From: the_dojang-owner@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com To: the_dojang-digest@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Subject: The_Dojang-Digest V9 #3 Reply-To: the_dojang@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Errors-To: the_dojang-owner@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Precedence: The_Dojang-Digest Wed, 2 Jan 2002 Vol 09 : Num 003 In this issue: the_dojang: interesting Kids and warm-ups/stretching article the_dojang: Re: Charles E. Sereff ? the_dojang: Korean Terminology the_dojang: Re: Charles E. Sereff ? the_dojang: Color codes the_dojang: . ========================================================================= The_Dojang, serving the Internet since June 1994. 800 members strong! Copyright 1994-2002: Ray Terry and Martial Arts Resource The premier internet discussion forum devoted to the Korean Martial Arts. Replying to this message will NOT unsubscribe you. To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe the_dojang-digest" (no quotes) in the body (top line, left justified) of a "plain text" e-mail addressed to majordomo@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com. To send e-mail to this list use the_dojang@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com See the Korean Martial Arts (KMA) FAQ and the online search engine for back issues of The_Dojang at http://MartialArtsResource.com Pil Seung! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Gregory Giddins Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 12:28:25 -0700 Subject: the_dojang: interesting Kids and warm-ups/stretching article Taken from http://www.cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/parenting/12/28/kids.fitness.ap/index.html Kids should warm up, not stretch, before games December 28, 2001 Posted: 10:25 AM EST (1525 GMT) WASHINGTON (AP) -- Having younger children stretch before a game doesn't help them play better or avoid being hurt, experts say. "In the 10-and-under group, this is window dressing and frilly," said Dr. Stephen Rice, a pediatric sports medicine specialist and director of primary care sports medicine at Jersey Shore Medical Center in Neptune, New Jersey. Kids in this age range are flexible anyway, and generally don't need the stretches that coaches require before a practice, game or exercise program, Rice said. The kids' time could be better spent in warmups, which increase blood flow to the muscles, he said. About the most that can be said for pregame stretches is that they teach techniques that youngsters might need to relieve muscle tightness after they hit puberty and grow thicker muscle, he said. "Stretching has not been proven to decrease the risk of injury," said Mike Bracko, an exercise physiologist and director of the Institute for Hockey Research in Calgary, Alberta. The Canadian organization studies performance and holds training clinics. A stretch simply extends the range of motion of muscles, tendons and ligaments, typically beyond what the sport actually will demand, Bracko said. And kids don't like stretches -- it's hard to make younger players hold the proper positions, Bracko said. "They are better able and coordinated to just do warmup movements," he said. A warmup also probably will lower the risk of injury, Bracko said. A warmup gradually raises body temperature and heart rates, deepens breathing, pushes more oxygen-rich blood to the muscles, and triggers faster nerve reactions, he said. A proper warmup should look something like the sport that the kids will be doing, said Michael Gray of Northern Kentucky University. "The kids have to do some light, imitative act," said Gray, a board member of the National Alliance for Youth Sports, which focuses on youth recreational league activities. "If you are going to play baseball, do light throwing. In soccer, do light jogging or running." "We know kind of intuitively, and with some degree of science, that if you do activity when your muscles are cold, you are more likely to get pulled muscles," Rice said. In his 25 years of practice, he's become used to seeing more patients at the start of a season or early in the day, he said. There are exceptions, however. Players with chronically tight muscles may benefit from stretches to loosen them, Bracko said. In hockey players, this could include the hamstrings, hip flexors and abdominal muscles that hold a player bent slightly forward, he said. Stretching after play may help relieve muscle soreness because the stretches seem somehow to reduce muscles' sensitivity to pain, but even this benefit is limited, Bracko said. Stretches won't directly relieve the soreness that comes a day or so after a workout or a game, he said. The soreness results from muscle inflammation -- which, in turn, results from tiny rips that activity has created in the muscle fiber. Although stretching can decrease the soreness, being active the next day can do it as well, according to Bracko. Greg G. ------------------------------ From: "Robert Martin" Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 13:14:28 -0700 Subject: the_dojang: Re: Charles E. Sereff ? Ray, Yes, GMS Sereff has a first or 2nd degree in TSD. This was before he met Choi Hong Hi and converted to TKD. Robert Martin 4th Dan, ITF > > > ------------------------------ > > From: Ray Terry > Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 12:08:28 PST > Subject: the_dojang: Charles E. Sereff ? > > Interesting to note that Black Belt magazine mentioned that a Chuck Sereff > authored an article on Tang Soo Do Moo Duk Kwan in a 1965 (I think it was) > issue of Black Belt. > > Did ITF Grandmaster Charles E. Sereff get his start in MDK? Just curious... > > Ray Terry > raymail@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com > ------------------------------ From: "Hapkido Self Defense Center" Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 15:08:24 -0500 Subject: the_dojang: Korean Terminology Ron, here is a website that has a Korean to English and English to Korean Dictionary. If you can read hangul, you can use this dictionary. http://www.sigmainstitute.com/koreanonline/dictionary.shtml Jere R. Hilland www.geocities.com/hapkiyukwonsul ------------------------------ From: Piotr Bernat Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 22:34:42 +0200 Subject: the_dojang: Re: Charles E. Sereff ? > Did ITF Grandmaster Charles E. Sereff get his start in MDK? Just curious... In "TKD Times" issue July 1991 there was a big article about GM Sereff. According to this text, he started in Americanized form of Karate in a school led by Denver police officer Frank Goode. GM Sereff`s first instructor was Robert Chester, who was a brown belt at the time. Later in the same school Gm Sereff learned Tang Soo Do from an ex-Korean Air Force officer. In 1962, together with another TSD instructor Dan Gravestock, they opened their own TSD school and continued to learn under Robert Thompson 2nd Dan TSD from Colorado Springs. In 1963 GM Sereff achieved his 1st Dan. There are some interesting pictures in the article as well - one of them shows a group of students and GM Sereff among them as a TSD red belt. Best regards - -- Piotr Bernat dantaekwondo@lublin.home.pl http://www.taekwondo.prv.pl ------------------------------ From: Ray Terry Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 16:20:13 PST Subject: the_dojang: Color codes I was asked to recycle the old color code post from 1994, so here it is... Ray ======================================================================== Forwarded message: From: Ray Terry Date: Thu, 22 Dec 1994 16:30:39 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: eskrima: Refined FMA > ENVIROMENTAL AWARENESS > These folks are keenly aware of their surroundings and the behavior of > people around them. Their senses are fine-tuned to pick up slight changes in > the environment. They don't take the environment for granted. For example, > you might be sitting around the tendahan having a San Miguel or two and you'll > notice that they check out the scene very quickly when they walk in to see > what's up, choose a strategic seat, and almost unconsciously check out every > person that walks in the door. Just second nature and relaxed about it all. Great stuff in all the three posts from Jon, via the Woodpecker. I especially appreciate the above. Many of the tactical firearms trainers would term this 'condition yellow'. In condition white you're daydreaming, thinking about work, thinking about the argument with the wife this morning, whatever. You don't notice your environment very much. In condition yellow you are aware of those in front of you, those to the side and back, you notice the clouds in the sky and the birds singing. In general you just notice the things going on around you. Condition yellow is a great place to 'live' as you're noticing the beauty of creation and everything and everybody around you. The other condition colors will vary slightly depending on the source, but condition orange is when you think -something- is wrong. You're now on the lookout for something to go wrong, at ANY time. In condition red something -is- wrong. You are starting to activate your tactical training, getting your weapons ready for use, taking cover, starting to get out of the area, dialing 911, whatever. In condition black the feces has hit the oscillator and a life, usually your life, is in danger. This is when you begin to employ deadly force to save your life or the life of another. Condition yellow is a great place to live... Ray Terry ------------------------------ From: Ray Terry Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 16:21:41 PST Subject: the_dojang: . ------------------------------ End of The_Dojang-Digest V9 #3 ****************************** It's a great day for Taekwondo! 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