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  Master Phillip Rhee

Master Cook with Master Phillip Rhee in Los Angeles.

 

Master Rhee is a Martial Arts Master Instructor, a Hollywood movie actor and a movie director and producer who has  created, produced and starred in six films, including the four world famous movies The Best of the Best were he played the part of Tommy Lee, captain of Team USA. Master Rhee began studying the Martial Arts at the age of four and now currently holds the ranks of: 6^th Degree Black Belt in Taekwondo, 3^rd Degree Black Belt in Hapkido and 1^st Degree Black Belt in Kumdo.

 

Thank you to Master Rhee for the gift of a personally inscribed boxset of the 4 The Best of the Best movies, which reads "To Barry, a Gentleman and a True Martial Artist, God Bless - Phillip 11-10-08".

 

        

 

 

  Grandmaster Simon Rhee

 

 

 

Master Cook with Grandmaster Simon Rhee at his famous School of Taekwondo in Woodland Hills.

Grandmaster Rhee is a 7^th Degree Black Belt in Taekwondo, a 4^th Degree Black Belt in Hapkido, and a many-time tournament Grand Champion in both Patterns and Sparring Competitions. 

Grandmaster Rhee also played a prominent role in 2 of the The Best of the Best movies as Dae Han, captain of Team Korea.

Grandmaster Rhee has trained many instructors, celebrities and stunt people and spoken and taught at UCLA and many martial arts seminars around the world, he is also a member of the International Stunt Association and a 2 time winner of the Taurus World Stunt Awards.

 

 

 

 

  Sifu Dan Inosanto

Master Cook with  Sifu Dan Inosanto

(Bruce Lee's original student and successor of the JKD system) at his school in Marina Del Rey.

 

Sifu Inosanto has become known throughout the world as one of the twentieth century's most powerful and articulate English language exponents of the fighting arts of Asia. Starting out in Okinawan Te and Judo as a teenager, Sifu Inosanto studied with Ed Parker and was a member of Parker's demo team in the 1960s when he was introduced to Bruce Lee. 

 

 

Sifu Inosanto was trained by Sifu Bruce Lee to be his successor in the art of Jeet Kune Do.

 

 

  Grandmaster Jun Chong

 

Master Cook met with Grandmaster Jun Chong at his famous Taekwondo Dojang in Los Angeles.

 

Whilst their, Master Cook and Grandmaster Chong (8th Dan), spent time chatting about Taekwondo and training methods, before Master Cook was invited to take part in that evening classes.

 

Grandmaster Chong is also the instructor of Masters Phillip and Simon Rhee.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Grandmaster Tommy Chang

 

 

 

 

Master Cook with Grandmaster Tommy Chang at his Taekwondo Dojang in Toronto, Canada.

Grandmaster Chang (7th Dan) owns and runs the Canadian Olympic Taekwondo Training Centre in Toronto, Canada.

Grandmaster Chang is a world renowned 7^th Dan Black Belt, and was named one of the Ten Most Influential Martial Arts Leaders of 2004 by Martial Arts World Magazine.

His academy is a family-oriented educational institution, which enables students to achieve a strong mind and body enhanced by traditional values and morals.

 

 

 

 

Grandmaster Lee Kang Uk

Master Cook with Grandmaster Lee Kang Uk at the 31st Central Black Belt Tang Soo Do Championships in Watford, London.

 

Grandmaster Lee (10^th Dan) was born in Seoul in 1936 and began Tang Soo Do when he was 12. His instructor was Grandmaster Hwang Kee.

After Grandmaster Hwang Kee and Grandmaster Kim Jae Joon, the highest ranking and most senior Korean Grandmaster from the original Moo Duk Kwan is Grandmaster Lee Kang Uk.  

He continues (as he has done his entire life) to teach traditional Tang Soo Do, the way he was trained in the Moo Duk Kwan decades ago in Korea.

 

 

 

  Grandmaster Kim Beom

 

 

Master Cook and Hapkido Grandmaster Kim Beom at Durham University.

 

Grandmaster Kim 7th Dan and the son of Grandmaster Kim Duk In, is the highest ranked official representative of the Korea Hapkido Federation based in the UK.

 

Grandmaster Kim is the Chief Instructor and President of the United Kingdom Duk Moo Academy, he is also the European Duk Moo Academy Technical Director.

 

 

The Shaolin Warriors

 

Master Cook with 3 of the world famous Shaolin Warriors after a show.

 

The warriors demonstration features 22 professionally trained Kung Fu Masters with such disciplines as Qigong, Animal Imitation Kung Fu and Drunken Chinese Boxing, as well as using 18 types of traditional weapons.

 

Strength, skill and speed makes their Martial Arts performances a pleasure to watch.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Dalai Lama

 

 

 

Master Cook meeting His Holiness The Dalai Lama before his speech in Nottingham.

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is both the head of state and the spiritual leader of Tibet. 

He was born on 6 July 1935, to a farming family, in a small hamlet located in Taktser, Amdo, north eastern Tibet. 

At the age of two, the then named Lhamo Dhondup was recognized as the reincarnation of the 13th Dalai Lama, Thubten Gyatso. 

 

 

 

  Grandmaster Pan Sim Woon

 

 

Master Cook with Grandmaster Pan Sim Woon at the BTA HQ Dojang.

 

Grandmaster Pan 8th Dan, is historically quoted as saying that “Too many Taekwondo practitioners perform Poomse like they learnt it from a book, they have the right final position, but they didn't get there correctly”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Master Christopher Davies

 

 

Master Cook with Master Christopher Davies at Bath University.

Master Davies 6^th Dan is the founder and Chief Instructor of the British Taekwondo Alliance, an association he formed because of the way in which he felt politics and money were controlling the direction of Taekwondo within the UK.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Master Doug Cook

 

Master Cook has a good friendship with Master Doug Cook at his famous Taekwondo Dojang in New York.

 

Master Cook 5th Dan embraces the traditional aspects of Taekwondo, and places great emphasis on the underlying philosophical principles and self-defense strategies surrounding the art. He demonstrates this belief by infusing a strong attention to basics, and the purposeful practice of Poomse in his instructional methodology.

 

Master Cook is the author of three best-selling books focusing on Taekwondo entitled: Taekwondo: Ancient Wisdom for the Modern Warrior

Traditional Taekwondo – Core Techniques, History, and Philosophy

Taekwondo – A Path to Excellence

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Master Cook at the Chuck Norris star in Hollywood.

 

 

 

 

 

Grandmaster Chuck Norris at the 2007 UFAF convention in Mexico with his brother Grandmaster Aaron Norris.

 

 

 

 Master Simon Rhee on Martial Arts