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We are dedicated to teaching martial arts to your entire family!
With Licensed ATA Locations around the globe, there are over 950 independently owned and operated licensed facilities.
Licensees of the ATA have trained over one million students since ATA’s inception in 1969.
Since that first class was taught many years ago, the focus of ATA International has remained the same:
to provide students with the highest quality martial arts curriculum available in a fun and positive
learning environment that people of all ages can enjoy. Each Instructor is the graduate of an intensive certification
process that represents more than forty years of ongoing curriculum research and development.
Your Certified Instructor should be with you every step of the way to help you reach your current individual goals,
as well as some new goals you never before thought possible!
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HISTORY
In 1968, Korean General Hong Hi Choi (the man responsible for originally standardizing Taekwondo in 1955) met with then Master Haeng Ung Lee (now Eternal Grand Master), who at the time was teaching Taekwondo-Japanese mixed martial arts to his organization of followers. General Choi quickly taught Eternal Grand Master Lee the first 16 Cheon-jee forms of Taekwondo in only 4 days and three nights (this system of forms was the first set of forms developed under the new Taekwondo of Korea).
From this first meeting almost half a century ago, the stage was set for the founding of The American Taekwondo Association (ATA) in 1969 in Omaha, Nebraska by Eternal Grand Master Lee.
Read the full ATA International History
Read Eternal Grand Master H.U. Lee's story
HAPPY 55TH ANNIVERSARY ATA NATION
Celebrate with us at Spring Nationals in Dallas, TX on March 28 - March 30, 2024