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Upubmmz!! Ubf!Lxpo!Ep! Issue 3 www.totallytkd.com May 2009 The Free Global Tae Kwon Do Magazine Thanking The Founders hee AArrtt attee OOff TTh SStta TTFF sseess WW IITTFF VVeerr Plus Evolving And Training The TKD Clinic Top Tips forfor SuccessfulSuccessful Competition ITF Verses WTF Dollyo Chagi A Star In The Making? Fighting Physics: Newton’s 3rd Law & TKD The Front Kicks of TKD: More Than You think! As well as Book Reviews, Essays, Tae Kwon Do News from around the World, and many more great articles inside Upubmmz!! Ubf!Lxpo!Ep! EditorialEditorial The Free Global Tae Kwon Do Magazine Issue 2 - May 2009 Produced and Published by: Hello and welcome to the May issue of Harrow Martial Arts in association with Totally Tae Kwon Do magazine. Rayners Lane Taekwon-do Academy This is our third issue and we are still Email: [email protected] going strong, as you will see from all the Tel: +44 (0)7759 438779 great articles inside. 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Please contact us if in doubt. played my part by supplying an article and now I ask you, the readers, to do the same and start sending some sport related Aside from non-commercial printouts of this PDF, written permission must be gained from Harrow Martial Arts articles to keep the flow going. before converting this PDF into any other media. This PDF and / or any resulting printout must be passed on as is and nothing may be added to it or removed from it We have a couple of new sections in this issue, starting with without prior written permission from Harrow Martial Arts. Glenn Smit’s ‘TKD Clinic’, which, as you will see, will benefit many readers because, as is usually the case with problems, if Worldwide copyright of all material (including pictures) is held by the originator of that material unless stated one person has one, you can bet many more do but simply otherwise. 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Editor 사 범 스 튜 Due to the nature of the magazine being still widely 아 트 앤 슬 available long past its issue date, customers of adverts are advised to confirm any businesses advertised within this 로 창 헌 류 magazine are still trading before sending off any money, as Harrow Martial Arts cannot be held liable for any 태 권 도 adverts, advertisers or consumer issues regarding products or services advertised within this magazine, which were correct at the issue date. Ps. If you are connected to a charity in some way, or even if you just want to help one out, please contact them and tell Copyright Notice them to send us their ad (half A4 size in length and in Jpeg All articles in this magazine are format) and we`ll run it in the magazine, free of charge, to Copyright © 2009 Author of article highlight their cause. 2 - Totally Tae Kwon Do IssueIssue 33 ContentsContents Totally TKD News Page 5 Thanking The Founders Page 11 Wendy Tseng: A Star In The Making? Page 15 State Of The Art In Tae Kwon Do: ITF Verses WTF Page 18 Book Review: Taekwondo & The Olympics Page 23 The TKD Clinic Page 24 What Training In The Martial Arts Has Done For me Page 27 Make Way For The Samurai’s Page 29 Top Tips For Successful Competition Page 31 Is TaeKwon-Do Offense or Defense? Yes! Page 35 Fighting Physics: Newton’s 3rd Law of Motion in Tae Kwon Do Page 41 What’s the Point Page 46 Ch’ang Hon Taekwon-do Hae Sul - Part 3 Page 47 Evolving And Training - Part 1 Page 51 The Front Kicks of Tae Kwon Do: A Lot More Than You Think! Page 53 Pioneer Tae Kwon Do Association Interview Page 55 ITF Vs Kukkiwon Dollyo Chagi Page 63 Book Review: Ch’ang Hon Taekwon-do Hae Sul Page 65 Submission Guidelines Page 66 Where To Download Totally Tae Kwon Do Page 67 Contributors: George Vitale, Simon O’Neill, Marek Handzel, Michael Munyon, Paul O’Leary, David Lieder, John Dowding, Earl Weiss, Glenn Smits, Brendan Wilson, Chelsea Hesketh, W. 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