Discipline, respect and a big sense of humour, it's the best way to describe Juan Carlos Cromfors. He is a taekwondo coach and he started Husum Taekwondo Club three years ago. Today the club has 15 active members.
He think that this sport is very good because it's so versatile, it gives physical strength and litheness your body at the same time as it's gives harmony and balance in your soul. Faith, hope and love, that is taekwondo Carlos describes taekwondo with three words: faith, hope and love. The faith stands for believing in your self. Hope stands for having a goal to reach and to develop. Love stands for fellowship and the feeling for the sport, a kind of love-hate to suffer when you torture your self on training sessions three times a week and do your utmost. Before Carlos started practising taekwondo he thought he could do “everything”. He was a young rascal and didn't have respect for others. Today he is a good five-kid-father and all of his kids practise taekwondo with success. Carlos favourite technique is called yop-shagi. It means side-kick and should rather be in waist-height. Then he shows me how to do this kick. He gives me a plasterboard which he crushes in my face-height. The world taekwondo federation is opposed to people who are not serious and connect and abuse the name of taekwondo in relation to street violence. The ones who do, get suspended and can not practise taekwondo anymore. Does taekwondo affect the street violence? - If so, in what way?
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