2nd Manmohan Memorial National ITF TKD Concluded

Palpa Claims the Championship Trophy

The official National Championship of Nepal International Taekwon-Do Federation, Second Manmohan Memorial National ITF Taekwon-Do Championship has been concluded on 16th of September 2009. The Championship was held on the beautiful city of Nepal Tansen, Palpa.

A glance of the Sparring moments of the players

The organizer team, Palpa, won the Championship trophy with Nine Gold, Six Sliver and Three Bronze Medals, where as the last edition champion central region secured Second Position with Nine Gold, One Silver and Five Bronze Medals. Western Region secured Third Position with Three Gold, Eight Silver and Seven Bronze Medals and the Nepal Army Team on fourth position with Two Gold and Four Silver Medals. The Mega national event was held for two days from 16th to 17th September 2009 where 90 selected players from different regions of Seven Teams participated.

Jhalak Bahadur Magar of Palpa District was adjudged the Best Player in Men's Sparring while Mamata Thapa Magar, also of Palpa, was declared the Best Player in Female Category. Both Best Players got the special trophy with One Hundred and Ten Dolor Cash Prize.

"We are more inspired by the Championship as the new players has performed well" said the president of Nepal International Taekwon-Do Federation Krishna Bahadur Balal "New players has shown up the great performance and they made their team (outside of capital) to won the Championship, this is the great symbol for the future of ITF Taekwon-Do in Nepal." Rising young players from the out of Valley has grabbed the more gold medals and won the heart of the thousands of spectators there.

Best Player Female Mamata Thapa Magar (left) and Jhalak Bahadur Magar with their trophies

This is the second edition of the Manmohan Memorial National ITF TKD Championship, which has been organizing since 2007 on the memory of the popular leader of Nepal Ex. Prime Minister Manmohan Adhikari.

The opening ceremony of the Championship has been opened by Som Prasad Pandey who is well-known social worker and Parliament Member of Nepal. Mr. Pandey has addressed the opening ceremony, which was followed by the Chief District Officer of Palpa District, different political leaders of the District, Vice President of Nepal ITF Kumar Thapa and the Chief of Western ITF Rewat Rana. Nepal Army Officer, Nepal Police Officer and other social workers are the guest for the opening and closing ceremony.

Chief Guest of the Ceremony Mr. Som Prasad Pandey distributing Over All Team Champion to the Palpa District

Can we organize Para Martial art Championship ?

One question always raise one my mind - Can Disable peoples learn Martial Art? I have seen the disables peoples in different sports like athletics, Basketball, Football, Volleyball, Cricket and so on, but never seen any disables practicing Martial Art commonly. Hopefully, they are practicing in some corners around the World.

Can Disable learn Martial Art? I believe they can learn equally like the normal people. And, I think, martial art is needed more to the disable people for their protection. Martial Art has been introduced as the art of defense in ancient time but not it changes its definition as the art of human life, and the disable people are the real child of God and can easily practice and learn Martial Art.

One disable people without leg can do the physical exercise for the Hands, Brains, Hand and Body to strengthen it and can learn the fighting techniques of Hand movements. Consider one thing, the martial art develops the human thinking of living which describe and shows the way to walk on the successive path. The most important thing that one disable people can learn by martial art is the confidence. The meaning of their learning is different than the learning of normal people.

I have seen once a disable man took participation on the Dance Competition. His legs are paralyzed and didn't work and can dance only by his dance and if he has to walk by his hands then how can he dance?. Can you imagine? And, he has selected for the top 20 among the thousands of Competitors. While he was in the competition for top 10, he performed on the stage. Four judges on the chair were full of tears and they just stand from their chair and said "You are the real example. Your dance and your confidence and your fight for your great life is so strong than We Couldn't keep you in this competition because you are thousands time great than other competitors and this stage of competition is very small for you." Really great words for him and I really appreciate judges respect to him.

If one disable can dance, then why not one disable can fight? I have seen one Taekwon-Do Competitor in Biringham, Uk. Who has not one hand but she was competing on the ITF Taekwon-Do where you have to use both punch and kick. But, she fought. She was practiced in so well manner that she could block the high kicks and punches of the opponent by her legs. She continuously won 12 fights and reached to the Final. In Final she loosed, but for me, She was the Winner, more, She was not only the winner of the Championship but more She was the winner of her life. I salute her again.

So why not we organize the Martial Art for the disable peoples. We can make Para Martial Art Federation and can develop and manage it through the World. This will be the great social work as well will promote the Martial Art.

So can we do this? Lets unite and do something for the Disables Martial Art.

Martial Artists' Blood

I don’t know from where I have to start to write. I always believe that one Martial Artist must have engaged him in a social work to prove that the martial artists have kind heart. Normally, the peoples in the society thinks that one Martial Artist has the strong heart, I mean, they can’t be soft and can only fight, fight and fight. But, I believe that is totally different, Martial Artists has the strong body but very soft and kind heart. The father of modern Martial Art Gichin Funakoshi, himself had described in his many books that the martial art is the philosophy of life more than the art of self defense or attack.



Why I am writing all these? I believe, any style of martial art gives people the way of their life. That’s why the founder of Taekwon-Do General Choi Hong Hi, made the slogans, Taekwon-Do the way of Life. That means, the martial art philosophy is little different than the people normally think.

Establishment of ITF Taekwon-Do in Nepal was very difficult and tough work for the entire team of Nepal ITF. The present president of Nepal ITF Krishna Bahadur Balal did very hard work and still he is doing it. Before ITF Taekwon-Do lunched in Nepal, the Martial Art is known as the art of kicking and punching, but after , the definition is changed. And, to make ITF Taekwon-Do popular in Nepal, we all did the hard work and we focused our activities on the Social Work as well.



Nepal ITF organizes the Blood Donation program at least once a year. Most of the players, Instructors, supports and the committee members donate their blood. It really gives the great satisfaction. For the easy logic, More we donate the blood, the people who will use that blood of our donation, will have the ITF Taekwon-Do Blood. Ha ha ha, this is just the joking truth, but , donation blood means saving the life of others without any selfishness, so it is great and it really gives the very deeper satisfaction.

This year when I was in the blood donation program that we organized ourselves, one of the people come to the Blood bank and asked for the B+ blood. But, there was shortage, no more B+ blood on the bank. I was standing near by him and filling the form to donate blood . On the moment, he asked my blood group with telling his emergency need of B+ blood. But, I couldn’t help him at that moment as I am in O+ Blood group. He was very nervous, I just told him not to worry and if there is God then He would definitely find the B+ Blood group. I told him that we had the blood donation program and any of our players might have the B+ blood group. He saw me surprisingly and just unbelievably asked me “Is it true that you all are Taekwon-Do people”. I said ‘Yes’.




One by one our player donated their blood and fortunately just one of them had the B+ blood group. Thanks God, that man smiled on me and took One Point of Blood and just smile and said to me “Thank you my friend, I never believe that Taekwon-Do people may have such a beautiful heart. I assure, I will motivated my son to start your Taekwon-Do Art.”

I always miss him.