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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.

just tell the kid to pay attention, he won't cry about it kids are always being told to pay attention

some of the instructors in our division have made jackets and t-shirts for their schools. i have the oppertunity to do that in my school. one of my students parents run a printing and silkscreening company. i can afford and i don't plan on making more money just getting back what i put into it. if your an instructor, have you done this and how did it work out for you? for students would you buy a t-shirt that your instructor designed for your school? cost will probably be about $12.00 or so

i teach in an elementary school from kindergarden to fifth grade. some of my students have a hard time standing still and keeping their hands to themselves but for the most part i can control them. they have shown great progress in training and in regular school studies. parents have seen a great change in most of them and the kids seem to connect now outside of training. they try to impress me by telling me every wed. how they have used our training principles through the week. last week was their last class til next year and to my suprize three of them showed up at the classes i train at. i am very proud of them. on the topic at hand, i think the younger students benefit greatly by having tkd in their school. some of the staff their don't like me too much, typical bias of martial arts is not a real sport. also a few parents don't like the way i instruct their children. those are the ones that say "i USED to be a black belt". i don't think having ma in a high school is too great of an idea for the reason that teens can be very mean and have very cruel intentions. not all of them ofcourse. but i think it would b e better for a teen to find a dojang. in this way the bullies won't be taking it as much because its not in the convience of having it at school.

i couldn't imagine losing my instructor and i'm probably way lower rank than you. first of all, where ever you train, take your sesais legacy with you. even if you choose another martial arts altogether, let your sensai live through your technique and dedication. where or what you train in and promote in are less important then the mental part of it. where ever you go, hold a high enough standard, meaning ask yourself if your sensai would like this school. if your other instructors there don't approve of your personal buisness then wipe your hands clean of that school and know that it is their loss not yours. if you have been training for years, its more mental i would assume. i wish you were close enough to my area to train in our system. its not kerate but you would be recognized for your previous accomplishments and would probably start out close to black belt level. for the heck of it, if you are near one, check out Grandmaster Hans world youn wha ryu association. good luck to you and i am deeply sorry for your loss.

i figured no one in this site would be there but it would be cool to meet some of you and compete.

was wondering if anyone in the illinois missouri kansas oaklahoma arkansas or iowa was competing in the show me games in columbia missouri in the last weekend of july. i'm pretty sure its only tkd but any tkd system is welcome. its full contact with head punches no takedowns or throws though. anyways hope to see and meet some of you if your in the surrounding areas.

i joined because my wife and son had been in it for about six months and they seemed to be a lot closer than before and i was jealous. shortly after i was aproached to be an instructor (2 green). i've been instructing for a year now and run two schools and don't get paid. i can't picture doing anything else nor can i see how i made it this far without martial arts. my wife teaches with me and now i have two sons in it that we train together as much as possible.

red bull and kfc breakfast or dinner

in our system of tkd the sidekick is executed with the pivoting foot turned 110 degrees almost perpendicular to the target head and body are erect aas possible not leaning away from the target. for me it is very useful as i am a small guy aboout 150 5'8'. i can jab it out there twice in the time you throw a roundhouse. i use it to keep distance and also back kicks which are close to the same. the two are my most used. i would put my trust in it to keep an attacker at a distance.

we have many hand techniques in our system and are less traditional than most tkd in the manner that we are mixed martial arts with tkd as the foundation. we have great footwork techniques but we also learn to stand our ground and much of our blocking is deflection rather than taking the full force of a kick or punch i guess it can be better understood as guiding the attacks away rather than blocking... if that makes any sense