Lee's Taekwondo Academy

Quick Kukkiwon trip for Hanmadang..

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Sorry a few weeks late! Quick trip to Korea for Hanmadang at Kukkiwon.. sorry they’re not great photos or videos.. there was so much going on! Great to catch up with MDK Family including interesting subway rides home! I was going to write an article, but I’m still processing the whole event and experience. Thanks to the Ross and Carmela Hartnett, and Dongmin Cha for their leadership and support, and great to meet the rest of the Australian Team. We might be back next year!

Congratulations to everybody that graded this week, Thursday at Parafield Gardens and Saturday in the City.

Technique is looking sharper as we’ve been focussing on that the last year.

Congratulations to Thomas for achieving his Cho Dan Bo!

(I forgot to take photos at Parafield!)

LEETKD 10 Main Points

Number 5.
Switch Stance
Once enemy intent has been verified and analysed:

Switch Stance from Defensive to Offensive internally while externallly projecting a Defensive Aura. Include feints and information noise to confuse and misdirect if necessary.

In this way your enemies do not see the hidden attacks and traps before they have already been executed. By the time they realise what is happening it has already happened.

The best outcome is if they do not even know they have been defeated, as now they exist in an illusory reality constrained by their own minds and can be easily dealt with, with no karmic redistribution. This is not always possible but is the directional intent of this process.

I have been restructuring LEETKD systems over the last few years.

One of those things is updating the 10 Main Points, as I think they can be improved. Here is partial draft:

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8. To be Underestimated can be turned into a Tactical Decision

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If you find that you are being underestimated (whether by intention or circumstance), rather than reacting against this actively, you can turn this into a tactical move.

People who have false confidence tend to work within a hierachical pyramidal system, where they are on one level, and are trying to get to the above levels. they look down on people who they feel are on the level below. This leaves a huge gap for you to maneuver inside. The larger the ego the greater the gap actually.

Now internally they believe that to climb the pyramid steps means they are smarter/stronger/etc that those below them.

Therefore their blind spot is believing that those below them could not possibly be smarter than them (otherwise they would also be on the same or higher level logically in their mind).

However those connected to Source understand that reality is fractal and distributed, not pyramidal unless explicitly created to be so.

A result of this imbalanced view of reality is that by staying quiet and watching, that blindness perspective can be transmuted into a system of camouflage for you.

But you have to align your ego and stay focussd on the larger strategic objectives. This requires internal balance and clarity, so it's self correcting if you are paying attention.

This can all be unpacked exponentially but that is a start.

TWL
LEETKD

Congratulations Master Reza and Total Taekwondo for putting on another great event!

Thank you for inviting us and next year we will be more organised and have more athletes (my fault 😂) ..

Congratulations
TEAM LEETKD

FIGHTING!

Vale Chuck Norris
(March 10, 1940 – March 19, 2026)

Blog Post> https://leetkd.com.au/1008-2/

Most people these days, especially those born after the 1990's know of US Movie and TV star Chuck Norris mainly as the focus of a series of mimetic jokes centred around his superhuman strength and martial arts prowess.

Those of us who are a bit older remember his tv series Texas, Walker Ranger, and his action movies throughout the 70's and 80's, starting with the classic fight against Bruce Lee in the Colosseum from Way of the Dragon (1972).

What very few people would know though, is that despite his fame in the world of movies (and memes!), he was actually a very accomplished and skilled martial arts practitioner.

As a US Airman in 1958, he was stationed at Osan Air Base, in South Korea, where he learnt Tangsoodo, a precursor to modern Taekwondo, and an family branch of Moodukkwan (which we identify with).

Because of this TSD/MDK link, his Head Instructor (who later emigrated to the US), and Grand Master Lee’s original Head Instructor in Korea, belonged to the same training/learning group under MDK founder Hwang Kee.

Which is how Chuck Norris came to tour his movies to Australia twice in the late 70’s/early 80’s, visiting Lee’s Taekwondo Academy and eating Mrs Lee’s Korean beef BBQ in our Linden Park back garden.



He participated in demonstrations while is Adelaide, and visited our Dojang (training centre) to meet our students.

I remember him being very kind and humble, exactly opposite what you might think movie star might have been.

I know in his later life he may have developed some controversial views, However I can only speak to what I experienced and I this is how I prefer to remember him for now ..

Thank you Chuck Norris for your influence and advancement of Martial Arts to the world.

Vale
The Lee Family
Adelaide, South Australia
19 Mar 2026

The Lee Family would like to extend our condolences to the Whiteway Family on the passing of Alan Whiteway, founder of Whiteway's Taekwondo and first Australian student of Grand Master Choon B**g Lee in Adelaide in 1971.

A big personality within a quiet exterior, Alan was a stalwart ambassador for Taekwondo in Australia and even on the world stage, having competed and medalled in the 1974 Asian championships in Seoul, Korea, coached by Master Lee.

A veteran of the Vietnam War, Alan was always a steadfast support and approached everyone with unconditional friendship and camaraderie.

Alan was an important part of the early days of Lee's Taekwondo and with Master Lee's blessings formed his own club, Whiteway's Taekwondo. Today this is run by his son Shane, who continues Alan's legacy in the same spirit and making his own mark in the Australian Taekwondo community.

We extend our love and thoughts to the Whiteway family, and know that he would want us to move through life with quiet strength and find what is truly important in the time we have left.

Vale Alan.

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Lee's Taekwondo Academy
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