About Taekwondo

Taekwondo History

            Taekwondo from Korean  태권도 is a Korean martial art, characterized by its emphasis on head-height kicks, jumping and spinning kicks, and fast kicking techniques. Taekwondo was developed during the 1940s and 1950s by Korean martial arts and indigenous Korean martial arts traditions such as  Taekkyeon ,  Subak , and Gwonbeop. The oldest governing body for Taekwondo is the Korea Taekwondo Association (KTA), formed in 1959 through a collaborative effort by representatives from the nine original  kwans , or martial arts schools in Korea. The main international organisational bodies for Taekwondo today are  World Taekwondo (WT, formerly WTF), founded in 1972 and 1973 respectively by the Korea Taekwondo Association. Gyeorugi, a type of full-contact sparring, has been an Olympic event since 2000. The governing body for Taekwondo in the Olympics and Paralympics is World Taekwondo.

Tamil Nadu Taekwondo History

In 1974 the art of Taekwondo was first started in Chennai by Master Mr. Mohan Das Malaysia under the leadership of Mr. Panneerselvam with 20 students in Tiruvallikeni, Chennai. After that, it was started as Tamil Nadu Taekwondo Association in 1979 and was registered as Tamil Nadu Taekwondo Association on 25.5.1979 as registration number 104/79 on 25.5.1979.

The movement was started by Mr. Narayanasamy as the president of the association, Mr. Amanuktullah as the general secretary, Rajagopal as the treasurer, Mr. V. Panneerselvam as the chief instructor and Selvamani as the assistant instructor.

Then All India Taekwondo Federation Registration No. 186/1981 was started with Chennai as its headquarters and Panneerselvam as General Secretary and Manjunath Tiwari as Chief Instructor and Chief Instructor Mohan Das started functioning.

Then Mr. Panneerselvam was selected as the General Secretary of the Tamil Nadu Taekwondo Association in 1981.

It was started in 1982 under the name of Taekwondo Metric of India with headquarters in Lucknow by Mr. Jimmy as its General Secretary and recognized by the Central Government.

Then in 1983 Tamil Nadu Taekwondo Association was elected and started functioning as President Mr. Sukumar, General Secretary Mr. Panneerselvam and Treasurer Mr. James. After that in 1987 Tamil Nadu Sports Development Corporation granted recognition to Tamil Nadu Taekwondo Association. In the same year, the Tamil Nadu Olympic Association also provided affiliation.

It is noted that after the death of Tamil Nadu Taekwondo Association General Secretary Mr. Panneerselvam, Rathanasamy was selected as the temporary General Secretary and then Mr. Selvamani was selected as the General Secretary on 27.11.1996. Later in 2003, Mr. Vijay was chosen as the President of the Association after the death of President Sukumar. Then in 2006 Mr. Manohar was selected as Treasurer after the demise of Treasurer James. Since 2011, Mr. Isari K Ganesh has been elected as the president of the association and Kothandan has been working as the treasurer of the association.