Protection for Power Breaking

You may have noticed more and more videos of Taekwon-Do practitioners doing breaking with shoes on.

Some scoff at this. Surely this is cheating?

Learn in this video why adding levels of protection can propel your power breaking to a new level and with less injuries. Take it from the best… this is how world class athletes train in the 21st century.

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Protection for Power Breaking

You may have noticed more and more videos of Taekwon-Do practitioners doing breaking with shoes on.

Some scoff at this. Surely this is cheating?

Learn in this video why adding levels of protection can propel your power breaking to a new level and with less injuries. Take it from the best… this is how world class athletes train in the 21st century.

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.

Pain Course

At one time or another everyone has to deal with injuries and pain in their training and the resultant frustration, setbacks and remedial treatments.

This is an area of training where Taekwon-Do practitioners often struggle with finding the right balance between training and recovery.

In this collaboration with ITF Patterns Unleashed, Sanna Rantasaari, a physiotherapist and 5th degree black belt delivers a Taekwon-Do specific lecture on PAIN in this new TKDCoaching release.

You will learn:

How to understand and deal with pain as a martial artist

The relationship between pain and your brain

Current trends in soft tissue injury management

General guidelines for overuse and traumatic injuries

How to endure rehab time

Training with pain

and more in the Q & A at the end of the session

This is a must-watch course for anyone in Taekwon-Do so you can confidently manage yourself and guide your students on this important but often overlooked issue.

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.

Soledad Serrano Sessions – Melissa

A special session with Multi-World Champion and Expert Coach Soledad Serrano!

Soledad Serrano is one of the ITF World’s most successful and well known athletes from Argentina.  What you may not have known is she is an amazing coach with a mountain of great drills that will take your instructing to a new level.

This video is over 1 hour of great sparring drills and training suitable for all ages and levels.