Essay Library
The ITFNZ Essay library contains a selection of the essays and theses
written by black belts since 1990 as a requirement for gradings. For
more ideas on topics to choose from click
here
Latest Essays: (2009)
 Tips for Grading Preparation
- Lousie Chan
On Taekwon-Do in New Zealand and Community Service
- Ben Wylie-van Eerd
Meditation for the Martial Artists
- Stephen Pallant
Games your students will enjoy
- Peter Chapman
ITFNZ Techniques Handbook Expanded
- George Koni
How to Raise Money for Taekwon-Do through Sponsorship
- Carl Matthews
So, you want some money for your Taekwon-Do club
- David Lo
Juche & Ko-Dang - A brief History
- Helen Miller
The Importance of Respect in Taekwon-Do
- Jeremy Hanna
The
Laughing Polcieman
- Shaun Skedwell
Sport or Martial Art
- Christine Young
Taekwon-Do Patterns and Sparring as a Form of Self-Defence
By Mark Hanna II Dan
Do You Want To Know A Secret?
- Gary Campbell
The Power of One
- Greg Dyson
Competition Power Breaking
- Rene Kunz
The not so secret training methods of John Matsuoka
- John Matsuoka
Taekwon-Do
Under Fire
- Ali Gul Ali
TKD
Motivation – Keeping on, Keeping on…
- Philip Dunn
The
Bond between Instructor and Student
- Richard Iotua
TKD
Motivation – Keeping on, Keeping on…
- Philip Dunn
Admiral
Yi Soon-Sin
- Alisdair Hamblyn
Umpires
Sparring Manual
- Bruce Harrison
Beginner's
guide to tournaments
- Darren Andrews
Managing the Books
- Barbara Inglis
 Taekwon-Do
Club Structure [Example
of Letter for tax exception]
- Kris Herbison
What makes
for a successful Taekwon-Do Club
- Gwyn Brown
Starting
and running your own club
- George Konia
Performing Demonstrations
- Daniel Jackson
SIBUM The Knowledge and Advantages
of the Taekwon-Do Demonstration
- Steve McQuillan
The Auckland Demonstration
Team
- Amanda Insull
Gradings
Are you ready for black???
- Glenis Gummer
Basic Hints
for the White Belt Syllabus
- Arthur Atutahi
Fitness Test
- Evan Impson
How do Gradings Measure
up?
- Christine Young
ITFNZ Grading
Syllabus
- Neill Livingstone
Leaping
the Hurdle - overcoming the transition from junior to senior
- Anna Hall
Marshalling
- An essential skill required by all ITFNZ Black Belts
- Rebecca Doogan
Preparation
for Black Belt Grading
- Suzzane Main
Tips for Grading Preparation
- Lousie Chan
Essay for 2nd Dan
Black Belt
- Kelvin Lange
Junior's Growth
- Mark Trotter
ITFNZ - Past, Present
And Future
- Peter Graham
Improving
ITFNZ for Juniors in Taekwon-Do
- Mark Trotter
Japan International
Taekwon-Do Federation - the history, management and training style
- Kosuke Yamamoto
My
Personal Journey with Martial Arts
- John Matsuoka
Memories of Taekwon-Do
- Hong Looi
Nam Wah Pai Kung Fu and beginning
Taekwon-Do as a black belt
- Devon Pittman
On Taekwon-Do in New Zealand and Community Service
- Ben Wylie-van Eerd
Ramblings of an
instructor
- Kyle Flood
Sexual Harassment
Policy
- Luke Thompson
The Laughing Polcieman
- Shaun Skedwell
Taekwon-Do
as a stress relief, coping strategy
- Rodney Thistoll
Taekwon
Do, Me and the Thrill of a Challenge
- Nikki Galpin
The Pressures
of Taekwon-Do
- Ross Campbell
Why People Join Taekwon-Do
- Toni Moki
A Different View on Health
and Performance for the TKD Practitioner
- Cameron Snelling
Conditioning and Strength
Training
- Ross Campbell
Dehydration in Taekwon-Do
- Grant Evans
Exercise
Without Injury
- Graeme Insull
Meditation for the Martial Artists
- Stephen Pallant
Nothing
Can be Compared to Good Health
- Ian Campbell
Pain
- Grant Evans
Stretch-Shorten
Cycle
- Russell Stuart
Taekwon-Do
as a stress relief, coping strategy
- Rodney Thistol
Yoga,
flexibility and Taekwon-Do
- Cameron Snelling
Admiral
Yi Soon-Sin
- Alisdair Hamblyn
A Plain English explanation of the
ITF Student Oath (with help from Calvin and Hobbes
- Grant Eccles
History of Mt Albert
Taekwon-Do 1998 - 2001
- Francis Fong
History of Southern
Clubs
- Kris Herbison
Korean Culture,
An Overview
- Mahesh Bhana
Reaction Force
- Matthew Bates
Taekwon-Do in Literature
- Haydn Cain
The
Korean Language
- Andrew Niven
Translation
of the Chang Hon pattern set into Taekwon-Do terminology in Korean,
including an English-Korean/Korean-English Taekwon-Do dictionary
- Mark Banicevich
The History
and Development of Taekwon-Do
- Krishna Reddy
What the heck is Neo-Confucianism?
- Sean Maguire
Are
we protected?
- Lena Walton
Childrens'
Motivation and Reward Programme
- Brett Kraiger
Competency and Learning in Taekwon-Do
- Brett Kraiger
Games your students will enjoy
- Peter Chapman
Instructing a Class
- James Rimmer
ITFNZ Techniques Handbook Expanded
- George Konia
My Experience
with Children and Taekwon-Do
- Rose Cherrington
Role Taekwon-Do Plays in Young Learners
- Peter Laio
So You Want To Start A Club
- Peter Graham
Significance of Social Interactions
Among Club Members
- Lawrence Mantjika
Teaching
the art of Self Defence
- Ryan van Heerden
The
Bond between Instructor and Student
- Richard Iotua
Training Children
- Arthur Atutahi
Ways
to make training more fun
- Ian Walton
Advertising Design
and Taekwon-Do [excerpt only]
- James Buchan
How to
create a massive Taekwon-Do School
- Hayden Breese
How to Raise Money for Taekwon-Do through Sponsorship
- Carl Matthews
Marketing your Taekwon-Do Club
- David Ballard
Maintaining a
WebSite
- Gray Patterson
Participation
Motivation in ITFNZ Taekwon-Do
- Hayden Breese
Retention of Taekwon-Do Students
- Craig Evans
So, you want some money for your Taekwon-Do club
- David Lo
Females
in Taekwon-Do
- Kirsten Lingstone
From one Black
Belt to Another
- Murray Smith
How did Taekwon-Do influence your
life
- Marlene Lee
Mind Power In Taekwon-Do Training.
- Ms Christine Young
My
Pregnancy and Taekwon-Do
- Kirsten Livingstone
My Story so far
- Wayne Ebert
My Taekwon-Do Career - by Max Hana
- Beryl Pimblott
Taekwon-Do
as a "Way of Life" during the formative years
- Anthea Markstein
Taekwon-Do
Under Fire
- Ali Gul Ali
The
Mountains we Climb [Some
of the slides used from a Powerpoint Presentation]
- Kane Raukura
The Psychology of Success
- Sean Carver
Organising your
first Seminar
- Nathan McKendrick
ITFNZ
Camp Toolkit
- Melina Wilcox
An
Artistic Interpretation of the Patterns
- Matthew Breen
Children
- Attitudes and their life
- By Helen Kettings
"Do" in Taekwon-Do
- Rene Kunz
I
shall Build a More Peaceful World
- Dave Ballard
Loyalty Those
testing for 4th and 5th dan in February 2007 were asked to write on
the subject of loyality. These are their essays.
- Dave Ballard, Lawrence
Mantjika, Ian Campbell,
Shaun Tolley, Hayden
Breese, Cameron
Snelling, Mark Trotter and Gwyn
Brown.
Philosophy
and Principles of 3 Martial Arts
- Suzanne Main
Societies
View of a Martial Artist - A Personnel Approach
- By Rodney Thistoll
The Juche idea
- Beryl Pimblott
Juche & Ko-Dang - A brief History
- Helen Miller
The Five Tenets
- the soul of Taekwon-Do
- Bob Markstein
Taekwon-Do
: Sport, Art, Science or Philosophy?
The Importance of Respect in Taekwon-Do
- Jeremy Hanna
Sport or Martial Art
- Christine Young
Sport vs Art
- Toni Moki
The way
- By Neil Kettings
Self Defence
Dallyon:
Conditioning for Self Defence
- Richard Lavin
A Guide to the ITFNZ Self Defence Syllabus
- Chris Fitzgerald
Effective
Self Defence
- Graeme Insull
Taekwon-Do and the Law of New Zealand
- Mark Banicevich
Taekwon-Do Patterns and Sparring as a Form of Self-Defence
By Mark Hanna II Dan
Taekwon-Do Self Defence and the Law
- Graeme Flemming
A Discussion of Commonly Misunderstood and Misused
Terminology
- Matthew Breen
Biomechanics To Improve Taekwon-Do
Technique
- Danny Ward
Do You Want To Know A Secret?
- Gary Campbell
Jumping Kicks
- Daniel Russell
Kinematics
and kinetics of the Taekwon-Do turning kick
- Jake Pearson
Side
kick Thesis
- Ian Campbell
Strategies of Attack
and Defence
- Lawrence Mantijika
Students
Guide to Sinewave
- Shaun Tolley
Taekwon-Do Breaking
- Mike Horsfall
The Power of One
- Greg Dyson
Beginner's
guide to tournaments
- Darren Andrews
Competition Power Breaking
- Rene Kunz
Compento
del Mundo
- Ry Goldsmith
Guide
for Umpires
- Darren Ward
How to Coach a Winning Team
- Grant Eccles
My Experience of the National Tournament
2003 in Dunedin
- Jonathon Ormsby
Psychological
Skills Training for Taekwon-Do Competition
- Jake Pearson
Success of International
Competition
- Darren Ward
Tips for the Novice
Coach
- Duncan Head
Tournament
Sparring
- Shane Eade
Tournament Sparring for the Beginner
- Shaun Tolley
Tournament Sparring Profiles
- Chris Fitzgerald
Training for
an Overseas Event
- Gemma Walton
Basic Foot Destructions
- Jeanette Joe
Balancing
to Perfection
- Gwyn Brown
Circle
of Composition of Taekwon-Do
- Matthew Allan
Plyometrics
- Michael Muleta
The Physiological
Effects of High Altitude on the Human Body
- Grant Eccles
The not so secret training methods of John Matsuoka
- John Matsuoka
Training For Your Black Belt - Student
Guide
- Mahesh Bhana
Warming Up And Warming Down
- Shau Lai |
