Ho Sin Sul

[islandman]

it is a requirement for each test until black belt in my class .

i know a total of 18 and i've only gone up 3 ranks.

[YoungMan]

We don't have required self defense for testings. Black belts will work with each other on self defense, and we also include self defense in our periodic seminars to help students realize Tae Kwon Do is not just free fighting and forms-it has real world applications.

I like to include at least one self defense application in every session in which I work with other black belts.

[bushido_man96]

We don't have any required Ho Sin Sul, but we do have required one-steps. Lately, I have been analyzing them, and thinking of ways to "evolve" them into self-defense techniques.

[YoungMan]

Anyway, I'm not a big fan of intricate 4-5 step self defense routines like you see in magazines. Takes too long and hard to remember. I am a fan of being aware of distances, angles, physical build, height differential etc., and using that as a guide to what may work in a given situation.

I also, unlike some some people, don't automatically assume that joint locking, throws, and ground work will be my self defense of choice. Nice to know? Sure. But my side kick will serve me just as well outside as in class.

[JWLuiza]

We don't have any required Ho Sin Sul, but we do have required one-steps. Lately, I have been analyzing them, and thinking of ways to "evolve" them into self-defense techniques.

Drill 1: Take the one steps out of the downblock, straight punch paradigm. Apply from natural positions, instead of stances. Try to apply the one-step. Start off with signaling the attack, and eventually move to single attack half-speed sparring (i.e. attacker can deliver any kick or strike, but only one) . Adapt the one-step to a sparring situation.

Drill 2: Take the movements and apply them from a close, grappling position.

[bushido_man96]

Thanks for the tips, John. We have been working the one-steps into kind of a flow drill in class, and I have been seeing some spots where I get that "oh, yeah, then you do this, from the one-step, and get this" stuff going on. It is that moment of enlightenment, it seems. Very nice, when we get to do it.

[YoungMan]

What I like to do is extract techniques from forms and utilize them in one-step. To show students these techniques actually do work against people. Otherwise, forms just because a series of movements they have to learn to test.

[bushido_man96]

What I like to do is extract techniques from forms and utilize them in one-step. To show students these techniques actually do work against people. Otherwise, forms just because a series of movements they have to learn to test.

I agree with you here 100%.

[YoungMan]

I don't recommend color belts do this. Color belts need to just follow along with what their Instructor says and get used to the movements. But black belt is a time to experiment, within the class paradigm, to see what works. I remember myself and friends of mine used to work on techniques that, though never officially taught to us, utilized vital spots, forms techniques, and our creativity to see if they might work. If they seemed viable, we stuck with them. That's how arts and styles develop.

[DWx]

I don't recommend color belts do this. Color belts need to just follow along with what their Instructor says and get used to the movements. But black belt is a time to experiment, within the class paradigm, to see what works. I remember myself and friends of mine used to work on techniques that, though never officially taught to us, utilized vital spots, forms techniques, and our creativity to see if they might work. If they seemed viable, we stuck with them. That's how arts and styles develop.

I have to disagree. I think that colored belts are perfectly capable of understanding and utilising what they have been taught. In our dojang we teach only 1 set example of a 1 step and my instructor only shows what you "could" do for Ho Sin Sul. Even white belts have to create their own for and all grades are fully encouraged to apply form movements and interpretations. I have always thought the colored belts did very well with it.