Totally Tae Kwon Do Magazine

Master Doug Cook
Special Edition - Vol. 2
230 Pages

The Heart Of Taekwondo
Cultivating and Maintaining Black Belts
Love Lost
The Demon Of Self Doubt
The Donkey
Training With Grandmaster Kyu Hyun Lee In the Home of Taekwondo
Mission Mexico: Grandmaster Richard Chun Taekwondo Mexico Seminar
The Profound Value of the Black Belt
Ritual Self-Defense Practice
What’s With All The Korean Stuff?
Mission Korea - A Martial Pilgrimage to the Homeland of Taekwondo
Ploughing A Deep Furrow
The Serendipity of Change
In the Shadow of a Grandmaster
The Dictators
Someone’s Gotta Do it!
Adult Participation in Taekwondo - An Uphill Climb
The Calling
Not-So-Secret Formulas for Successfully Maintaining a Traditional Taekwondo School
A Reflection Of My Taekwondo Journey
A Three Legged Stool
Simply for the Art
Three Ways of Embracing Traditional Taekwondo
Measurable Goals
‘Tis The Season… ...For Taekwondo Bashing
Revelation Through Refinement
The Doctrine of Impermanence in Taekwondo
The Kool-Aid
Traditional Taekwondo: An Umbrella in the Rain of Modern Society
Valuing the Black Belt
Essential Korea for Taekwondo
Ki: Amplifier of Technique
The Bones of Taekwondo
The Poomsae: They Are a-Changin’
Enlightenment by Way of Disillusion6
Surrender!
The Turning Back Round Kick… A Winning Strategy
Training at the Kukkiwon
Submission Guidelines
Sponsorship Packages
Patricks TKD Funnies

About Master Doug Cook
Grandmaster Doug Cook, like his mentor, Grandmaster Richard Chun (Dr. Rhin Moon, 1935-2017), is perhaps one of the best-known Taekwondo grandmasters in the world due to his authorial contributions to the Korean martial art. Like his mentor before him, Grandmaster Cook has promoted Taekwondo and educated readers about many aspects of the art through the written word. To date, Grandmaster Cook has published four books about Taekwondo and is currently working on a fifth book.

Grandmaster Cook has been writing about Taekwondo for more than 25 years. In addition to the books noted above, he was a regular contributor to Taekwondo Times for many years, and his articles have appeared in Totally Tae Kwon Do since its very first issue in 2009. In short, Grandmaster Cook has been prolific, and it should come as no surprise that Totally Tae Kwon Do has released this second volume to collect Grandmaster Cook's work for readers.

Grandmaster Cook, who received his 7th Dan from Grandmaster Chun in late 2016, writes literally about the martial journey - Taekwondo after all means "the way of the hand and foot." In this second volume, Grandmaster Cook continues to explain, promote and preserve the traditions of Taekwondo in his books and his articles. He discusses cultivating and maintaining black belts (a topic close to the heart of serious instructors), overcoming self-doubt, the value of a Taekwondo black belt which has been earned, training as an adult in Taekwondo, inner strength, the evolution/change in Taekwondo, how disillusionment becomes enlightenment, and more. One can easily see that many of Grandmaster Cook's topics are - as the fictional Mr. Miyagi might say - "Not just for Taekwondo, but for whole life."

At the same time that Grandmaster strives to bridge the art's traditional past with its present, he also manages to, magically, reconcile it with its potential future. This aspect of Grandmaster Cook's work is embodied in the book, co-authored with Grandmaster Chun, Taekwondo Black Belt Poomsae: Koryo & Original Koryo. This simple book not only teaches Original Koryo and juxtaposes it against its modern replacement but also preserves an element of Taekwondo's past and relates it to the art's present. Despite its simplicity, the book is pivotal to understand Grandmaster Cook's authorial intentions. Were it not for this book, Original Koryo might have been relegated to myth or legend for most Korean martial artists in only a few short years.

And that is the heart of Grandmaster Cook's work, evident in these special editions.