A great weekend spent at the T-UK instructor and child protection course held in Stratford Upon Avon. An essential update of qualifications to keep the Warwick and Kineton TKD club at the top of their game.
Well done Warwick-TKD, Chief Instructor Martin Noddings, Assistant Instructors Brian Feely, Lynda Parnell and senior coloured belts John and Rachel Hoult; Kineton-TKD Chief Instructor Lynda Parnell and Assistant Instructor Tom Dixon in theirs and their clubs progression and improvement and even better standards of teaching.
Tuesdays class meet Fridays class (although a few missing faces due to sickness and holidays). A great start to the year with great enthusiasm and team spirit within the club. Well done all, looking forward to a year of excellence :)
Empowerment, self-belief, confidence, training, skills - The recipe for excellent self-defence:
Women's only self-defence class starting 6th Feb Warwick, sign up to feel like these empowered Grannies :)
For those martial artists taking their training and development seriously strength and strength endurance gains are an important part of your training regime. It will make you able to perform difficult techniques better, generate more power, enable you to take bigger hits, reduce the likelihood of injury. However your weight training regime could be causing you injuries and instability if done wrong. TKD requires a multitude of physiological abilities:
After last nights black belt session at the Warwick-TKD club and the knife defence skills we practiced I thought I would post the below CCTV footage of a knife attack (please be aware it is graphic) but it allows you to see what a typical knife attack looks like and thus be a little bit more aware and ready if you are unfortunate enough to be in this situation.
Students are always looking at how they can improve their kicking, jumping technique, patterns and sparring abilities. This is a multifunctional approach to achieve this:
- Perfect kicking practice and drills
- Lower body power improvement
- Balance and coordination improvement (proprioception)
In this video GM Nardizzi describe the blocking and attacking tools using parts of the foot and list all the kicks they are used for.
In this video GM Nardizzi describe the blocking and attacking tools using parts of the hand which are learnt by colourbelt grade students. He shows you how to correctly form the fist, knife-hand and other tools.
In this video GM Nargizzi talks about techniques that have the words Back or Side Back in its name.
In previous videos, He explained how the definition of Front, Side Front and Side techniques follow certain rules and can be considered as categories. To complete the series he shows there's only a few techniques that are called Back or Side techniques, therefore, it is difficult to identify them as categories.
In this video GM Nardizzi explains how side techniques are defined in Taekwon-Do.
The rules for defining side blocks and strikes are slightly different to that of side punches and thrusts. A side block or side strike can be performed with the body side facing or half facing. But what about a punch? Is a punch with the body half facing classed as a side punch? Watch this video for the answer:
