamesofmichigan.com www.taeparktaekwondo.com www.taeparktkdtournament.com
Opening Ceremonies June 24, 2011 Fifth Third Ballpark Grand Rapids, MI Parade of Athletes Lighting of the Cauldron Athlete Entertainment Volunteers Needed!! Contact Karen Benchich through email at jbenchich@hotmail.com to volunteer for the 2011 State Games!!! 2011 State Games of Michigan Update The planning committee has met several times this month to discuss important decisions regarding the State Games of Michigan. Some of the decisions that were made include the following: January 7, 2011 Demonstration Team will be exhibiting at the Games for about 20-30 minutes. Deadlines: Rules and Regulations & Advertising January 14, 2011 Speaker January 17, 2011 Grandmaster Park indicated that he wanted to have a minimum of 5 ads per master. 10-20 pages will be allowed for the articles in the program, along with some short pieces to place throughout the program. January 21, 2011 The Speaker has not been determined, but Grandmaster Park put Master Heglund and Junior Grandmaster Barss in charge of finding one. Grandmaster Park said the Speaker should be a Politician or Businessman and should have nothing to do with Martial Arts. Advertising Brochure has been completed and approved, and Mrs. Karen Benchich and Mr. Dan Driessche will have the cover letters available for distribution by February 1, 2011. Rules and Registration are still needed, and will be approved at the February Board meeting. The next meeting date for the Planning Committee is March 11-12 2011 at the National Seminar in Dyersburg, Tennessee. Topics that will be discussed include updates from each director, volunteer discussion, and brainstorming. We are looking forward to seeing you all there! Countdown to 2011 Meijer State Games of Michigan... Page 2 150 Days Special Thank You We are pleased to announce that Master Gale from Milan Tae Kwon Do and Master Southwick from MSU Tae Kwon Do Club have generously offered to supply the ring mats and some electronic scoring equipment for the 2011 State Games of Michigan. Master Gale is a 6th Degree Black Belt and has over 25 years of Tae Kwon Do training. He has just recently retired from a long competitive career where he won gold medals at local, state, national, and international levels. Master Southwick is a 4th Dan who also has over 25 years of Tae Kwon Do training. He now teaches the KIN 102I class at Michigan State and is the Coach of the MSU Taekwondo Team. Mr. Southwick is a National Gold Medalist in Poomse and a National Bronze Medalist in Sparring. Master Gale and Master Southwick will both be bringing competitors from their schools to compete at the 2011 State Games of Michigan. Thank you Master Gale and Master Southwick for your contributions to the 2011 State Games of Michigan!!
State Games Registration & Cost Registration will be online this year through the West Michigan Sports Commission. The registration will be available at www.stategamesofmichigan.com February 2011. Cost will be $50 for all events including Forms and Sparring. Articles for the Program Master Vora is putting together TKD articles in the 2011 State Games of Michigan and November Championship Program. If anyone would like to write an article to be included, please let Master Arvind Vora know. He is looking for articles from the heart about Tae Kwon Do or your experiences with Tae Kwon Do. If you have any questions or have an article to be included, please email Master Arvind Vora at arvindrvora@gmail.com. Advertising Through advertising, WCTKD is able to host and sponsor both the 2011 State Games of Michigan and the November Tournament. It is a very important part of making these events reality. We encourage all Masters to do Master Ads as well as have their students go through the community and get ads and sponsors from business, friends, or family members. Remember, all advertisers and sponsors are not just advertising for one event, but for both the 2011 State Games and November Tournament. Two for the Price of One!! To get more information about advertising, please email Karen at jbenchich@hotmail.com or Mr. Dan Driessche at dcc-creativecom@comcast.net. Flyers Available 2011 State Games of Michigan Flyers are available. Please contact Amanda Wall for more information. Tae Park World Class Tae Kwon Do Championships The 2011 Tae Park World Class Tae Kwon Do Championships will be held at Grand Rapids Community College, Ford Fieldhouse, 143 Bostwick Ave, Grand Rapids, MI 49503 on November 11-12, 2011. It will be the largest Tae Park Tournament ever with between 600-700 plus Tae Park students. The tournament will include the following: forms competition, sparring competition, one-step competition, black belt association test, new master ceremony, and a very special event. Special Guest will include President and Founder Grandmaster Tae Zee Park. Tae Park Tae Kwon Do Rules and World Tae Kwon Do Federation Rules are in effect. Competition Rules, hotel information, and party location coming later. Please come and be a part of Tae Park history!! If you would like more information, please contact Senior Master James Rodgers. (See attached flyer) Page 3
ETIQUETTE There are some basics and etiquette s of Taekwondo I would like to share with you. I hope you find it beneficial, or it may be something you already know. But a little reminder to us and our students never hurts. I read a book a while back called 365 days Tao Daily Meditations by Deng Ming-dao. This particular section in the book deals with fundamentals and basics of life. It begins like this: After completion come new beginnings. Too fain strength, renew the root. In music, the fundamental tone is the lowest, or root, tone of a chord. Without the thorough grounding, there is no harmony. Followers of Tao emphasize cycles. This must include a sound understanding of what to do whenever a cycle comes to an end. New ones will begin. Some of them will be engendered by the old one; others may simply be in the background and will now come forward. If we are to properly shape these new movements and are to prevent unwanted cycles from beginning, we must take stock and renew our basics in the fundamentals. Everyone wants to be daring, creative, and original. Everyone wants to do things in new ways. But unless we return over and over again to basics, we will have no chance to truly soar. Do not forget the root. Without it we can never issue forth true power. This is so true with Taekwondo also. Everyone has a beginning, or Root and this beginning for us are with our instructors when you start to learn basics, basic kicking, form, one step, and free fighting, these are the physical parts. But let s not forget the mental parts, such as good manners, respect, and good concentration and a strong effort towards these parts and participation in the dojang. Some students think they may know more than their instructor. I have to ask myself, how can that be, and why would they think that? To me that s like a high school student saying they would know more than person who has a PhD. You will have some students who will try their own way. This is ok, but without your instructors permission you may not go very far without them, because they are your beginning, and your root. Grandmaster Park is my beginning, my root. Even though I may not agree with him on some thing, I am very careful how I speak to him, and carry myself around him, and other high ranking, and even students senior to me of the same rank. This leads me to another issue of students speaking to higher ranking instructor, and students. It goes back to the respect of others. Thirty six years ago there was no question of how to address higher ranking belt then. A white belt would learn not just from their instructor, but higher ranking color belts and black belts on how to bow to higher ranking belts, and learn how to say yes sir, no sir, or yes maim or no maim. It s like telling a story to a room of twenty five people and you ask them to tell the story individually and you would probably get different variations of the story or watered down version of it as you come closer to that twenty fifth person. I think the same thing happens in any organization that doesn t maintain its values. I think somewhere down the line it has gotten a little too casual for some students to address higher ranking belts. This is not good in my opinion. It s a reflection on you as an instructor and the strength and growth potential of your students, and your organization. For example, we all have parents, and an instructor, and when we travel, go to tournaments, and even in our own dojangs, you want your parents and instructors to be treated with respect. I don t think too many people want to be called out of their god given name, title, or job description. For example: Presidents, physicians, senators, ministers, or even officers in the military who become high ranking officer or anyone who becomes specialized in their in their particular field. The same applies in Taekwondo, it show respect to them and what they have accomplished in their lives, especially when you get these kind of people in a professional setting or gathering. Some students address Grandmaster Park as Sabumnin. This isn t true for everyone to address him this way; only his immediate students can do so. To call Grandmaster Park Mr. Park is improper too. Anyone who is not directly a student of Grandmaster Park would call him Grandmaster Park, or Kwan Jang Nim. Mr. is for those students who are 1 st to 3 rd dan. Your instructor would be your Sabumnim. Black belt titles go as follows: 8 th and 9 th dans are addressed as Grandmasters; 7 th dans are addressed as Junior Grandmasters; 6 th dans are addressed as Senior Masters; 5 th and 4 th dans are addressed as Masters; 3 rd, 2 nd, and 1 st dans are addressed as Mr. Mrs. Miss. Ms. No matter what age. Please don t misunderstand on these issues, right is right, and wrong is wrong, and being too casual around individuals creates other problems. The bottom line is the instructor has a big responsibility to lead by example and to teach you taekwondo ways, such as rules and etiquette in class just like any other part of class, over and over. I see a little breakdown in these areas and I thought it would be good to bring to everyone s attention. I hope I haven t offended anyone with my thoughts, but these are taekwondo rules and the taekwondo way. Sincerely and Very Respectfully, Head Instructor for Tae Park Taekwondo Central Studio Page 4 Senior Master James A. Rodgers
The Tenets of Taekwondo World Class Tae Kwon Do Courtesy (Ye Ui). To be thoughtful and considerate of others. Taekwondo practitioners (both students and instructors) should be polite, and show consideration for others. Integrity (Yom Chi). Integrity describes how you should interact with others. To be honest and good, earn respect and trust. Perseverance (In Nae). This basically stands for your internal drive. Challenges allow us to improve ourselves and should therefore not be avoided. Self control (Guk Ki). To have control of your body and mind. A Taekwondo student should practice controlling his actions and reactions. Indomitable spirit (Baekjool Boolgool). To have courage in the face of adversity. A Taekwondo student should never be dominated by, or have his spirit broken by another. January 8th Testing January testing at Tae Park Rodgers Institute at Central Studio in Jackson, Michigan went very well. Testing started at 2:00pm. Judges arrived early for conference with Grandmaster Park speaking on matters concerning taekwondo in the world and matters concerning Tae Park Taekwondo. Their were thirty seven students testing from Sr. Master Rodgers, Master Arthur, from Jackson, Michigan, Master Matt Klingbeil from Sheridan, Michigan, Master Bowhuis from Marshall, Michigan, and Master Roland Demorest from Greenville, Michigan. Other Masters present were Junior Grandmaster Richard Warren from Jackson, Michigan, Sr. Master Peter May also from Jackson, Sr. Master Constance Ensing from Comstock Park, Michigan, Master Robert Klingbeil from Sheridan, Michigan, and Master Scott Oring from Jackson, Mi., Grandmaster Park, Masters, students, and family members had dinner at Daryl s Downtown Restaurant where masters continued the conference meeting for about two hours more. As always there is something more to learn about taekwondo when masters come together and learn from each other. Thank you to Grandmaster Park and all the Masters who came to judge and Black belts who came and stood on the sides and helped to setup for testing and their students. Everyone is always welcome at Central Studio. Thank you all so much again. Sincerely and Respectfully Head Instructor for Tae Park Taekwondo Central Studio Senior Master James A. Rodgers A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action." - Unknown Page 5
The best example of leadership is leadership by example. ~Jerry McClain January Agenda World Class Tae Kwon Do, Inc. Board of Directors Meeting January 2, 2011 I. CALL TO ORDER, PRESIDENT WARREN II. ROLL CALL III. APPROVAL OF PREVIOUS MEETING MINUTES, Board of Directors Meeting Minutes December 5, 2010 IV. FINANCIAL REPORTS- Lynn Bernard, Treasurer V. COMMITTEE REPORTS A. Website Constance Ensing B. 2011 State Games Jim Heglund VI. UNFINSIHED BUSINESS VII. NEW BUSINESS A. State Games Format Discussion 1. Opening Ceremony 2. Guests 3. Speakers 4. Protocol 5. Master Attire/Dress Code 6. Rules 7. Insurance 8. Other B. Other VIII. OTHER BUSINESS A. Reminders January Newsletter Article February Newsletter Article B. Other IX. NEXT MEETING DATE: Teleconference Sunday, February 6, 2011 at 8:30PM X. ADJOURNMENT "Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first day of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past." - Henry Ward Beecher Page 6 "Nature has undoubtedly mastered the art of winter gardening and even the most experienced gardener can learn from the unrestrained beauty around them." - Vincent A. Simeone
January Board Briefs A teleconference meeting of the Board of Directors was held on January 2, 2011. The meeting was called to order by President Warren. Minutes from the December 5, 2010 meeting were approved as submitted. Treasurer s report: JGM Bernard gave the Treasurer s report. Accepted. Website: Ms. Ensing reported that Ms. Lofquist will soon post the registration forms for the State Games. The goal is that hotels and all other information will be available well in advance. GRCC contract: JGM Warren asked about the status of the GRCC contract. The contract has been executed and dates committed. Newsletter Approval: The December Newsletter was approved for distribution. New Board Members: President Warren announced that the board would consider changes to its membership at the February meeting. Following discussion and concurrence, the board agreed to submit recommendations to President Warren by January 31, 2011, so they can be aggregated and distributed prior to the next board meeting. Announcements: Korea Trip: Grandmaster Park announced that he is beginning to plan a trip to Korea in July. March Seminar: SM Lewis announced that information packets were mailed December 31. World Class Tae Kwon Do A great leader s courage to fulfill his vision, comes from passion, not position. ~John Maxwell South Korea Trip Grandmaster Park has announced that he is beginning to plan a trip to South Korea in July 2011. He is seeking 10-20 travelers to accompany him on this visit. The dates of the trip are yet to determined, but if you are interested in traveling to South Korea, please contact Senior Master Golombisky at golombisky@yahoo.com. Keep posted for details as they are confirmed by Grandmaster Park and Senior Master Golombisky. Brain Food Riddles Answers 1. A towel 2. A chicken 3. A rug 4. A cold 5. A nose 6. A sunburned penguin 7. A stamp 8. A sponge 9. A fire 10. A coffin 11. A shoe 12. A wave 13. A river 14. A secret 15. Coup d'état 16. An onion 17. A shadow 18. A tree 19. A splinter 20. A hole Page 7
Brain Food Riddles 1. What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries? 2. You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat? 3. What goes up and down the stairs without moving? 4. What can you catch but not throw? 5. I can run but not walk. Wherever I go, thought follows close behind. What am I? 6. What s black and white and red all over? 7. What goes around the world but stays in a corner? 8. I have holes in my top and bottom, my left & right, and in the middle. But I still hold water. What am I? 9. Give me food, and I will live; give me water, and I will die. What am I? 10. The man who invented it doesn t want it. The man who bought it doesn t need it. The man who needs it doesn t know it. What is it? 11. I run over fields and woods all day. Under the bed at night I sit not alone. My tongue hangs out, up and to the rear, awaiting to be filled in the morning. What am I? 12. Throw it off the highest building, and I'll not break. But put me in the ocean, and I will. What am I? 13. What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps? 14. No sooner spoken than broken. What is it? 15. A certain crime is punishable if attempted but not punishable if committed. What is it? 16. You use a knife to slice my head and weep beside me when I am dead. What am I? 17. I'm the part of the bird that's not in the sky. I can swim in the ocean and yet remain dry. What am I? 18. I am mother and father, but never birth or nurse. I'm rarely still, but I never wander. What am I? 19. I went into the woods and got it. I sat down to seek it. I brought it home with me because I couldn't find it. What is it? 20. I am weightless, but you can see me. Put me in a bucket, and I'll make it lighter. What am I? (Answers on Page 7) (http://rinkworks.com/brainfood/s/riddles10.shtml) President WCTKD Board of Directors Officers Jr. Grand Master Richard Warren jgm.warren@comcast.net Vice-President Treasurer Secretary Jr. Grand Master Robert Barss Jr. Grand Master Lynn Bernard Master James Heglund Directors Jr. Grand Master Mark D. Good Sr. Master Sidney Singer Sr. Master Dennis Lewis Sr. Master Constance Ensing rwbarss@aol.com lynn@wyoming.com tkwondo4d@aol.com jimh@realico.com mark@goodtkd.com scsinger@broadstripe.net dennis_lewis@charter.net ensgc@att.net
Tae Park Tae Kwon Do World Class Tae Kwon Do Championships November 11 th & 12 TH, 2011 Grand Rapids Community College, Ford Field house There will be between 600 to 700 Students making this the LARGEST TAE PARK TOURNAMENT EVER! Join and be part of Tae Park Tae Kwon Do History! SPECIAL GUEST PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER GRANDMASTER TAE ZEE PARK ONE-STEP COMPETITION Events Include SPARRING COMPETITION FORMS COMPETITION BLACK BELT ASSOCIATION TEST NEW MASTERS CEREMONY There will also be a Very Special Event! COMPETITION RULES, HOTEL INFORMATION, PARTY LOCATION COMING SOON TOURNAMENT DIRECTOR & HEAD INSTUCTOR SENIOR MASTER JAMES A. RODGERS