Welcome to the Chon Ji Tae Kwon Do Club!

Welcome to the Chon Ji Tae Kwon Do Club! Our club trains in the Arlington/Somerville/Cambridge area of Massachusetts. We practice Tae Kwon Do, a Korean martial art known for its high, devastating kicks – including a wide variety of jumping kicks – its powerful hand strikes, and its strong defensive techniques. We have also incorporated a variety of other martial arts into our training – including boxing, kickboxing and grappling techniques – to round out our training. We have found this style of Tae Kwon Do training to be physically demanding and mentally challenging, and to make for an incredibly satisfying workout.

Although our martial arts school is only a few years old, neither our head instructor, David Zanger, nor any of the students who helped form the Club are new to martial arts or to this area. Mr. Zanger has been studying martial arts for over 30 years, including 20 years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was the head instructor of the MIT Tae Kwon Do Club. The students who began the club with Mr. Zanger are all mid-level or advanced students, with more than 6 years of training each.

We invite everyone – from beginners with no martial arts training at all to experienced martial artists – to join us. In fact, many beginners who began their training under Mr. Zanger over the years have earned their black belt in Tae Kwon Do and have continued training for years afterwards. And because our Club is completely non-profit (not even Mr. Zanger gets paid for teaching classes), the costs of joining our Club are very low, and we’re happy to waive even those low costs for students who need a waiver. Our only goal is to have a school of dedicated, serious martial arts students.

For more information on our Club’s main focus in training in Tae Kwon Do, on the training history of our instructors, on joining our Club, on our practice times and locations, or on the costs of joining our Club, please choose a topic from the buttons at the left. And again, welcome to the Chon Ji Tae Kwon Do Club!