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 Kang Rudolf - A Grand Master of Taekwon-Do (ITF) i.e. 9th Dan, International Instructor, International Umpire, martial arts pioneer in the USSR and one of the Founders of the Taekwon-do movement in the USSR. Highly reputed Taekwon-do coach and Founder of the “Taekwon-do Professional club” named after General Choi Hong Hi in Moscow. Author of the book "The Way to Learn Taekwon-Do" and founder of the concept of biomechanics in Taekwon-Do. President of Russian Taekwon-Do ITF Federation.

Biography
Master Kang was born in July 15, 1959, in Kazakhstan (USSR). On graduating from high school in 1976, he became a student of the Russian University of Transport. His background is in engineering (Graduating from MIIT in 1981). At the same time he began to engage in martial arts in the famous "SENE" karate school of Alexei Shturmin at "Mayakovka". From 1979 - 1981 he studied at the central karate school on Tsvetnoy Boulevard in the Trudovye Rezervy Sports Palace. The Instructors were Vitaly Pak and Alexey Shturmin. G M Kang achieved the rank of brown belt at the SENE school.

After graduation he returned to Kazakhstan and began to work as an engineer, but continued to engage in martial arts and shortly thereafter opened his own karate school. In 1989 he began to practice Taekwon-Do, an oriental martial art that came to the USSR from Korea in 1988. For 6 years he learned Taekwon-Do from Instructors and Masters from North Korea, such as Lee Hyun Guk 5 dan, Ho Bon Sik 6 dan, Lee Chul Din 7 dan. In 1990, he created the Taekwon-Do Federation in the Republic of Kazakhstan, Ush-Tobe. He led the National ITF Taekwon-do team of the Republic of Kazakhstan. As the coach of the National team, he attended international Taekwon-Do competitions, where his team provided serious competition and won many awards, competing for a place on the podium with the eternal favorites of the competition, the athletes from North Korea. In 1994 he moved to the Far East in the city of Ussuriysk, where he created the Ussuriysk City Federation of ITF Taekwon-Do. At which time, he personally met with the founder of Taekwon-Do Grand Master, General Choi Hong Hi. In 1995, he created an interregional public organization "Union of the Federation of Taekwon-Do ITF of the Far Eastern Region" in the city of Vladivostok, which was given the right to conduct certification and carry out independent registration of documents for record.

In April 1995, Grand Master Kang invited General Choi Hong Hi to visit the Far East region of Russia, to conduct 3-day seminars in Vladivostok, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and Khabarovsk. Grand Master Kang accompanied and assisted Choi Hong Hi at all of these seminars. It was during this travel with the Founder that Grand Master Kang was honored with some personal calligraphy created by the Taekwon-do Founder In 1997 Grand Master Kang created a regional public organization, the Federation of Taekwon-Do ITF of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic in the city of Cherkessk. Two years later, in 1999, he founded the Taekwon-Do Federation of Stavropol (Stavropol Taekwon-Do ITF School). Since 2001 he has been living in Moscow. In 2002 he created a national organization, the Federation of Taekwon-Do ITF. In 2003 he created the Association of Professional Taekwon-Do Clubs ITF Russia (Moscow). In 2005, he created a sports and professional ITF Taekwon-do club named after General Choi Hong Hi in Moscow. Since 2006 he has been a member of the Russian Martial Arts Union. Currently, Grand Master Kang is a practicing Instructor in his club, and conducts Taekwon-Do training seminars both face to face and virtually. Every summer he conducts a 7-day advanced training course in which only the first 10 people to apply can participate. Since 2020 he has provided international online Taekwon-Do Sessions on Biomechanics as well as techniques for teaching children in Taekwon-Do

Book "The Way to Learn Taekwon-Do"
Master Rudolf Kang is the author of the book "The Way to Learn Taekwon-Do" that provides answers to many of the questions related to Taekwon-Do. In it he shares his more than 40 years of experience in martial arts and ITF Taekwon-Do and his vision for the development of this type of Martial Art. He is the founder of the concept of Biomechanics in Taekwon-Do. The leitmotif of the book is "Only by following the principles of movement and techniques as set forth by General Choi Hong Hi, and now validated by biomechanics, can we find the way to achieve integrity and unity in Taekwon-Do." In December of 2019 the English version of the book was released. G M Kang is married with two daughters. Both have been practicing Taekwon-Do since childhood. The eldest daughter, Valentina, is a two-time world champion in Taekwon-Do (ITF) and a programmer by education. The youngest daughter, Alexandra, is a three-time world champion in Taekwon-Do (ITF), and has a background in architecture.