Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:48:21 +0100 From: the_dojang-request@martialartsresource.net Subject: The_Dojang digest, Vol 16 #84 - 5 msgs X-Mailer: Mailman v2.0.13.cisto1 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Errors-To: the_dojang-admin@martialartsresource.net X-BeenThere: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13.cisto1 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net X-Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: The Internet's premier discussion forum on Korean Martial Arts. 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Video clip: highest kick (Jye nigma) 2. Video clip: what the heck? (Jye nigma) 3. Teaching kids (Dakin Burdick) 4. MTV's Bully Beatdown (Ruel Apostol) 5. UC-Berkeley Hosts Int'l Taekwondo Events (Ray) --__--__-- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:17:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Jye nigma To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Cc: itf-taekwondo@yahoogroups.com Subject: [The_Dojang] Video clip: highest kick Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKMgUi3cwIA --__--__-- Message: 2 Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:36:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Jye nigma To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Cc: itf-taekwondo@yahoogroups.com Subject: [The_Dojang] Video clip: what the heck? Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Who taught this to her? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZGYTVPQheo&feature=channel   I need a cold shower now.   Jye --__--__-- Message: 3 Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:29:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Dakin Burdick To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Subject: [The_Dojang] Teaching kids Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Hi Everyone,   I taught kids for 17+ years, so I thought I'd mention some of the things I found.   I taught kids only, ages 7-17.  When they were 18, I transitioned them into the Indiana University martial arts clubs.  I had a lot of success with the teens helping out with the younger kids, serving as helpers and assistant instructors. I taught t'aekwondo for a long time, and then taught hapkido. I think tkd was better for the kids in a lot of ways, since there was more structure and tkd is better at building athleticism. I found a lot of kids weren't ready for the jointlocks and other techniques of hkd until they were about 13, and I found that about half of them still weren't ready after that!  The hkd techniques were just too effective, and too easy to hurt someone else, and if a kid was goofing around, someone was going to get hurt.  We followed Wally Jay's rules for practice, and no joking around was allowed on the mat, but nevertheless, kids will often be kids.  The kids that were responsible and had their heads together became wonderful with hapkido, and one kid successfully defended himself against three older attackers in the neighborhood who were trying to take his bike away. If you don't mind turning students away, you could hand select your hapkido students and be safe, but otherwise I don't think teaching hkd to kids is worth the liability.  On the other hand, what I was teaching was the kind of hapkido that Hal Whalen and those folks practice.  If I was teaching what the USHF taught or what one might encounter in most forms of aikido, it probably would have been much more appropriate.  That means taking out techniques that work best on the offensive side. USHF, when I was there, was best at defensive techniques, and those might work better with kids. Also, my progression for teaching locks was non-USHF, but it was for a reason:   Snakelock 3/4 turn wrist compression armbar four directional throw hammerlock   We did it that way because snakelock was hard to do, and therefore hard to injure someone when you started.  3/4 turn was easy to fall out off. Anything against the shoulder could easily lead to injury and was therefore introduced only after we had an opportunity to judge the personality of the student, and to prepare students to receive locks appropriately.   Another thing that worked well was a short paper for every rank above 5th kup. There was one on honesty, one on perseverance, etc. The parents loved this, and it made a real difference for the kids in their emotional growth, especially when it was clear that I valued what they had to say and respected their opinion, even if it wasn't mine.  It also meant that when they were ready to write their black belt paper on what it meant to be a kunja, they had already written five pages of the essay, and it wasn't as daunting. By the way, have you all see the movie Secondhand Lions?  That is a great movie to show kids at a dojo sleepover - there are a lot of good messages there.    On the t'aekwondo side, I was taught to air kick with full power, which is just plain wrong.  It tears up the hips and knees, and after ten years of teaching I saw to my horror that my longtime students were developing problems with their knees.  We changed to kicking into pads, but I still feel guilty about that to this day.  When you love the kids you work with, anything you do wrong is going to hurt pretty bad, so check into all the training literature you can and eliminate unsafe techniques (danjeon breathing for example) and contra-indicated exercises (certain stretches, etc.).  Someone mentioned women and upper body strength.  I don't know enough to give specific instructions on that one, but remember that women's shoulders are especially vulnerable to injury, because they often don't have the musculature around them to stop you from going too far and too fast.    Now, a question for the group.  For those of you who have been teaching a long time, what are other indicators that tell you when a group of students is training in a way that will hurt their health in the long term?  How can we catch this sort of thing earlier in our careers?  What are things to watch out for?   Sincerely,   Dakin Burdick dakinburdick@yahoo.com   --__--__-- Message: 4 Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:54:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Ruel Apostol To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net Subject: [The_Dojang] MTV's Bully Beatdown Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net I came across an MTV show and I found it entertaining! If you were once a victim of a bully back when you were a kid, I'm sure you would enjoy this show! http://www.mtv.com/ontv/dyn/bully_beatdown/series http://www.mmafighting.com/news/2009/03/22/bully-beatdown-premieres-tonight-mtv --__--__-- Message: 5 From: Ray To: The_Dojang Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:26:09 -0700 Subject: [The_Dojang] UC-Berkeley Hosts Int'l Taekwondo Events Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net UC-Berkeley Hosts Int'l Taekwondo Events The Seoul Times Tuesday, March 24, 2009 Berkeley, CA — Taekwondo athletes from around the world will converge on the UC-Berkeley campus for three days of competition in May. The 1st Pan-Am University Taekwondo Championship will take place May 28-29 and the 40th UC Open Taekwondo Championship will be held May 30. Both events will take place in Haas Pavilion on the UC-Berkeley campus. For the Pan-Am tournament, doors open at 5:00 PM on the 28th and 9:00 AM on the 29th. For UC Open, doors open at 6:30 AM and the opening ceremony begins at 8:30 AM. Taekwondo, "the way of the foot and fist," is a full-contact martial art based on ancient Korean self-defense techniques. Taekwondo athletes are noted for their powerful kicks and agile footwork. In both tournaments, athletes will compete in forms (poomse) and Olympic style free sparring (gyoroogi). The UC Martial Arts Program is an organization devoted to bringing exceptional martial arts instruction to UC-Berkeley and the local community. Founded in 1969, it is a pioneer in martial arts instruction, hosting multiple tournaments each year and sending its taekwondo competition team to victory in nearly thirty National Collegiate Championships. Since the first tournament forty years ago, the UC Open has grown into one of the largest and most popular taekwondo tournaments on the West Coast. This year UCMAP expects around 700 competitors from around the world to participate. The 1st Pan-Am University Taekwondo Championship is the culmination of efforts by the Organización Deportiva Universitaria Panamericana (ODUPA), a group of countries in the Americas promoting the development of collegiate sports. ODUPA is a part of the International University Sports Federation (FISU). Competitors from more than forty countries have been invited to participate in the Pan-Am tournament. For additional information: http://www.ucmap.org/uc-open.php http://www.ucmap.org/pan-am/ Contact: Jessie Lougheed 145 RSF, 2301 Bancroft Way Berkeley, CA 94720 Phone: 510-642-3268 --__--__-- _______________________________________________ The_Dojang mailing list The_Dojang@martialartsresource.net http://martialartsresource.net/mailman/listinfo/the_dojang Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://the-dojang.net Old digest issues @ ftp://ftp.martialartsresource.com/pub/the_dojang Copyright 1994-2009: Ray Terry and http://MartialArtsResource.com Standard disclaimers apply. Remember September 11. 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