White Tiger Martial Arts is located in Portland, Oregon and is open to students as young as 4, but
even adults in their 40’s and 50’s have taken classes and benefited from the healthy exercise offered by
Taekwon-Do. The classes are taught in community centers to reduce the cost for students, making it a
highly affordable program. Despite this reduced cost, students from our program have attended
tournaments with five or more martial art schools competing and have earned gold medals and on
numerous occasions won the grand champion awards. The core instruction in this program is based on
Taekwon–Do, a Korean martial art similar to Karate that uses kicks, blocks, strikes and punches as a
means of self-defense. Some traditional Taekwon–Do schools stick rigidly to the moves developed by
the original Masters who created Taekwon–Do. White Tiger Martial Arts follows a different approach,
incorporating moves from Karate, Judo and Aikido. While self-defense is a core goal of our program, the
moves we practice are never used to injure our training partner or hurt others. Self-defense truly means
self-defense, not violent aggression or the training of bullies. We practice non - contact sparring,
cooperation with those we train with, and helping others to learn in a supportive, rather than an overly
competitive environment. Self-defense requires self-control and an underlying respect for others.
Learning to protect oneself does not require that we seek to harm others.