brass tacks - poomsae training #5
Jan. 12th, 2007 03:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Straight into the patterns this time.
The whole group went over the common patterns of Taegeuk 8, Koryo, Keumgang and Taebaek, then into age groups for the highest patterns - Jitae and Chonkwon for us with Bronwyn. Partner work came next, with Barry, David and i watching each other's patterns. General points to come out of the session were as follows:
Taegeuk 8: Need to slow down the first couple of moves and finish each technique (which is a pity as that's exactly what i was trying to do). I'm also doing a couple of little extra steps in places - midway through, stepping back from the front kick, i'm moving my left foot first in a little skip or hop backwards, and just before the turn into the last rung (double punch into single knife hand block). Also, my outside body block needs to be a bit lower, and my left knife hand is a bit off-shape - i'm pulling my ring ringer in, instead of the middle finger.
Keumgang: Leaning back again in horse stance on major hinge and losing balace. Must get that under control.
Jitae and Chonkwon: On slow punches, elbows should be in for both pulling and punching hand.
Chonkwon: Double uppercut should finish at jaw level, not higher. Circling move after supported minor block (far end) should be smaller - not upper block height. Jump high on turning inside kick. On mountain push, upper hand comes no higher than eyes - should be able to look over fingertips. Watch back foot on tiger stance.
To finish up, we did some more side kick exercises, with four levels. First level - lying on side, extend foot out in good side kick shape. Second level - extend and retract smoothly along straight line (shoulder hip and foot stay in line). Third level - same kick, snapped out with power, keeping straight line and good shape (i found my foot goes to the side on this). Level four - standing up with back against a wall, bring foot up to bottom ready for a side kick, with the heel touchign the wall. Push out a slow side kick, keeping the heel on the wall the whole way and tracing the same line on the way out as back in. For practice do ten repetitions each leg, can start low and get higher.
Homework for the night was to pick one technique (not a principle like slow/fast) that needs work and work on it. I initially chose double punch, to do it without jarring my elbow as i always seem to do, but later i changed it to the mountain push from Chinkwon, together with its preceding move. I also need to practise the new way of doing knife hand strike in Koryo, from behind the ear and coming straight forward.