If you do a web search of American Tae Kwon Do you will most likely pull up information about the American Tae Kwon Do Association (ATA).  The form of American Tae Kwon Do being discussed in this article is not associated with the ATA.  I was fortunate enough to train in American Tae Kwon Do for about 8 months where I learned about the system itself.  Then with further research I have been able to gather the following information on the formation of the American Tae Kwon Do System in Central/East Central Indiana.

There was an instructor in Muncie Indiana named David Foreman.  From what I know of him, he was in the military when he began his martial arts training under Master Ik Lee.  The sytle Mr. Foreman trained in under Master Lee was a form of Korean Tae Kwon Do.  After serving his country Mr. Foreman came back to Indiana.  At that time he began training with Master Glenn Keeney combining his Korean Tae Kown Do with Master Keeney's Okinawan Ryu style.  Master Keeney is a Goju Ryu stylist according to www.pkcheadquarters.org/glenn.html

Mr. Foreman became a well respected fighter and instructor.  He at one point operated 4 Karate schools in the Muncie, IN area.  Somewhere along the way American Tae Kwon Do became the name of the system Mr. Foreman taught.

American Tae Kwon Do incorporates a mixture of hand and foot techniques.  Where as Korean Tae Kwon Do is heavy on kicking, American Tae Kwon Do uses the hands and feet pretty equally.  American Tae Kwon Do teaches technique, one and two step fighting techniques, self defense, kumite and kata.

The following Kata are taught in the American Tae Kwon Do System