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Annual Charity Break-a-thon:
Saturday October 4th RRTKD will hold it's annual Break-a-thon for charity at Fargo's Island Park. The fund raiser will be conjuntion with the Metro Youth Partnership's picnic. The kid's have collected pledges and will either break boards between noon and 2pm or perform as many kicks as possible.
Scholarships and Financial Assistance:
We are proud to partner with the Big Brothers Big Sisters of America in offer classes to boys waiting on the list for a Big Brother. The need for Big Brothers far exceeds the amount of women who are offering their services to be Big Sisters so we are offering some help to those young men. Contact the Big Brothers Big Sisters of America for more information.
Financial Help For School Age TaeKwonDo Students
Red River Traditional Tae Kwon Do has formed a new partnership with Moorhead Healthy Community Initiative (MHCI) to help youth get involved in positive asset building activities after school, such as Tae Kwon Do. The mission of MHCI is to help mobilize the community to provide assets for all Moorhead youth through free after school programs and scholarships to cover the cost of fee based programs. To qualify for the scholarships, youth must live in and/or attend Moorhead School District. Youth must be in 1st through 12th grade. Scholarships may be used to cover registration fees, supplies (such as uniforms) or equipment. MHCI would like to help families eliminate barriers to participation by helping to cover these costs. If you need more information or would like an application call Sonia at MHCI at 299-5437.
Traditional TaeKwonDo vs. Olympic Sport TaeKwonDo:
TaeKwonDo in its original form is known as Traditional TaeKwonDo . It includes the powerful and elaborate kicks that most people are familiar with, but it also implements a wide array of hand technique, weapons and throws stripped from the modern sport version of TaeKwonDo. The Olympic Sport form lacking the throws and punches, is no longer a full martial art or a practical means of self-defense. TaeKwonDo has become popular in the sports arena and has been included as an Olympic sport. The sport form takes the emphasis off developing self-control and integrity and puts the focus on earning trophies. We do attend tournaments but they are secondary in importance to traditional training.
Studies show that kids trained in Traditional TaeKwonDo (emphasizing discipline & self-control) showed an increase in self-esteem, lowered aggressiveness, improved social skills, improved values & lowered anxiety.
Kids that studied Sport, or Olympic TaeKwonDo, showed increases in delinquency, higher aggressiveness, lowered self-esteem, lowered values & increased anxiety.
Nosanchuk, T., & MacNeil, M. (1989) Examination of the Effects of Traditional & Modern Martial Arts Training on
Aggressiveness. Aggressive Behavior, 15, 153-159.
Trulson, M. (1986) Martial Arts Training: A Novel Cure for Juvenile Delinquency. Human Relations, 39(2), 1131-1140.