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Chung Do Kwan means the Pure Way, or the Blue Way School. This style of
Martial Arts was founded and established by Won Kuk Lee in 1944. Lee began
his martial arts career by earning a Black Belt in Shotokan karate under Guchin
Funakoshi in Japan. Lee traveled all over the Orient learning martial arts
techniques and studying the arts, history and philosophy.
In 1944 Lee returned to Korea and opened the first school of Chung Do Kwan.
During this time, because of street gang fighting and fear of violence, the
Japanese government refused to give him permission to open a school there.
A few years later, Tae Kwon Do was brought up to pay tribute to all classical
Korean styles of Tae Kyon. After WWII, in Korea, martial arts had a bad
reputation. So Master Lee only allowed students of the HIGHEST character to
join Chung Do Kwan. Therefore, the training was extremely strict and disciplined.
Master Lee at this time began training a young boxer by the name of Duk Sung
Son, now known as Grandmaster Son. In 1963 Grandmaster Son and some other
Chung Do Kwan Masters relocated to the United States. In 1966 Grandmaster
Son united the Chung Do Kwan Masters under the World Tae Kwon Do
Association.
Grandmaster Son is recognized as one of the top martial arts Masters in the
world. It is exciting to know that our instructors can trace their martial arts
education directly back to Grandmaster Son, and even further back to
Grandmaster Won Kuk Lee.