St Ives-a new millennium - Flipbook - Page 84
St Ives-a new millennium
4/10/02
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Above: Jessica Cullen and Christopher Millier
Photo: Stuart Littlewood/Ricoh XR7
Youngsters Jessica and Christopher square up to each other under Master Khan’s watchful eye.
Right: Mujahid and Dawn Khan, Tang Soo Do martial arts
Photo: Stuart Littlewood/Ricoh XR7
Tang Soo Do means ‘the way of the China hand’ and is also known as Korean karate. This martial art-form was brought to
Britain in the early 1970s by Steven Coleman, an instructor at RAF Alconbury.
The St Ives club, now 30-strong, opened in 1974 at which time Mujahid Khan was already a leading pupil. He became the
first Black Belt in Cambridgeshire in 1977. His wife Dawn began training 16 years ago and is now a third ‘dan’ Black Belt.
Mujahid, besides his responsibilities as Master of the St Ives club, is the World Tang Soo Do Association’s European Director
and Chief Instructor for Great Britain. In 2000 he took a team of 77 from Britain to the World Championship in California.
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