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From the_dojang-admin@martialartsresource.net Mon Oct 19 17:14:02 2009 Return-Path: Received: from tarsus.bollow.ch (tarsus.bollow.ch [82.195.230.222]) by plus11.host4u.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id n9JME1X11623 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:14:02 -0500 Received: from tarsus.bollow.ch (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tarsus.bollow.ch (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F8DAB280F9; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:49:01 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:48:22 +0200 Message-ID: <20091020004822.22760.83147.Mailman@tarsus.bollow.ch> From: the_dojang-request@martialartsresource.net Subject: The_Dojang digest, Vol 16 #266 - 6 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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See the Korean Martial Arts (KMA) FAQ and the online search engine for back issues of The_Dojang at http://MartialArtsResource.com Pil Seung! Today's Topics: 1. Choi Yeon-ho wins 4th world title (The_Dojang) 2. Re: child yudanja (Lee Morgan) 3. Bullysmart (Thomas Gordon) 4. Re: How do I know? (zisheged@aol.com) 5. Mark Lopez Wins Bronze on Final Day (The_Dojang) 6. =?windows-1252?Q?Korea_Wins_Men=92s_Overall_Title?= (The_Dojang) --__--__-- Message: 1 From: The_Dojang Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:58:47 -0700 To: The_Dojang Subject: [The_Dojang] Choi Yeon-ho wins 4th world title Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Choi Yeon-ho wins 4th world title in taekwondo October 19, 2009 JoongAng Daily Korea’s Choi Yeon-ho won his fourth world title yesterday at the World Taekwondo Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark. Kim becomes only the third taekwondo athlete to win four world titles or more. Steven Lopez of the U.S. won his fifth consecutive world title in Copenhagen, while retired athlete Jung Guk-hyeon reached four consecutive titles in the past. After securing his first world title in 2001, Kim won the 2003 and 2007 events. His latest title did not come easy, as the 28-year-old had to cope with a broken bone in his hand. Despite suffering the injury in the semifinals against Meisam Bagheri of Iran, Kim managed to pull off a win over Haidari Mahmood of Afghanistan in the men’s 54- kilograms (119 pounds) division. It was a close match in the finals. Kim tied up the score at three points apiece after landing a spinning left kick. The two finalists could not settle the score in extra time, leaving the match in the hands of the judges. “I will now have to focus on competing in the Asian Games in Guangzhou [in China] next year. I want to win my fifth world title and would also like to compete in the 2012 London Olympics,” Kim said after the match. Park Hyo-ji also rose to the top yesterday, delivering the first gold medal for the female Korean squad. The 21-year-old defeated Zoraida Santiago of Puerto Rico in the 46-kilograms division. The finals came down to the wire. Park managed to earn her match winning point by landing a spinning right back kick with 48 seconds remaining in the match. Korea has won three gold, two silver and one bronze medal at the World Championships, which end today Korea time. --__--__-- Message: 2 Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:15:22 -0400 From: Lee Morgan To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Subject: [The_Dojang] Re: child yudanja Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net You know it's interesting----how so many people commented on the very young black belt. TKD has become (for the most part) so sport/business oriented that it has lost almost all the qualities of a true martial art. Having owned a successful school I certainly understand the need to cater to kids (where most of the money is) and to give the public what they want. However, this is a slippery sloap if you're not careful. I believe TKD as a whole (and Karate and several other "martial arts") are sliding very fast down that sloap and have been for a long time. This is one of the big reasons that TKD is thought of as "something the kids are doing". No wonder that many TKD schools double as a day care facility now! And we have generations of instructors that actually think it would be a good idea to try to kick the knife hand of an attacker who's trying to cut or stab you----or that the most effective use of a "low block" is to block a front kick. The very fact that we are so focused on rank shows how we have been tainted----I was the same way for a long time myself. As I mentioned in a previous post, I believe that having a goal (rank) for kids is important. However for adults and those who wish to truly learn to defend themselves effectively, a focus on rank can take the focus off of effective technique. Just like a focus on flashy techniques will almost certainly cause a martial artist to be extremely ineffective in a real self defense encounter. I believe TKD can meet the needs of those who practice for sports, for excercise, for confidense, or also for self defense. But, we have to be careful to make sure we pass down all of these aspects of TKD. --__--__-- Message: 3 From: "Thomas Gordon" To: Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:09:39 -0500 Subject: [The_Dojang] Bullysmart Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net With the recent discussion of children black belts, I came across this video on being Bully Smart. It was too painful to watch more than once. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLKxv69GEVE Thomas Gordon Master's Seminars April 16-18, 2010 www.GordonMartialArts.com/april www.facebook.com/tgkick --__--__-- Message: 4 To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:12:57 -0400 From: zisheged@aol.com Subject: [The_Dojang] Re: How do I know? Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Jeff asked a very good question. How do I know whether a student will not go past his deficiencies. Here's what I look for. A student must at least remember the components of poomsae. I allow for mistakes in stance and a limited lack of precision at color belt. Students needn't be sparring champs but must try to engage his opponent in battle. MOST important is that students must remember and demonstrate the Tenents of Taekwondo (Hwa Rang Do). Bad attitude equals immediate failure. When a student reaches 5th gup, deficiencies of stance, power, poise, balance must be substantially good but not yet excellent. Red belts and black belt candidates must be good fighters, good poomsae-ists and of course must be upstanding people. When a students asks when he'll be a black belt I know he's far away. Bottom line...when I point out a weakness, student must eagerly seek to fix it. The bottom line is that a student must always remember that the attainment of a black belt means he is now qualified to be a student! Zeishe --__--__-- Message: 5 Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:05:15 -0700 From: The_Dojang To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Subject: [The_Dojang] Mark Lopez Wins Bronze on Final Day Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Mark Lopez Wins Bronze on Final Day Bill Kellick -- USA Taekwondo October 18, 2009 Mark Lopez (Sugar Land, Texas) earned the fourth world championship medal of his career with a bronze-medal finish on Sunday in the men's lightweight division at the WTF World Taekwondo Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark. He won four straight matches on the day before losing his semifinal match, 7-5, to Korea's Joon-tae Kim. Lopez started the day with a 1-0 win over Brazil's Licinio Espindola, Jr., and followed that up with victories over Puerto Rico's Juan Sanchez (4-3), Austria's Manuel Mark (5-2) and Thailand's Patiwat Thongsalap (5-3) to reach the semifinal. Kim would go on to win the gold medal over Canada's Maxime Potvin and Germany's Mokdad Ounis would take the other bronze medal in the division. The bronze medal by Lopez adds to his collection of a gold in 2005, silver in 2003 and bronze in 1999, and gives the U.S. team a total of three medals for the week. Mark's brother Steven Lopez (Sugar Land, Texas) won a gold medal in the men's welterweight division on Wednesday, becoming the first person to win five world titles, and women's bantamweight Danielle Pelham (Bothell, Wash.) won gold on Friday. Other U.S. fighters in action on Sunday's final day included women's heavyweight Lauren Cahoon (Miami, Fla.) and women's lightweight Stephanie Beckel (Miami, Fla.). Cahoon reached the quarterfinal round with an overtime superiority decision over Russia's Irina Bykova and a 2-0 win over Colombia's Lorena Diaz. She lost her quarterfinal match to eventual gold medalist Rosana Simon Alamo of Spain, 8-0. China's Rui Liu was the silver medalist and the two bronze medals were awarded to Korea's Seol Jo and Brazil's Natalia Silva. Beckel made it to the round of 16 by virtue of a 1-0 win over Indonesia's Rahadewineta Rahadewineta and a 14-11 victory over Kazakhstan's Yekaterina Dmitriyeva. Her run came to an end with a 7-6 loss to Carole Toh of the Ivory Coast. Winning the women's lightweight title was Korea's Su-jeong Lim. Silver medalist was China's Hua Zhang and the bronze medalists were Estafania Hernandez Garcia of Spain and Chonnapas Premwaew of Thailand. --__--__-- Message: 6 From: The_Dojang Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:03:53 -0700 To: The_Dojang Subject: [The_Dojang] =?windows-1252?Q?Korea_Wins_Men=92s_Overall_Title?= Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net 10-19-2009 Korea Wins Men’s Overall Title Kang Seung-woo, Staff Reporter Korea Times South Korea won two more gold medals on the final day of the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) World Taekwondo Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark, Monday (KST). Olympic champion Lim Su-jeong rallied to defeat Hua Zhang of China 10-8 to win the women's under-62 kilogram division, while Kim Joon-tae claimed a gold medal, the nation's fifth, in the men's under-71 kilograms category, with a 7-5 come-from-behind win over Maxime Potvin of Canada. Korea wraps up the biennial event with three golds from the men's side and two from the women's. The men's team clinched the overall title for the 19th straight time. Spain was second, followed by Turkey and the United States. China won two gold and two silver medals to claim the women's overall title, ending the Korean women's team's string of 11 straight wins. Korea was second with two golds and a silver while Spain was third. American Steven Lopez was named the men's Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the competition, as the 30-year-old two-time Olympic winner became the first five-time world champion in the under-80 class, while Yague Enrique Brigitte of Spain captured the women's award after becoming a three-time world champion in the under-49 class. Lim, who got past Estefania Hernandez Garcia of Spain 9-5 with three three-point front kicks in the semifinals, trailed her Chinese rival 8-7 through two rounds. But the 23-year-old pulled out a late-round thriller, landing a kick to Zhang's face for a gold-sealing three points. With the world title, Lim, who also triumphed at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, became the third Korean athlete in the sport to top the three major contests - the World Championships, Summer Olympics and Asian Games - following Moon Dae-sung and Hwang Kyung-sun. Kim got off to a strong start with a 12-1 victory in the first round and faced Mark Lopez, the 2005 world champion and youngest brother of Steven Lopez, in the penultimate stage. The 23-year-old Korean fell behind 4-0 but his attacks to the head and body led to his 7-5 upset victory over the favored Lopez. In the women's over-73 kilograms, Jo Seol settled for a bronze medal after falling to China's Liu Rui. The top coach awards went to Sin Hak-min of Afghanistan, Myriam Baverel of France, Jorge Gomes Ramos of Mali, Marimer Lopez of Puerto Rico, and Alexey Zemischev of Russia. --__--__-- _______________________________________________ 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. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. Remember September 11. End of The_Dojang Digest