Great site.
Dr. Ed Thomas has been featured on your site. Is he the same person who wrote a guest editorial about martial arts and Korean reconciliation in Tae Kwon Do Times about ten years ago? He was with the Department of Physical Education at Northern Illinois at that time. I lost my copy of the magazine and would like to read his article again. Also, will he comment more on the topic?
Thanks
Scott in Hawaii
Hi Scott:
Yes
I am the same Ed Thomas that wrote the July 1993 article in TaeKwon Do
Times. At that time, a group of martial artists were working to improve
relations between North and South Korea. I wrote a guest editorial in
support of the effort. Click here to read it.
I have added a few photos. I also commented on the issue of our national
physical readiness and the Korean situation in the May
2003 IHPRA Newsletter.
This is to Dr. Ed Thomas.
Hello and greetings from Germany. How did you learn so much about the history of German physical culture? I am German and we have never learned about such things.
My mother was German. Her parents spoke little English. We had a large Turner Hall in my hometown when I was a boy in the early 1950s. I lived nearby and went there as a child. The roots of physical culture in my hometown were deeply influenced by the German Turners, and I have studied that history for many decades. I also went to live in Germany in 1984-85 to see for myself what was left of the old traditions. I was surprised to find that so little of the Turner spirit had survived in Germany.
Would you mind commenting more about this in coming newsletters?
I'll write in the November newsletter about some of my experiences in Germany.
Hello:
I have heard about a study done at the United States Military Academy many years ago that found the least fit cadets were most often dismissed with psychiatric problems. Do you know of such a study?
Thank you for your outstanding website.
Dave R.
Are you referring to this one?
