Tae Kwon Do - A martial art for the family
Back in June 2015, I attended a Father's Day practice with both of my sons at Just For Kicks in Mandeville, LA. Both had started at JFK a year earlier and were working through the Tiny Tiger program. Master Beaujeaux, who owned the school and was the Chief Instructor, taught the Father's Day Tae Kwon Do ATA Class. During the class he stated that Tae Kwon Do is one of the few martial arts that you can do with your kids. This really resonated with me and I began to contemplate starting back into karate. I had previous trained with the ATA back in the 1980s, but eventually left for other Martial Arts. I had enjoyed the philosophy and training in Aikido while I was in Dallas, TX, and was not sure my body could physically handle getting back into Tae Kwon Do. My sister, Master Hoover-Houston, who had originally started JFK in the 1990s, but had left to work in the Orlando area, returned to Louisiana and opened up JFK Covington in 2015. I decided to start training again but thi...