Chucky

CrazyAZNRocker wrote: You are partially wrong and correct here. Very few ITF schools teach the 80/20 bouncing, just because it makes it hard to use one leg when almost your entire weight is supported on it. we teach the 50/50 in sparring, to have both feet ready and "sharp" to react on any attack

If you want to beat up big people, go play football... We're not teaching MA to people who just want a fight, but if you manage to find someone who will teach you with your attitude, you'll hopefully change that attitude before you get any good. I've trained TKD for 8 years and instructed in 5 of them, and that is NOT the attitude to get an instructor to want to teach you MA...

The sine like movements isn't hard to learn, and when you've trained it a few years, you'll start wondering how other styles manage to hit hard when they don't have this movement (this is NOT ment as dirttrowing against other styles/arts)!!??!?!? The fact is that with this movement you can concentrate your mind on one thing: release all of your power when you are trough wth the movement and the fot "lands", example: From a walkingstance with a low block (gunnun so palmok najunde/laine magki) you are about to go forward in another walking stance, but punching. So you bend your knees and reaches the lowest point when your feet are parallell. You strech them out on your way forward, and when you are getting close to the length etc that your stance should have, you "land" your foot at the same time as you're punching. It's very difficult to explain... searh for videos of patterns to see it by yourself, or seek out a Chang Hun TKD school

Sho-ju wrote: If I misunderstood the question I must be a very stupid person...http://smilies.sofrayt.com/%5E/h0/nut.gif

the sinus-like movements, was created for two purposes. 1. Increase power of the punches, bloks etc. (and it works) 2 (this I'm not so proud of) This movement was introduced to Chang Hun TKD to make it more spectator friendly. Its nicer to look at... you know... a facy thing

the major difference from the Chang Hun style and other TKD styles, is the patterns. We have longer stands than other styles. We also focus very much on the sinus-like movements. If you watch the patterns on this site http://mchenry.homeip.net/TangSooDo/forms/index.htm you'll se that our patterns (ITF tuls) is quite different from the other TKD Patterns

https://www.itf-online.com https://www.gtftaekwondo.com http://mchenry.homeip.net/TangSooDo/forms/index.htm ITF patterns... Use these sites to find info. about Chng Hun TKD. It's quite different from other TKD styles