Light from above…

Light from above… representing the heavens, the sky is often where people look to find answers or gain inspiration, from the Egyptians and Mayan empires through to the present-day astronomers and scientists, be it for religious or scientific answers or inspiration, you must have heard of the saying ‘reach for the stars’ or ‘the sky is the limit’.

So for the Tae Kwon Do student it represents the sky our tree of knowledge is growing ‘reaching’ toward.

It’s the Law…

There are some fundamental principles of physics that are evident in martial arts, and these are evident when you understand Sir Isaac Newton’s Three Laws of Motion.


◇ Newton's first law states that a body at rest will remain at rest, and a body in motion will remain in motion with a constant velocity, unless acted upon by a force. This law is also called the law of inertia.

◇ Newton's second law states that a force acting on a body is equal to the acceleration of that body times its mass. Expressed mathematically, F = ma, where F is the force in Newtons, m is the mass of the body in kilograms, and a is the acceleration in meters per second per second.

◇ Newton's third law states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Thus, if one body exerts a force F on a second body, the first body also undergoes a force of the same strength but in the opposite direction. This law lies behind the design of rocket propulsion, in which matter forced out of a burner at high speeds creates an equal force driving the rocket forward.