Special Training- Side Kicks on Balance Beam

Need I say more?  Great Grandmaster Tae Yun Kim's training is the best. 

Thank you Great Grandmaster Tae Yun Kim for dedicating your life to the development and teaching of the Martial Arts and the Jung SuWon teachings.  I can personally say that it is awesome to get up everyday and train and learn, and fill myself with positive, exciting, and powerful energy.  And thank you Great Grandmaster Tae Yun Kim for emphasizing universal love and helping others.  You are really a wise and awesome master.
Sincerely,

Long time student training over 30 years. :)

Beauty & Strength

Beauty and Strength      

Isn’t this flower incredibly beautiful?  It’s beauty and smell in really amazing.  Nature at its very best.  Also I love the stories Great Grandmaster TaeYun Kim told me about flowers.  One story emphasized how strong the flower is.  It looks so soft and delicate, and yet is stays outside day and night.  Can you do that?  The flower is in the blazing sun all day.  You should try that.  Sometimes after being outside only 1-2 hours, I am too hot.  But the flowers continue to dance in the wind, and shine in the sun. 

Yet all this mean nothing if we don’t take care of the root.  The root is the foundation.  The root is the source of energy.  We need to take care of the root at all costs.  We must stand up and protect the root.

Great Grandmaster Tae Yun Kim’s philosophy

Archery and the Warrior Spirit

Great Grandmaster Tae Yun Kim has many many training courses.  One of my favorites, is the one that uses the ancient art of archery to train and develop our warrior spirit.

The first lessons are about the basics of safety.  To your life and others.  Which way are we shooting?  Is the range clear?  Where are the targets?  Where should the shooters stand?  What are the range rules?  Once it is clear, are you pointing the arrow in the right direction?  Never fool around, or point anywhere but down range.

The next lessons are about the basics of your equipment.  Is it safe?  Do you know how to use it?  This can include your bow, arrows, arrow heads, feathers, bow string, clothing, arm guards, finger guards, target rests, quivers, and more.

Next, load the bow with the arrow properly.  Proper posture, draw, breathing, metal focus and release.

Next is practice.  For the very first time, start close and make sure you can hit the target.  Can you hit the target at 10 feet?  At 15 feet?  If so, you are on your way.

Now it can get very exciting, and what you need is practice, practice, and more practice.  Can you hit the target at 15 yards?  20 yards, 25 yards, 30 yards and more....  Can you group your arrows?  Can you control your breathing?  Can you control your attitude and ego?  Can you focus your mind?  Can you control your energy?

Now Great Grandmaster Tae Yun Kim raises the training level.  She pushes us to train with the bong between each set of arrows.  Do forms in between, Spar with a partner.  Your energy is rising.  You are out of breathe.  You are tired and yet exciting and your are huffing and puffing.  Now can you control your breathing?  Can you calm yourself in a matter of seconds.  Can you hold the bow steady, and release very calmly?  Can you group your arrows into a tight circle?

Next you run to different stations, and load, run, and fire.  The lessons are many.  The discipline is necessary.  The excitement and learning is awesome.  I feel awesome to be part of these training programs.  What an exciting life dream.

Thank you Great Grandmaster Tae Yun Kim, for keeping and promoting the way of the warrior.
Jung Su!

Ki Energy Morning Training with Great Grandmaster Tae Yun Kim

This morning at 6am, Great Grandmaster Tae Yun Kim had an energy training class up on the mountain.  I must say, I can't think of a better way to start the day.  She showed us the power of the Universe, and that God loves us.  She shared the power, and tranquility, and peace and beauty with all of us.  Then we meditated to the sun rise.  Just before the sun came up Great Grandmaster Tae Yun Kim prepared us physically and mentally for the energy and meditation experience.  Then we sat and looked toward where the sun would normally rise.  It was like the 4th of July.  Lights were shooting off the mountain, and little sparkles of Ki - Energy were dancing everywhere.  What an incredible experience.  Then the color show, deep and beautiful reds, and blues and greens...  better than any light show I ever saw.  It was like God was reaching out his hands to us to tell us that he will take care of us in this life and the next life.  "Don't worry my children - I am here for you".

Next we ran, and did bong training and sparring and had a fantastic morning.  It was perfect.  Thank you Great Grandmaster Tae Yun Kim.  Your love and great desire to teach us to love and help one another is amazing and so beautiful.  I feel humbled and honored to be in your classes.

Thank you,
Joon Hwang.

Nature walks on water! Can you?

Great Grandmaster Tae Yun Kim challenges us to walk on water?  But what does this mean?  I had a recent experience where Great Grandmaster was setting some goals for me.  I immediately thought, this is impossible.  But Great Grandmaster Tae Yun Kim explained to me, thats it.  That is your doubt and fear and practicality coming up.  Don't hold yourself back.  Keep positive.  Keep the faith and know that somehow it will happen.  We don't have to know how it will happen.  We just have to believe and strive to make it happen.  This stretches us in ways we must stretch.  I started coming up with new ideas, and new approaches.  Its funny, or maybe I should say sad, but I started to realize, I can do this.  I can really make this happen.  But if Great Grandmaster Tae Yun Kim, hadn't pushed me, I would have given up.  I never would have taken that next step into greater success.  This is an awesome lesson of faith and belief.  It also emphasizes why a good coach is needed.  I belive that we all need a good coach or a good master instructor in our corner.  Now we have to learn to be that for others.  Lets spread the knowledge and wisdom.

Think about the concept of a flower before it blooms.  Think of the leaves talking to each other about the beautiful flower that is about to bloom.  A month ago, it looked impossible.  They probably said it was impossible.  They would never sign up for that responsibility.  Yet Mother natures has only 1 direction.  It moves towards its goal, never gives up, is fully determined, and in the end, creates the most beautiful flowers.  Lets do that in our lives.  Lets all reach out and make a positive difference in this world.

by Great Grandmaster Tae Yun Kim

By Great Grandmaster Tae Yun Kim, author, teacher, giver, and master instructor.

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Take Control of Your Mind...

Have you ever walked on a low balance beam?  It is usually not too difficult.  But if you put it up 10 feet in the air, it is much more difficult.  By why?  It shouldn't be anymore difficult.  It is the same balance beam.  But why?

Fear.  It should make a difference.  Be disciplined.  Have courage.  Apply this to all aspects of your life.  Take Charge of your life.

He Can Do, She Can Do, Why Not Me!

By Great Grandmaster Tae Yun Kim, author, teacher, giver, and master instructor.

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Great Grandmaster Tae Yun Kim rescues an Owl

Great Grandmaster Tae Yun Kim finds an owl sitting on an angel's head.  It turns out the owl is hurt and she reaches out to help it.  As instructors, it is our duty to reach out and help others.

 

It feels to me like a sign from God, giving us great strength, and telling us to have courage, maintain that warrior spirit, and know that we are on the right track in helping people. 

The following  rings in my mind: 

Native Americans associated the meaning of owl with wisdom, foresight, and the keeper of sacred knowledge.  … To this day the owl is considered an animal soul-spirit linked to a spiritual person via a unique communicative bond.

Owl Animal Symbolism:

The owl is sacred to the Greek goddess of learning.  Athena and is even depicted on some Greco-Roman Currency as a symbol of status, intelligence and of course wealth.

In ancient Egyptian, Celtic, and Hindu cultures the symbolic meaning of owl revolved around guardianship of the underworlds, and the protection of the dead.

In this light the owl was ruler of the night and seer of souls.  It should be clear that the owl was honored as that keeper of spirits who had passed from one plane to another.  Often myth indicates that owl accompanying a spirit to the underworld – winging it’s newly freed soul from the physical world into the realm of spirit.

A quick list of symbolic meanings:

-             Wisdom, Mystery, Transition, Intelligence, Mysticism, Protection, Secrets...

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Native Americans associated the meaning of owl with wisdom, foresight, and the keeper of sacred knowledge.  This may be largely due to the fact that the owl is a great fore teller of weather conditions.  Also its ability to see at night is legend among the Native Americans, and this attribute would be invoked during ceremonies when an oracle of secret knowledge was required.

Similarly, West African and Aboriginal Australian cultures viewed the owl as a messenger of secrets, as well as companions to seers, mystics and medicine people.

Great Grandmaster Tae Yun Kim helping hurt owl

Great Grandmaster Tae Yun Kim peacefully holding wild owl

During medieval times in western and central Europe it was fabled that owls were actually priestesses and wizards in disguise.  To this day the owl is considered an animal soul-spirit linked to a spiritual person via a unique communicative bond.

I never would have even attempted what Great Grandmaster Tae Yun Kim was doing, but look, she is carrying the owl, and the yet the owl knows it is in loving hands.  All this is confirmation that we should help each other and know that we are in God's loving hands.

by Great Grandmaster Tae Yun Kim- author, teacher, speaker, and martial arts instructor

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