Our philosophy of teaching is to enable each of our students to set and internalize goals and to utilize their full potential in that pursuit. We teach each member as if they were our own family. Positive motivation combined with our unique reward system, which is built into our goal based belt promotion system, makes goal setting a habit not just an experience.
It's one thing for a person to say they teach leadership, motivation and achievement, however, it is another to have actually done so, and on a consistent basis with groups of people of various abilities.
To truly teach others the qualities of leadership, motivation and achievement, a teacher must have the real life experience in bringing out the best in others.
To learn more about our credentials to teach Taekwondo and martial arts, please check instructor bios. Contact us if you have any additional questions!
Thank you,
Al Cole
Grandmaster-Instructor
World Taekwondo Leader, Ambassador and Advisor
Below you can see where our Instructors are trained and promoted in Korea, at the World Taekwondo Headquarters called "KUKKIWON."
To learn more, scroll down, and also read my Blog by clicking the link below.
http://mentortaekwondo.com/cgi-bin/ebb/blog2/index.php
(see more photos http://mentortaekwondo.com/PhotoAlbums/)
Kukkiwon: Center for Taekwondo in Korea. Instructor training and Official Taekwondo Black Belt Certification are issued by the
World Taekwondo Headquarters, KUKKIWON. The Cole family are all high ranking Black Belts trained by Kukkiwon.
Instructor Training in Korea at Kukkiwon (World Taekwondo Headquarters).
Instructor Training in Korea at Kukkiwon (World Taekwondo Headquarters).
Master Instructors Allen and Joe Cole during training at Kukkiwon - Seoul, Korea
Master Joe Cole, upper right, Men's -68Kg USA Team member at 2010 Korea Open, Gumi, S. Korea September 2010
USA Team Leader, Grandmaster Al Cole with Team USA at Korea Open in Incheon, August 2009. (kneeling center)
Some of Grandmaster Al Cole's Important Taekwondo Credentials
Grandmaster Al Cole is the only Grandmaster-Instructor in Northeast Ohio to have graduated the World Taekwondo Academy at Kukkiwon in Seoul, Korea, and to be certified as an INSTRUCTOR BY THE KUKKIWON after having passed both the physical and written exam, held in Seoul, Korea at the Kukkiwon. He has also trained in martial arts all over USA and other nations, such as, Mexico, Guatemala, Canada, Germany, Croatia, Bosina-Herzegovina, Italy, and Korea.
Instructor License issued under authority of Korean Government
Official 6th Dan black belt issued under authority of the Korean Government
Cole Family Taekwondo Lineage: Jidokwan (wisdom way school) was founded in 1946 by CHUN, Sang Sup who was a student of Gichin Funakoshi (Shotokan Founder). Grandmaster Cole is one of the highest ranking and respected American born members of this famous school, the Taekwondo Jidokwan, Korea. Click the following link to learn more about Jidokwan; www.TaekwondoJidokwan.com
Taekwondo Jidokwan, Korea - promoted Grandmaster Cole to 7th Degree Black Belt,
one of the highest Jidokwan Dan ranks issued to American born Taekwondo practitioners in the USA.
Grandmaster Al Cole was entered as a member of Jidokwan, Korea in 1985.
Over 20 years after entrance into Taekwondo Jidokwan, Grandmaster Cole renews his membership pledge with over 350 Masters
from over 100 nations during the 60th Anniversary of Jidokwan, held March 1, 2006 in Seoul, Korea.
Special Citation awarded to Grandmaster Cole by Taekwondo Jidokwan, March 1, 2006.
Grandmaster Al Cole became affiliated with the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) in 1987. From January 2000 until January 2002, he was President of the WTF in Ohio, aka, Ohio State Taekwondo Association/Union (OTA/OSTU) the State Association member of the United States Taekwondo Union (USTU) and member of the United States Olympic Committee (USOC).
Grandmaster Al Cole is also one of the few instructors that teach and understand the WHOLE of the Kukkiwon Taekwondo curriculum. Unlike most other instructors who keep changing what they teach over the years, jumping for odd one-off creations to the other and making up and founding their own so-called Taekwondo styles, when there is only one Taekwondo, causing great confusion in their students.
For the past 20 years Grandmaster Cole has encouraged Taekwondo instructors in Ohio, other States and other Nations to embrace the Kukkiwon curriculum of "Shihap Kyorugi", "Taegeuk Poomsae", "Kyukpa" and "Mom-makki." In 1998, he was the first instructor in USA to publicly write about the need to adhere to a Taekwondo Standard that was set by Kukkiwon - Korea, back in 1971. Now 10 years later, instructors in the Greater Cleveland area, as well as the USA, and the World are embracing this standard and changing their curriculums to align more closely with that of Kukkiwon in Korea.
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