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Word of the Month Aug 2008: Zanshin
Recent Highlights
KAT Character Development Packet Now Online
Master Emelio opens KAT Baghdad, Iraq program.
New episodes of KAT TV are now available!
KAT wishes to express our sincerest condolences over the passing of Master Elizabeth Parr of Loveland. Students may sign her guestbook here.
New: Browse faster and support the school with the new KAT Toolbar
KAT starts its environmental Green Initiative
KAT Students have great showing at the 2007 State Championships. We earn 33 total medals and Tony Nguyen and Amy Percosky make the Colorado State Team.
Master Emelio Tio and family move to Texas to open the KAT Joshua, Texas branch.
KAT receives a Walmart Community grant for its work with low income families.
KAT records over 134,000 kicks in one hour on National Martial Arts Day! (2007)
KAT raises over $2000 for Autism Research and performs a demo at the Colorado Autism Walk.
Master Matt Bailey earns a spot on the US Armed Forces World Class Athlete Program (Aritlce)
Ron Roe, 58 years old and legally blind, gives a thorough and inspiring performance in ACT's first black belt test. His hard work earns him articles in the Rocky Mountain News and @Metro papers.
Korean Word of the Day
Welcome to the Korean Academy of Taekwondo Online, the official home page for the entire KAT community and the most visited Taekwondo school website on the internet.
Feel free to watch the following videos and browse around the site.
At our main headquarters for the Korean Academy of Taekwondo (KAT) in Aurora, Colorado we focus in three main areas of martial arts - Traditional, Olympic Sport, and Practical Self-defense. The most traditional aspects of Taekwondo are tought throughout our curriculum where students learn discipline, self-control and self confidence while training hard and working their way up through the belt ranks - white through black by learning World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) forms (poomses), kicks, hand techniques, defensive step sparring, and ground defense grappling.
KAT is proud to teach the WTF Olympic Style Sparring where two players, one red, one blue put on full protective pads and spar against each other to gain points by kicking or punching the other player's chest protector (Hogu) and in Adult divisions by kicking to the protected head. The match is continuous, (not stopped by scoring a point) which teaches players important counter attack strategy and promotes match flow.
Practical self-defense is an important aspect to our training at KAT. Standing defense is made up of basic kicks, hand techniques and Hopkido joint manipulations. Sprawling, control and falling techniques are taught as the transitional techniques between standing defense and ground defense. Ground defense is especially important because generally eighty percent of a true fight is on the ground. To train for this, KAT offers a comprehensive grappling curriculum which begins with how to fall and roll safely and works through dominant positioning and submission techniques. Pre-Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) mixed sparring/grappling is offered but not required for belt advancement.
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