October 3, 2025 • 21 mins
In examining the legacy of H. U. Lee, the episode articulates the philosophical underpinnings of Songham Taekwondo, which emphasize the importance of resilience and community. H. U. Lee's narrative is not merely about personal success; it encapsulates a broader vision that every individual holds the potential to overcome obstacles through diligence and the pursuit of excellence. The formation of the ATA underlines this ethos, creating a platform where martial arts can serve as a transformative force in people's lives. Furthermore, the episode engages with contemporary practitioners who embody H. U. Lee’s principles, showcasing their journeys and aspirations within the martial arts community. The discussion extends beyond the technical aspects of Taekwondo, inviting listeners to reflect on how martial arts cultivate a sense of responsibility and integrity, urging us to contribute positively to society. This episode reinforces the idea that the teachings of H. U. Lee are not confined to the mat; rather, they inspire a movement towards a more respectful and disciplined world.
Takeaways:
- The remarkable journey of H. U. Lee illustrates the power of relentless perseverance amidst adversity.
- Songham Taekwondo symbolizes a philosophy that transcends barriers of language, culture, and physical ability.
- H. U. Lee's vision for global martial arts empowerment continues to inspire millions worldwide.
- The establishment of the American Taekwondo Association marked a significant milestone in martial arts history.
- The annual World Championship showcases the growing influence and popularity of Taekwondo across the globe.
- The values instilled through martial arts, such as respect and discipline, extend beyond the dojo into daily life.
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(00:00):
Foreign.
Many years ago, in the wartorn streets of South Korea, a simple
(00:21):
concept was forged through therelentless vision of one man.
Enduring the hardships ofextreme poverty, this man worked
tirelessly, day and night toactualize the idea that a person
can improve their life andfortune through the discipline of
martial arts.
(00:41):
As he mastered techniquespassed on to him, he and others inspired
to join his vision began todevelop new techniques into a groundbreaking
style known as Songam Taekwondo.
The man was Ang Un Lee.
Encouraged by Richard Reed, ayoung American with whom he had become
(01:04):
close friends, Hu Lee set outacross the ocean.
Upon arriving in the UnitedStates, he encountered more difficulties
such as language and cultural differences.
But the philosophy of SongamTaekwondo is is that any obstacle
can be overcome as long as youcontinue to try.
(01:27):
Songam Taekwondo transcendedall barriers in language, ethnicity,
gender, age and physical ability.
And as the technique continuedto evolve, Hu Lee knew that with
these basic principles,nothing could keep him from sharing
(01:48):
that vision with the world.
The American Taekwondoassociation was born.
Over the years, theorganization would thrive, changing
the lives of over 1 millionpeople across six continents.
(02:08):
Hu Lee brings the Worldchampionship of.
Taekwondo to Little Rock againthis year.
State's largest annualconvention, 25,000 martial arts students
in attendance.
The opening event is becomingso big, they had to move it from
the.
Smaller State House Conventioncenter to the largest indoor.
The biggest convention of theyear is in town.
They're certainly gettingtheir kicks this weekend.
At the 25th annual AmericanTaekwondo World Championship.
(02:30):
TA has held its worldtournament in Little Rock for the
past 28 years.
And each time it gets biggerand better.
I thank you for joining us andsaying Good morning America.
Someday I'll have as manymedals as.
The Grand Master has here.
Master H, you leave.
How do you do?
(02:51):
Thank you.
Each person was touched by HuLee's vision that empowerment through
discipline and confidence willmake you more successful in life.
After his passing in 2000, HuLee was honored with the title of
Eternal Grand Master.
(03:12):
And in the summer of 2007, amonument and garden were erected
for his strength of leadershipin both the ATA and in the community.
The torch of leadership hasbeen passed on to Sun Ho Lee, who
continues to uphold the valuedtraditions while guiding the ATA
(03:33):
into the new millennium andfuture generations.
Born of an ancient traditionin the east and refined to perfection
in America, I proudly presentto you the people who continue to
(03:53):
teach, guide, instruct andinspire us.
Ladies and gentlemen, Songam Taekwondo.
(04:19):
Welcome to episode 170 of the@ata Nation.
We have another awesomeathlete of the week.
With us.
Hey, can you introduce yourself?
Hi guys.
My name is Derek Washington.
I'm a second degree black belt.
Second degree black belt.
(04:40):
Where are you from?
Where are you training?
I am from Aurora, Colorado andI'm still training here at Saddle
Rock ata.
Saddle Rock ata.
Who's the instructor at Saddle Rock?
Jill Cross.
Okay.
Yes.
Excellent.
Very cool.
Yeah.
How.
How's the weather in Coloradoright now?
You know, it's surprisinglypretty hot right now.
(05:01):
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Well, it's still being pretty hot.
Are you.
This is totally not on topicat all, but just because I had some
friends.
Do you ski at all or snowboard?
No, but we haven't yet.
Well, don't break anything.
If you ever go, go try.
So, hey, what got you intomartial arts?
(05:23):
I first started karate, but Ifelt like it wasn't right for me,
so I went to Saddle Rock Atajust to try it and I felt, I don't
know, just being able toprotect myself.
It's amazing.
Yeah.
Excellent.
Very cool.
So, you know, tournaments area thing.
A lot of people do them.
I see a bunch of medalshanging behind you, so it seems like
(05:44):
you might be a tournamentperson also.
What.
What's your favorite event todo at a tournament?
My favorite has to be teamsparring because I just love the
energy that's going on around you.
Very.
Yeah, I'm with you.
The.
The energy of.
There's nothing quite like theenergy of team sparring.
Yeah.
A hundred percent.
(06:04):
So traditional or combat oryou don't care?
Either one.
I like combat more, but I'mstill pretty good at both, so I enjoy.
Have you ever been to theathlete development camp in Little
Rock?
I haven't.
I've always wanted to, but Ihaven't gone yet.
Oh, yeah.
You're gonna have to make plans.
It is.
It is an event.
(06:24):
It is.
I mean.
Yeah.
Talk about energy.
There's a lot of energy at that.
So now if there were an eventat a tournament, I mean, we all love
martial arts.
We think everything is great.
But if there was an event atthe tournament that you were like,
maybe not my favorite, whatwould it be?
I would have to saytraditional forms.
Okay.
(06:45):
Because I'm definitely more ofa sparring and combat type of person.
Very cool.
So, yeah.
You like to hit things?
Oh, yeah.
100 like, it's more fun to hit things.
What about weapons?
Do you do weapons at all?
I haven't, but at our upcomingtournament, November 8th, I'm gonna
do my extreme bow staff.
(07:06):
So I'm pretty cool.
Okay.
Have you have you ever.
Is this your first foray intothe extreme and creative?
Yes, sir.
Oh, how exciting.
And you, you're doing BOStaff, huh?
Yes, sir.
Okay, you're gonna.
And extreme.
You're gonna throw it.
You're getting lots of cooltricks to do.
(07:27):
Say that again.
You got a lot of.
A lot of cool tricks thatyou're going to do with it.
You're going to throw it up.
You're going to catch it.
Exciting.
Okay.
Very cool.
What made you think I'm goingto branch out and try some.
Something new?
I don't know.
I just felt like doingsomething new at a tournament because
I've always been doing thesame stuff for a lot of time, so
(07:48):
I just want to try something new.
Oh, I love that.
I think it's a. I think it's areally smart thing.
You know, try something newevery once in a while.
It's just good for you, youknow, stretches your creativity a
little bit.
Gets you out of your comfort zone.
Very cool.
What kind of goals do you have for.
First of all, for, like,tournaments, do you have any specific
goals for the tournamentseason or competition this year?
(08:12):
Nothing, really.
I just want to get into worldsagain and get that district title
so I can go.
Nice.
Yeah.
So you've got some titles,have you.
You titled in the past?
Yes, sir.
What.
What events have you titled in?
Well, for districts, I'vegotten forms.
(08:32):
Traditional sparring,traditional combat, and also team
sparring in both.
And.
Yeah, very cool.
Very cool.
That's awesome.
State titles also.
Yeah, excellent.
That's.
That's super cool.
What about, like, for just your.
Your martial arts career oryour training as a whole, what kind
of goals do you have for that?
(08:55):
I eventually want to open myown school, so I think if I just,
like, keep practicing andshowing off, I bet I can achieve
that.
Yeah.
Are you in the legacy program?
Yes, sir.
Excellent.
So are you helping in classes,teaching classes, doing some of that
kind of stuff?
What's your.
What's your favorite group?
To.
To help with or to te.
Oh.
(09:15):
So at our school, we have itdivided into ranks, so my favorite
is definitely the highest.
Blue, brown, red.
Okay.
I just feel like their energyis amazing and the way they respond
to things, they just do super good.
That's awesome.
I love that.
It's just neat to, you know,see what other people think about
(09:37):
different events and different things.
What for you, as, you know,somebody was picked as an athlete
of the week.
What's it mean to you to be an athlete?
That goes beyond the belt.
It means to Me being a betterperson on and off the mat.
So even if you're at thegrocery store, you're being respectful
(09:58):
to everyone that's around you.
How have you, you know, andhow many years have you been doing
martial arts?
I forgot to ask.
7.
Now you got to do the math now.
That's the hard part.
Math?
Yeah.
We didn't get into kicking abunch of people to do math.
Seven years.
Okay.
So what kind of things haveyou seen for yourself?
(10:21):
That respect outside of theschool, maybe going beyond the belt
that martial arts has helpedyou with?
Yeah, like being out inpublic, even just like opening doors
for people, that's still super respectful.
So it's also helping your community.
Yes.
And.
And you just don't, you know,I mean, less and less people do that
(10:42):
these days.
You know, they ignoreeverybody walking by or whatever
and just, you know, saying,hi, open the door for somebody.
Super nice.
Going beyond the belt.
I love that.
So what.
Let's say we've.
You've got a kid in your, youknow, in.
In your blue, brown, red beltclass getting a little down about,
(11:02):
know, their training.
Maybe they had some setbacks,maybe no change or, or, you know,
didn't do well at a.
At a tournament, and they seethat you're the athlete of the week,
and they're like, oh, man,that's so cool.
What kind of advice would yougive a kid?
I would just say, like, keeppracticing to achieve your goals,
and that'll definitely get youto a place like I am now.
(11:23):
That's awesome.
I love it.
Well, congratulations on beingone of the athletes of the week.
It's so cool to get to seethese athletes from all over the
country.
You.
You're way out in Colorado, so.
Yeah.
Are you.
Are you heading out to Fall Nationals?
I'm not.
Yeah.
Wanted to.
We were supposed to go lastyear, but we didn't have the time
(11:46):
to.
But what about Springnationals in.
In St. Louis this year?
I can't wait for that.
Last year at Spring Nationals,I got first place in combat sparring,
so I can't.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Cool.
Okay.
Awesome.
Well, thank you again for your time.
I look forward to meeting youhopefully at Spring Nationals and
y.
And good luck with thetournament and the extreme competition.
(12:08):
Thank you.
This is year 2020.
It's already 20 years past oflosing our beloved founder and leader
and my brother, eternalgrandmaster H. Lee.
(12:31):
So I like to share.
One of the stories alwaysstuck with me is that one of the
toughest time that I had in mylife was.
Is that when I was going toKorea, trying to expand Songam Taekwondo
to worldwide.
He wanted Songam Taekwondo tobe practiced all over the world.
(12:55):
And his motto was, as always,today not possible, but tomorrow
possible.
And situation in Korea wasvery tough.
Korea was having some majoreconomic breakdown, which was 1997.
(13:16):
The whole country was almostverge of a bankrupt.
But we decided anyway toexpand Korea.
And I was having a very tough time.
I was traveling two weeksevery month for three years trying
to develop career divisions.
Every month, two weeks.
(13:39):
And you know, imagine thatstaying away from home two weeks
and come back and go backafter that two weeks later.
And yet business is notpicking up as much as we wanted to.
So sometime I come home and Italk to him that how tough it is
and kind of complain a littlebit and how tiring it is and how
(14:05):
tough it is to develop a new market.
And he always says that, youknow, if things that you do is easy,
that everybody would alreadydone it.
That's why we have tochallenge ourselves and believe in
ourselves that we could do itwhen tough time comes like that.
(14:29):
And, you know, so let's try it again.
And he encourages me like that always.
And that always proved to methat he lived up to his motto, today
not possible, tomorrow possible.
Because I just remember thatwhen he come to America, that he
wants to have a Taekwondocareer in the United States was almost
(14:50):
impossible at the time.
You know, having schools in,you know, all of the, you know, the
state was the difficult, youknow, very impossible dream.
And having at schooleverywhere in the United States was
difficult dream.
And having at SongamTaekwondo, all of the world, difficult
dreams.
(15:11):
But he always, regardless howtough time it is, that he always
believed in himself.
He believed in there is anopportunity exist at the same time
when there is a crisis.
And he lived it.
So I truly like to celebratehis belief, his model, the man who
(15:34):
lived it up to his model.
And hopefully that we canshare all of you with the whole world
that throughout this pandemic,that if we can share the same type
of message to whole world andeverybody out there with our not
only Songam Taekwondo family,but whole word, that it could be
(15:57):
some motivation and give someenergy to everyone.
So I'd like to just share thathis story then hopefully that more
of our ATA seniors andinstructors participate on this and
we can have some type ofimpact to this pandemic going on.
(16:17):
And again, thank you everyoneand again, please participate on
this and let's make adifference on something that to the
this world there's so muchnegativity going on, but we can make
something positive.
Thank you very much.
(16:53):
Hey, I wanted to let you knowwe've got one more clip for you and
you've got to wait.
Make sure you watch till thevery end because there's some amazing
out takes from the old wayvideos of eternal Grandmaster H.
Lee and it just shows thishumor which I think is just so much
fun.
So if you are listening on thepodcast, you definitely need to make
(17:13):
sure you check out the YouTube version.
Head over to the ATA MartialArts YouTube page and check it out.
Have a wonderful founders.
My vision of the ATA is tospread traditional Taekwondo throughout
(17:39):
the world.
If we spread this traditional,the world will learn the value of
honesty, integrity, courtesy,respect and discipline.
And this most valuable wordstoday is not possible.
(18:04):
Tomorrow possible.
(19:38):
Oh sorry Sir.
Grandmaster.
Whenever you're ready.
(20:02):
On somebody that's not there.
(20:30):
Yeah.
Hi, I'm ready.
So I got to compete.
(20:55):
This could be supposed to scream.
Oh, I'm supposed to scream gotcha.
Foreign.
Many years ago, in the wartorn streets of South Korea, a simple
(00:21):
concept was forged through therelentless vision of one man.
Enduring the hardships ofextreme poverty, this man worked
tirelessly, day and night toactualize the idea that a person
can improve their life andfortune through the discipline of
martial arts.
(00:41):
As he mastered techniquespassed on to him, he and others inspired
to join his vision began todevelop new techniques into a groundbreaking
style known as Songam Taekwondo.
The man was Ang Un Lee.
Encouraged by Richard Reed, ayoung American with whom he had become
(01:04):
close friends, Hu Lee set outacross the ocean.
Upon arriving in the UnitedStates, he encountered more difficulties
such as language and cultural differences.
But the philosophy of SongamTaekwondo is is that any obstacle
can be overcome as long as youcontinue to try.
(01:27):
Songam Taekwondo transcendedall barriers in language, ethnicity,
gender, age and physical ability.
And as the technique continuedto evolve, Hu Lee knew that with
these basic principles,nothing could keep him from sharing
(01:48):
that vision with the world.
The American Taekwondoassociation was born.
Over the years, theorganization would thrive, changing
the lives of over 1 millionpeople across six continents.
(02:08):
Hu Lee brings the Worldchampionship of.
Taekwondo to Little Rock againthis year.
State's largest annualconvention, 25,000 martial arts students
in attendance.
The opening event is becomingso big, they had to move it from
the.
Smaller State House Conventioncenter to the largest indoor.
The biggest convention of theyear is in town.
They're certainly gettingtheir kicks this weekend.
At the 25th annual AmericanTaekwondo World Championship.
(02:30):
TA has held its worldtournament in Little Rock for the
past 28 years.
And each time it gets biggerand better.
I thank you for joining us andsaying Good morning America.
Someday I'll have as manymedals as.
The Grand Master has here.
Master H, you leave.
How do you do?
(02:51):
Thank you.
Each person was touched by HuLee's vision that empowerment through
discipline and confidence willmake you more successful in life.
After his passing in 2000, HuLee was honored with the title of
Eternal Grand Master.
(03:12):
And in the summer of 2007, amonument and garden were erected
for his strength of leadershipin both the ATA and in the community.
The torch of leadership hasbeen passed on to Sun Ho Lee, who
continues to uphold the valuedtraditions while guiding the ATA
(03:33):
into the new millennium andfuture generations.
Born of an ancient traditionin the east and refined to perfection
in America, I proudly presentto you the people who continue to
(03:53):
teach, guide, instruct andinspire us.
Ladies and gentlemen, Songam Taekwondo.
(04:19):
Welcome to episode 170 of the@ata Nation.
We have another awesomeathlete of the week.
With us.
Hey, can you introduce yourself?
Hi guys.
My name is Derek Washington.
I'm a second degree black belt.
Second degree black belt.
(04:40):
Where are you from?
Where are you training?
I am from Aurora, Colorado andI'm still training here at Saddle
Rock ata.
Saddle Rock ata.
Who's the instructor at Saddle Rock?
Jill Cross.
Okay.
Yes.
Excellent.
Very cool.
Yeah.
How.
How's the weather in Coloradoright now?
You know, it's surprisinglypretty hot right now.
(05:01):
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Well, it's still being pretty hot.
Are you.
This is totally not on topicat all, but just because I had some
friends.
Do you ski at all or snowboard?
No, but we haven't yet.
Well, don't break anything.
If you ever go, go try.
So, hey, what got you intomartial arts?
(05:23):
I first started karate, but Ifelt like it wasn't right for me,
so I went to Saddle Rock Atajust to try it and I felt, I don't
know, just being able toprotect myself.
It's amazing.
Yeah.
Excellent.
Very cool.
So, you know, tournaments area thing.
A lot of people do them.
I see a bunch of medalshanging behind you, so it seems like
(05:44):
you might be a tournamentperson also.
What.
What's your favorite event todo at a tournament?
My favorite has to be teamsparring because I just love the
energy that's going on around you.
Very.
Yeah, I'm with you.
The.
The energy of.
There's nothing quite like theenergy of team sparring.
Yeah.
A hundred percent.
(06:04):
So traditional or combat oryou don't care?
Either one.
I like combat more, but I'mstill pretty good at both, so I enjoy.
Have you ever been to theathlete development camp in Little
Rock?
I haven't.
I've always wanted to, but Ihaven't gone yet.
Oh, yeah.
You're gonna have to make plans.
It is.
It is an event.
(06:24):
It is.
I mean.
Yeah.
Talk about energy.
There's a lot of energy at that.
So now if there were an eventat a tournament, I mean, we all love
martial arts.
We think everything is great.
But if there was an event atthe tournament that you were like,
maybe not my favorite, whatwould it be?
I would have to saytraditional forms.
Okay.
(06:45):
Because I'm definitely more ofa sparring and combat type of person.
Very cool.
So, yeah.
You like to hit things?
Oh, yeah.
100 like, it's more fun to hit things.
What about weapons?
Do you do weapons at all?
I haven't, but at our upcomingtournament, November 8th, I'm gonna
do my extreme bow staff.
(07:06):
So I'm pretty cool.
Okay.
Have you have you ever.
Is this your first foray intothe extreme and creative?
Yes, sir.
Oh, how exciting.
And you, you're doing BOStaff, huh?
Yes, sir.
Okay, you're gonna.
And extreme.
You're gonna throw it.
You're getting lots of cooltricks to do.
(07:27):
Say that again.
You got a lot of.
A lot of cool tricks thatyou're going to do with it.
You're going to throw it up.
You're going to catch it.
Exciting.
Okay.
Very cool.
What made you think I'm goingto branch out and try some.
Something new?
I don't know.
I just felt like doingsomething new at a tournament because
I've always been doing thesame stuff for a lot of time, so
(07:48):
I just want to try something new.
Oh, I love that.
I think it's a. I think it's areally smart thing.
You know, try something newevery once in a while.
It's just good for you, youknow, stretches your creativity a
little bit.
Gets you out of your comfort zone.
Very cool.
What kind of goals do you have for.
First of all, for, like,tournaments, do you have any specific
goals for the tournamentseason or competition this year?
(08:12):
Nothing, really.
I just want to get into worldsagain and get that district title
so I can go.
Nice.
Yeah.
So you've got some titles,have you.
You titled in the past?
Yes, sir.
What.
What events have you titled in?
Well, for districts, I'vegotten forms.
(08:32):
Traditional sparring,traditional combat, and also team
sparring in both.
And.
Yeah, very cool.
Very cool.
That's awesome.
State titles also.
Yeah, excellent.
That's.
That's super cool.
What about, like, for just your.
Your martial arts career oryour training as a whole, what kind
of goals do you have for that?
(08:55):
I eventually want to open myown school, so I think if I just,
like, keep practicing andshowing off, I bet I can achieve
that.
Yeah.
Are you in the legacy program?
Yes, sir.
Excellent.
So are you helping in classes,teaching classes, doing some of that
kind of stuff?
What's your.
What's your favorite group?
To.
To help with or to te.
Oh.
(09:15):
So at our school, we have itdivided into ranks, so my favorite
is definitely the highest.
Blue, brown, red.
Okay.
I just feel like their energyis amazing and the way they respond
to things, they just do super good.
That's awesome.
I love that.
It's just neat to, you know,see what other people think about
(09:37):
different events and different things.
What for you, as, you know,somebody was picked as an athlete
of the week.
What's it mean to you to be an athlete?
That goes beyond the belt.
It means to Me being a betterperson on and off the mat.
So even if you're at thegrocery store, you're being respectful
(09:58):
to everyone that's around you.
How have you, you know, andhow many years have you been doing
martial arts?
I forgot to ask.
7.
Now you got to do the math now.
That's the hard part.
Math?
Yeah.
We didn't get into kicking abunch of people to do math.
Seven years.
Okay.
So what kind of things haveyou seen for yourself?
(10:21):
That respect outside of theschool, maybe going beyond the belt
that martial arts has helpedyou with?
Yeah, like being out inpublic, even just like opening doors
for people, that's still super respectful.
So it's also helping your community.
Yes.
And.
And you just don't, you know,I mean, less and less people do that
(10:42):
these days.
You know, they ignoreeverybody walking by or whatever
and just, you know, saying,hi, open the door for somebody.
Super nice.
Going beyond the belt.
I love that.
So what.
Let's say we've.
You've got a kid in your, youknow, in.
In your blue, brown, red beltclass getting a little down about,
(11:02):
know, their training.
Maybe they had some setbacks,maybe no change or, or, you know,
didn't do well at a.
At a tournament, and they seethat you're the athlete of the week,
and they're like, oh, man,that's so cool.
What kind of advice would yougive a kid?
I would just say, like, keeppracticing to achieve your goals,
and that'll definitely get youto a place like I am now.
(11:23):
That's awesome.
I love it.
Well, congratulations on beingone of the athletes of the week.
It's so cool to get to seethese athletes from all over the
country.
You.
You're way out in Colorado, so.
Yeah.
Are you.
Are you heading out to Fall Nationals?
I'm not.
Yeah.
Wanted to.
We were supposed to go lastyear, but we didn't have the time
(11:46):
to.
But what about Springnationals in.
In St. Louis this year?
I can't wait for that.
Last year at Spring Nationals,I got first place in combat sparring,
so I can't.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Cool.
Okay.
Awesome.
Well, thank you again for your time.
I look forward to meeting youhopefully at Spring Nationals and
y.
And good luck with thetournament and the extreme competition.
(12:08):
Thank you.
This is year 2020.
It's already 20 years past oflosing our beloved founder and leader
and my brother, eternalgrandmaster H. Lee.
(12:31):
So I like to share.
One of the stories alwaysstuck with me is that one of the
toughest time that I had in mylife was.
Is that when I was going toKorea, trying to expand Songam Taekwondo
to worldwide.
He wanted Songam Taekwondo tobe practiced all over the world.
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And his motto was, as always,today not possible, but tomorrow
possible.
And situation in Korea wasvery tough.
Korea was having some majoreconomic breakdown, which was 1997.
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The whole country was almostverge of a bankrupt.
But we decided anyway toexpand Korea.
And I was having a very tough time.
I was traveling two weeksevery month for three years trying
to develop career divisions.
Every month, two weeks.
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And you know, imagine thatstaying away from home two weeks
and come back and go backafter that two weeks later.
And yet business is notpicking up as much as we wanted to.
So sometime I come home and Italk to him that how tough it is
and kind of complain a littlebit and how tiring it is and how
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tough it is to develop a new market.
And he always says that, youknow, if things that you do is easy,
that everybody would alreadydone it.
That's why we have tochallenge ourselves and believe in
ourselves that we could do itwhen tough time comes like that.
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And, you know, so let's try it again.
And he encourages me like that always.
And that always proved to methat he lived up to his motto, today
not possible, tomorrow possible.
Because I just remember thatwhen he come to America, that he
wants to have a Taekwondocareer in the United States was almost
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impossible at the time.
You know, having schools in,you know, all of the, you know, the
state was the difficult, youknow, very impossible dream.
And having at schooleverywhere in the United States was
difficult dream.
And having at SongamTaekwondo, all of the world, difficult
dreams.
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But he always, regardless howtough time it is, that he always
believed in himself.
He believed in there is anopportunity exist at the same time
when there is a crisis.
And he lived it.
So I truly like to celebratehis belief, his model, the man who
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lived it up to his model.
And hopefully that we canshare all of you with the whole world
that throughout this pandemic,that if we can share the same type
of message to whole world andeverybody out there with our not
only Songam Taekwondo family,but whole word, that it could be
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some motivation and give someenergy to everyone.
So I'd like to just share thathis story then hopefully that more
of our ATA seniors andinstructors participate on this and
we can have some type ofimpact to this pandemic going on.
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And again, thank you everyoneand again, please participate on
this and let's make adifference on something that to the
this world there's so muchnegativity going on, but we can make
something positive.
Thank you very much.
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Hey, I wanted to let you knowwe've got one more clip for you and
you've got to wait.
Make sure you watch till thevery end because there's some amazing
out takes from the old wayvideos of eternal Grandmaster H.
Lee and it just shows thishumor which I think is just so much
fun.
So if you are listening on thepodcast, you definitely need to make
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sure you check out the YouTube version.
Head over to the ATA MartialArts YouTube page and check it out.
Have a wonderful founders.
My vision of the ATA is tospread traditional Taekwondo throughout
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the world.
If we spread this traditional,the world will learn the value of
honesty, integrity, courtesy,respect and discipline.
And this most valuable wordstoday is not possible.
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Tomorrow possible.
(19:38):
Oh sorry Sir.
Grandmaster.
Whenever you're ready.
(20:02):
On somebody that's not there.
(20:30):
Yeah.
Hi, I'm ready.
So I got to compete.
(20:55):
This could be supposed to scream.
Oh, I'm supposed to scream gotcha.
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