Harvard Taekwondo Club

Contacts: Maggie Armato (president.htkd@gmail.com)

Student-Run Website:  http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~htkd

Overview:  Harvard Taekwondo (HTKD), formerly known as the Harvard World Taekwondo Federation (WTF), was started in 1999 by six black belts looking to train in the WTF style. Harvard Taekwondo is currently the only taekwondo club on campus, as well as the largest martial arts club. We are instructed by Master Peter Lee, a 6th-dan black belt, and affiliated with Grandmaster Keun Ha Kim of Montreal, Canada. Grandmaster Kim is an 8th-dan black belt and president of the Canadian Taekwondo Association.  We compete in the Eastern Collegiate Taekwondo Conference in sparring and poomse (forms).

Taekwondo (pronounced “teh kwon doh”) is a martial art that has its origins in Korea . Though Taekwondo literally means “the way of the hand and foot,” the sport relies mainly on kicks – stationary, spinning and jumping – using punches and body placement to set up its powerful kicks.