Photos of Grandmaster C. K. Choi

(Courtesy of him, from interview in 2009)

1) Chang-Keun (C. K.) Choi demonstrates a hooking kick:

2) C. K. Choi with Major Woo Jong Lim (1994):

3) Jumping kick by C. K. Choi:

4) C. K. Choi in Australia in the 1960s:

Photos of Grandmaster Jong-Soo Park

(Courtesy of Park.)

2) Grandmaster Park was my Taekwon-Do instructor for many years. Park could leap from a standing position into a jumping kick at head level. He was always telling us that we shouldn't telegraph our techniques, including the difficult jumping techniques. This photo is from the 1960s:

2) With a jumping front kick, Grandmaster Park Jong-Soo broke boards nine feet in the air (1976):

Photos of General Choi Hong-Hi

(Photos are courtesy of him, from my interviews with him in 2001)

1) General Choi blocks kicks from his son, Jung-Hwa Choi (on the right) and Park Jung-Taek, my first intructor (on the left):

2) Choi demonstrates Taekwon-Do with the help of Phap Lu (1990s):

3) Choi Hong-Hi with Kim Jong-Il, North Korea's leader (1990s):

4) In North Korea, Choi Hong-Hi (fourth from the left) reunited with family in 1980:

5) Choi Hong-Hi (fifth from left) with Masutatsu Oyama (with the wreath) and officials (around 1967):

6) Choi was 33 years old when he became a general (around 1952):

7) Below, Choi Hong-Hi just before WWII, around 1939 (he stands fifth from the left, in the third row from the bottom):

8) Choi (middle of top row) before WWII (around 1939):

9) Choi Hong-Hi is on the left (as a teenager, around 1937):