Five Kicks in Taekwon-Do
There are only five kicks in Taekwon-Do!
Well five “groups” of kicks anyway.
This is the theory according to World Champ Brendan Doogan in this enlightening and entertaining video.
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Five Kicks in Taekwon-Do
Well five “groups” of kicks anyway.
This is the theory according to World Champ Brendan Doogan in this enlightening and entertaining video.
Power Breaking and the Theory of Power
Dan-Gun Tul is the pattern required at yellow belt level. This video features yellow belt Rebecca Chitty alongside ITF Patterns World Champion Miss Melissa Timperley, coached by Master Paul McPhail.
Although this level of critiquing may not be necessary at yellow belt level, it is hoped this video provides helpful tips to improve performance at any level. Some of the points raised by Master McPhail in the video are:
Correct intermediate positions for knifehand guarding block, twin forearm block and knifehand side strike
Correct finished heights and hand positions on various movements
Avoiding turning the fist before the end of the punch
Performing the pattern is Miss Rebeca Chitty, a yellow belt from Paul M Taekwon-Do in Auckland, New Zealand. Performing alongside her is Miss Melissa Timperley, ITF 3rd dan Patterns gold medallist in 2013 from Auckland New Zealand. The video begins with Rebecca performing the pattern alone, followed by an analysis of her pattern compared to Melissa. Then Melissa performs the pattern at the end of the video.
Snippets of amazing old footage
DON’T FORGET TO WATCH No. 10 – Paul McPhail performs Juche forwards and backwards
For my 5th degree black belt grading in 1993 I thought it would be a cool idea to perform Juche Tul forwards then backwards for General Choi…
Classic ITF Tournaments: World Champs 1994
Here is some classic (never before seen) footage of the 1994 ITF World Champs in Malaysia. It is 42 minutes of video that gives an idea of what this tournament was like.
Some people say it was the best World Champs ever. Some say the worst. Anyway – it was big! They had the opening ceremony in an outdoor arena with demonstrations from all the main countries.
You will see 3 minutes in the now infamous bout between a Kiwi Matt and Master Mark Hutton (then a 4th dan) where the Kiwi broke his nose – effectively counting him out of the patterns competition later in the tournament. Master Hutton never lets us forget that one.
Classic : American Self Defence
Here is American Self Defence TKD Style produced by the USTF in the 1980s.
You will see it is rather humorous to watch now – full of really bad advice and unrealistic scenarios (I’m sure they wouldn’t mind me saying that). What is really interesting is the snippets of TKD stuff throughout including some kicks breaking etc. Note how the USTF taught the side and turning kicks with the REALLY low knee chamber position. Not sure if they still do or not?
Classic ITF Personalities : Grand Master Sereff
This is a tribute video I made for Grand Master CE Sereff when brought him out to New Zealand in 2006.
We first met Grand Master Sereff in 1985 when he brought a team to compete at our tournament – the ITFNZ Sharp Internationals. We then attended his Camps in the Colorado Rocky Mountains a few times… and actually had our first seminar with General Choi there in 1990.
Grand Master Sereff and the USTF were a tremendous help to ITFNZ later as we were establishing our own independent orgainsation – and we continue to keep in touch. In fact GM Renee Sereff emailed me recently with the news that they want to re-establish contact with their Sister Organisations – which we are one. Very cool.