Category Archives: Announcements

General announcements including committee meeting minutes and notices.

Taekwon-Do develops strong up North: Iqaluit Nunavut, Canada

Article written in 2009
IQALUIT TAEKWON-DO SOCIETY, managed by a great group of Board volunteers:
President:  Patrick McDermott ,
Boosabum Maryse Mahy

Members:  Samantha McDermott,  Christopher Gerlach, Jonathan…..

 

Today, Brogan Savard, member of Iqaluit TaeKwon-Do Society, Nunavuk Canada, was promoted to black belt! Congratulations! This is the culmination of many years of hard work and focus and dedication to complete the several components of the test over the past month and a half. Many more years of hard work to come for Mr Savard’s black belt journey! Welcome to the Black belt world!!

SGM Lu January 27/24.

2024 – CHITF President New Year Message

CHAN HUN INTERNATIONAL TAEKWON-DO FEDERATION
WORLD HEADQUARTERS
www.chitf.org itfhq@chitf.org

2024 CHITF President New Year Message

Happy New Year!

On behalf of Chan Hun International TaeKwon-Do Federation, I wish you and your families a healthy, wonderful New Energetic Dragon Year 2024!

In 2023, CHITF Members stood strong through difficult times to rebuild their associations, their clubs, and their lives after the Pandemic years.  Despite economic instability, diminished membership enrollments, CHITF Leaders did not give up.

With the Spirit of TaeKwon-Do and the blessings of our beloved Founder, the CHITF UNET, CHITF Argentina, all other CHITF members were in Argentina supporting each other to make the 2023 2nd CHITF World Championship a great success.
I would also like to take this opportunity to congratulate our newly promoted Senior Grand Master Robert Lai, who dedicated much time with passion to promote the original TaeKwon-Do. He and his team hosted the 2019 1st CHITF World Championship in Melbourne Australia! As well all newly promoted Grand Masters: S.K. Chong (Malaysia), Bathi Allimuthu (Malaysia) , Alberto Lettiere ( Argentina), Guilermo Stupenengo (Argentina), Marc Cote (Canada)/ CHITF warmly welcome the 2023 newly joined CHITF Affiliated members from: Colombia, Paraguay, Brazil, Bangladesh, Uraguay, Macau.

The CHITF World HQs provided support and encouragement to our members through 2023 Zoom Meetings, Seminars and together we worked hard to continue to uphold our CHITF Spirit and Mission.

There is so much more to do over the new year of 2024, as we continue to build CHITF, making it stronger by organizing positive activities to serve our CHITF Members, such as:

  • February 03-04 international seminar and grading in Puerto-Rico, hosted by CHITF Puerto Rico, Sabum Julio Carcafio Romero, juliocecardavid38@gmail.com.
  • March 02 CHITF International, National and Provincial Umpire courses and Technical course , hosted by CHITF Canada, Grand Master Marc Cote, dimc.taekwondo@gmail.com
  • March 8-10 1st CHITF Asia Championship in Nepal, hosted by CHITF Nepal, nepalchitf@gmail.com
  • May 11 TAEKWON-DO WOLRD CUP Ottawa Canada, hosted by Lu’s TaeKwon-Do Dojang and sanctioned by CHITF, itfhq@chitf.org, gmphaplu@gmail.com  ( information package and general invitation letter at www.chitf.org)
  • October International Instructor Course and grading, Argentina, hosted by SM Omar Oriti Tizio, marbjj@yahoo.com

As we ring in a new year, let’s recommit to our CHITF Beliefs and Mission!!

2024 CHITF New Year expansion is expected in the Continent of Africa.  SGM Phap Lu will host, through Whatsapp, the 1st CHITF Affiliated African Leaders Meeting. The 10 leaders expected to attend are from: Mozamblique, Ethiopia, Maputo, Malwe, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Rwanda, Madagascar, Angola and Mali.

Let’s keep making 2024 even a better year!

Happy New Year CHITF!

Cheers!

SGM Phap Lu
President

Note: if you have new 2024 CHITF activities , please let CHITF World HQs know, we will inform our members.

2024 – Happy New Year!

Flying high and strong into 2024 (photo taken from Peregian Beach, Queensland Australia on New Year Eve)!
Wishing all our family members and friends close and far a happy peaceful new year! 

Cheers, 

The Lu Family, Ottawa Canada

2023 – Meeting with Canada Ottawa Mayor, His Excellence Mark Sutcliffe!!

August 14th 2023

SGM Phap Lu, President of CHITF, met with Canada Ottawa Mayor, His Excellence Mark Sutcliffe and Canada Ottawa City Councilor, Steve Desroches.

They discussed about the 2024 May 25th CHITF TAEKWON-DO WORLD CUP in Ottawa!! Mayor Sutcliffe and the City of Ottawa will give their full supports for the event, he accepted the invitation to be our Guest of the 2023 event!

On behalf the City of Ottwa Mayor Sutcliffe and Councilor Desroches have sent their Congratulations to the CHITF CANADA NATIONAL TEAM and the Ottawa TAEKWON-DO competitors for all their great achievements by bringing home 10 Golds, 11 Silvers and 7 Bronzes!!!

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2023 New Year Message

January 01 2023

Ottawa, Ontario Canada

The President, Phap Lu, today issued the following statement to the mark the New 2023!

 Healthy, Peaceful and Successful CHITF!

We look forward to a new 2023! A New fresh year after the Pandemic- full of promise, health, hope and Joy!

The New Year of 2023 brings fresh CHITF revitalized goals and making most of them means finding unity, common ground and share our CHITF Platform UPHOLD mission.  In past 2022, together, each CHITF Leader made important progress in their respected regions for all CHITF Members, from trying very hard to revitalizing, hosting, participating, and supporting their regional CHITF events, to moving forward with co-operation and harmony with others.  This year we will focus and work side by side with the 2023 August 4-5  2nd CHITF World Championship host, CHITF Argentina for preparing another successful and memorable CHITF World event.   As we ring in 2023, let’s remember that this spirit of CHITF Leadership teamwork is what got us here today, and that it remains our path forward.

“In the coming year, our CHITF Leader Team will continue to focus on the issues that matter most to CHITF Members across the globe, from hosting more meaningful events, to upgrade our black belts instructors both technically and morally and strengthening the CHITF Leaders Leadership skills and positioning CHITF for success in an uncertain world.

“Let’s begin this next decade by recommitting ourselves to the TaeKwon-Do values of respect, discipline, honesty, taught by our beloved Founder General Choi Hong Hi, and our compassion that define us as CHITF Members.  By coming together as a CHITF Family and putting harmony first, we will build a more peaceful world.

“On behalf of CHITF, The CHITF Grand Masters, CHITF Management Team and I wish you and your loved ones a great New 2023!

See you all in August in Argentina!!!

Yours in CHITF,

SGM Phap Lu

President 

CHITF