younwhadoug

is there a grandmaster in your system and if so have you or do you take a class instructed by him/her? if so how is it (if it is at all) different from training under your regular instructor? when we have testing, grandmaster Han will hold an advanced class the night before and also an hour of class during the testing break. i have noticed his training is a lot more repetitive than my regular instructor. it also seems like everyone works harder which is no surprise i guess. i enjoyed the reptitiveness and intensenessof the atmosphere when he is there. he is a 70 yo man and can still run circles around his 4th dans. its pretty amazing to me

its about 2 hours from st louis i think bushido man. if he needs exact directions have him email me at wgmartialarts@yahoo.com

my instructor is a fourth dan, teaches youn wha tkd, judo, tai chi, and whatever else our system offers.

take some ibprofen before you start and stretch out before your class stretches out and stretch after class is over. practice breathing while your working your kicks and technique. i am a red bull fanatic so i recomend get an energy drink before class and slam it. mainly though, the extra stretches and breathing techniques will help more than any supplement or energy drink.

i think it was cool of you to act, it kinda sounds like the rest of the party was jut standing there waiting for a fight to break out. isn't it a great feeling to be able to defend yourself?

we are martial artists and have to step up when no one will. we have training principals that we must live by. when i read your story it makes me proud to be a martial artist. next time, don't think twice. know that you will help in any way you presently can. i admire your actions

not that you haven't addressed this but i must say, in our system we have awesome self defense that in some ways we focus on more than the kicks and basic technique. list some of the advanced kicks that you do so we know what to tell you. use your skip kicks to add a kick of your choice. take one cool as hell awsome tkd kick at a time. get it down and then move on to the next. its hard to kill 12 birds with one wheel kick. also so you know who your talking to, i am a red belt instructor so you may not think this info is useful. hope it helps!

heres a few on this site, its tkd, i thought these kicks were awesome. http://www.tkdtutor.com/09Techniques/Kicks/KickInfo.htm

i have wondered about this. i like the idea, our sytem of tkd is pretty tough though, i would like to learn some elbos and knees though. we drill with knees and elbos but not with sparring. not yet!

yeah it is pretty safe. we ave many children in our system and also a lot of people that only train 1 or two hours a week. they would get beat down too hard if not for the gear. but the gear only applies to sparring class. we actually spar a lot after classes too when all we have with us is hand and foot gear.

its when you do a double ax kick from your back strating with one leg doing an inside out and the other an outside in. thats what i think your referring to.

full contact to me is anything goes as far as sweeps punches to the face submissions. full gear in our system is head protector chest protector mouth peice hands and foot gear. we fight pretty hard but with limits, cant punch to the head and no sweeps or takedowns, unless your a second dan or above and thats not in compitition. first dans and above can fight two on one. sweeps aloud no submissions. no head punches

we have a lot of japanese influince in our tkd system. a long with all the awesome kicks. we also have some chinese boxing, wing chun and very forceful self defense as well as aikido and hapkido. but thats way up in advancement i'm not there yet.

seems like you know quite a bit. why take away from it just to call it "your style".. i think if you can add to it, great. update and add but keep training. i understand you have been training for a life time... but so far its a short life time. give training another 20 years. just a thought!

we have classes with nothing but hand work and i really enjoy it. blocking a kick you see coming feels good but being able to block fast hard punches feels better. i'm glad your enjoying it and found what youve been looking for.