This is why I dislike the A, B, C method that Gen Choi used in his pattern diagrams, as sometimes they seem 'too exact' and other times 'not exact...
I was taught the 'basic' application for Twin vertical Punch was to strike the jaw either side. So, with that said (I was also taught) a single...
I am sort of with Master Weiss... in patterns, it tends to remain slighty bent, but so slightly you can barely see it. I just looked at some...
Blue belt is usually a reasonably senior (junior) grade in TKD... averagely about 2 to 3 years to get to. Did you take gradings before then? If...
The one (main) problem people have with flying kicks is they don't relax enough... whilst all techniques should remain relaxed until point of...
It happens all the time. Years ago I was doing a pattern and someone took a photo and the flash went off, right in my face and it totally threw...
Maybe cos its not a 'sine-wave'... its a 'knee-spring'.. mystery solved ;) Thanks, you have just reasoned out a long running discussion on knee...
I don't follow! It mentions the knees flexing in the introductory text to the section, then says 'slightly bent....' under the picture! Or are...
Yes.. sorry for not being clear - that is what I was alluding to. Stuart
But (until/unless it was changed in later editions), the 'sine wave' pics were simply up/down... so if that's how they were ' meant to be' .....
Meant to reply to this a while back, but got tied up doing other things and forgot. Anyway, sure I can get the 'too much reading into the term...
No, you miss the point when I say the moves before & after flow with the one being discussed - sure they all connect nicely, but you don't have to...
Funnily enough, I was gonna mention that as well.. whilst on one hand you could see the tul as 'randomly put together', if it was just single...
And I still feel it is. Very few we even looking at alternative applications in TKD when I brought out my firs book in 2006 and as stated...
[ Sorry, what is it I`m meant to ask them? The whole point was, if I recall, that I was talking about what was readily available from early on in...
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