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Master C Carter

Name: Master Chris Carter
Born: 30/ 07/ 1959
Home: St Ives near Huntingdon
Occupation: Technical -Coordinator
Hobbies: Going to the cinema, Listening to a wide variety of music
Club location: Grafham Village Hall, & Over Hills School. Kimbolton

Started training - January 1975 received first colour belt, Acquired 1st degree Black Belt 1981.
Gained Masters Belt July 1994.
Have been a referee since 1983 and judged competitions national and European , World Championships Have entered various championships and achieved medals as a colour belt

The importance of Tradition - Manners are extremely important to teach your son or daughter. Unfortunately these are being lost through a changing society. World Tang Soo Do promotes these manners in the class by bowing. If this etiquette is abandoned a large essence of martial art is lost

We wouldn't get away with teaching the way we were taught- Children learn with abundance when having fun and enjoy what they do. Keeping to a pattern during class is important and teaching basics is critical at a young age.

The higher and more years you commit, train and work with World Tang Soo Do the more intrigued we are to find the values of martial art we belong to. To totally understand any Martial Art , time energy and sacrifice for many years is needed to be attained by the practitioner.

Practice Hyungs- It is my feeling that when you practice any hyung even for many years, there is something special and different learnt each time and appreciated.
As we know not all occupations suit everybody, but looking at World Tang Soo Do many students that practice and train with us make World Tang Soo Do practical for all.

I philosophically associate Masters of World Tang So Do with qualities of bamboo these being loyalty perseverance, unselfishness. Once it has matured the parent bamboo only gives the best quality food to the young shoots and not for itself. They are known to live close together just like a large family giving the appearance of proud, rigid but flexible.

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