Great Grandmaster Kim’s Jung SuWon Student Michelle Palmer (who has polio) – shows inner power

Demonstration of Great Grandmaster Kim’s Teachings through Power Break

Dr. Tae Yun Kim – CEO Human Documentary on KBS-America!

Dr. Tae Yun Kim has been highlighted in a special CEO Documentary project called Human Documentary on KBS-America… it was aired twice on Sunday, Feb 15, 2009…(it’s mostly in Korean…but you can get a good feeling from watching it!  Some of it is in English)

http://www.kbs-america.com/vod/details.aspx?vid=2582

It also shows a little about the recent birthday event that we had for Dr. Kim at City Team Ministries!  It was a Highly Successful Event!!  Many of the homeless commented how much they were inspired by Dr. Kim.

Life is a Precious Gift

Great Grandmaster Dr. Tae Yun Kim wrote an amazing book called “The Silent Master: Awakening the Power Within“…the other day, I opened it to this section… and it really touched my heart:

ponder this:

“Life is such a precious gift. But we tend to treat every day as though life is never going to end, as though we have an unlimited amount of time to find the happiness we want. As a result, instead of challenging our fears right now, we go on day after day, year after year, making excuses for our failure to accomplish our true desires. Good intentions don’t seem to be enough to make big changes in your life. Think about all the New Year’s resolutions you’ve made in the past, and you realize that good intentions alone aren’t sufficient to introduce changes. Making real and lasting change requires that you make a commitment and take constructive action!”

Powerful words.

more on this later…

Happy New Year!…It’s coming up!! Jan 25th!

What? January 25th? It’s the LUNAR new year!!…the Chinese/Korean calendar New Year… so, you have MORE TIME to set your New Year goals and Get ready for an awesome new year!!

I like following the Lunar New Year because I never feel ready on Jan 1st to set new goals…

At Jung SuWon, things are hopping!!  We are getting new students every day and it is great to see so many people taking time to invest in themselves and their kids!  PLUS it’s a great activity for kids and they all love coming!

I’m looking forward to a fantastic year! Hope you are too!

Pil Seung!

I Love Christmastime!

I love Christmastime!  Since I have been training with Great Grandmaster Dr. Tae Yun Kim, I have truly felt that every day is Christmas…

I love seeing the Christmas lights go up on houses everywhere… I remember driving around to just see the different lights.

I have gone Christmas caroling with Great Grandmaster Dr. Kim at neighbors’ houses… that was a lot of fun!

I can never get tired of listening to 96.5, the Christmas station…especially O Holy Night by Celine Dion!  Brings tears to my eyes!!! 

Since I love feeling the Christmas spirit every day, I like to give gifts to people NOT on the 25th… but days afterwards… everyone opens presents on the 25th… but when someone gets a present on a different day, then that day becomes Christmas all over again!

I am joyful about Christmas because the past 18 years of my life have been filled with love, family and friends.  I attribute this to my training at Jung SuWon because through my training, I have gotten a very positive perspective about myself and about life. 

I can clearly remember feelings of loneliness during holiday seasons…wishing that there was someone I could be with, someone who wanted to be with me… One Thanksgiving, when I was in college, I had just broken up a long relationship… I spent the day watching TV, eating a turkey sandwich, and hearing his name on every TV show that I could watch… feeling lonely and out of sorts…always on the verge of crying.  I think back then, I was manic depressive…leaning heavily on the depressed side whenever I was alone…and only showing the manic side in public…

I thank God that those days are in my past.  All I have to do is turn to see my soulmate next to me & I feel the love surrounding me.

I hope you all have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Jung SuWon Christmas Party 2008 – ROCKIN’ PARTY!

Jung SuWon and Great Grandmaster Dr. Tae Yun Kim had a ROCKIN’ party this year!  Attendance at the party was double our expected numbers…more than 200 people, from age 3 to 83 were there!  We had a great group of teens there who provided the entertainment via an awesome martial arts demonstration… a tahitian dance routine with Great hip movements! …and a fun hip-hop dance routine that was reminiscent of America’s Best Dance Crew!  PLUS, we had the special appearance of 2 of our young 6 year old warriors, Sophia & Danika…who did a FANTASTIC dance routine to Run Rudolph Run by Chuck Berry!!  They had reindeer horns on and red flashing Rudolph noses!  It was SO CUTE that I thought my smile would bust off my face!! We had a couple of teens sing & play the guitar…AND we had a rockin’ guitarist from L.A. totally JAM on the guitar…

The martial arts demo was very awesome.  One of our young 12 year old yellow belts did the round-house kick sequence in a circle and she was amazing!!  Her mom & dad were beaming in the audience!

I love the Christmas season… the feelings in the air…the lights, the decorations…the general feelings of love.  All to celebrate the birth of Jesus.  What an awesome occasion to celebrate.

Great Grandmaster Dr. Tae Yun Kim also talked to everyone and shared her wisdom & messages of love… she boosted up the teens and the young warriors so that they felt so proud of themselves…she made everyone feel so much at home!

It was an awesome event!

Merry Christmas everyone!

Jung SuWon – a True Martial Art

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about Martial Arts…and what it means to be a “martial artist”.

Jung SuWon is a True martial art, not a commercial martial art.  Great Grandmaster Dr. Tae Yun Kim is a true martial art Master, not a commercial Master.

What’s the difference?

We don’t offer a drive through martial art class.  You won’t become a black belt in 2 years.  The stuff you learn at Jung SuWon won’t be “fluff”.

We teach kids Respect, Honor, Loyalty.  They develop self-confidence, self-esteem, self-awareness.  The littlest warriors, acorns, we call them, because they will someday grow to be strong oak trees… they learn balance, respect, and gross motor movement skills.  They learn how to count in Korean, call out commands in Korean, line up in straight lines and how to exercise teamwork and unity.  We teach students how to take the tenets of the martial arts into their everyday lives.

When we spar, it’s not for a 2 minute round…like they do in competitions.  Sometimes we’ll spar for 30 minutes…or an hour or more ….nonstop!  Why?  Well….if you are attacked in a dark alley, you can’t tell the attackers to stop after 2 minutes!  What if you had to keep defending yourself for more than an hour… wouldn’t you want to have the stamina to keep going?  When your lungs are burning and you feel like you can’t lift your legs anymore…and you keep hearing “change!”… you konw that you have to keep going…and at the end, after many, many rounds, you feel a great sense of freedom because you made it!  It’s an awesome feeling!

Anyway, I’ll go more into that another time!

Jung SuWon Bottle Break with RIDGE HAND!

Check out this AWESOME bottle break using a RIDGE HAND technique!!!

more about “Jung SuWon Bottle Break with RIDGE HAND!“, posted with vodpod

FREEDOM!

One of my All Time Favorite movie lines in the world is:

“Every man dies…Not every man really lives.”

(can you guess the movie??… say it with a Scottish accent and that might help you guess the movie! )

Death is inevitable…but LIVING LIFE is an OPTION.  Not everyone chooses to really LIVE their lives…People may be breathing, but are they really living?

I talk about Great Grandmaster Dr. Tae Yun Kim and Jung SuWon a lot… but when someone or something has impacted your life so much…has inspired you to excel and exceed your own potential…has shown me the true meaning of Love…. kind of makes me want to talk about that person and share this person with whoever wants to hear.

I have an AWESOME life.  Can you say that about your life?

When you go to the grocery store  or to the movies or to the bank and the employee asks you how you are doing, can you respond “Great!” with feeling and enthusiasm and a smile?  I can.

It usually surprises people to hear that kind of a response.

That’s why I want to share so much about Great Grandmaster Dr. Kim.  Not only in my life, but I have seen her help so many people in their lives…  It doesn’t matter if that person is an adopted child with family issues or a big time Hollywood personality… Great Grandmaster Dr. Kim has helped people to shine, to fly, to excel in their lives.

I have spent hours with Great Grandmaster Dr. Kim and my extended Jung SuWon family…sitting around in a room…eating a fantastic meal…and then laughing for hours until we are crying as we take turns telling jokes… or share funny stories… You just can’t even comprehend how much love and happiness I feel during those moments…and we have had so many of those moments.

I think about how many people in this world are unhappy with their lives… who feel lonely…unloved…

I wish I could bring them all into our family environment…where they would feel so much love.

Imagine if all the world could experience this kind of love and harmony… what an amazing world we would have.

I can proudly say that I am truly LIVING my LIFE.