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When you start off learning to spar in TaeKwonDo, you will more often then not be shown short 2 step combinations which are usually the foundations on which to build more complex 3 step and more combinations. In sparring with TaeKwonDo , ideally you want to always use at at least a 2 step combination in order to be able …
Bullying has become an epidemic, each month 282,000 students are physically assaulted in some way in secondary schools throughout the United States; and statistics suggest that revenge due to bullying, is the number one motivator for school shootings(EducationCorner). In this post we are going to talk about how Taekwondo can help combat bullying in the following ways: Confidence Respect Discipline …
If you learning TaeKwondo from a Master who is from Korea and who perhaps learned Tawkwondo at a university such as Yong University, then you will probably be spoken to in class a mixture of Korean and English. At my schools this is how it is done. So what is the essential terminology and words used in TaeKwonDo? The essential …
One of the most important things you can do before training for your kicks or poomsae’s, regardless of your age, when practicing Taekwondo is to make sure you warm up and stretch properly whether you are practicing at home or at your school. My Taekwondo Warm Up and Stretching Exercises Include: Jumping Jacks Circle Hips Knee Warmup Short Stretch Long …
Lets face it, if your native language is English , learning even the most basic numbers in Korean is no easy task. At my Taekwondo School the master is Korean and is always changing between speaking in English and Korean. Sometimes he counts the steps of the forms in English and sometimes in Korean. For someone like me who is, …
