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Issue 21 - November 2010 The Free Global Tae Kwon Do Magazine Produced and Published by: This month has been trying as far as the Harrow Martial Arts magazine goes. First of all my computer in association with developed the ‘blue screen of death’ just on the Rayners Lane Taekwon-do Academy deadline (when I start preparing the magazine) and, after about 16 hours trying to rectify the Email: [email protected] problem I gave up and took it to a specialist and Tel: +44 (0)7759 438779 a week later it was ‘better’ - but that set me This PDF may be distributed by all provided such back as I had to reinstall all my programs and distribution is not done commercially. Charging a fee for lost one of my favourite fonts that I use for the this PDF (in whole or in part) is strictly prohibited. This magazine (Brushwood)! includes distribution by any body, group or individual where a membership, subscription fee or any other charge is required to access or view this PDF and / or its contents. 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Editor 아 트 앤 슬 CCooppyyrriigghhtt NNoottiiccee Ps. Many congratulations to one of our regular writer, Michael Munyon who recently passed his 로 창 헌 류 All articles in this magazine are 6th degree. Copyright © 2010 Author of article 태 권 도 2 - Totally Tae Kwon Do IIssssuuee 2211 CCoonntteennttss Totally TKD News Page 4 Totally TKD WTF News Page 9 5th World Taekwondo Poomsae Championships Page 11 How I Lost 50 Pounds In 3 Weeks Page 16 How To Develop Techniques Page 17 Patterns: The Devil Is In The Details Page 23 Il Su Sik / One Step Sparring Page 29 All Good Techniques Start With Good Posture Page 34 WTF Forms Applications: Inside To Out Middle Block Page 39 Shadow Sparring Page 41 Whats The Point: Escrima Pt 4 Page 47 Totally TKD Wants You Page 50 Special ITF Taekwon-Do Developments Page 51 Aladdin Ain’t Got Nothing On You Guys Page 61 Which Is The Best Martial Art? Page 63 Submission Guidelines Page 66 Where To Download Totally Tae Kwon Do Page 67 Contributors: Paul O’Leary, Jason Ainley, Sanko Lewis, Richard Conceicao, Al Case, Master Doug Cook, Master Mark Gallagher, Thomas Gordon, Benjamin Evans, Michael Munyon, Edmond Johnson, Heather Smith-Schenkey, Seok-jae Kang (WTF Press Centre) & Stuart Anslow Totally Tae Kwon Do - 3 TToottaallllyy TTKKDD NNeewwss Grandmaster J.H. Kim Chooses Grand Master Kim took a break from First European Affiliate Taekwondo to study in Harvard Business school and obtain an MBA.He returned to his beloved art in 1992 to reach out to new communities and spread the art of Taekwondo to as many people as possible. He opened the J.H Kim Institute of Taekwondo and now teaches students from all walks of life every single day. Master Cyril McSweeney is a native of Carrigtwohill and has 32 years experience in Taekwondo. He has been involved in Taekwondo in Carrigtwohill and Midleton for 27 years.Cyril was the chairman of 3 national bodies He is a co-founder of Taekwon-do Ireland. Cyril has studied under Europe’s first black belt, Grand Master Karel Van Orsouw and was his Grandmaster Jae Hun Kim of Boston, chief instructor for 10 years in Ireland .He Massachusetts has chosen Master Cyril is ex Irish international fighter who McSweeney (6th Degree, of Carrigtwohill competed in 3 world championships and Taekwon do Academy) as his first and only was on the Irish team which came 3rd in European affiliate member. the World Championships in 1988. The J.H Kim Taekwondo Institute has its Cyril also organized and ran the 3rd World roots in the Boston area and has expanded Junior WTF Taekwondo Championships into 13 schools in the U.S, Korea, held in Killarney in 2000 .This was the first Singapore and China. Grandmaster Kim ever Olympic sports world Championships offers a wealth of experience and fresh held in Ireland . Over 50 countries from the ideas through his unique style of teaching. four corners of the world attended . Grandmaster Kim has over 40 years Carrigtwohill Taekwondo Academy has experience in the art and was fortunate opened a full time dojang(School) in enough to recieve tuition from the father of Carrigtwohill. The Academy will be offering Taekwondo, General Choi in the birth classes for pre school children to a place of the art, Korea. dults ,This year it will have a kickfit class for ladies only for health and fitness.Along He opened his first school in Winnipeg, with the classes from 3 year olds to Canada in 1967 and steadily introduced adults.The Academy will have a large the relatively unknown art to the area.As choice of classes and times . the years progressed he became more and more involved with students from all walks For details please contact us at of life as he began teaching in [email protected] or on our website Boston,U.S.A. wwwcarrigtwohilltaekwondo.com or 087 2026733 4 - Totally Tae Kwon Do Michael Munyon Grades For 6th Degree On Saturday 23 October 2010, Master Terry Batch, US-ITF Michigan State Director hosted US-ITF President Master Robert N. Wheatley for a senior grading and seminar. Mr. Michael Munyon, US-ITF Armed Forces Director and Mrs. Carol Van Zile, Ohio State Director tested for their 6th degree black belt. The testing board consisted of Master Robert N. Wheatley, Master Eugene Humesky, Master Terry Batch, Master Joseph Seszko, Mr. Nick Malefyt, US-ITF New Jersey State Director, After that, Master Wheatley had the senior Mr. Frank Vassagio and a few other ranking black belts break up the rest of the special guests. The examination was a students into groups. Each senior black non-stop action filled test consisting of all belts and masters taught various topics the ITF Tuls, Hosin Sool, Kicking about Taekwon-Do to each group. Upon Demonstrations, Free Sparring, Breaking completion of the seminar Master Robert and oral questions. Upon completion of Wheatley issued certificates of participation the examination the board announced the to all the attendees. promotion of Mr. Michael Munyon and Mrs. Carol Van Zile to the 6th degree black belt. Shaking Hands with Grandmaster Eugene Humesky Shortly after the examination Master Robert N. Wheatley lead a 3.5 hour seminar on Dodging, Elbow Strikes, The Types of Sparring Found in ITF Taekwon- Do, Free Sparring Drills, Mapping the Body, the proper execution and names of techniques in ITF Taekwon-Do and more. Totally Tae Kwon Do - 5 Fire Dragon Taekwondo Do Bring Sparring. A white belt, Brenden Preece Home The Gold won gold in Sparring while Thomas Tracey, yellow belt won silver in Poomsae and On Saturday October 23, 2010; 18 bronze in Sparring. Kevin Fischer, yellow competitors from Fire Dragon Taekwondo stripe won a gold in Poomsae and a & Fitness in Medicine Hat, Alberta Canada participated in the 27th Annual Grand bronze in Sparring while Christina Fischer, yellow belt won gold in Poomsae and Master KH Min Invitation Taekwondo bronze in Sparring. Green stripe Tournament in Edmonton, Alberta Canada. competitor, Nilufar Jahandardoost won a silver medal for his Poomsae. The This tournament was host to over 320 Haberstock family showed well. All three competitors from various Taekwondo competitors are yellow stripes. Renee won Schools from all over Western Canada. bronze medals for Poomsae and Sparring; This tournament was Fire Dragon Cameron won a gold medal for Sparring Taekwondo & Fitness’s inaugural and a bronze medal for Poomsae while tournament, as this is a new Dojang in Megan won a gold medal for Poomsae and Medicine Hat. a silver medal for Sparring. Shannon Ribi, white belt won a gold in Poomsae and a The competitors from Master Mark bronze medal in Sparring while Milton Pellerin’s Fire Dragon Taekwondo in Wong; green stripe received a silver medal Medicine Hat brought home 33 medals. in Poomsae and a bronze medal in Sparring. Aiden Gripp another green stripe Mona Dlikan, green stripe won gold medals won Gold in Poomsae. Ethan Gripp, green in both Poomsae and Sparring. Wesan stripe won gold in Poomsae and silver in Dlikan, green stripe came home with Sparring. Kalen Schenkey, blue stripe bronze medals in Poomsae and Sparring. rounded out the medals with winning a Tara Lam, green belt was a three medal gold in Poomsae and bronze in Sparring. winner. She won gold medals in Breaking with spinning Back Kick and Knife Hand The courage and dedication that these Strike as well as a silver medal in Sparring. eighteen competitors demonstrated was no Conner Hilland, green stripe one a silver in small part in the tremendous showing at Poomsae. Hayley Gyug, yellow stripe won this tournament. double silver medals in Poomsae and Submitted by: Heather Smith-Schenkey 6 - Totally Tae Kwon Do Master Willie Lim marking, he called all the candidates to him Dan Grading and said he was impressed by the standards displayed. The nicest comment On Sunday 25th October 2010 pioneering being that he said that all had displayed Taekown-Do Master Willie Lim, 8th degree one of the highest standards of Taekwon- held a senior Dan black belt grading. Do he had ever seen in his 19 years of examining at gradings, surely a great Mr Anslow and Mr Gautam from Rayners accolade for everyone present. Lane Taekwon-Do Academy travelled to Rugby for the grading, where they were to Master Lim presented certificates to all that be examined along side black belt had passed then spent another hour or so members of Hay Harris's TKD Academy. discussing some of the ‘less’ understood movements that are found in Taekwon- As I settled down behind the video camera Do’s patterns as well as offering various to film it for prosperity the grading started other insights into the art. with a short introductory talk by Master Lim, as to what he expected of the candidates. Finally the day ended with a meal and Then it was onto the physical elements some discussions of Taekwon-Do’s history with both junior and senior patterns (chon-ji with some great ‘insider info’ from this to Se-Jong) with the three senior grades legendary master. nervously performing one at a time. Then followed basics, 3 step sparring, 1 step Congratulations to the following candidates sparring, pad work, hosinsul, multiple who were promoted as follows: rounds of free sparring, restricted free sparring and destruction (air breaks), as • Mr Hay Harris to 6th Degree well as each candidate having to break • Mr Stuart Anslow to 5th Degree down the applications of a black belt • Mr Dee Harris to 4th Degree pattern and demonstrate them to Master • Mr Vikram Gautam to 3rd Degree Lim. As pattern applications are one • Mr Paul Fiddy to 3rd Degree Master Lim’s area’s of expertise it meant • Mr Martin Addy to 3rd Degree that the ‘’standard’ applications were not going to impress and thus all the A video reel of the grading can be seen at candidates had to examine their chosen www.raynerslanetkd.com patterns more in-depth then they have ever been taught which was a challenge in itself, but one they embraced and overcome well. O n c e t h e i n j u r i e s sustained from the last few hours were sorted (nothing too serious, just some cuts from sparring and a possible broken radius) and the Master Lim had completed his Totally Tae Kwon Do - 7 US-ITF Armed Forces Director various techniques against armed and Breaks in New Rank with Hosin unarmed opponents. Students were trained on joint locks, take downs, pistol Sool Seminar disarms from the front, side and rear, pressure point techniques, ground techniques, chokes, lectures on the Use of Force, Color Codes of Awareness and self defense concepts. On 24 October 2010, Mr. Michael Munyon, US-ITF Armed Forces Director and newly promoted 6th degree black belt travelled to Algonac, Michigan to conduct a Hosin Sool The seminar concluded at 4:00 pm with seminar at Life Care Martial Arts. Dr. great feedback from the training. Dr. Brady William Brady owner of Life Care Martial gave Mr. Munyon a tour of the local area Arts developed a great martial arts and took him out to a local restaurant. friendship with Mr. Munyon through the After a great dinner Dr. Brady and Mr. internet and after a year of talking about Munyon went to a local “watering hole” to getting together Dr. Brady took advantage have a few beverages. The bartender was of Mr. Munyon being in Michigan. The talking with Dr. Brady and Mr. Munyon friendly meeting of Dr. Williams and Mr. about some of the “rift raft” that would Munyon was a great delight. Prior to the come into the “watering hole” from time to seminar Dr. Williams gave Mr. Munyon a time. Mr. Munyon took the time to teach a tour of his dojang. The dojang was very few escort techniques to the bartender spacious and had an area for Air Soft which went off like a bang. Everyone was weapons firing and a photo studio in the watching and enjoyed knowing they had back. the ability to defend themselves and politely remove unwanted individuals if needed. At 12:00 the seminar began with approximately 20 students in attendance. Those in attendance consisted of Taekwon -Do students, law enforcement personnel and parents of students enrolled at Life Care Martial Arts. Mr. Munyon taught 8 - Totally Tae Kwon Do TToottaallllyy TTKKDD NNeewwss WTF Council Selects Vladivostok, Tournament for the 2012 London Olympic Russia as Host Site for 6th World Games. Poomsae Championships Mexico City, Mexico won the right to host the Pan American Taekwondo Qualification The Russian city of Vladivostok will host Tournament for the 2012 London Olympic the 6th WTF World Taekwondo Poomsae Games in January 2012 as the United Championships in 2011. States withdrew its application at the last moment. At its extraordinary Council meeting at the Intercontinental Hotel in Tashkent, Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, will host Uzbekistan on Oct. 6, 2010, the World the Asian Taekwondo Qualification Taekwondo Federation also selected the Tournament, while New Caledonia earned host sites for the WTF Continental the right to host the Oceania Taekwondo Taekwondo Qualification Tournament for Qualification Tournament for the 2012 the 2012 London Olympic Games. London Olympic Games in September 2011. The Council granted the Egyptian city of Port Said the right to host the WTF African The WTF Council also approved the Taekwondo Qualification Tournament for proposal for the amendment to the WTF the 2012 London Olympic Games in Rules and Regulations, the proposal for November 2011. the amendment to the WTF Competition Rules and the proposal for the amendment The WTF Council voted to give the to the Rules on Organization and Russian city of Kazan the right to host the Operation of International Taekwondo European Taekwondo Qualification Totally Tae Kwon Do - 9 Championships, all of them require the the Rules on Organization and Operation final approval of the WTF General of International Taekwondo Assembly scheduled for Oct. 7 for Championships. implementation. Among the major changes to the WTF The Council members approved New Rules and Regulations, which will take Caledonia as the WTF’s associate member effect immediately, are the change of the pending the final approval of the WTF name of the WTF Rules and Regulations General Assembly on Oct. 7. If approved, into the WTF Statutes, the deletion of the New Caledonia will be the WTF’s 192nd Executive Committee, and the increase in member nation. the number of WTF Council members from 32 to 35. The Council made a final approval on the proposal for the amendment to the Under the new WTF Statutes, English is Standing Procedures for the Olympic the only official language of the WTF, while Games. French, Korean and Spanish are auxiliary languages of the WTF. English is the WTF Council members were briefed on the controlling language of both the WTF proposed WTF Global Membership System Statues and the Competition Rules. So far, and the WTF Mandatory International Korean was the controlling language for Athlete License. the Competition Rules. They received a report on the 2nd World Big changes were made in the Continental Youth Taekwondo Camp, jointly organized Union section in order to allow greater by the WTF and the Taekwondo Promotion flexibility in the management of the overall Foundation. WTF structure and for greater communications between the WTF and the Continental Unions. WTF General Assembly Approves New Caledonia as 192nd Member Some additions were made in the areas concerning the WTF missions and Nation; Passes New Statutes, objectivities, the WTF activities and Competition Rules resources, the intellectual property, the Host City Agreement, the sanctions and The World Taekwondo Federation dispute resolution. approved New Caledonia as its 192nd member national association at its General “The amendment is to rationalize the Assembly in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on Oct. organization and further clarify the 7, 2010. definitions to make it easier for all member national associations to understand. It is With the WTF General Assembly’s also to set the foundation for greater approval, Burundi became the full member cooperation among the member national of the WTF and Macau was granted a full associations, Continental Unions and the member status in recognition of its WTF by providing for more structured contribution to the development of the channels for better communication in a WTF. comprehensive and coordinated way,” said WTF President Chungwon Choue shortly The General Assembly unanimously after the approval of the WTF Statutes at approved the proposed amendment to the the General Assembly. WTF Rules and Regulations, the proposed amendment to the WTF Competition Under the new WTF Competition Rules, Rules, and the proposed amendment to 10 - Totally Tae Kwon Do