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Becky Rupp attends Tang Soo Do master's clinic in Alabama

The WTSDA holds it’s master’s clinic every year in March for the purpose of enhancing its unique brand of Korean martial art and keeping it vital. The clinic is also used to keep the quality of instruction at a high level worldwide, and to maintain high standards of tradition. All candidates wishing to attain the coveted title of master, and also current masters going for higher rank, must test at this clinic before a panel of senior judges.

The majority of time at the clinic is spent training in a variety of different martial art aspects, such as: Advanced Korean Healing Exercise or “Ki Gong,” Master’s Hyungs, Knife Defense, Grappling, Group Sparring, Hapkido, Absolute Gun Defense, training with the Sword, and Judges Certification.

Tang Soo Do is a traditional martial art over 2,000 years old. Grandmaster Shin began teaching Tang Soo Do to students in the United States in 1968 and in 1982 chartered the World Tang Soo Do Association. The WTSDA is very proud of its organization and of the many accomplishments it has experienced in its last 29 years of existence -- over 150,000 members -- 32 member countries -- and over 30,000 black belts.

The organization has experienced phenomenal growth since its birth, but if one were to try to single out the most unique thing that gives it its character, World Tang Soo Do with all its diversity displays a loving unity of brotherhood and sisterhood that can be felt throughout its membership, and its contribution to humanitarian aid around the world.

For more information, visit the website at www.worldtangsoodo.com .

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Have you ever noticed that some people seem to wake up one day and approach life with a different sense of vigour? With a different purpose? A changed attitude? A new approach to their fitness? I’m not talking here about “New Years Resolutions”. I’m talking about a person who has really changed their approach or attitude to something and it is usually because something has changed in their life. We all know that “New Years Resolutions” come and go and that it is not uncommon for people to keep making the same resolutions year after year — to get fit, or to lose some weight, or to be a better partner … (BTW have you acted on your New Years resolution five months down the track — it’s May now!)

When something changes in your life, something that has a deep heartfelt meaning that causes you to really sit back and look at yourself, to give yourself a stiff uppercut and change what you are doing, we see real long lasting changes. The motivation is something that really cuts at your centre, it’s from the heart, and can cause you to have a total attitudinal shift. We call this a “Paradigm Shift”. When a paradigm shift occurs we make long lasting changes — they are not short lived — because they are based on something that has caused us to completely change the way we view this. This is totally different to the New Years resolution.

A great example of this is a story a friend of my once told me. I was asking her how people know if they are an alcoholic. She was an alcoholic and attended Alcoholic Anonymous meetings and said that she was at a meeting once and a gentleman attended for his first night and shared with the group that he came home from work one evening and kissed his daughter good night. He had been to the hotel and had some drinks and his young daughter said to him “Daddy, you stink!” This was enough for him to sit down and think about his drinking habits. He possibly thought that he did not want his daughter’s only real lasting memory of him to be that her dad was as a man who stunk! Who knows what else went on in his mind, and it probably doesn’t matter, but this event in his life was enough for him to realise that he couldn’t go without drinking alcohol and brought him to the realisation that he was, under his own life experience definition, an alcoholic.

Clearly this man had a paradigm shift. The framework through which he viewed his life changed from that day forward, and clearly his lifestyle changed in certain areas.

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