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Samantha Harrop practice's her side kicks
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A young student, Jade Slavin(blue belt+red tag) in a fighting stance as we warm up. It is important to warm up the whole body before a training session, otherwise you end up with pulled muscles and all manner of other injurys.
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Christine, Practicing a new pattern(poomse)Each pattern has its individual properties and strengths, Il Jang(pattern one)Introduces the student to the form,it has a fairly simple arrangement and a variety of powerful techneques.
Kumgang (pattern ten) has only six different techneques,a very powerful pattern, it is still difficult to get right.
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This is a kind of stamina training, Ian takes the pad the full length of the Dojang(training hall)with Jackie putting in a tremendous amount of kicks and pushing the pad backwards. But the hardest part is when she comes back down the Dojang in defence with the pad pushing back.
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David (black tag) is a sport Taekwondo fan and enjoys that side of Taekwondo where as others prefere the more traditional Taekwondo of Poomse. Poomse is an ancient way of practicing full force strikes and blocks,where as sport Taekwondo is an Olympic sport practiced with head and body protection...Full contact.
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Below, The Judges Table.Left to right,
Master Val Walton, Master Tom Walton and Steve Lewin 3rd Dan.
For Kup grades (white to black tag)it is these judges you have to impress, a black belt will take you through the commands for the basics that you need to learn for your next belt. Each grade also has a poomse (pattern) they need to learn for each grade, there is also controlled one step sparring as well as free sparring.So a certain standard of fitness is to be maintained.I think it's fair to say that most people like to get gradings behind them, though they go a lot easier if you put the effort before hand.
Train hard - grade easy
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