After completing an admission exam in 1982, Dr. Constantine Beis was admitted to the Supreme Physical Education Academy of the «Johann Wolfgang Gaite» University in Frankfurt, where he selected the Sports Medicine specialty.
He was later admitted to the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Faculty of Physical Education & Sport Science (1984). His graduate Thesis on Taekwondo, titled “The Philosophy of Taekwondo”, for which he received an A+, was the first Thesis written on Taekwondo in Greece.
In 1993, he was the first among Greek coaches of various sports to be admitted to the Graduate Coaching Program (M.Sc.) at the Democritus University of Thrace Faculty of Physical Education & Sports Science. In 1996, he presented his M.Sc.-Thesis on “Injuries in Taekwondo athletes in Hellenic Taekwondo Federation National Championships”. This was the first post-graduate Thesis on Taekwondo in Greece, for which he received an A+.
In 1997, while doing his PhD at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Faculty of Physical Education & Sport Science, Dr. Beis started working on his PhD-Thesis on the “Human Performance and Health” field. The subject was “Craniocerebral and Cervical Spinal Injuries in Taekwondo and Boxing”, for which he also received an A+. This was the first PhD-Thesis on Taekwondo in Greece, in 2001.
Dr. Beis has been teaching the practice part courses of Taekwondo (elective) and “Taekwondo–W.T.F.” (specialization) at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Faculty of Physical Education & Sport Science since 1991; He has been teaching the above-mentioned courses since 2018, as well as the newly-introduced course “Taekwondo–I.T.F.” (specialization).
He has taught theory and practice at 11 W.T.F. Coaching Schools (participation of General Secretariat of Sports and the Hellenic Taekwondo Federation from 1994 – 2006) and two International Taekwondo Coaching Schools, those of the Hellenic Taekwondo Federation and the European Taekwondo Union (1999 & 2011). He also taught Taekwondo theory at the Taekwondo–ITF Coaching School in 2019 (participation of General Secretariat of Sports and the Taekwondo Athletic Federation of Greece-ITF, in Thessaloniki).
In 1994, Dr. Beis was recommended by the Hellenic National Taekwondo Federation to teach self-defense at the respective department of the Athens General Police Administration and did so for one week.
Dr. Beis has been repeatedly invited to theory and practice seminars from the Taekwondo Union of Northern Greece, Local Committees, Clubs, “Open University of Thessaloniki”, and the “Olympic Taekwondo Coaching Union of Greece”.
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