ITF Taekwon-Do
What is Taekwon-Do?
Taekwon-Do is a Korean National Martial Art which was founded on April 11, 1955 by General Choi Hong Hi, who perfected and systematized it.
Taekwon-Do aims to promote, through its activities, the cultivation of mental and physical development in harmony, whilst conforming to the ideas and goals established by Gen. Choi Hong Hi.
Taekwon-Do aims to encourage and improve the human dignity of all Taekwon-Do practitioners and demonstrate to the world, by example, mutual respect and concession through integrated mental and cultural training, ethics and moral education.
Taekwon-Do has the ultimate aim of making a positive contribution to building a more peaceful and better world through physical and mental training, despite and irrespective of political, religious, racial and ideological discrimination, under its indispensable ideals of friendship, solidarity, and mutual understanding, based on impartiality.
All Taekwon-Do training and activities should be considered to be basic human rights. Everyone has the right to participate in Taekwon-Do training and Taekwon-Do activities.
Taekwon-Do activities represented by the Taekwon-Do emblem are eternal, universal and world-wide. Taekwon-Do activities include those of any organization, institution, enterprise, or individual, that agrees to be governed by this Constitution.
Motto
The ITF Motto includes Courtesy, Integrity, Perseverance, Self-Control and Indomitable Spirit.
More information about the Aims, Objectives , History and Activities of the International Taekwon-Do Federation is available on the website www.itf-tkd.org/