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The goal for this Workshop was that all black belts and those aspiring for black belts must be able to present the IEF lectures. This is because they are expected to be responsible leaders who strive hard to achieve maturity of character through training and establish loving relationship through creating good families and eventually participate in positive contribution to the society through creativity and mastering valuable skills. The conference started with a very high spirit especially with the presence of the Continental Tong-Il Moo-Do Chairman; Rev. Sang Jin lee, the East African Provincial Director: Rev. Mwalagho Kililo and the National Leader Rev. Frederick Wakhisi. The participants were 17 from Kenya, 2 from Uganda, 1 from Burundi, 2 from D..R. Congo , 2 were from Tanzania and the Instructers The theme of the workshop was 'Exploring all possibilities' and its primary objective was the grading of the brown belts to black belt. This grading has been postponed since last year anticipating the coming of international instructors to officiate the grading. Therefore all the students invested all their effort Therefore, we felt it was more beneficial to our participant if we had at least a one-week Workshop in which they could undergo the Divine Principle lectures, Character Education lectures, as well as the HIV/AIDS awareness lectures. This was to help the higher belt holders to acquire the necessary skills and knowledge to teach Divine Principle and IEF clearly, be able to stand as responsible people and role models in the society, and of paramount importance was to understand the Founder's Vision for Tong-Il Moo-Do. Lectures
Mainly, the Divine Principle lectures were given by the National Leader: Rev F. Wakhisi . The topics included the principles of the creation, the fall, restoration and the mission of the Messiah. The IEF lectures by Master E. Aketch. The topics included new philosophy for martial arts, need for moral education, and the three life goals. The HIV/Aids awareness lectures by Mr. Emmanuel Tanui; the Chairman of Youth Federation for World Peace Kenya. We eventually gave an exams on the Lectures. Morning Study Session The main text for the hoondok hae every morning at 5:00 am was '' The way of the students'' a book from. Rev Dr Moon. We read and discussed the sub title ''the mysteries of the human body''. Rev. Dr. Moon exemplifies the human body in such a way that starting with face, hair, eye blows, ears, nose, lips, tongue, neck, hand, fingers, and fingernails, with definitive explanation, and concluding that with the harmony that we see in the way in which it operate. The conclusion was that all things are there for the purpose of goodness. Thus ''the eye want to see only good things, ears want to hear only good things, the mouth want to taste only good things, even the hands also want to touch only good things, and this is true for all parts of the body". The logical conclusion is that all organ intention is also goodness and harmonized and hence there must be a god the creator, who's intentions are also goodness.. Out of all this explanations, Dr. Moon can make a perfect matchmaker. Hence most participants concluded that they can entrust him to chose their spouse, and they will apply for the forth coming holy (blessing) marriage ceremony. Most of the participant determined to change their lifestyle and will become true masters who live the way of an ideal martial artist, which in essence is to realize the three life goals . The Daily activity Program 4:30 am Waking up 5:00 - 6:00 am Morning Study 6:00 -6:30 am General exercises 6:30 - 7:00 am Personal & general cleaning 7:00 - 8:30 am Breakfast 8:30 -10:30 am Lecture Session 11:00- 1:00 p.m. Training Session 1;00 - 2:30 p.m. Lunch 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. Lecture Session 4:30 - 7:00 p.m. Training Session 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. Dinner 8:30 - 10:00 p.m. Video/lecture 10:00pm Sleep Technical Training The training was filled with a lot of enthusiasm and high spirit. The practitioners were all very cooperative, committed and willing to learn even more. The practitioners, most of them being instructors, had a special added advantage to learn and practice the following:
1. The Form of peace
2. Refining 'eye of the Tiger' 3. Wan Kwon eui Bon 4. One-step Sparring "perfection stage with locks" 5. Chun Seung eui Bon 6. Basic Advance self defense techniques The other areas that were covered included the basics, linear forms, throws, etc and the circular motion basics and forms. Service for Peace activity. On the final day the participants decided to put into practice the understanding of the 3rd life goal; a positive contribution to the society. They divided into several groups which were involved in:- cleaning the Sasamoto Training rooms, kitchen utensils, tending the flower gardens and slashing the grass in the compound. Grading The workshop culminated with a promotion test for various different belt levels and finally the assessment of the four (among the six practitioners) who have been preparing for the black belt since last year. The assessing panel recommended them for black belt. They were able to display the basic techniques, advanced techniques, and combinations, were tested on the internal understanding of the TIMD philosophy, linear forms (Chun Seung), circular forms, rolling and free sparring. The assessing panel included Master E. Aketch (4th degree), four 3rd degree holders: - Francis Njiru, Hillary Ochieng, John Opiyo and Didier Mubambe. Closing Ceremony. A brief closing ceremony was done in the afternoon of the last day (20.3.2004), which included a demonstration of the 'eye of the tiger' and the two black belts from Uganda performed a demonstration on circular motion combination. Then, a vote of thanks followed by the announcement of the grading results for all other candidates except for the black belt aspirants which awaits confirmation from Tong-Il Moo-Do International Office. The Instructors were: - Master * E. Aketch Rang'ala.
* Francis M. Njiru
* Hillary Ochieng
* Didier Mubambe
* Antony Harvey
* Susan Kone
Edwin Aketch Rangala
Master
TIMD , Africa
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