Had a really cool class experience the other day that I wanted to share. I'm in the middle of preparing for my 2nd dan test (October 23). One of the major requirements of this test is to create 7 self-defense techniques. These creations should come from different kinds of attacks, show a variety of defenses, and each defense has to, at some point, strike one of seven vital spots in the fron tof the face (crown of forehead, eyes, bridge of nose, tip of nose, philtrum, lower lip and chin).
As some of you may remember, my shcool is one of many schools that teaches the poomse but doesn't really do a lot with applications. I've gone to the owner to talk about doing more with realistic application derived from the Taguk poomse and have been given the go ahead to put together a seminar on this after I receive my 2nd dan. My instructor suggested that I work some of this stuff into my creations to present during my test.
So, I worked really hard to come up with some good solid self-defense techniques. Three of them I based off of poomse techs. We were reviewing thse in class yesterday and the instructor (not knowing my interest in poomse derived applications) like these three techs the best. He kept asking how I cam up with them and I just said that it was stuff that right in theTaeguk poomse.
I was working with a younger teen as myy partner and it was farily easy to toss him around. The isntructor, though is taller and slightly heavier than I (240lbs I'm guessing), nad he have me try the techs out on him while he tried very ahrd to foil my attempts. It was such a satisfyign feeling when he'd go flying across the matt and end up sprawled on the ground.
I just thoyght it was interesting that the techs that really stod out were the one I crafted with the Taeguk poomse in mind. I'm really hopefuly that my demonstration of these technqiues will be good advertsiement and incentive for other interested folks to do a special class or two with me at myschool.
Peace,
Erik
As some of you may remember, my shcool is one of many schools that teaches the poomse but doesn't really do a lot with applications. I've gone to the owner to talk about doing more with realistic application derived from the Taguk poomse and have been given the go ahead to put together a seminar on this after I receive my 2nd dan. My instructor suggested that I work some of this stuff into my creations to present during my test.
So, I worked really hard to come up with some good solid self-defense techniques. Three of them I based off of poomse techs. We were reviewing thse in class yesterday and the instructor (not knowing my interest in poomse derived applications) like these three techs the best. He kept asking how I cam up with them and I just said that it was stuff that right in theTaeguk poomse.
I was working with a younger teen as myy partner and it was farily easy to toss him around. The isntructor, though is taller and slightly heavier than I (240lbs I'm guessing), nad he have me try the techs out on him while he tried very ahrd to foil my attempts. It was such a satisfyign feeling when he'd go flying across the matt and end up sprawled on the ground.
I just thoyght it was interesting that the techs that really stod out were the one I crafted with the Taeguk poomse in mind. I'm really hopefuly that my demonstration of these technqiues will be good advertsiement and incentive for other interested folks to do a special class or two with me at myschool.
Peace,
Erik