Most of our students pay their membership dues via monthly automatic recurring debit from their bank accounts. I'm grateful and moved by one thoughtful phenomenon that Matt Roncone (who does our books) pointed out to me yesterday: not one student…
If you have sharp eyes and care about such things, you may have noticed that I've quietly changed the way I spell the name of our martial art Taekwondo and style Jidokwan. Formerly, I'd been writing each syllable as a…
A typical student practices until they get it right. A master practices until they never get it wrong.
BINGEWORTHY NETFLIX SPECIAL ALERT!! RVTKD students may remember when a film crew from Netflix came to our dojang in February 2019 to gather footage of Luke Ryan training. If you'd like to watch a gripping four-part documentary, which happens to…
This was the tongue-in-cheek name that a few Jidokwan students from my first teacher's generation (Daniel Hays, Jeff Waller, Andrew Benioff, Joe Rush, Toby Morral, etc.) had for their habit of taking TKD action photos in impressive places while traveling.…
UPDATE 3/31/20 For reasons that are probably obvious to all by now, the dojang will be closed until further notice. We are eager to reopen but will only do so when it's safe, which may be even later than the state's…
Running is like the broccoli of conditioning. A lot of people run because they understand it's good for them, but they see it as a necessary evil. . . In honor of Zach Farrell finishing the Philadelphia Marathon last November,…
Grandmaster Sean Owen, the head of our school in the US, was promoted to the rank of Pal Dan (eighth degree black belt) on November 18, 2019. This unsought and unexpected honor was conferred by Dr. Ken Min, founder and…
On November 2, 2019, RVTKD instructors William Tuman and Matthew Roncone traveled to Warwick, New York for the first annual United States Taekwondo Association seminar. Organized by USTA President Doug Cook Kwanjangnim (also Founder and Head Instructor of Chosun Taekwondo…
How did my training change from Il Dan to Ee Dan? What inside me changed that allowed me to break through a years-long decline in my training? How did I recently successfully complete challenging goals I set in front of…