#WT Poomsae

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Special USA Taekwondo Team Trial For New Poomsae Divisions

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Let’s throw Sport Poomsae vs. Traditional Forms in the ring. What is the difference?

Traditional forms is like its name, the more traditional event for forms competition. Depending on the type of event, you may have a certain selection of forms you can do based on style, martial art, etc. There are also open testimonial forms events where anyone from any martial art doing any form can compete with their form. For the sake of this post, we will assume Taekwondo competition event with only Korean forms allowed.

Traditional forms do not have a standard way to do each and every move. You need to do your form correctly and not modify it, but there’s no standard to exactly how every single move should look because different styles and Dojang have different ways of doing their moves. Instead, they look for power, energy, and good presentation. At the end, they will simple hold their hand out and point to whoever they feel had a better form.

Sport Poomsae is much more complicated. Sport Poomsae is limited to only WT taeguk and black belt forms. In this event, there is a standard for exactly how each and every move should be performed and you cannot stray from this without loosing points. But what do I mean by points?

Much to the confusion of many traditional martial artists, sport poomsae has scoring. You start with 10 points, and throughout your form 0.1 or 0.3 deductions will be made based on accuracy issues. Accuracy deductions may include things like a stance not being the right length/width, your arm being a bit off to the side, or your back leg not being at the exact right angle. After you have finished your form, the judges will then put in presentation. Presentation is the power, energy, and flow of your form. They have a range of scores they will give based on how good your presentation is. At the end, they average these points up and you have your score, the highest score in the division wins.

Although these two events both revolve around forms, they are massively different. Both require skill and dedication to be good at, but have much different ways to go about training and winning.

[kcowgill]

First off, the car from yesterday. At the tail end of the one on one with my boss on Tuesday, we admired the new car. Cars. There was another one, but I didn’t feel like it fit in with the theme. It was just a BMW SUV.

10/18/2017 1.65 miles

I wasn’t sure what I was going to do today. I started out wanting to hit maybe my mileage goal from yesterday (my plan until the end of the year, more or less, is a run streak - with the exception that if at any point I feel like I need to take a rest day, I will. But the option is open and available should I decide to make another go of it) - 2.5 miles, but then I also wanted to run my planned 3-3.5ish tomorrow, so a little after I hit a mile (at a gradually increasing speed) I decided to call it at 1.5 (and take the .15 for a cool down).

Because I went over with the expectation that I was going to have a longer run, I DIDN’T take my swimsuit to stretch out in the hot tub. So back to the office. I had asked prior to heading out whether or not the peppered flank steak was gluten free or not - it was served with “Dijon Aus”*. I still didn’t have an answer but I was perplexed by this by the soup:

?!?!?

Now they’re** just messing with me***.

Later on the family went to taekwondo. Master Michael wasn’t there, instead Mark (3rd degree) was there to warm us up. Afterwards, he was about to set us down the line kicking the heavy targets when Master Chung showed up. So instead we lined up and did some combination kicks/kick punch combos. Quite a few.

Then forms. Chunji through taegeuk 5 as a group, then Master Chung had Mark split off and teach the blue/high blue belt taegeuk 5. The rest of us did taegeuk 6, then Master Chung led me through taegeuk 7. With sets of 20 pushups interspersed along in there, and even a set of 10 nearly-burpees (pushup then jumping jack).

Then he split us up to work on self defense. I got paired up with Chaz, a high blue belt but quite young (maybe 12ish?). I basically let him do self-defense 1 through 6 at me, giving him pointers/reminder along the way, and then I refreshed his memory on self defense 7 and 8. When he didn’t have some of the finer points down, I was an “unwilling participant” (basically if he wasn’t applying the correct pressure on my wrist I wasn’t going to yield). I sort of half did 1-8 against him, but given his age and his lack of knowledge of how to fall, I was super easy on him.

After that, Master Chung showed the class a “basic knife defense” skill which started out pretty much like self defense 7 but went straight for the takedown and included a tear inducing**** weapon removal.

Afterwards (and after homework/baths/bedtime was complete) my wife and I had a bit of a chat about our future in taekwondo. She really doesn’t want to stay. I don’t either, but I DO want to stay long enough to get a black belt. Or if Master Lee opens a school I’d jump immediately. The main issue is that if I were to go anywhere else, my color belt is essentially meaningless. Ostensibly I could attain a black belt at my current dojang in 3 more belt tests - red, red/black, black. I’d have to ask to pay for/test all the “stars” they require, though. Usually once a student hits red belt you have to accumulate stars before getting to the next belt. This is EITHER a way to offset the increased price of the higher belt, OR to prolong the amount of training time required to get the next rank.

But given that:

They feel like they’re gravitating towards being a belt-mill, and

I asked the owners son if I needed to go through the stars and he suggested I didn’t, and

My wife has suggested as much about the price offsetting feature

I may just be able to blast through in 6 months (i.e. through the April belt test).

Will I feel bad about getting a black belt at a belt-mill? Maybe a little. But I know I will put in the time with outside practice to make me feel like I’ve earned it.

* If anyone can tell me what in the world that is (and don’t tell me “served with au jus juices” is an acceptable phrase, I’ll turn around and “automated ATM machine” and “personal PIN number” you so fast your head will spin).

** Technically it’s the fault of the kitchen in the building, which is not part of the company I work for. I believe they print the ingredient cards with our corporate logo.

*** For the uninitiated, there are no gluten containing ingredients listed. Corn starch does not have gluten. Also “contains” is misspelled.

**** His target dummy/guinea pig was Liev (Lev?) A fairly young (13ish?) 1st degree black belt. Master Chung MIGHT have been a bit too rough on him while pinning Liev’s elbow with his knee for the disarming. Liev cried a bit. I’m conflicted a bit - as a parent, I get it. But, the kid’s a black belt.

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DIAMOND BLOCK (금강 막기)

Hey! It’s me again. Seong Taehoon. Welcome to my blog collab. My guest today is a Karate dweeb.

This guy! The one in the middle. @ji-yeon-woo. 

(Wow, look at his dumb face. After our collab we’re gonna beat the shit out of each other. :D)

At his suggestion, I’m going to teach everyone an advanced block, and he’s going to teach you an advanced Kyokushin kick. Disciples with colored belts, you can ignore this lesson for now. Look at it again when I start teaching you double hand block.

The block has two versions: WT-style and ITF-style. I've been teaching you the WT-styled Taekwondo for a while now, so I'm gonna keep it that way. Once I'm done with all the techniques on my list, I will consider asking dad for more ITF Taekwondo lessons.

Ok, enough yapping. Diamond block (geumgang makgi) is one of the highlights of Geumgang poomsae. The poomsae is taught for black belt second dan. It consists of the downward block (naeryeo makgi) and the upward block (eolgul makgi). The block is usually performed with the back stance (dwit kubi) or crane stance (hakdari seogi).   

The block is used to deflect attacks to major points: the head and the groin. It is for fights against multiple opponents. 

Just to make it clear. There are many more variations of the diamond block, including diamond body block (mostly in ITF, with upward block and outward inner wrist middle block), hand blade diamond block (same movements, only replace the fists with hand blades). Yes, not that complicated. 

What I show you below is the standard crane stance-diamond block.

Step 1: Stand in back stance or crane stance.

Step 2: Remember the first hand position of the downward block? If not, check here. How about the upward block? Check again. Place the hand performing the downward block near your shoulder, and the hand performing the upward block around your waist.  

Step 3: Start to move two hands at the same time, make sure to keep the hand doing the downward block inside and close to your body. The hand doing the upward block is placed outside, but also close to the other hand.

Step 4: Raise your hand to block the head and sweep your hand to block the lower body at the same time. 

Step 5: Repeat with the other leg. 

Notice:

When blocking, the lower blocking hand is located at the front foot, or in case of the crane stance, the lifting leg. 

In performance, always look forward, in the direction of your front/lifting leg. In a fighting, look at the direction of your opponents. 

The hand of the lower block is placed about two fists above your thigh, and the hand of the upper block is placed about one fist above the head.  

[pridebudoblr]

Do you practice itf or wt style taekwondo?

my school does WT style. had just switched off of ITF when i joined. though i do plan to learn the ITF poomsae as well eventually

[stephfitblr]

holiday training pt 2

a few more students showed up today, but we still didn’t have a “structured” class. Basically Grandmaster worked with the newer students and I worked with the advanced belts.

A dan bo preparing to test in the spring asked me to show him one of GM’s creative forms. Beyond our normal WT poomsae (Taeguek 1-8 and the black belt forms like Koryo and up) we also have a set of “creative forms” that Grandmaster’s Grandmaster taught (does that make him our great-Grandmaster? 🤪). There’s five total and I know 1, 2, and the first half of 3.

I said I wouldn’t mind and walked him through it. The first creative form is meant to be at a white belt level so it’s pretty quick to pick up. I left him to practice it for a bit while I ran through my own stuff and then rejoined him. Another black belt came up to us and asked about creative #2, so the three of us went through it together. After a few minutes GM asked what we were doing and we demonstrated. He pointed out a few differences (stances are old school which means you gotta get LOW) and told everyone to speed it up. He ran through it once with us and I was the only one who could keep up the pace. Again - a test.

Speaking of tests, he told us to practice that and then he went off to work with BW, the inactive black/white belt I wrote about previously. This left a green belt student alone. I knew that the right thing to do would be to stop my personal training and help him so I left my group and worked with him on Taeguek 5. We did it together a few times, then I had him do it alone. I pointed out two things to fix and let him practice.

I was going back to my corner of the mat when GM asked me what I was working on. I said “a little of everything” and he said “I saw, nice job��� - referencing my time with both the dan bo and the green belt. I passed that test, phew.

He spent the rest of the time with me. We did koryo through shipjin together. When we had finished, I noticed everyone was watching. One student said in awe that they had never seen GM do those forms. Another one said we looked very in sync and it was fun to watch us. That made me feel nice. GM told me that I have all the big motions down, I just need to finesse.

Tomorrow is the competition team’s workout. GM told me that he’s going to record video of me doing all my poomsae so he can show me things to work on. Hopefully that goes well!

[masterimo]

Today, 2020 World Taekwondo Online Partnership Taekwondo Program has come to an end with last training course 10th 2020 WT PTP Time: 18:00pm - 23:00pm (local time in China, Beijing GMT +8). Partnership Taekwondo Program is organized by World Taekwondo to provide opportunity to learn advanced Kyorugi & Poomsae as well as a chance for the participants to experience Korean culture. Whereas the lecturers were kind, the lecture was also interesting. The lecturers have worked hard to develop our taekwondo skills to a higher level. Staff members were very kind, I had a wonderful experience. Participating in this program has been the best decision I made! Thanks all! (at Abuja, Nigeria) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJVuHb5gv4i/?igshid=50ha41dnfit4

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Coach César Valentim (세자르 발렌팀) started as an athlete in 1983 at Sport Lisboa e Benfica (Lisbon, Portugal) where he did gymnastics, swimming and tennis. In 1990 the club hired a Taekwondo trainer, and that´s when a new found passion arrived. While conciliating it with other sports, Taekwondo was always the preferred choice and, in 1997, Coach César Valentim started to help coaching while still being an athlete. Finishing his studies and doing his compulsory military duties, Coach César Valentim has been working on sports administration since 2003 while completing his higher education. As a coach has been responsible for several Dojangs (clubs) and was several times Head of Delegation for the Portuguese National & Olympic Teams. Coach César Valentim was also a member of the Brazilian Taekwondo Delegation at the 2012 London Olympic Games. On his first year in Austria he was also co-trainer for the Vienna Regional Squad. He is also an International Referee for the World Taekwondo Federation (WT), both for Kyorugi and for Poomsae. Coach Cesar Valentim is an International Para Taekwondo Classifier since 2014. Coach César Valentim received several commendations, the biggest ones are from Kukkiwon's President (2011) and World Taekwondo President (2012). As a consultant he works for the São Tomé e Príncipe Taekwondo Federation and other natikns. Was a member of the World Taekwondo Federation Para Taekwondo Poomsae Committee and also a board member of the Vienna Taekwondo Federation in Austria. He also coached the Austrian National Team at the 2016 World Championships and other international events. Coach César Valentim has been lecturing on Taekwondo and Para Taekwondo around the World with seminars and workshops in dozens of countries in all 5 continental regions. #taekwondo #FightLikeAGirl #InternationalTaekwondoAlliance #WeTrainHarder #CoachCesarValentim #ASKÖWien #ParaTaekwondo #WorldTaekwondo #ChungDoKwan #wientkd #asköwatwien #Hapkido #KHFA #WienTaekwondo #TaekwondoWien #WienHapkido #HapkidoWien #wienhkd #taenergy #WirSindTaekwondo #SindWirEhAlleDa #haltdiepratze (at Wien Taekwondo) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1iD_KvI6Ew/?igshid=ngjg0gwyg9cv

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"Do not fall into the trap of thinking that just because a kata begins on the left, that the opponent is attacking from the left." - Kenwa Mabuni - Founder of Shito-Ryu Karate "Kata" is the Japanese term for "Form" or "Pattern", otherwise known in the Korean language as "Hyung" or "Poomsae". This form tells us that the directional movements in the form are not meant to be taken literally, as in turning 90 degrees to the left to defend an incoming attack, etc.. Common sense tells us that when a threat is detected, we will turn to face it. The movement in the photo is a movement from Taekwondo WT Poomsae Taebaek - 3rd Dan form. #taekwondo #taekwondowtf #taekwondoitf #karate #shitoryu #kenwamabuni #taebaek #poomsae #kata #hyung #lighthouse #traineveryday #traditional #ocean #gaspesie #instagram #Tangsoodo https://www.instagram.com/p/BzCV9bQhbaz/?igshid=10xintzezfu0m

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Macau International Taekwondo Open Championships 28 to 30 October 2017 #poomsae #kyorugi #taekwondo #worldtaekwondo #wt invitation at www.facebook.com/macautaekwondo (at Macao, China)

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Two Koreas hold first-ever joint taekwondo demonstration in Pyongyang

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Two Koreas hold first-ever joint taekwondo demonstration in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, April 2 (Joint Press Corps-Yonhap) — South Korea’s taekwondo demonstration team gave a joint performance with a North Korean team in Pyongyang on Monday, the first of its kind to be held in the North’s capital.

The 22-member team from the South held a joint 60-minute performance with a North Korean team in front of an audience that packed out the 1,200-seat Pyongyang Grand Theatre.

Also on hand for the event were high-ranking North Korean sports officials such as Choe Hwi, chairman of the North’s National Sports Guidance Committee; his deputy Ri Il-hwan; and Kim Kyong-ho, chairman of the North’s national taekwondo committee. The South’s culture and sports minister Do Jong-whan also attended.

Taekwondo practitioners from South and North Korea perform together at Pyongyang Grand Theatre on April 2, 2018. (Yonhap)

The taekwondo team is as part of South Korea’s 190-strong artistic delegation that flew into the North’s capital for a four-day visit. It includes 160 artists who made a successful debut in Pyongyang on Sunday and are set to stage a joint performance with North Koreans on Tuesday. On Sunday, the South’s taekwondo players had an exclusive 60-minute show at the Hall of Taekwondo before the first art performance.

Each team performed for about 25 to 30 minutes and then held a joint demonstration for five minutes.

The hilarious and speedy performance by the South’s taekwondo practitioners and the North’s powerful and wild demonstration spurred plenty of enthusiasm from the crowd.

A South Korean taekwondo demonstration team performs at Pyongyang Grand Theatre on April 2, 2018. (Yonhap)

When the South and North Korean taekwondo practitioners bowed and waved their hands toward the spectators after performing “poomsae,” or attack and defense patterns in the Korean martial arts, together for about five minutes, the audience all stood up and gave a long standing ovation.

“I realized that taekwondo is the same whether South Korea or North Korea, except that their content is slightly different,” a North Korean audience member said in an interview with South Korean reporters after watching the show.

A member of the South Korean delegation who attended the joint demonstration said: “The South’s performance is diverse and is reminiscent of a musical with storytelling, while the North’s feels more like practical martial arts, and I can feel some strength from it.”

   This marked the first time in 16 years that South Korean taekwondo practitioners have performed in the North Korean capital. In 2002, South Koreans held two taekwondo demonstration performances at the Hall of Taekwondo in Pyongyang following minister-level talks.

A North Korean taekwondo demonstration team performs at Pyongyang Grand Theatre on April 2, 2018. (Yonhap)

The South’s taekwondo performance in Pyongyang reciprocated an earlier visit by their North Korean counterparts during the Feb. 9-25 PyeongChang Winter Olympics and is also considered a pre-event for a historic inter-Korean summit scheduled for April 27.

A North Korean taekwondo team from the International Taekwondo Federation (IFT) held four shows in South Korea, including a joint performance with South Korea, during their shows ahead of the Olympic opening ceremony on Feb. 9.

The South’s taekwondo team was organized by Seoul-based World Taekwondo (WT), the official international taekwondo governing body recognized by the International Olympic Committee.

The South’s WT and the North Korean-led ITF have moved closer to each other in recent years after they signed a “Protocol of Accord” in August 2014, a landmark agreement dealing with the exchange of demonstration teams and other matters of cooperation.

The two organizations kicked off with a joint performance during the 2015 WT World Championships in Chelyabinsk, Russia. It was the first time that the ITF taekwondo demonstration team performed at an event organized by the WT.

The ITF later sent a demonstration team to the WT World Taekwondo Championships in Muju, 240 kilometers south of Seoul, last June. It was the first instance of inter-Korean sports exchange under the new Moon Jae-in administration in the South.

North Koreans watch a joint performance by taekwondo demonstration teams from the two Koreas at Pyongyang Grand Theatre on April 2, 2018. (Yonhap)

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[kcowgill]

It’s been a bit of a hiatus (ok, just a week, but still). I keep telling myself I’m not going to lapse.

I’M NOT GOING TO LAPSE.

I think I already made my excuses for last week, so I won’t rehash those.

Squatting 155 almost killed me. Well, that’s an exaggeration. But it was hard. But whatevs, I’m getting stronger, right? I’ll probably hang out at 155 for a handful of squat sessions and see how it feels. I have to keep in mind that in theory I’m aiming for a calorie deficit so I shouldn’t really be looking to make much in the way of gainz.

Bench is getting a little harder, and I’m still coasting along on the rows.

I totally drilled taegeuk 5 (and a little taegeuk 6) between sets of everything. Did some others (1-4) here and there.

Side note, at one point in the day I got my daughter to do taegeuk 1 with me, and both my daughter and son helped me remember the steps for taegeuk 7 :)

My family met with Master Lee today. He gave us the scoop on his new gym. Turns out he’ll be taking over a gym with an existing student roster, but it’ll be way too far away for us to attend.

My wife and I also discussed our plans regarding our taekwondo future. I think no matter what happens, I’ll stay at the current school at least until I get a black belt, assuming there’s not a huge time differential between when I could get it there vs. the new place. And it also depends on how much the new place costs, because of course that’s a factor. My wife is much more likely to abandon the current school sooner rather than later.

We could make an alternating schedule work if the kids don’t feel like continuing - I’d go Monday and Wednesday and she’d go Tuesday and Thursday, or vice-versa. If the kids want to continue they’d probably go with me to the old school since we’re able to do it together (recall the new place doesn’t have classes for families).

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MIDDLE PUNCH (몸통 지르기)

Being a Taekwondoin, I expect you to know how to throw a straight punch. You think WT-styled Taekwondo only uses legs? That's a big misconception. In sparring, self-defense (hosinsool) and poomsae, we all use punches. 

But first, I need to show you how to form a fist. 

Open your palms, facing down. Eight fingers (four on each hand) are close to each other. Curl them into a fist, nails pressed into your palms and place your thumbs on them. Tuck them closely to other fingers. Do not put your thumbs inside unless you want your fingers to break. You strike with your knuckles. 

By theory, the middle punch aims at the solar plexus. By practice, it’s not limited to one spot. You can hit the ribs, shoulders, left and right chest, upper arms.

The straight middle punch is the most common hand strike. In the belt test, besides poomsae, I will test you the kibon (basics) of Taekwondo, which is straight punch in horse-riding stance. I'll explain further in another post about Yellow Belt Promotion Test.  

Step 1: From attention stance, you walk to the basic ready stance. 

Step 2: From the basic ready stance, raise your right arm forward. Slightly turn your left shoulder to the back. Your left leg lift up, ready for the horse-riding stance.

Step 3: Your left arm pulls forward, fist turns down and you throw a straight middle punch. Check your arm, elbow and wrist, all must be on a straight line. Also check if you punch to the front, center to your body, right in the solar plexus. Your right arm pulls back to your hip, fist facing upwards. At the same time, you lower your body to a horse-riding stance.  

Step 4: Now you can use your left arm and throw another straight punch with your right arm. 

Step 5: Repeat the punch and count to 10. Shout ‘kihap’ at 10. 

Front view and lateral view:

Notice:

During the punch, you can turn your shoulders, hips and torso, but keep your back straight.

After the punch, make sure you don’t lean forward or backward.

Remember the weight distribution 50-50 of horse stance. My students want to reach the target by leaning forward too much, resulting in them losing balance and I simply sweep their legs and their dobok sweep the dojang mat. :)

To generate the most force, you make the turning of your fist near the end. When you master the technique, increase the speed to punch harder.

During the swing and right before the impact, keep your arms and fists relaxed. You should tighten both of them the moment you hit the target.

[tmnotizie]

ANCONA – Saranno 400 gli atleti in gara ai prossimi Campionati Italiani di Forme e Freestyle organizzati dalla Federazione Italiana di Taekwondo tramite il Comitato Regionale Marche -presieduto dal dottor Marco Porcarelli-  che si disputeranno al Palaprometeo Estra Rossini di Ancona (ingresso libero) nelle giornate di sabato 4 e domenica 5 maggio 2019.

Se le forme rievocano le origini del taekwondo, con movimenti codificati che premiano la fedeltà dei movimenti rispetto a un modello ideale di esecuzione, il freestyle lascia più spazio all’estro coreografico del performer, pur richiedendo elevatissimi livelli di padronanza tecnica e abilità stilistica.

Le Forme sono una serie di tecniche di braccia, calci e passi codificati e rappresentano dei combattimenti con avversari immaginari che attaccano da diverse direzioni.

I termini Coreani hyeong, pumsae e teul (traducibili con “forma” o “struttura”) sono tutti utilizzati per riferirsi alle forme delle arti marziali utilizzate tipicamente nelle arti marziali coreane, come il Taekwondo. A seconda della federazione, inoltre, le forme vengono ulteriormente definite taegeuk (per la WTF) o teul (per la ITF).

Agli inizi degli anni settanta l’Associazione Coreana di Taekwondo (KTA – Korean Taekwondo Union) unifica le forme del taekwondo in 17 poomsae, che vengono ulteriormente riconosciuti dalla Federazione mondiale di Taekwondo (WTF). Attualmente le forme vengono curate, codificate e aggiornate dal Kukkiwon, il “quartier generale” del Taekwondo mondiale.

Il regolamento di gara per le forme è emanato dalla World Taekwondo Federation, insieme alle direttive tecniche del Kukkiwon ed applicato ad ogni livello di competizione. Una gara di forme si basa sulla valutazione del Taegeuk eseguito da un atleta mediante l’assegnazione di un determinato punteggio da parte di una squadra arbitrale composta da 3, 5 o 7 ufficiali di gara.

Ogni ufficiale di gara assegna il proprio punteggio alla forma. Il punteggio più alto e quello più basso tra tutti i punteggi espressi dalla squadra arbitrale vengono eliminati, i restanti vengono sommati e questa somma determina il reale punteggio ottenuto dall’atleta per quella forma.

Ogni giudice può assegnare un punteggio compreso tra 0 e 10. Tale punteggio è dato dalla somma di due voti, ognuno dei quali compreso tra 0 e 5: un voto per valutare la tecnica ed un altro per valutare l’esecuzione della forma.

Il Parataekwondo è il taekwondo adattato agli atleti con disabilità. La Federazione Mondiale di Taekwondo (World Taekwondo – WT) è l’organo di riferimento per questo sport. Nel 2006 la WT fonda il Parataekwondo per supportare e sviluppare il taekwondo tra gli atleti con disabilità. Inizialmente lo sport si sviluppava solo sul combattimento e si rivolgeva solo ad atleti con disabilità o difficoltà agli arti. parataekwondo ha iniziato a sviluppare la disciplina del kyorugi (combattimento) e successivamente il pomsae (forme).

Il primo Campionato di Parataekwondo si è svolto a Baku, Azerbaijan nel 2009. La richiesta di includere il paratkd alle paraolimpiadi di Rio del 2016 non andò a buon fine e, dopo quelo momento, dal 2013 si decise di estendere il paratkd a tutte le disabilità, sia neurologiche, che intellettuali che fisiche. I campionati di forme aperti ad atleti con disabilità furono inclusi per la prima volta durante la quinta edizione dei Campionati del Mondo di Parataekwondo a Mosca. Dopo aver inoltrato la richiesta nel 2013,

Il 31 gennaio 2015, durante l’assemblea generale del Comitato Internazionale Paraolimpico, il Parataekwondo è stato confermato come parte del programma sportivo delle prossime ParaOlimpiadi di Tokyo nel 2020. Negli ultimi anni è cresciuto in maniera importante sia in termini numerici nelle competizioni che di livello tecnico (3 sono le medaglie ottenute ai Mondiali in Turchia lo scorso febbraio) tanto da meritarsi la presenza alle prossime ParaOlimpiadi di Tokyo 2020.

Per gli atleti di taekwondo i gradi e le classi di età in gara ai Campionati Italiani di Forme:

Cadetti B (10-11 anni): Cinture Rosse e Poom

Cadetti A (12-14 anni): Cinture Rosse e Poom

Junior (15-17 anni): Cinture Nere

Senior 1 (18-30 anni): Cinture Nere

Senior 2 (31-40 anni): Cinture Nere

Master 1 (41-50 anni): Cinture Nere

Master 2 (51-60 anni): Cinture Nere

Master 3 (≥61 anni): Cinture Nere

Mentre i gradi e classi di età in gara al Torneo Nazionale Individuale di Freestyle saranno:

Cadetti B (10-11): Cinture Rosse e Poom

Cadetti A (12-14): Cinture Rosse e Poom

Junior (15-17 anni): Cinture Nere

Senior (≥18): Cinture Nere

Ecco il programma dell’evento:

sabato 4 maggio

ore 9.00: Cadetti A, Cadetti B, Junior (eliminatorie e semifinali), Master 1, Master 2, Master 3 (completi)

ore 15.00:  Cadetti A, Cadetti B, Junior (finali), Freestyle Senior (Semifinali e Finali)

domenica 5 maggio

ore 9.00: Senior 1, Senior 2, ParaTkd (completi), Freestyle Cadetti A, Freestyle Cadetti B, Freestyle Junior, Freestyle Coppia mista ParaTkd e Campioni Italiani Poomsae

Maggiori informazioni sull’evento sono pubblicate sul sito ufficiale della Federazione Italiana Taekwondo

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أبطالنا في بطولة أرادوس المفتوحة للقتال و للبومسي بمشاركة ٤٣٠ لاعب ولاعبة . Doy's Taekwondo Champions in the Arados open championship last week with 430 participants in Fighting and Poomsae . #kukkiwon #korea #taekwondo #karate #kungfu #martialarts #mma #ufc #breave #khk #wt #ioc #kta #bahrain_taekwondo #doys #doys_taekwondo #doys_boxing #doys_mma #family #fun #kids @hisham_alhashimi_

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10/14/2017 4.14 miles

Apologies for the horrid picture. The rain was coming down pretty hard and I didn’t want my phone to get too rainy. It’s an iPhone 8, so supposed to be water resistant, but I don’t want to push it :)

I was supposed to run with Carlo and Kip (and Mars was even supposed to join!), but Kip called off last night due to the forecast, but Carlo and I decided we’d run rain or shine. Well, around 5:20am Carlo texts me that the weather is worse than he was up for (i.e. a fair amount of lightning) and so he was going to call off as well.

Armed with an app called Dark Sky, I thought I could find a chunk of time for me to get in roughly 40 minutes of running without incurring too much of the wrath of mother nature, so I set out at 6:15 and ran my old 4 mile route. My Garmin didn’t lock on to GPS (it’s been so long since it’s had to I think it forgot how) but I didn’t want to dally, so I just went for it. It finally locked after about a third of a mile, but I guess none of the map data made it over in the sync.

The first 2.5 miles were pretty dry, but as I neared the 3 mile mark it started coming down pretty heavy - and I had already spotted some lightning but it seemed pretty close at the time. I headed for a drive through area of a bank that’s been closed for years and paused for a bit to check out the immediate hyperlocal forecast via Dark Sky, as well as check how close that lightning really was via an app called Weatherbug. I deemed it safe enough to get going again.

Maybe a half mile further the rain got even heavier. I pulled over into a small alcove of a warehouse to see if the rain was going to lighten up any. Spoiler alert: it didn’t.

Family taekwondo today was the belt test. Michael stretched us out and warmed us up, then Master Chung performed the grading. Kicks, punch kick combinations, block plus punch plus kick combinations, the gamut. Straight away into forms. Chon ji, taegeuk 1, taegeuk 2, then the green belt stood aside. Taegeuk 3, then the high green stood aside. Taegeuk 4 and 5, then the high blue belt stood aside. Taegeuk 6, then I stood aside. Taegeuk 7 and 8, then my kids stood aside. Then all the black belt forms for the black belts promoting.

Next up was self defense. I got paired up with Dan, an older black belt but with some mobility issues. I had to ask him if I could take him down just to be sure and went through the forms up through form 7. I got some rest, but then I was Nat’s attacker for his self defense. Then my wife had to do her knife self defense forms.

Then some sparring! I sparred against Dan for a few rounds, and then against Nat (a 2nd degree) for a few rounds.

Finally, breaking. I only had to do a reverse roundhouse. I slightly missed the first try but got it pretty authoritatively the 2nd time.

And that was that. I messed up a bit on my forms during one or more of taegeuk 3, 4, and 5 but I was able to pick it back up. Otherwise I think I did well.