What's New on Leadership NOW
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Health and Fitness through Martial Arts
Grand Master In Ho Lee & ATA promote Physical Fitness through Martial Arts taking the President's Challenge
Grand Master is taking the challenge – personally and literally. He is a passionate advocate for daily exercise and balanced nutrition. Now he's inviting everyone to learn why Martial Arts training is one of America's most fun and most effective ways to get and stay healthy and fit.
Learn how to "Move It-Log It-Earn It" with ATA (PDF).
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Learning the Ways of Leadership
by Senior Master William Wacholz
Key fundamentals form the basis of any approach to leadership. Leaders need to constantly hone their skills through training, observation, and following the skills of great leaders. The starting point is always self-discipline.
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Leadership Profiles: Chris Jorgenson
A Statement of What I'm Gaining from Taekwondo
Invited by her ATA Instructor to earn a Presidential Active Lifestyle Award (PALA), a mother of four and color belt trainee perseveres to become one of ATA's first Presidential Champion Gold Medal Winners. In her own humble words this is her story.
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Grand Master invites you to JOIN HIM in taking the President's Challenge with ATA Leadership NOW
Songahm Taekwondo Masters, school/club owners, instructors, staff, students, parents and the general public are cordially invited to join newly-inaugurated Grand Master In Ho Lee, 9th Degree Black Belt, Dae Sah Boo Nim of WTTU/ATA/STF, in taking the President's Challenge, the high-profile national fitness campaign that rewards kids and adults for being active.
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A Life of Service Well-Lead
Songahm Taekwondo Grand Master Soon Ho Lee Reflects on a Remarkable Career, Plans Active Retirement
Martial arts history is being made in the largest centrally-administered martial arts organization in the world, the American Taekwondo Association (ATA), founded in 1969 and based in Little Rock, Arkansas, since 1977. The power and glory of the international association's top position - and its awesome responsibilities - will soon be passed from one capable leader to another.
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ATA versus Bullies
Teaming up to stamp out bullying in schools and beyond
The Journal of the American Medical Association estimates that one-third of school-aged children in the United States are affected by bullying every year, as a target, as one who bullies or as both. Often, however, the effects of bullying are grossly underestimated.
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School Owner Profiles: Master Nominee Travis Dillow
ATA's Teaching Methods, Movements and Philosophy Benefit Children with Autism
Effective leaders generally multiply their power by joining or recruiting competent, like-minded people to handle more tasks. Connecting with passionate, qualified people is often a challenge, but when a champion emerges for a certain cause, people with "the right stuff" will rally to him or her and contribute in diverse ways. This is the story of Ms. Barbie Lauver, Master Leland Brandon, 6DB, and Master Nominee Mr. Travis Dillow, 6DB, three motivated educators whose combined efforts are dramatically improving the lives of autistic children and their families in Nevada.
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Nine Ways to Combat Bullying
How to prevent bullying before it starts, and what to do when it occurs.
Bullying happens in nearly every school to kids of all ages. With research from leading bullying prevention specialists at the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program (OBPP), ATA has created its own Bullying Prevention Program through which students learn to stand up for themselves, deflect bullying attacks and stop bullying before it starts. Read on for nine (9) tips that kids, parents and teachers can use to combat bullying in school and beyond.
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ATA's Bullying Prevention Classes are making Leaders for Life in Champaign, IL
A few hundred kids now have increased their confidence through verbal and physical skills designed to combat bullying, thanks to the Olweus Bullying Prevention seminars hosted by Newberry's ATA Black Belt Academy. While these seminars focus on self-defense tactics designed to prevent bullying, very little actually involves karate chops and fierce yelling. Powerful mental skills are also practiced, teaching kids how to react to different bullying situations and how to avoid possible confrontations before they get physical. Master Newberry encourages her students to share these effective skills and teach others how to be safe in the community. That's Leadership NOW! Watch the video or read the story for "Standing Up to Bullies" (02.13.11/ WCIA3 News, Champaign). Thanks for the great work, instructors of Leaders for Life Martial Arts!
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School Owner Profiles: Master Jordan Schreiber
Helping Others Lead Better Lives is a Family Tradition Merged with Traditional Taekwondo
It's no wonder that Master Schreiber's ATA Martial Arts in Martinez, California, was voted "Best Martial Arts School in the Bay Area" (2009, 2010) by readers of the San Francisco Chronicle, or that the man himself was named "Best Citizen in the East Bay" (2007) by East Bay Express.
