I have been training in the Martial Arts for well over 20 years now. I trained directly under Grandmaster Yi, in Austin Texas, for 7 years before I moved to Seattle in 1990. My training in Austin evolved to the point I was teaching classes six days a week. When I moved to Seattle I started a Tukong Moosul club at the Wallingford Boys & Girls Club that I ran for 4 years. Then I opened a part time school at the Phinney NeighborhoodCenter. I opened a full-time Tukong Moosul Do-Jang on May 1st of 1995 in Seattle. I have been teaching Tukong Moosul for over 12 years. I closed my Seattle Do-Jang and moved to Albuquerque where I earned my Master of Science in Oriental Medicine Degree at Southwest Acupuncture College.
I have been moving around a bit since graduation. I am now living in Tucson Arizona and I am missing my training. I am teaching IP Son the Tukong Moosul verison of Tai Qi one day a week and will be picking up a second class in June. I hope to be starting a TUKONG MOOSUL class this fall. If you are interested, contact me. Thanks.
As far as my martial education I would say I was taught in a traditional Korean Do-Jang and I strive to keep the balance between the time honored traditions and what is appropriate in current times.
I plan on creating a time and space in my life to continue to teach Tukong Moosul. I always enjoy a lot of pleasure from teaching and I always learn from every one of my students. I trust that if it is appropriate for me, at this time in my life, to return to teaching it will happen. I have put that intention out, but without attachment.
My intention would be to create a training environment that any person interested in pursuing Martial Arts training will feel welcome in. I believe training should be a combination of physical and philosophical elements. As I continue my education and experience in Traditional Chinese Medicine and Herbology I plan on incorporating this into my teaching, as appropriate. I want to reunite the martial with the healing arts.
Tukong Moosul incorporates both "hard" and "soft" movements, joint locks, weapons training, weapons defense training, throws, grappling, and Ip-Sun, a Korean version of T'ai Chi'; it is through these applications that I seek to find balance and harmony.