International Taekwondo Academy

The WTF-KHU partnership program began in 2005. This program is held four times a year, twice for athletes and twice for coaches. The program began because it is our belief that academic knowledge is of utmost importance to foster growth and understanding of Taekwondo on an advanced level. The programs instructors have proven themselves on an international level as champions. Due to this they will offer great benefits through their experience in Taekwondo. It is the goal of Kyung Hee to show the highest level of instruction to all who participate.

The main goals of this program are:

· To promote Taekwondo knowledge and standardize TKD techniques
· Enhance cultural development of our sport
· Build great leaders in the globalization process of Taekwondo.
· Internationalize TKD program development

The Focus of this session is to broaden the Coaches knowledge of Taekwondo Sparring. A systematic and educational program has been designed to enable coaches to return home to their countries and set up a firm curriculum for their teams. The root and final outcome of this program is to produce leadership qualities in National Coaches. This leadership training will be held in the highest regard during the workshop.

	Subject
1	Taekwondo Philosophy	To provide the theoretical foundation of Taekwondo as a martial art
2	Taekwondo Psychology	To provide the basic understanding of the human mind in relation to Taekwondo
3	Nutrition for Taekwondo Athletes	To provide an understanding of how to create a diet plan for athletes
4	Fitness Evaluation Methodology	To create a program which can optimize an athletes fitness performance
5	First Aid & Taping	To provide general understanding of first aid, CPR and Taping
6	Referee of Taekwondo Sparring	To evaluate new rules of the game
7	Strategy of Sparring Analysis	How to use sparring strategy in competition
8	Technical Sparring Program Design	To provide program to improve technical skill in athletes perfomance
9	Poomsae	General Poomsae Training
10	Demonstration and Self Defense	General Demonstration and self defense techinques
11	Stretching	To provide a program to improve flexibility in athletes
12	Korean language	To learn about simple dialogue and Taekwondo word
13	Korean Cultural Experience	This part will include field trips and cultural experiences

Since 2005 the WTF held the first Poomsae championship in Korea. After then great response to this event has shown a growing interest in this area of Taekwondo. For these reasons Kyung Hee has decided to begin a training course dedicated solely to the research and development of Poomsae. This course will have a specific focus on the Martial Arts aspect of Taekwondo

	Subject
1	Taekwondo Philosophy	To provide the theoretical foundation of Taekwondo as a martial art
2	Taekwondo Psychology	To provide the basic understanding of the human mind in relation to Taekwondo
3	Poomsae Artistic Structural Philosophy	To understand poomsae’s structure through it’s philosophical roots
4	Referee of Taekwondo Poomsae	To evaluate the rules of Poomsae competition
5	Methodology of Poomsae Training	To create a program which can optimize an athletes poomsae performance
6	Demonstration and Self Defense	General Demonstration and self defense techinques
7	Fitness Evaluation Methodology	To create a program which can optimize an athletes fitness performance
8	Taekwondo Aerobics	To give a new view of training through dance movement using Taekwondo techniques
9	Sparring	General sparring techniques
10	First Aid & Taping	To provide general understanding of first aid, CPR and Taping
11	Korean language	To learn about simple dialogue and Taekwondo word
12	Korean Cultural Experience	This part will include field trips and cultural experiences

The focus on this program will be to provide high-level training sessions in sparring where players will be able to train with Elite athletes from Korea to gain a wider understanding of Taekwondo at an international level. The other portion of this course will provide players with technical and educational about the sport to ensure a better quality of training to accompany just the physical interaction.

	Subject
1	Taekwondo Philosophy	To provide the theoretical foundation of Taekwondo as a martial art
2	Nutrition for Taekwondo Athletes	To create diet plan for the athletes
3	Sparring Techniques	To gain a greater understanding of specialized sparring techniques
4	Practical Sparring	To focus on sparring with elite Korean athletes
5	Strategy of Sparring	To increase athletes awareness of movement in the competition
6	Taekwondo Aerobics	To give a new view of training through dance movement using Taekwondo techniques
7	First Aid & Taping	To provide general understanding of first aid, CPR and Taping
8	Poomsae	General Poomsae Training
9	Demonstration and Self Defense	General Demonstration and self defense techinques
10	Fitness Training	To improve fitness with direct relation to Taekwondo training
11	Korean language	To learn about simple dialogue and Taekwondo word
12	Korean Cultural Experience	This part will include field trips and cultural experiences

Since 2005 the WTF held the first Poomsae championship in Korea. Since then great response to this event has shown a growing interest in this are of Taekwondo. For these reasons Kyung Hee has decided to begin a training course dedicated solely to the research and development of Poomsae with a focus on the Martial Arts aspect of Taekwondo.

	Subject
1	Taekwondo Philosophy	To provide the theoretical foundation of Taekwondo as a martial art
2	Taekwondo Psychology	To understand poomsae’s structure through it’s philosophical roots
3	Basic Taekwondo Poomsae Movement	To give a solid foundation of Poomsae through basic technique training
4	Poomsae Training	To focus on training with elite Korean poomsae athletes
5	Creative Poomsae	To understand how to create unique poomsae performances
6	Demonstration and Self Defense	General Demonstration and self defense techniques
7	Taekwondo Aerobics	To give a new view of training through dance movement using Taekwondo tecGeneral sparring techniques hniques
8	Sparring	To provide general understanding of first aid, CPR and Taping
9	First Aid & Taping	To provide general understanding of first aid, CPR and Taping
10	Fitness Training	To improve fitness with direct relation to Taekwondo training
11	Korean language	To learn about simple dialogue and Taekwondo word
12	Korean Cultural Experience	This part will include field trips and cultural experiences