It is a tradition in Russia to start the new school year with the all Russia Taekwon-Do seminar. And this year was not an exception. This Year we had the honor to invite Master Willy Van De Mortel from Netherlands to conduct the seminar 3-5th October 2014.

We strongly believe that if you want to be the best You must train with the best. If You want to become better you must compete with competitors that are better than You. This is one of the main reasons that we are part of our ITF. Because only here there is this possibility to train with the best and compete with better athletes!

Following this tradition the All Russia Taekwon-Do Federation had the possibility to organize course with such great Grand Masters, Masters and Instructors as: GMasters: Pablo Trajtenberg, William Bos, Hector Marano, Kim Lan Ung, Masters: Tadeusz Łoboda, Jerzy Jedut, Mark Hutton, Vasilis Alexandris or Instructors: Tomaz Barada and Richard Cassidy.

Personally, I believe that if you have no experience of training with such masters, You know nothing about ITF Taekwon-Do!

This year the seminar was conducted by Master Willy Van De Mortel - 8th Degree and was dedicated to the instructors, black belt holders and competitors who participate regularly in the international events. 130 participants from the whole Russia took part in this event.

The seminar was divided into four parts. Each morning and afternoon sessions on Saturday and Sunday lasted 3 hours. Master Willy Van De Mortel shared his priceless knowledge focusing on competition sparing and self defense. Together over 12 hours of seminar classes made a huge impression on all the participants. Everyone agreed that the course was far much better than expected.

The footages from the seminar are available under the following link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4-jISPUZy8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGFmkEVnmVk

The photo gallery can be seen here:
https://www.facebook.com/makarov.kom/media_set?set=a.1546596738892400.1073741863.100006262658782&

Due to the fact that Master Willy Van De Mortel arrived in Moscow on Friday, we had an opportunity to show him the most interesting places of Russia capitol – Moscow.

Master Lazaros Tsilfidis
President
All Russia Taekwon-Do Federation