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Usually we do it primarily by rank, then who's been that rank the longest, then by age. Our dojangs not all that strict when its comes to seniority in normal class though, just as long as the right grades are in the right places because it makes it easier to do forms and stuff. We do actually have one class per week where its just cardio and sparring so we where tshirts instead of the full dobok. If we line up then you just stand whereever you like. Kinda refreshing to get to stand at the back of class.

This will be my last year competing as a junior so I'm aiming to try and enter as many tournaments as possible. I'm also wanting to drop a bit of weight gain, more sideways flexibility and hopefully by the end of the year grade again. In September I'm going off to uni so I also want to spend as much time training at my current dojang as possible because I probably wont be able to train there much for 4 years.

It just means that free-sparring (both continuous and pointstop), semi-free, one-steps, two-steps and 3-steps will be covered.

Will do . On the program is: Patterns from Chon-Ji onwards, Total Sparring System (Sambo, Ibo, Ilbo, Ban-jaju, Jaju matsogi), Special Techniques, Power breaking and also Self-defense and Tando matsogi (defense against knife). Sounds like it will be good.

There's actually a three day one in 2 weeks that I'm going to with Master Hwang Ho here in the UK. He travelled with Gen. Choi and coaches the Czech Republic team.

Certainly hitting someone in the nose hurts. But who's to say that the foot is a sensible weapon to be hitting the nose with? Most systems use some variation of the "closest weapon, closest target" principle. Following this approach, the foot and the nose are basically furthest weapon to furthest target. Not a tactically sound approach at all, particularly in a self protection context. Not everyone expects the use of the legs though. Certainly most of the fights I've seen people tend to box rather than anything else. And if you are boxing, throwing a kick to the head admist the punching is not going to be expected. Sure it needs flexibility but it can be done. Its a tactic I use in normal sparring.

What kind of changes specifically? for exemple, in heian godan or bassai-dai when we raised the knee before de gedan-barai in kiba-dachi, in this book, we do the move without the knee, directly in kiba dachi. It's just a minor changes, not really important, you know, if you want to sell a new book, on the same subject, you need to something new...... In every book that I read on the ITF forms for TKD, I see all kinds of minor changes to the forms as well. Of all the book that I have read on this forms system, I have learned that A) none are the same, and B) none of them exactly match how my association does the forms, either.One thing about the ITF forms is they constantly get updated. Every year or so someone from the club (usually the instructor) attends an ICC seminar and we get told that certain moves have changed slightly. Take for instance the backfist, release, punch from Joong-Gun (moves 17-19), when I first learnt the form, I was taught not to move the feet but to rely on hip twist only and then change stance into the punch. Now I move the front foot and turn the hip to release while changing stance because its supposed to be more effective. Another example is the horizontal punch (soopyng jirugi) from Poe-Eun. Befoe I used to do it by bringing the hands in front of the body and punch out, now we are supposed to bring one hand back towards the armpit and the other hand across the body and punchout. That move changed because you get more power punching straight out rather than across (kinda difficult to explain what I mean). So the different variations arise because different people follow the different "editions" of the form.

That's if the low kick will work. There are several guys I train with how don't feel a thing if you catch them on the leg. Hit them in the nose though..

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Motivation in the class is kinda easy for me, mainly becasue of the people I train with. Several people are (or have been) on the national team, so I look to them as a sort of benchmark. I kinda try to be as good as them or at least half as good as them. Especially in the fitness classes I'll try and keep up with the fit people and won't let myself come last. Also I'm one of the higher grades in my classes (and one of the older kids) so I have a lot of people that look toward me as a guide of how the techniques should be done. This means that I have to try and get everything right and as near perfect as possible because others are watching me. Do what bushido_man said though and set short term goals to try and accomplish. Even if its something little like learning to do a block well or being able to hold a kick for a length of time etc. Something I try to do is to video myself doing forms or sparring every now and again and compare it to how I was a year ago. It helps to know that you are actually improving even when it feels like your not.

If you get stuck you could just buy a white one and dye it? Or roll around in the grass for a while.. There are various places that design custom gi's for teamwear so you could probably try there.

Like a 360 roundhouse? I found this video helpful as the guy explains things well in the info bit: http://youtube.com/watch?v=9TGwO1o8wfA

Thats a lot of people. Party time?

In sparring I tend to use the first 30 secs to feel my opponent out, like what attacks they like to use, how they defend. Obviously in a street fight that won't be too practical.

In TKD I've been with the same instructor since the day I started training. My first lesson was actually his first lesson teaching at our club as he was taking over from our current assistant instructor. I've never felt the need to swap dojangs and actually most of the other places around here are substandard so I'm kinda lucky really that I get excellent teaching and train with some great people. I'm leaving around September-ish though as I'm going off to uni but I expect I'll be back in the holidays (or when I take my washing home ). I've only just started within Tai Chi really so I've had the one instructor for that too.

You'd have to look into the circumstances. It does sound very doubtful, however if that person had trained in a very similar style and had acheived a high rank within in that, then it is possible that they were fasttracked through the ranks. They could also have had a high intensity training programme, something like training all day 5 days, a week could mean a ranking faster but I'm inclined to be skeptical of such a high rank in so little time.

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Congratulations.

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I would advise that she gets used to actually hitting something. Either the boards themsleves like ps1 suggested, or use a pad or something to get her to feel what its like to make full contact with an object. You can buy children's re-breakable boards with a layer of foam padding. They seem less scary but offer about the same resistance as a pine board. Whatever you practice on I would make sure she breaks at least once before the actual grading. Good luck to her.

Maybe for sparring your sensei will let you wear some protective gear? I think you can buy stuff which you can wear under your gi? Then you can continue sparring but have a some sort of reduced risk. I would get a second opinion though and ask your doctor what he precautions he would advise if you were to continue training.

I just downloaded that.. I'm awful at it. My strategy at the moment is to hide somewhere and just fire randomly until I die Kwonho is an alright game, doesn't feature any weapons though. I used to play it on ijji.com but they've removed it. Not sure where you can find it now.

I have that on my MP3 player . He has released a couple of albums (I think) they're mainly love songs though.