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Monthly Archives: November 2007

Boy marches to black belt

The front of Seong’s Tae Kwon Do Academy in the Breezewood shopping center is plastered with the benefits of martial-arts training.
“Discipline, Defense, Motivation, Confidence,” one window says. “Weight Control, Stress Control, General Fitness, Olympic Competition,” another states.

The inspirational come-ons are tried-and-true lures for 40-somethings going through a midlife crisis, but for now, the school is […]

Family finds fitness in taekwondo!

For Dr. Mitch Goldman of Carmel, earning his taekwondo black belt wasn’t about ego.
The 43-year-old colon cancer survivor called training in the Korean martial art “a celebration of life.”

“(Taekwondo) is a good balance of my family, fun and exercise,” said Goldman, medical director of the Hilbert Pediatric Emergency Department at Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital at […]

What martial art is right for me?

Hello,
I'm 16 years old and was thinking of taking up a martial art to use up some of my free time. What is most important to me in a martial art is self-defense application. But a very close 2nd on my list is some cultural aspects. I could stand to lose a […]

profession determines the martial art?

Hey. Need to ask a question. Why is it that there are a huge abundance of engineers doing martial arts, more so than other professions? From what I've seen, internet, friends, family, a lot of martial artists are engineers (especially biomedical engineers and mechanical engineers), rather than accountants (I know one who does martial arts, […]