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Shinn's From A Heart Attack
To A Black Belt In Taekwondo

Dan spent five years getiing his black belt in TaeKwonDo. He began studying
under Grand Master J. Kim at Lansing Community College in 1993, attending class
one day a week. He later augmented his training at Michigan State University
where Grand Master Kim also taught. However, because he was in an
environment where most of the students were young by comparison, Dan began
investigating other options. That's when he found Master D. S. Shinn at Shinn's
TaeKwonDo Academy in Okemos. Master Shinn shared the style and ideals taught
by Grand Maste Kim so he could provide Dan with the quality of instruction he was
seeking, give him more personal instruction with an opportunity for long term
advanced study, and allow Dan to train with people closer to his age. So, in 1996
Dan began training with Master Shinn, who awarded him his black belt in January
1998.

Becoming more physically active after his heart attack was not the only challenge
Dan had to overcome. He is a disabled veteran, having served in the Army during
the Vietnam era, where he lost fourty-per-cent of the mobility in his left shoulder.
He spent a year in the hospital undergoing multiple surgeries as his shoulder was
being reconstructed using bone grafts from his hip. The resulting arthritis in his
shoulder and hip makes most training-time painful. But that doesn't stop Dan from
pushing forward - without as much as a complaint about the pain. "That's where
the tenets of TaeKwonDo come in," according to Dan. "My father first introduced

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Shinn's	From A Heart Attack To A Black Belt In Taekwondo
	Dan spent five years getiing his black belt in TaeKwonDo. He began studying under Grand Master J. Kim at Lansing Community College in 1993, attending class one day a week. He later augmented his training at Michigan State University where Grand Master Kim also taught. However, because he was in an environment where most of the students were young by comparison, Dan began investigating other options. That's when he found Master D. S. Shinn at Shinn's TaeKwonDo Academy in Okemos. Master Shinn shared the style and ideals taught by Grand Maste Kim so he could provide Dan with the quality of instruction he was seeking, give him more personal instruction with an opportunity for long term advanced study, and allow Dan to train with people closer to his age. So, in 1996 Dan began training with Master Shinn, who awarded him his black belt in January 1998. Becoming more physically active after his heart attack was not the only challenge Dan had to overcome. He is a disabled veteran, having served in the Army during the Vietnam era, where he lost fourty-per-cent of the mobility in his left shoulder. He spent a year in the hospital undergoing multiple surgeries as his shoulder was being reconstructed using bone grafts from his hip. The resulting arthritis in his shoulder and hip makes most training-time painful. But that doesn't stop Dan from pushing forward - without as much as a complaint about the pain. "That's where the tenets of TaeKwonDo come in," according to Dan. "My father first introduced p. 3

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