{"id":1448,"date":"2016-02-15T05:00:47","date_gmt":"2016-02-14T21:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ywo.id.au\/blog\/?p=1448"},"modified":"2025-02-23T21:38:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T13:38:49","slug":"master-vernon-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/2016\/02\/15\/master-vernon-low\/","title":{"rendered":"Master Vernon Low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firsttkd.com\/instructors\/master-instructor-vernon-low.html\">Master Vernon Low<\/a> is the head of First Tae Kwon Do. He began teaching the Art of Tae Kwon Do in his native Malaysia in the early 1960s, and was the first instructor to introduce that martial art to South Australia later\u00a0that decade. Earlier this month, Master Low visited Perth to teach an advanced class.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1450\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1450\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1450\" src=\"https:\/\/ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/YWO_ND2_47828s-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"First Tae Kwon Do Master Instructor Vernon Low, February 2016, Perth\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/YWO_ND2_47828s.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/YWO_ND2_47828s-120x80.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1450\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FTKD Master Vernon Low, February 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firsttkd.com\/instructors\/chief-instructor-john-o-brien.html\">Chief Instructor John O&#8217;Brien<\/a>\u00a0began learning under Master Low&#8217;s instruction, as one of his earliest Australian students, in the late 1960s. He assisted Master Low at the class earlier this month.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1451\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1451\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1451\" src=\"https:\/\/ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/YWO_ND2_47843s-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"First Tae Kwon Do Chief Instructor John O'Brien, February 2016, Perth\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/YWO_ND2_47843s.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/YWO_ND2_47843s-120x80.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1451\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FTKD Chief Instructor John O&#8217;Brien, February 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>More photographs (including some of mine) have been released\u00a0on-line at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.990409191052943.1073741829.980052375421958&amp;type=3\">First Tae Kwon Do WA&#8217;s Facebook site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Master Vernon Low is the head of First Tae Kwon Do. He began teaching the Art of Tae Kwon Do in his native Malaysia in the early 1960s, and was the first instructor to introduce that martial art to South Australia later\u00a0that decade. Earlier this month, Master Low visited Perth to teach an advanced class.&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/2016\/02\/15\/master-vernon-low\/\" class=\"read-more\" title=\"Master Vernon Low\"><span>Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text sr-only\">Master Vernon Low<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[278,292,70,260,277],"class_list":["post-1448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-martial-arts","tag-ftkd","tag-john-obrien","tag-martial-arts","tag-tkd","tag-vernon-low"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4162,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions\/4162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}