TABLE OF CONTENTS Master Rondy - Owner . .35 White Tiger Founder Master Rondy . .36 White Tiger Lineage . .37 & 38 White Tiger Awards . .39 White Tiger Press . .40 White Tiger Origin . .41 My Story . .42 Korean Tiger Schools . .43 & 44 What’s in a Name? . .45 Korean Tigers Professional Demo Team . .46 & 47 LINEAGE MASTER RONDY - OWNER TIGER TIP Master Rondy was pre- sented with her 7th Degree Black Belt when Grandmaster Ho Jae Kim from the Kukkiwon in Korea, visited White Tiger for Black Belt Testing in 2009. Master Rondy is the Program and choreographing Tiger and eventually Director and Owner of White Chung’s Demonstration Team. became their Executive Manager. Tiger. Her duties include In January 1994, Grand Master special events coordinating, Chung sent Master Rondy back Master Rondy was selected by new student enrollment and to Korea to meet and train with Kook-gi-won to be the sole rep- management of the specialized the world famous Korean resentative from America - teams. Tigers Professional along with 39 representatives Master Rondy was born in Demonstration Team. For the from other countries - to attend Michigan’s upper peninsula. next two years, South Korea the International Leaders She majored in Art and had became her new home. She Meeting in 1995. She played an worked for several Advertising trained daily in Taekwondo, active part in proposing the Agencies in Detroit before Hapkido and Kung Fu with the rules and regulations for the opening her own design studio. best Koran Masters in the Taekwondo games for the world. She tested for and 2000 Sydney Olympics. Master Rondy was trained by received her advanced degree Grand Master Chung, then 9th Black Belts in Taekwondo and degree Black Belt, in Detroit. Hapkido, including the After she received her first “Master” status, in Korea. degree Black Belt, she traveled Master Rondy became the first to Korea as a member of the a and only non-Asian member of U.S. Taekwondo Team for the Korean Tigers Professional advanced training and compe- Demonstration Team. tition. Upon returning to Detroit, she became part owner She traveled extensively and Executive Manager of throughout Asia and Tiger Chung’s Total Fitness North America performing as a Center in addition to coaching member of the Korean Tigers 35 WHITE TIGER FOUNDER MASTER RONDY DEGREES & • Martial Arts Professional CERTIFICATIONS MAgazine Cover 2006 • 7th Degree Black Belt World • Co-Director Taekwondo Taekwondo Federation events at 2008 Arnold • 7th Degree Black Belt Schwarzenegger The World Taekwon Moodo Classic Federation • Taekwondo Times • 6th Degree Black Belt cover March 2008 Hapkido • sHERO award, Skirt • 4th Degree Black Belt World Magazine Sept 2009 Pro Taekwondo Federation • Taekwondo Times cover • 3rd Degree Black Belt March 2010 Ji-Do-Kwan • MA Success Magazine • Certified Instructor “Sifu” cover October 2005 Samuel Kwok Wing Chun • MA Success Magazine • International WTF Poomsae cover April 2012 Referee (IR) • Inducted into Martial Arts • Certified Instructor Hall of Honors 2011 • Certified: Yoga Instructor • Goodwill Ambassador to • Certified: Fitness Instructor Martial Arts 2012-2016 • Certified: Feng Shui • Inducted into Martial Arts Consultant Hall of Fame 2012 • Inducted into Karate TITLES & Hall of Fame 2013 APPOINTMENTS • Cover Martial Science 2016 • Master of the Year 2012 • Cover MA Encyclopedia • School of the Year 2011 CHARITY • Decree Kukkiwon • Founder of White Tiger • Advisory Board Kukkiwon Community Cares Program • Taekwondo U.S. Ambassador benefiting At-Risk Youth, to Korea - Olympic 2000 working with the local Police Sydney Games Rules and • Developer White Tiger MD - Department toward youth Regulations Committee World Management Development, gang avoidance Leaders Seminar, Kukkiwon mentorship service for Martial • Recipient “Community • Graduate - Kukkiwon Arts schools Service Award” Cary Taekwondo Instructor’s • Bodyguard, Senator Dodd, Chamber of Commerce Academy Governor Hunt • Organizing Committee for the • Black Belt of the Year ‘92 by • Actor in two episodes of Zen White Tiger 5K fun run for U.S. Taekwondo Ji Do Kwan beauty: Syndicated TV Series charity, Bond Park Association • Product Model, Tiger Claw • Korean Tigers Professional • Taekwondo, Hapkido PROFESSIONAL Instructor Dong Yang MARTIAL ARTS WORK Demonstration Team (only Doejahng, Korea EXPERIENCE Non-Asian member of team) • 40 Under 40 Business Leaders • Columnist, Taekwondo Times Lived in Korea from ‘94-’96 Hall of Fame 2004 Magazine “East Meets West” • Former co-owner/ Manager • Young Entrepreneurs’ • Columnist, Taekwondo Times /Senior Instructor Tiger Organization (YEO) Magazine “Business Section” Chung’s Total Fitness Center 36 WHITE TIGER LINEAGE • National Team Member • Advisory Board Member of the Grand Master Society AN HAKSuN/K-TIGERS Founder of the Korean Tigers or K-Tiger Professional Demo Team. The Team was established in 1990 and is the most repre- sentative Taekwondo Demonstration Team in the world. It has participated in various international com- petitions such as the World Championships, US Open, World record holder - cement block breaking performed in Madison Square Garden, Las Vegas, TIGER HO YuNG • 1964 Kyung Kido Tae Sydney Olympics and vari- CHuNG is Master Rondy’s Kwan Do Association ous tours around the world. master. “Tiger Chung was President The Korean Tigers are instrumental in her martial • Heavy Weight credited for introducing the arts journey. His teaching Champion/Captain Korean spirit of Taekwondo will live on forever”. • Member of the Board of to the world. Tiger Chung Institute of Tae Directors of the Michigan Kwon Do was founded in Tae Kwon Do Committee 1970 in Inchon, Korea by Team member from Grand Master Ho Yung • 1981 World Record Holder 1994-1996 Chung. The school was breaking 17 - 2" cement moved to the United States blocks in 1971, where it opened in • Studied under the founder Detroit, Michigan. of Hapkido Grand Master Ho Yung • Head instructor of the Chung began his training in U.S. Army 202 Division the martial art of Tae Kwon Do in 1952. With a 10th degree black belt, Grand Master Ho Yung "Tiger" Chung is one of the highest ranked, most respected mar- tial artist in the world! • International Master Instructor, Founder and President of the U.S. Tae Kwon Do Ji Do Kwan Association 37 WHITE TIGER LINEAGE Grandmaster Rick Moneymaker 9th Degree SIFu SAMuEL KWOK overseas representative of Grand Master Samuel the Ip Chun Martial Art Kwok is a direct descendant Association by Grandmaster of Wing Chun Master of Ip Chun. He is the author of Ip Man (Bruce Lee’s multiple bestselling books Instructor). He is also a stu- and DVD’s and well as an dent of his two sons GM Ip actor in several movies • Chun and GM Ip Ching. He including the Chemist has over 50 years of experi- (renamed the Assassin by ence in Wing Chun and has RICK’ MONEYMAKER Sony) released in 2015. schools under his guidance DRAGON SOCIETY in over 38 countries. INTERNATIONAL Sifu Kwok selected Master The Dragon Society is Rondy as a private student In 1981 he was appointed known for their teaching to help carry on the Ip Man chairman and senior of Martial Science. A Wing Chun Lineage. combination of Traditional Chinese Medicine, pressure points, waveforms, vibra- tions, yin and yang princi- ples are included in their arsenal called "Players to the Game". The Dragon Society International is known as the technical resource center for the Martial Arts - providing supplemental skills to enhance all styles of martial arts. The master’s series seminars are held at White Tiger every 3 months and are available to high ranking students of all styles, Instructors, Masters and Grandmasters. 38 WHITE TIGER AWARDS School of the Year Hall of Fame Awards Speaker at industry shows Master of the Year, Taekwondo Times Magazine WHITE TIGER PRESS Recognition from Kukkiwon Contributing Author 40 WHITE TIGER ORIGIN... I was living in Detroit, Korea is very cold in working in advertising January. The buildings do during the day and not have central heat, but managing/teaching as are heated by kerosene the co-owner of a Martial heaters. The kerosene Arts school in the heaters are incapable of evening. heating an entire building so they are placed very Team Training in Korea My Master introduced close to the people. At me to a variety of Korean my Master was very high restaurants, a heater is Martial Arts videotapes, my ranking and was able to find placed next to each table. In favorites of course being a way to meet the Tigers. the doe-jahng the heater was the videos featuring the The next thing I knew, my placed only in the office, not Korean Tigers. Master was telling me to put in the training room. The on my doe-boke, that the only heat would have been wasted One day my Master told me way I was getting in was to in the training room anyway to prepare for a trip to Korea participate in auditions. since most of the glass panes the following year. He was were broken. We would dress interested in the possibility of When I saw the degree of in layers, including shoes and hiring a Korean Tiger since skill and level of training of gloves. The first two hours he planned on retiring soon. the Tigers, I was thankful for were for running kicks. You He also wanted me to learn all the extra preparation I could see your breath with some of the advanced had already taken, but knew every yell. demonstration techniques the that nothing could have fully Tigers were so famous for. He prepared me for this. At this After running kicks we informed me that I would time I considered turning would do sports massage have the opportunity to train around and running. The and then stretching. The in a Taekwondo and only thing that kept me Tiger poom-say was practiced Hapkido doe-jahng with other going was the fact that I for hours, again and again, Korean students.