Originally, Tong Il Lo began as the children’s self-defense program, titled the “Hot Shots Anti-Kidnapping / Safety Awareness Program” in 1994.
Designed to teach children, ages 4 to 17 years old, the values of personal protection techniques and safety awareness, as well as, good family values, this award winning program has evolved into an actual martial art discipline which promotes leadership training, physical fitness, competitive spirit, self-discipline, and scholastic achievement.
Throughout its time, it has recruited the interest from thousands of participants, not only youth, but adults as well. In fact, with the request from the kid’s parents, we developed an adult version of Hot Shots, which focused on self-defense and the psychology of winning against an attack, called “Survivors Anti-Assault / Self-Empowerment.”
Today, with the leadership skills from the Senior Founder of Tong Il Lo Martial Science, Grandmaster William McDonald, Master Jeremy Wolfgang, and many other dynamic black belt instructors make this a fun and educational martial art system that is ranked with the highest of standards. Tong Il Lo offers a extraordinary blend of martial art disciplines for the most effective and practical self-defense purposes.
80% of our system is based on “real street” self-defense and the other 20% enforces self-empowerment methods (to master success rates in one’s everyday life) & safety strategy information (helping the students on subjects not only dealing with stranger-danger awareness, but also bullying, gang alertness, rape prevention, and substance abuse). In addition to this, leadership skills are developed in our students through assisting and teaching classes with their primary instructor. This helps build the student’s self-esteem and self-discipline, as well as, keeps their memory skills sharp and their techniques fine-tuned. This system is not only known for its top quality self-defense instruction. Tong Il Lo was proclaimed as “Outstanding Martial Art System”, by the United States Martial Arts Hall of Fame in 2004.
In addition, it has attributed international recognition by several world organizations and prestigious individuals for which Tong Il Lo has contributed donations for charitable causes. Such recognitions range from the Global Conservation Awareness Program, Rainforest Alliance Network, Kick Drugs Out of America, Soldiers’ Angels, American Red Cross, and many others. It is through contributions that we instill, to our students, the value of giving to those who are in need.
Without a doubt, this award winning program is one of the most respected martial art systems of our time. Indeed, Tong Il Lo Martial Science is designed to take anyone to a higher level of leadership, self-confidence, discipline, and martial art education.
Join us and make our system your system, and a way of life.
