Garden City Tae Kwon Do
YMCA Saint Catharines, ON, Canada

As many of you have heard, the YMCA is closing its facilities in St. Catharines and are not planning on continuing any of their fitness programing for now, including the youth programs of which we were a part. We are considering where we want to go with Garden City Tae Kwon Do from here and I will post any new info on this page as it becomes available. We will want to get through this pandemic and any closures or restrictions before offering classes again. I hope all of our students are well and safe.

We are still waiting to see when the YMCA will start the youth programs again. They are opening in phases and are not yet running programs for children under 13. Keep checking the YMCA website for updated info.

Looking at the YMCA Niagara website, it seems that the St. Catharines facility will not be running programs until at least September. Please check with their website for updates. We hope to resume classes and see all of you soon.

I see some people have been checking here, perhaps for updates on when we will start classes again. I do not have any news just yet but we plan to start up again as soon as the YMCA and the province will let us. Meanwhile, students can practice the first two forms using the videos I posted earlier. This is one thing that can be practiced at home safely. I hope to see you all soon. Master Steve Balz

I am posting videos of Pattern 1 and Pattern 2 so that our students can practice at home. White belts must learn Pattern 1 to earn a yellow belt. Yellow belts must learn Pattern 2 for their second yellow belt.

This is the second pattern in the Moo Duk Kwan system.

This is the first pattern in the Moo Duk Kwan system.