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The World Taekwondo & Hapkido Association
Honoring The Past, Embracing The Future
A 9th Degree Black Belt & Korean National Treasure, International Referee, Founder, Author, former Secretary General of the Pan American Moo Duk Kwan, Kukkiwon and Moo Duk Kwan Certified Master Instructor, a Valencia Community College Adjunct Professor, former Korean Air Force Academy Physical Education and Meteorology Instructor, with a MS in Physical Education and a PhD in Religious Studies, a major contributor to the early success of Taekwondo Moo Duk Kwan in the USA and the Americas, has trained, taught, promoted, and demonstrated Taekwondo & Hapkido across the globe for over 60 years since the early 1960’s, including his world famous demonstration at the 1978 Third World Taekwondo Championship in the Chicago International Amphitheatre.
Grand Master Jae Sun Do is Honorary President of The World Taekwondo & Hapkido Association.
GM Hong Chong Soo and GM Do recognized the great accomplishments of GM Hwang Kee and yet valued the newly required nationally recognized standard and certification process set forth by the Korean government. For this reason GM Hong and GM Do set out to evaluate, analyze, and devise an advanced Tae Kwon Do Moo Duk Kwan curriculum which would respect and honor the Moo Duk Kwan roots and philosophy of GM Hwan Kee and yet meet or exceed the requirements of the emerging Kukkiwon.
GM Do immigrated to the United States in 1974 with the first wave of Kukkiwon dispatched Korean Taekwondo Masters where he continued to develop the World Taekwondo & Hapkido Association curriculum and opened Master Do’s Tae Kwon Do Academy’s in Chicago Illinois, eventually growing to eight schools. During the following years GM Do studied Hapkido with Jin Jun Kwan Hapkido Founder GM Kim Myung Yong and others adding to the basis of the World Taekwondo & Hapkido Association curriculum.
GM Do assisted in the development of numerous prominent Midwestern U.S. Taekwondo Associations and other organizations as Director, Chairman, Board Member, and other positions including the Pan American Moo Duk Kwan of which he was Secretary General from 1981 to 1986, and was instrumental in the promotion of Tae Kwon Do and Hapkido self defense throughout the Midwestern United States, Central, and South America.
GM Do spent the next several years single handedly developing the physical step sparring and self defense skills for the basis of the World Taekwondo & Hapkido Association curriculum.
GM Do eventually moved his Academy to Orlando Florida in 1990. In 1992/93 Grand Master Chong Soo Hong visited GM Do’s Orlando Academy expressing his excitement, approval, and desire for world wide dissemination of this advanced martial arts education, skills, and training system.
In 1991 GM Do accepted Master Nelson as his student and this is when the passage of this system began.
In the early 1990’s the Olympic Taekwondo movement overshadowed any traditional Taekwondo as we knew it putting WTHA on the back burner, and in the mid 1990’s GM Do moved the Academy Headquarters to the Atlanta area to pursue his doctoral education where he continues to teach to date.
In summary:
GM Jae Sun Do a Kukkiwon International Master is one of the highest official ranked Korea Taekwondo Moo Duk Kwan Grand Masters in the world, an original student of GM Hwang Kee, GM Chong Soo Hong, and others, he was the Chief Instructor of the Shin Chon Taekwondo School in Seoul Korea, taught in the Korean Air Force, responsible for bringing Taekwondo Moo Duk Kwan to the U.S. Midwest and the Americas, was Secretary General of the Pan American Moo Duk Kwan, authored “Beginning Taekwondo,” developed the initial WTHA one steps, and is Co Founder and President of The World Taekwondo & Hapkido Association.
Martial arts as we know them have evolved over centuries driven by the personal, social, geopolitical, and cross cultural influences of their time. The founders of The World Taekwondo & Hapkido Academy have combined these teachings to address the need for a comprehensively structured elite, military style, Advanced Korean Martial Arts Training System.
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