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during 4:00 class i got some special attention from dr link! BOOYEAH! so we went over the wrist technique 16 step ercises, AKA 1 and 2, "red-belt style". i always have trouble with these, especially with big people.


so what dr link told me about the non-fishing wrist technique is that after i block, i can do one of two things: 1--pull their hand across their body (not just back or down), and then pivot so they go into the fall, or 2-- or brace their arm against my body to drag them around me, then switch directions so that the go into the fall. and then, if the person does a rabbit punch, where they punch and bring it back real quick (correct for real situations, but not for 16 step) what you do is grab their hand and then pivot real close to their body, making them take a hip high, very fast, air fall. it's not nice, but dr link says that's their just desserts for rabbit punching during 16 step.


for the rowing/fishing pole 16 step wrist technique, the tension should be kept on the arm and wrist, by continuing the pull after you've grabbed their hand, and maintaining the twist on their wrist. to avoid the doing the dreaded "water pump" technique, the pull must circumsribe a full circle and not just come out and then down and back. circles are the key.

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posted by muce at 12:37 AM [+]

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today i went with kenny to the green/blue tkd club workout. their warmup was hard! it was suicides, frontwards, then backwards, then with leg lifts at each quarter. then we did stretch kicks and roundhouse and spin heel kicks in a circle. then we had to get in three lines, and the people in the middle line got to kick the people on the outer lines, who each had a paddle. so you would kick on paddle and then put the kicking foot down, then turn, take a step and kick with the other leg. we had to do that ten times, at each group of three (so about 8 sets of 10). when that was done, the outside lines held their paddles towards the middle lines and the middle line had to go all they way down doing a skipping kick into the paddle. the last part of the workout was in groups of three, just taking turns holding the paddles. first we had to do a roundhouse followed with spin heel kick with the opposite leg, then do as many narabangs as we could to the paddles, then double roundhouse kick (there's not supposed to be any vertical movement), and then spin heel kick. after that we lined up and bowed out. afterwards, i watched kenny get a lesson in tkd kicks from sally. she says that once you've lifted your knee, all the speed comes from the pop and turnover in the hips, and extending the knee is an afterthought of the hip movement. all in all it was super fun-- maybe i'll go again if i need to get more kicks in.

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posted by muce at 2:02 AM [+]

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So what was Susan Link's kicking workout like? Since there was only 10 of us crazy enough to do it, we got a lot of attention. We warmed up with a bunch of knee raises and jumping exercises to get us to practice raising our knees. then we just ended up doing roundhouse combinations with pads across the floor back and forth. nothing really special, but tiring nonetheless.
One comment i have that i personally want to work on is my recovery. It's nice to get a good quick kick in, but i need to work on balancing myself and being in control right after the kick. i think this will help in doing combinatinos and the like.

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posted by ken at 12:01 AM [+]

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so i guess it's my turn to write huh? i won't write too much since the fingers on my left hand are all blistered from all the throws. so those of you looking for gossip on this page...that'll have to wait at least a week =). so my first entry will be short..also cuz i'm so dead tired. today for dr. minh's workout we pretty much just threw each other for over 30 minutes strait. i worked with Gaidi (sp?) and he's actually pretty easy to throw for a big guy. i didn't lift him up only for him to fall straight on top of me at all today. don't laugh. it's happened to me several times. and then we started doing some counterthrows. i got another daily insult/repriment/comment from dr. minh, which actually makes my day cuz it's so cool to get personal attention from him. he basically just told us that the simplest countermove for the spring hip throw is to just put your arms around the other guy and sit on your ass. and then rotate over into the scarf hold. only i had no idea what minh was saying when he told me to switch my feet. so i felt like a total moron...but hey. HE TALKED TO ME. so that's good enough.

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posted by ken at 12:12 AM [+]

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4:00 all levels workout --->

i worked with the beginners doing back and side falls. a few had trouble doing keeping their backs round.we then moved on to 16-step, armbar footsweep


5:30 advanced workout --->

started out with sparring techniques, mostly quick transfer blocks off the line. dr. link showed us:


-- blocking to the outside: (opponent punches with right hand) you can soft block with the right hand and grab. you can then turn your left shoulder into the punch as well as get off the line of the punch, while attacking their elbow with your left forearm. you can then grab the punching hand with the left hand as you're already holding on to the punch with the left arm. this puts their punching arm in the crook of your elbow, while putting pressure on their elbow. it can be used to break an elbow. scary.

-- blocking to the inside: (oppontent punches with right hand) if you're blocking to the inside, you can soft block with the left hand instead. from here, you can pull on the arm to offbalance, and turn in the direction of the punch to do a throw. DANGER!: blocking to the inside will leave your centerline vulnerable to attacks!


we then moved on to a little bit more sparring technique:

if you tap your opponents front hand (LET'S SAY IT'S THEIR LEFT HAND IN FRONT), they are likely to freeze. with this time you can attack:


-- from above: with your left hand you tap the top of your opponent's hand--effectively, a transfer block-- to allow the right hand to soft block the punch while the left hand backhands the opponent's head. the backhand must travel past the opponent's head to effectively do damage. also, your backhand can travel in a vertical or horizontal plane.

-- from below: with your right hand, you can tap the bottom of your opponent's hand, then soft block with the left hand, then groin strike with the right hand. often times you could end up only hitting thigh, so something to think about is a throw after the groin strike, or else skip the groin strike altogether and move into a throw after the soft block.


next was belt techniques. these can be practical if your opponent has a weapon, like a knife. first was to practice getting the block-wrap correct. you have to hold the belt with both hands facing the same direction, like both hands face down while grasping the belt. you must block with both palms against the attack. or maybe you could, but i found it was too hard to effectively block otherwise. your hands can't be too far apart when blocking, or else the slack of the belt will keep you from blocking well. after blockng, you wrap the belt around the wrist so that the belt can be held with one hand, adding a half twist to cinch the belt around the wrist. you can also double wrap around the wrist, which hurts much more. after wrapping, you can do lots of fun wrist techniques. DANGER!: if the opponent has a weapon, you have to be aware of sharp points and edges that could cut you if you try a wrist technique!

duc and i practiced this with different kinds of knife strikes, like an overhead strike, a thrust, and a slice from the side. it's tricky trying not to get stabbed or cut. he told me that they used to practice with markers, so they could tell if they got "cut" or not. sounds fun!

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posted by muce at 12:01 AM [+]

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