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Soar Training:

It’s time to begin another week. This week, I want you to focus on your hand techniques. When you load your strikes or blocks, be sure you are fully loading everything. Don’t take shortcuts in training; it will get faster with proper practice. Remember that your blocks (defense techniques) should twist into place. Pay attention…

Soar Challenge: 100 Side Kicks

The challenge this week is 100 Sidekicks (Yup Cha Ki, 옆 차기). You may space out and break up the kicks any way you wish, but the challenge is to complete 100 on each side this week. Notice where your weight is setting in your hips, your base foot, your knees, and in your chest.…

Mediation of the Week: Obedience to Parents

Martial Arts begins and ends with courtesy and respect. Tang Soo Do’s second code uses the term “parents.” I want you to expand the definition of “parent” to  imply father, mother, teachers, elders, and instructors. It is respect for others–esteem, honor, and appreciation for whom esteem, honor, and appreciation is due. In many ways this…

Soar Training: Hyungs

It’s a new testing cycle and will begin this week with the ever-important Hyung. Hyungs are as basic and as complicated as you make them. Studying the Hyungs allow us to gain deep insights into the intricacies and creative applications of various techniques within Tang Soo Do. These obviously include punching and kicking, but Hyungs…

Soar Challange: 100 Front Kicks

The challenge this week is 100 Front Kicks (Ahp Cha Ki). You may space out and break up the kicks any way you wish, but the challenge is to complete 100 on each leg this week. Notice where your weight is set in your hips, your base foot, your knees, and in your chest. Keep…

Meditation of the Week: Loyalty to Country

The first of the Five Codes of Tang Soo Do is Loyalty to Country. Irrespective of whether one is a born citizen, or whether citizenship is gained later in life – having “loyalty to country” allows one to truly appreciate and love one’s homeland. Rebellion and treachery against a just government have always led to crippled…

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