| Blue Cottage Taekwon-Do Newsletter |
www.bluecottagetkd.com ~ Issue 3 ~ Volume 1 ~ January 2, 2007
Blue Cottage Taekwon-Do sincerely hopes each and everyone of you had a great Holiday Season! Schools don't forget to submit your activities, promotions and pictures for us to post on-site and in the newsletter. Also we have the Links section to post your website on. One of the purposes of Blue Cottage Taekwon-Do is to promote the Art and the schools at no cost to anyone. Keep your eye on the site since changes are taking place all the time. You will still be notified by Email of the significant changes and additions to the site. DO-SAN Pattern Meaning DO-SAN is the pseudonym of the patriot Ahn Chang-Ho (1876-1938) The 24 movements represent his entire life which he devoted to furthering the education of Korea and its independence movement. Pattern Diagram Movements – 24 Ready Posture - PARALLEL READY STANCE |
| Dosan was born in the Island of Bong-sang-do (a.k.a. Dorong Island), Chil-ri, Chori-myon, Gangseo-gun, South Pyongahn-do on November 9, 1878, as the third son of Ahn Heung-kuk, who was a farmer. He began to learn Chinese classics when he was nine years old and also studied Confucianism under the tuition of Kim Hyeon-jin, a Confucius scholar, from when he was fourteen years old until sixteen. In 1894, when the Far East was drawn into the vortex of the Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895), Dosan came to realize how weak and vulnerable to outside forces his own nation was and resolved that he would dedicated his whole life to his nation and his compatriots. The painful realization of his country's powerlessness was transformed into Dosan's personal determination to empower himself by learning about the world outside his immediate surroundings. In 1895, when he was seventeen years old, Dosan entered Guse hakdang or "Miller's School" and graduated two years later. Then in 1898, he participated together with Phil Dae-uen in establishing the Pyeongyang branch of the Korean independence association(Doklibhyubhoe) On July 25 (by the lunar calendar) of the same year, he criticized irregularities and corruption of the government and corrupt public officials and called for reforms in his speech during a special lecture in commemoration of the birth of the Emperor Kwang-mu of Daehan Empire (the name of Korea in those days under the Japanese colonial rule) at Kwaejaetjeong in Pyeongyang. |
| He thereafter joined the Manmin Kongdonghwoe (People's Cooperation Assembly), an affiliated organization of the Korean independence association and criticized government policies and urged the need for solidarity of the whole people. After the Korean independence association was disbanded, Dosan returned home and established a school in his hometown the Cheomjin School, or Gradual Progress School, the first modern and co-educational private school ever established by a Korean. The name of the school seemed to reflect his political philosophy of evolutionary social changes through education. Quote Of The Month “ Do not lie, even for jokes. Regret losing honesty and integrity if so even in dreams.” Ahn Chang-Ho Events Dragon Star Martial Arts Promotional Testing January 4, 2007 Test 1 @ 6:00 - 7:00 p.m. 9th to 8th Gup Test 2 @ 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. Adult Gups 9th - 2nd Gup January 5, 2007 Test 3 @ 6:00 - 7:00 p.m. 9th Gups Test 2 @ 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. 6th - 5th Gup January 12, 2007 Test 5 @ 6:00 - 7:00 p.m. 7th - 1st Gup |
