Kukkiwon Certification
We have been teaching the martial art / sport of Taekwondo since 1997 and have schools in two (2) different locations within the East Bay Area; Fremont and Pleasanton. We teach in the World Taekwondo style which is the Olympic style of Taekwondo. We certify all of our black belts with Kukkiwon. Kukkiwon is the only organization that certifies authentic black belts, recognized by Member National Associations (MNAs) under the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to be eligible to compete in the Olympic Games, World Championships, and World Taekwondo sanctioned championships under the IOC banner.
Vision
Why Mach Martial Arts?
Our dreams and hopes are simple.
We want to change the world, one martial artist at a time.
For our students to truly come to love themselves so they’ll be compelled towards excellence.
The PURPOSE of our program is to establish SELF-RESPECT, SELF-LOVE, SELF-ESTEEM, SELF-BELIEF, and SELF-CONFIDENCE.
We do this by first helping students link pleasure with attending our classes. Then, we help students establish these fundamental aspects with basic everyday functions (kicks, poomsae, breaking, performing in front of others, etc.) and healthy habits (being clean, helping others, sharing, being aware of surroundings, etc.) to help them understand how to reach their goals “to work smarter, not harder” by automating tasks and responsibilities as much as possible.
We do this by deliberately enforcing repetition. The 10,000-hour rule: “the key to achieving true expertise in any skill is simply a matter of practicing for at least 10,000 hours” (so it becomes automatic).
Additionally, the quintessential part of our program is showing students HOW to create a vision (being healthy in mind, body, soul, and spirit), set a long-term goal (becoming a black belt), and take small (automated) steps with short-term goals towards that long-term goal (progressing through each belt) to ultimately reach/maintain/enhance their vision.
In this process, we further develop other aspects of self improvement within our purpose so that students may use this experience and knowledge in their personal and professional life to “adult” into well-rounded, contributing LEADERS (not just members) within our community/society.
Thank you for considering Mach Martial Arts in the important decision of entrusting us with a part of your growth and maturity. We hope to witness all the beautiful and wonderful moments that will shape the person of who you are and who you will come to be. ๐
์ย Mach Martial Artsย ์ธ๊ฐ?
์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ย ๊ฟ๊ณผย ํฌ๋ง์ย ๋จ์ํฉ๋๋ค.
๋ฌด์ ๋กย ํ๋ช
,ย ํ๋ช
์ย ์ธ์์ย ๋ฐ๊พธ๊ณ ,
์ฐ๋ฆฌย ํ์๋ค์ดย ์ฐ์ํจ์ย ํฅํดย ๊ฐ์ย ์๋๋ก,ย ์์ ์ย ์ง์ ์ผ๋กย ์ฌ๋ํ๊ฒย ํ๊ณ ย ์ถ์ต๋๋ค.
์ฐ๋ฆฌ ํ๋ก๊ทธ๋จ์ ๋ชฉ์ ์ย ์์กด๊ฐ,ย ์์ ์ย ์ฌ๋,ย ์๋ถ์ฌ,ย ์์ ์ย ๋ฏฟ์,ย ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ย ์์ ๊ฐ์ย ํ๋ฆฝํ๋ย ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค.
์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ๋ชฉ์ ์ ์ํํ๊ธฐ ์ํด, ๋ค์๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ด ํฉ๋๋ค:
์ฒซ๋ฒ์งธ,ย ํ์๋ค์ดย ์์ ์ย ์ฐธ์ฌํ๋ย ๊ฒ๊ณผย ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์์ย ์ฐ๊ฒฐํดย ์ค๋๋ค.
๊ทธ ๋ค์, ํ์๋ค์ด ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์ธ ์ผ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ(๋ฐ์ฐจ๊ธฐ, ํ์, ๋จ ์์์ performance/demonstrationย ํ๋ย ๊ฒ,ย ๋ฑ)๊ณผ ๊ฑด๊ฐํ ์ต๊ด(๊นจ๋ํจ,ย ๋จ์ย ๋๋ย ๊ฒ,ย ๋๋,ย ์ฃผ๋ณย ์ธ์ย ๋ฑ)์ผ๋ก ์ด๋ฌํ ๊ทผ๋ณธ์ ์ธ ์ธก๋ฉด์ ์ ๋ฆฝํ์ฌ, ๊ณผ์ ์์ฑ ์์ย ์ต๋ํย ์๋ํํ์ฌย ๋ชฉํ๋ฅผย โํ๋ค๊ฒย ๋ฌ์ฑํ๊ธฐย ๋ณด๋คย ํ๋ช ํ๊ฒโย ํ๋ย ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ย ์ดํดํ ย ์ย ์๋๋กย ๋์๋๋ค.
์๋ํ ๋ ์ ์๋๋ก, ์๋์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ฐ๋ณต์ ์ํํฉ๋๋ค: 10,000์๊ฐ์ย ๊ท์น: “๋ชจ๋ ๊ธฐ์ ์์ ์ง์ ํ ์ ๋ฌธ ์ง์์ ์ป๋ ๋น๊ฒฐ์ ๋จ์ํ ์ต์ 10,000์๊ฐ ๋์ ์ฐ์ตํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค.”
๋ํ,ย ์ฐ๋ฆฌย ํ๋ก๊ทธ๋จ์ย ํต์ฌ์ ์ธย ๋ถ๋ถ์ย ํ์๋ค์๊ฒย ๋น์ ์ย ์์ฐ๋ย ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ(๋ง์, ๋ชธ, ์ํผ, ์ ์ ์ด ๊ฑด๊ฐํจ), ์ฅ๊ธฐ๋ชฉํ๋ฅผย ์ค์ ํ๋ย ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ(๊ฒ์ ๋ ๊ฐ ๋จ), ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ถ๊ทน์ ์ผ๋ก ๋น์ ์ ๋๋ฌํ๊ธฐ ์ํ ๋จ๊ธฐ ๋ชฉํ(๊ฐย ๋ฒจํธ๋ฅผย ํตํดย ์งํ๋จ)๋ก ์์ (์๋ํ๋) ๋จ๊ณ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค.
์ดย ๊ณผ์ ์์,ย ์์ย ๋งํย ๋ชฉ์ ย ๋ด์ย ์๊ธฐย ๊ฐ์ ์ย ๋ย ๋ค๋ฅธย ์ธก๋ฉด์ย ๋์ฑย ๋ฐ์ ์์ผ,ย ํ์๋ค์ดย ๊ฐ์ธย ๋ฐย ํ๊ต/์ง์ ์ํ ์์ ๊ฒฝํ๊ณผ ์ง์์ ํ์ฉํ์ฌ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ณต๋์ฒด/์ฌํย ์ย (๊ตฌ์ฑ์์ผ๋ก์๋ฟ๋งย ์๋๋ผ)ย ๋ค์ฌ๋ค๋ฅํ๊ณ ย ๊ธฐ์ฌํ๋ย ๋ฆฌ๋๋กย ์ฑ์ฅํ ย ์ย ์๋๋กํฉ๋๋ค.
์์ด์ย ์ฑ์ฅ๊ณผย ์ฑ์๋์ย ์ผ๋ถ๋ฅผย ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์๊ฒย ๋งก๊ธฐ๊ฒ ๋ค๋ย ์ค์ํย ๊ฒฐ์ ์ย Mach Martial Arts๋ฅผย ๊ณ ๋ คํดย ์ฃผ์ ์ย ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค.ย ํ์ฌ์ย ๋ฏธ๋์ย ์์ด๋ฅผย ํ์ฑํ ย ๋ชจ๋ ย ์๋ฆ๋ต๊ณ ย ๋ฉ์งย ์๊ฐ๋ค์ย ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐย ๋ชฉ๊ฒฉํ ์ ์๊ธธ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ฉฐ… ^^
Honest Mind. Right Thinking. Loving Heart. Strength in the Body.
– Mach Martial Arts
Mission Statement
I want to have a love of self; the ability to self-reflect and possess self-awareness that surpasses my current state and condition.ย I want to love others in the same manner, because the capacity to love others will grow exponentially more when I truly come to love myself.ย I want to love wisely and not sparingly; to strive to excel in all I do, in all that I put my mind to, in every aspect of being โhuman.โ I want to present the best version of myself to others in mind, body, soul and spirit.ย I want to strive not for perfection, but for wholeness. I want to influence the future generations to realize their full-potential; in essence, to foster a safe environment where they can learn to accomplish their greatest feat in life:ย to love themselves to the fullness they deserve to be loved.
Benefits of Taekwondo
Increase self-esteem, self-confidence, self-discipline, control and focus, social interactions, teamwork, have and show respect for self and others, learn to fail and/or never give up, learn to accomplish goals and enjoy the process.
Teach in the World Taekwondo Style (Olympic Style Taekwondo).
Black Belt certification with Kukkiwon (the official governing body established by the South Korean government for Taekwondo, which is embraced globally as the standard of excellence in Taekwondo training as a martial art).
History of Mach Martial Arts
Grandmaster Jooyoung Ahn’sย philosophy of life was simple because he realized that “less is more.” He knew deep within his heart that if he could plant just one small seed of hope and confidence in every child that comes through his doors, they would grow up to be UNSTOPPABLE.

Therefore, he, together with his wife, Mrs. Hyunsook Ahn, established Mach Martial Arts in Fremont, CA more than 25 years ago, with the simple and humble dream of creating a Taekwondo Family; a safe community amidst the constant change of life, where students of all ages can find their sense of belonging, to feel loved, be free to explore and train. Since then, they passed down their personal philosophy to their two sons; Master Sungjin Ahn and Master Sungwoo Ahn.

Master Sungjin Ahn is the head master at Fremont Mach Martial Arts.
