More Than A Martial Art
Bulsajo has been teaching traditional Moodukkwan Taekwondo to the Glades community for years. We are here to give people in Belle Glade and Clewiston the chance to learn a martial art properly — and to walk out with the things a martial art actually builds. The training is traditional, the standard is high, and the dojang is a place every student is genuinely glad to walk into.
From Every Failure We Rise
That line is printed on the back of our camp shirts, and it is not decoration. Bulsajo — 블사조 — is Korean for the phoenix, the bird that rises from its own ashes. It is the mark on our crest and it is the whole idea of the school.
Nobody earns a belt for being naturally gifted
They earn it for coming back after the kick they missed, the form they forgot, and the test they were not ready for. Never give up, never stop, keep going — and keep going through the hard stretches, because that is where the belt is actually earned. A student who learns that at nine years old has learned something that has nothing to do with Taekwondo.
The Tenets Of Taekwondo
Every Taekwondo school in the world is built on the same five tenets. We hold students to them on the mat and expect to hear about it when they hold to them off the mat.
Courtesy
Be respectful. To your instructors, to the student beside you, and to people outside the dojang who will never see you train.
Integrity
Be honest. Count the repetitions you actually did. Say when you do not know something instead of hiding it.
Perseverance
Keep going. Progress here is slow on purpose — three months to a belt, about four years to a black belt, and no way to rush either one.
Self-Control
Hold the power back. Control of your temper and your mouth counts exactly as much as control of your foot.
Indomitable Spirit
Never give up. The willingness to stand up one more time than you were put down.
And one more that we add ourselves: stay willing to adapt and to learn. A black belt who believes they are finished has stopped being a martial artist. The best students in this dojang are the ones still asking questions.
It Is Not Just Kicking And Punching
The point of training is a well-rounded martial artist, not a good kicker. Almost everything a student practises here transfers, and we say so out loud in class rather than hoping they work it out.
Everyday life
Showing up on the days you do not feel like it. Finishing what you started. Taking a correction without falling apart, and giving one without being unkind.
School and work
Focus for a full hour. Listening the first time. Standing up straight, looking an adult in the eye, and speaking so you can be heard — the things that get a young person taken seriously.
Health and fitness
Being genuinely fit matters, and we do not pretend otherwise: strength, flexibility, balance and wind. A body that still works in thirty years is worth training for now.
Money, work and business
The same habits, in a different room. Patience, repetition, doing the boring part properly, and waiting for a reward that arrives three months from now instead of today.
Master Skye
Master Skye earned his 1st degree black belt in Olympic style Taekwondo in Mexico City, at what was then the Víctor Estrada school's main location — under Grandmaster Víctor Estrada Sr. and Marcos Estrada, general directors of the Asociación de Taekwondo Víctor Estrada, the school of the Olympic medalist whose name it carries. Bulsajo remains formally affiliated with the association.
He did not do it alone, and he does not claim to. Almost everything he teaches his students, his first master taught him — years of training together and many schools opened side by side. When the time finally came to open a studio of his own, it was his turn to stand tall on his own feet as a martial artist, and his first master was beside him every step of the way: in person when he was around, and in spirit ever since.
Today he studies under Grandmaster Daniel Baez, a 9th dan grandmaster certified by the Kukkiwon, who accepted him as a student and works alongside him — a steady influence through his adult years as a practitioner. Grandmaster Baez knew his first master and understands where he comes from, which is worth more than any certificate.
Martial arts gave Master Skye his discipline, his health and the standard he holds himself to, and every master and teacher along the way had a hand in it. The way he intends to honor that work is simple: work as hard for his students as they worked for him. Bulsajo is the platform for it — and he still teaches on the floor every week. The approach is traditional — forms, terminology, respect — and nobody gets left behind for being shy, small, or brand new.
Students come for the belts. What they take home is bigger: the ability to stand up straight, look an adult in the eye, and finish what they started.
A Program In Its Community
Bulsajo is a Glades school. Belle Glade and Clewiston are where our students live, where their families sit down to watch a graduation, and where the camp buses go on a field trip day.
The relationships matter in both directions. In the martial arts world we are tied to the Kukkiwon, World Moo Duk Kwan, the Asociación Víctor Estrada in Mexico and Kombat Taekwondo — which is how a belt earned in Belle Glade means something outside of it. Locally we run after school pickup and holiday camps, and we sit alongside the Palm Beach County Police Athletic League, which runs youth programs here in Belle Glade.
Not every family that walks in is looking for a black belt, and that is fine. The door is open to anyone in the Glades who wants the chance to learn this.
Where It Happens
Mats, flags, heavy bags, and a room full of kids who count down to the next class.
Questions
What age can my child start?
Do we need any experience?
What should we wear to the first class?
How long does a black belt take?
Is Taekwondo safe for kids?
Are we locked into a contract?
Come Meet Us
Watch a class, say hello, and decide afterwards. You are welcome any week.