Interview with Grand Master Gerhard Brunner

"Commit your spirit to the pursuit of excellence!" Kwan-Jang-Nim Gerhard Brunner was born in Munich and has been actively practicing Taekwondo for over 45 years. He has been teaching taekwondo for several decades and was appointed 9th DAN in September 2022 by the Secretary General of the International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF) in Korea for his numerous contributions to the spread of taekwondo. After setting up a number of schools in Germany, he moved to the USA in 1997. There he opened the first traditional Taekwondo school in Tampa, Florida. In addition, he is the first certified Kimoodo instructor in the USA. Grandmaster Brunner enjoys great international recognition and has received numerous awards, including the Hall of Fame Award (in 2012) for his outstanding achievements in traditional Taekwondo and the award "European Grandmaster of the Year 2017". In 2022 Grandmaster Brunner also celebrated his 25th anniversary in the USA. He looks back on many successful years in which he was able to bring Taekwondo closer to countless people and anchor it as a constant in their lives. Grandmaster Brunner continues to visit his system schools in Germany regularly. Several times a year he visits all schools as part of a Germany-wide course weekend, teaches courses that are both sweaty and inspiring and conducts belt tests.