Quick Tips for Sparring – that’s all
That’s all our Quick Sparring Tips for now!
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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.
The plan failed miserably as I started the backwards part… I hadn’t even considered the possibility that General Choi would take offence to it. He turned his head and refused to watch. I figured… well… I may as well carry on now and struggled through to the end.
I passed the grading so I guess the General had forgiven me by the day the results were announced.
Here is the footage of the pattern at the grading.
Quick Tips for Sparring 3
He’s trying to push me
If you don’t retract your kick as fast as possible you run the risk of your opponent gaining control of your leg as demonstrated here. The aim is to get the kick back down to the ground as quickly as possible, as we are more venerable with one foot in the air.
Technical Quick Tips
We have been listening!
Members Watch the Video Series
Many of you have told us you just don’t have time to watch long videos!
So we have been responding with our series on Sparring Quick Tips AND NOW new monthly videos on Technical Quick Tips by Expert Coach Mr Brendan Doogan!
So until you get more time to watch our 250 hours of ITF Content… just enjoy these quick tip videos each month.
Quick Tips for Sparring
Need some quick tips for free sparring?
In a new series for TKDCoaching Members, Mr Mark Trotter teaches sparring skills and tips that are easy to learn and understand.
Instructors – use these as teaching ideas for your next class. And those new to sparring will learn lots of new skills to help you improve.
Members get these sparring tips each month.
TKD Kubz Instructors Course
Master Hutton is happy to grant access to the full Kubz course to our Premium Members and TKD Kubz Instructors.
He would however like to monitor who has access to the course so if you would like to see all 67 clips just ask for a password and private link.
TKD Kubz Instructors and TKDCoaching Premium Members now have access to a Full day Kubz Instructors’ course taught by Master Hutton himself.
The course video has been divided into 67 clips! The first 6 clips are available to Premium Members instantly, the remainder are available to Premium Members and Kubz Instructors with permission of Master Hutton.
Regardless of whether you have a Kubz class or not, this course will give you a many useful tools for teaching children – and adults for that matter.
The program is all about
ITF Technical Seminar On-line
In December 2020 the ITF Hosted an On-line Technical Seminar. We had well over 1000 participants from 60 countries take part.
Here is a bit of behind the scenes background… and some new videos to come out of it.
This course came about due to Covid19. Around the world we were starting to get a backlog of people who wanted to grade for higher degrees but couldn’t, due to the requirement to do an IIC. So originally the idea was to do an on-line IIC.
After some discussion it was decided by the Technical Committee and the ITF Board to do a qualifying course for gradings… but it would be different from an IIC (obviously), so wouldn’t be called one.
The plan was for each of the technical committee members to create videos of our subject matter, and use those videos in conjunction with live Q&As. So we all set about doing that – only to find on our first practice that the videos would be too unreliable to use. Depending on the connection, they could be shaky and with bad audio.
So two weeks out, and already 800 registrations, we had to change our plan.
So we each then had to find people to work with, either in person or remotely, to demonstrate the patterns and do corrections with them. Master Judet and GM Lan were able to do that in person, but the rest of us had to work with people in remote locations.
In a way it worked out well as our sessions took on a different feel as we brought in some of the best pattern performers from around the world. I got to work with some world champions from Argentina and it was nice to meet and practice with them on-line.
Leading up to the seminar I have to tell you we were nervous. How would Zoom cope with 1000 participants… and how would we? With the help of the chairman of the Communications Committee we practiced being able to find the people in Zoom, Spotlighting them to full screen and so on. I also used some slides to try and make the most of what Zoom can do.
In the end we were happy with the way it all went. Everyone was so positive and we hardly had anyone drop off over the four hour sessions each day.
So some of the videos I prepared that didn’t end up being used, so I have uploading those for Members to watch.
This videos ended up being quite different from the Live version so should be of value even if you were at the seminar.