Jonathan Waterfall teaches a tae kwon do class at the Lockwood Clubhouse of the Boys and Girls Clubs this week. Waterfall, a middle school teacher, is opening a martial arts studio.

Participants got to see a tae kwon do demonstration, courtesy of McArther's Tae Kwon Do & Fitness, and after the demonstration, got a chance to try a few kicks and punches of their own.

The Kick-A-Thon will be Dec. 10 at 10 a.m. at Kentucky Tae Kwon Do in Crestwood. Make it easy to keep up-to-date with more stories like this. Download the WHAS11 News app now. For Apple or Android ...

"Tae kwon do is known as the art of hand and foot," Ford said. "There's not a lot of grabbing, there's punches and kicks, which is very easy for kids 5 years old and older to learn and do ...

DECATUR - Jessica Scheu, 15, of Prior Lake, Minn., wanted to be tough like her father, who had been in the military, so she took up the Korean sport of tae kwon do nearly four years ago. Recently ...

Rebecca Hove stops to show one of her young pupils a series of tae kwon do moves. ``Punch, punch,'' she says, ``then knife edge.'' Ms. Hove spends her days in the Rock Island County Clerk's Office ...