I had an email some time ago from Master Ikpeme, following my resignation mail... Dear Master Olpin, I and entire members of the Nigerian Taekwondo Foundation 1975 (NTf75) have received with dismay the sad story of you resignation from IJF and sympathize with you over the scandalous and unfortunate ...

And finally I received this from Master Lau Dear Master Olpin Thanks for your e-mail It is so nice to hear someone is doing something to justify what haase had done .It is also ashamed that we have haase inside the taekwondo world. If you ever need my support,just say the word.best of luck of your m...

Having established who he was I sent a further reply: Hello Mr Lau, Thank you for your reply Sir. The more we look into Haase\'s background the more I am amazed by just how many people were drawn in by his deception. I freely admit that I feel rather foolish that I did not see through his lies earli...

The guy in HK \'fessed up, it seems my earlier mails helped.... Master Olpin My name is David Lau from Hong Kong,and before i returned to HK,i follow the instruction of GM Rhee Ki Ha since 1976. I have joined WTF few years back,and obtained 5th degree,a few of my friends fell into the Haase\'s trap ...

[quote=\"Maxwell S. Oates\"]I as well feel that there is much information here and we have all essentially laid bare our training history and ups and downs. Also, it would be advisable for you to put an Official Message of Copywrite or Warning by way of another Topic that all the informati...

[quote=\"tgkick\"] In regards to the Kwan fella - that\'s fine with me. [/quote] Likewise I have no problem with other genuine individuals joining the forum, I would however insist that any new member be properly identifiable by ourselves and that they register with their full name and ver...

[quote=\"tgkick\"]One more comment, I did send an email yesterday. All of you should have gotten it. No one replied yet.[/quote]

Yes Tom I got it...

[quote=\"Maxwell S. Oates\"]Today, I received the ITF cheque for US$226. So he is making good on his obligations. That clears me. I will put the update in the Progress Section.[/quote] Good news, perhaps you should pass on an \'official\' comment from the forum to say that we see this as a...

Dear Mr.Johnson After reading you post,I must disagrees with you,Mr.Ian Bruton although is a II Dan,but he is a fine instructor,at lease he is a reconised ITF II Dan,next time if you are in Hong Kong,please drop in to my dojang,and see my instructors will satisfied you needs,and also,what is the th...

Just wondering. I have never yet sent a message to Tim Tharp. Just wondering if you have? I am trying to substanciate whether Dafyd is telling the truth or not concerning a Forum member contacting Tim. I wonder if he resigned or was he expelled. He contacted me, sorry I thought I had posted that in...

How long ago is it the Dafyd said he sent my IJF certification.....


Stangely enough, nothing has arrived yet.

This received today from an anonymous person, their email being \" grand44@netvigator.com \". As far as I can tell Netvigator is an ISP in Hong Kong, do we know anyone there? It is very sad to noticed a Master like yourself being a part of fraud haase\'s group,and obtainning ITF black belt...

[quote=\"Maxwell S. Oates\"] There remains some excellent GM\'s in ITF-NK such as GM Hwang, as we have seen, and the 9th Dan Korean GM in England. [/quote] I presume you are referring to Grandmaster Rhee Ki Ha. It was Grandmaster Rhee who actually introduced TKD into England in 1967, and w...

[quote=\"tgkick\"] Listen, don\'t tell Max, Rich, or Alfred, but I\'ll print you a real nice 20x30 certificate with your name and style on it. It\'ll only cost $200 per art you mentioned above. But today, and today only, I\'ll let you have all nine recognized for the bargin price of $1500....

Interesting to see Tim Tharpe\'s name mentioned... I received this from him today.. Mr. Olpin, Let me introduce myself. My name is Tim Tharp and I have had some dealings with Dafyd Haase and the IJF. I sent him $200 dollars and for a 4th Dan in TKD and he has never sent a certificate or anything. I ...

I really have no idea what happened.... All the posts are there in the database, but the topic entry seems to have just disappeared! I did notice a few problems recently caused by extra long posts getting truncated, this resulted in formatting problems caused by comments/quotes etc not being properl...

Just a quickie... If you take a look on the front page of the Evolution News website (UK site for the Martial Arts Industry Assiciation), you\'ll se a pictue or yours truly with Master Steve LaValle from Florida. Master LaValle is one of eh top school owners inthe US and thoroughly nice guy too.. No...

PLease feel free to continue with General Discussion here..

June 2001 $400 USD ref ITF 4th Degree Interestingly. as this value was paid from my school (business) account, yet nothing was forthcoming from Haase so I could not prove this money was a proper business expense and so I had to pay tax on it, at 40% this was therefore another $160 USD down the drai...

I first contacted Haase in December 2000, just a general enquiry at the time. I had recently left a major UK Association due to the increasing politics and was simply looking to expand and network with other like-minded instructors. The initial response that I received from Haase was most compliment...