Exciting times are ahead! We (the club that is) found out yesterday that the federation we are part of – the European Moo Duk Kwan Tang Soo Do Federation (EMTF) – is planning a visit to Cornwall next month. Visiting us will be Masters Ashok Kumar, Anesh kumar and Master Nessworthy, and hopefully some students from the various groups. This is great news for us and is really starting to make us feel like a fully fledged part of the federation, as in the past it’s always been us who have had to do the traveling.
It might be quite daunting to train in the presence of that many masters, especially with one of them being the Vice President of the EMTF, but I can’t wait. It’s going to be great opportunity to learn from some of the most experienced and senior practitioners in the whole of Europe, and to show them how hard we work and train. It’s also added incentive for me personally to get myself moving with some of my own little goals for the year.
On top of all of that there’s also the chance that we may be seeing some people from the UK Haidong Gumdo Association, with a view to learning and training in the traditional Korean sword art. A perfect complement to Tang Soo Do. I’m really looking forward to the coming months now.
While I’m on the subject of TSD, I think I’ll add some pages to the blog here with terminology and the like, just to save me having to write the Korean and English for terms all the time.
edit: Oops, I nearly forgot to mention that for those of you running WordPress (.org, not .com), there’s a security upgrade and bugfix out. It’s a good idea to keep up-to-date.
It seems like all the old UK and European Haidong Gumdo sites have dissapeared – is anyone still teaching this in the UK?