태권라이프 in Busan

It tooks on 2nd of March 2008 with england Karate Kan.
this video shows what is different things from taekwondo to karate. We did sparring under the karate rule but next time we will mix the taekwondo rule.

1. Jiwook's fighting - use more left kicks and guards for head please. 대부분의 아이들이 지욱이 처럼 다른 종목의 무술과 겨루기를 하게되면 일단 호구가 없어서 당황하게 되는 경우가 많은데 이럴때를 대비하여 방어를 위한 손동작을 많이 가르쳐야 한다는 것을 느낍니다. 또한 시합 중에 간혹 집중력이 사라지는 경우가 있는데 이런 경우를 대비하여 집중력 훈련을 개발해야만 한다는 과제를 떠 안았습니다. 하지만 무엇보다도 빠른 움직임을 위해서 스텝 연습을 더 해야만 한다는 것도 새로운 과제이기도 하지요.

I t is to show about our curriculum for the students and what we will do on Grading test.

About Grading Test

Lower level students are need to show their confidence with kicks, basic motion, Poomsae and sparring but higher belt students who have blue belt and higher one, will do more than lower belts.

1. Better attitudes. (from bow and shouting to sparring skills)
2. More Poomsae.
 (5jang with 1jang, 6jang with 2jang, 7jang with 3jang, 8jang with 4jang and 8jang with 5jang in Poom grading test)
3. Higher fitness level. (more press ups, Sit-Ups and using other physical trainning ways)
4. Hard skill. (they must show combination kicks with steps during the sparrign time)

You can see more about Grading test post about the test.

About general curriculum

1. Discipline - basic manner to leader ship
2. warming up - basic warming up to ninja's safety falling skills.
3. Basic skills - 4 kinds of 10basic motion to kicks.
4. main practice - Poomsae, combination kicks, sparring
5. Taekwon Dance - for demonstration.
6. Taebo - for adults warming ups.
7. Meditation.
You can see more about each post

when you have any qustion, please send me a e-mail(taekwonlife@gmail.com) or leave it on track back and guest book.

The Origin of Poomsae 
 
The Taekwondo poomsaes are so designed to cope collectively with the outside threats in that society has already developed into an organized group, weakening the necessity of solitary individual defense measures. For the constituents of community, the practice and transmission of techniques should be convenient and less complicated. In that sense, the poomsae has been gradually systematized through practical experiences togther with the help of philosophical and medical sciences.
It is believed that in ancient times the poomsae was practiced among the ruling class and the first poomsae pattern appearing in the documents or monuments was around the first century, when Koguryo reined the Han (Korean) race.
 

 Definition of Poomsae 
 
Each poom of the poomsae has been inherited through a long history of about 5,000 years, finally as a product of scientific technique formulated on the basis of the traditional national spirit and practical experiments. From the technical viewpoint, the poomsae itself is Taekwondo, and the basic movements are no more than the preliminary actions to reach the poomsae. The Kyorugi is a practical application of the poomsae and the Taekwondo spirit is manifested not in an abstract mental philosophy expressed in the documents but in the actions of poomsae. Then, what is the Taekwondo poomsae? The poomsae is the style of conduct which expresses directly or indirectly mental and physical refinements as well as the principles of offense and defense resulting from cultivation of Taekwondo spirit and techniques.
 
 Significance of Poomsae
 
The poomsae is a series of movements for offense and defense techniques which can be practiced and trained, even without presence of an instructor, in accordance with the fixed patterns. Therefore, the poomsae has the merits, by its practice, to make the trainee enhance the Kyorugi techniques and applied techniques including special techniques which can hardly be practiced by the training of each separate basic movement alone.
The poomsae can be trained along the imaginary or drawn poomsae line, which marks the position of foot and the line direction to move along.
 
 
 Considerations for Training Poomsae 
  The poomsae is a series of alternate attack and defense actions : therefore, there are frequent changes of actions and connections of techniques. One must pay attention to the movement of body, eyes, respiration, etc. The steps of paying attention are as follow :
1)i A complete understanding of the significance of poomsae and the principles of its composition.
2) A perfect memorization of the poomsae line, movements and direction.
3) During the practice, the following must be taken into consideration :
(a) The eyes
(b) Movement of the center of balance
(c) Low or high speed
(d) Strong or weak force
(e) Respiration
 
 Training of Poomsae  
 
A completion of poomsae can be achieved through hard training following the 5 steps :
(1) Pattern
The first step of training poomsae is to learn the pattern. Concentration of spirit, eyes, angles of movements must be emphasized in addition to the accuracy of actions.
(2) Significance
In the next step, the emphasis must be laid on the balance, strength and weakness, low or high speed, respiration and poomsae line. The significance of movements, connection of pooms and the complete poomsae must be learned correctly.
(3) Practical Use
One must adapt what he has learned to his practical use, finding out the practicability.
(4) Self Style
One must evaluate his findings about the effectiveness of what he has learned, comparing with his bodily structure, speed, strength, muscle strength, impulsive power, points of emphasis in training, etc., and moderate the techniques into his own style.
(5) Completion
One achieves a synthetic accomplishment of poomsae training by mastering the art of Taekwondo techniques including Taekwondo spirit.
 
 
Categories of Poomsae 
 
The poomsae are categorized by the technique, composition and points of stress, which are classified each into 3 minor breakdowns.

(1) Technique
The technique means the technical patterns of the entire poomsae. The essence of Taekwondo is the martial art ; therefore, the categorization of practicable patterns of techniques is important.
a. Poomsae containing various techniques : This contains more techniques of chagi and makki than are needed for practical use. Practicable techniques must be selected among them in the course of training.
b. Poomsae containing practicable techniques : This includes practically used techniques only, which are classified into a series of chigi techniques, a series of makki techniques and a balanced combination of chigi and makki techniques.
c. Poomsae containing simple techniques : This is classified into the basic course and the advanced course, in the advanced course, the training of cultivating the inner strength of body by means of controlling the respiration is included. The variations of techniques should be mastered through hard training.

(2) Composition
The composition of poomsae movements is differentiated according to the proportion of poom and technique, hand techniques and foot techniques, and seogi and its moving directions. Except for certain special cases, the poomsae movements are equally distributed among all parts of the body symmetrically between fore and back and between left and right. Therefore, the proportion of foot techniques and hand techniques is the criteria to decide the composition of poomsae movements.
a. Poomsae with the priority on hand techniques
b. Poomsae with the priority on foot techniques
c. Poomsae in which hand techniques and foot techniques are evenly distributed.

(3) Points of Stress
The poomsae is also classified by the extent of emphasis in favor of either strength or softness and of either a slow movement or a fast movement. Strong but slow movements and speedy but soft movements are included in the similar categories.

a. Strong but slow poomsae
b. Weak but speedy poomsae
c. Poomsae well balanced in strength and weakness as well as in slowness and speediness.
However, the above methods of categorization are not absolute for the advanced course of training.
 
   
 Classification of Poomsae
 
Taegeuk poomsaes from 1(il) jang to 8(pal) jang are classified as Kup grader's poomsaes and the poomsaes from Koryo up to Ilyo as Dan-grader's, i.e., black-belter's poomsaes. The poomsaes consists of basic movements and poom and they are so arranged to fit the frame of movement direction, which is called the poomsae line. The poomsae lines are described after symbols or Chinese characters.
 
 
 Types of Poomsae Lines 
 
1) Taegeuk poomsae : This consists of 8 patterns symbolizing the 8 divination signs(bars) in the Oriental science of divination, and it is generally expressed by a Chinese character, meaning a king.
2) Koryo poomsae : the shape of a Chinese character, meaning a learned man.
3) Keumgang poomsae : a Chinese character, meaning a mountain (Mt. Diamond)
4) Taebaek poomsae : a Chinese character, meaning an artisan.
5) Pyongwon poomsae : a Chinese character, meaning one.
6) Sipjin poomsae : a Chinese character, meaning ten.
7) Jitae poomsae : the shape of a Korean vowel, sounding "oh"
8) Chonkwon poomsae : the shape of a Korean vowel, sounding "wu"
9) Hansu poomsae : a Chinese character, meaning water.
10) Ilyo poomsae : the shape of a reversed swastika sign.