Tae Kwon Do

Taekwondo, martial arts combat with hands and feet, has its origin as well as all Korean martial arts in Soo Bak and Tae Kyon.

An important feature of Tae kwon do is the high degree of use of leg techniques (65%) and techniques of MANPADS (35%) which make it effective and powerful tool for the development of any combat.


Meaning of Taekwondo


    * TAE = Kick, kick
    * KWON = Hit with hand
    * DO = Way or method


    * TAEKWONDO = Way of the fist and the kick


White Belt

The white color symbolizes purity and innocence. To learn and thus make progress, the student's intentions should be pure and innocent, his mind must be "white", receptive, willing to learn and therefore, free from prejudice, only then can truly understand and thorough the philosophy that should accompany the physical skill.


Yellow Belt

The yellow color symbolizes the seed and the land that gives shelter and nutrition, allowing roots to grow obtaining sufficient support for the plant to be developed to aspire to become in time and effort, in a bush and then a leafy tree with its branches ever tried to rise to greater heights in search of a sky that will never achieve.

The practitioner "Yellow Ribbon" is, like the seed and the land, the promise of further development, a potential to be either prosecuted, care and paid in due time be rewarded with a flower and fruit let the process play again from the beginning, for the preservation and proliferation of these fruits.

The assimilation of the concepts and basic techniques of Tae Kwon Do by students at this stage, are the roots of which determine the quality of the practitioner "Black Belt" that it will emerge.


Green Belt

Pitches after the first roots, the stem of the plant and land drilling she emerges with the foliage tinged green foliage that will be able to carry out a biological phenomenon called photosynthesis wonderful that after all is the vital energy plant to grow and complete its destiny someday bear fruit.

The green ribbon represents the practitioner of Tae Kwon Do at this stage of full development of their core competencies, by which time their bases, the roots are strong enough so that if your environment is favorable, it becomes a strong and robust tree capable of withstanding strong winds and fierce storms that life throws at you, that is, the practitioner is an individual capable and strong character.



Blue Belt

Now the tree has a new goal that is growing every day, you can achieve as their roots and the trunk have the necessary strength and when you try to get their arms closer the infinite blue sky.

The practitioner of Tae Kwon Do is in your blue ribbon, its desire to achieve perfection every day renewing their efforts.



Red Belt

With the development of the foliage of the tree starts flowering stage and in these flowers must conjoined with the pistil pollen for fertilization takes place and each flower is born a fruit that is the hope of preserving biological tree. Similarly, in the flourishing of the practitioner of Tae Kwon Do, represented by brown ribbons (Young Flower) and red (mature flower) should be together in this stage, a technique well-developed physical skills (the pistil) with mental and spiritual maturity (pollen), which will fertilize the successful physical abilities to be used productively and thus achieve a result which will provide a new element to scatter the new seeds that emanate from any future result day.

The red ribbon and brown are also a sign of alarm, warning of danger for the practitioner then come to a considerable degree of physical efficiency, and constant practice that has strengthened his body and has a certain mastery of the art of Tae Kwon Do, now has power, speed, impact and skill in their movements, however, it is possible that the spiritual and mental aspect is not present or is immature: if you still need to understand the true meaning of discipline they practice, the value, respect, humility etc. That flower is not fertilized and thus the fruit will be spoiled. Thus, the red color symbolizes the reminder that risk.


Black Belt

Physics tells us that white is the result of the complete absence of color and the opposite result is the black color of the absorption of all wavelengths of light on the surface of a body. We could say that as a practitioner "White Ribbon" is meaningless in light of the knowledge, the practitioner "black belt" has attained a surface sweating and you're back in the starting point for the path of knowledge in the discipline Tae Kwon Do.

The journey time between the "white ribbon and" Black Belt "is only a process of preparation of the practitioner of Tae Kwon Do, but to get to" Black Belt "is able to start down the path to learn to enjoy it. The "black belt" is also a symbol of skill and maturity, obtaining the degree with the same practitioner and to the society in which they live, learning to accept and assume this responsibility always go together, are inseparable.

In conclusion it is very important to emphasize that the practice of Tae Kwon Do, the goal should be to the tape simply because it bears a degree, but have understood the values that represent the tapes and try to be harmonious personal development tape that slide.