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Newsletter 1/2005
Master Tran's Seminar Program
- Session 1: How to be effective in free sparring
(From 9:00 to 11:00, Saturday, April 23)
- Theory:
- objectives in free sparring
- Five tips to develop appropriate techniques, accuracy, proper distance, timing and speed
- Strategies to be used with different styles of opponents
- Training:
- Moving techniques and mobility (foot work)
- Developing good focus on targets (accuracy and proper distance)
- Developing counter-attacks from your position in free sparring
- Questions and answers:
- Note: Participants are required to bring their safety equipment for this session, as well as pen and paper to take notes. All of them are also required to wear ITF doboks.
- Session 2: How to learn and teach the DO
(From 15:30 to 17:30, Saturday, April 23)
Seminar presented by Master Trān, President of the ITF, and Dr. Janel Gauthier, Chairman of the ITF Committee on Ethics and Discipline:
- Meaning of the term "DO" in martial arts
- Purposes and benefits associated to learning and teaching the DO in the ITF
- Origins of the DO
- How can we learn and teach the DO more effectively
- Implementation of the program for teaching the DO to ITF members
- Note: Participants are required to bring pen and paper to take notes. All of them are also required to wear ITF doboks.
- Session 3: How to make training in patterns (Tuls) more interesting
(From 9:00 to 11:00, Sunday, April 24)
- Theory:
- What is a good pattern - criteria to evaluate the quality of performance in patterns
- Developing power: speed, mass through sine wave, and hip movement
- Learning about the mental aspect of ITF-TKD through the practice of patterns
- How to memorize different patterns
- Training:
- Basic stances in combination of the sine wave
- Using hip movement (mass) to increase power
- Breathing (internal energy) and synchronisation
- Visualisation
- Questions and answers
- Note: Participants are required to bring pen and paper to take notes. All of them are also required to wear ITF doboks.
- Session 4: Introduction of the learning and teaching of self-defence
(From 15:30 to 17:30, Sunday, April 24)
- Explanations:
- Why do we need to practice self-defence techniques in ITF-TKD
- Conceptualization of practice to develop effective self-defence techniques
- Legal and ethical aspects in the use of ITF-TKD techniques, including self-defence outside the dojang
- Practical tips to discourage aggression
- How to keep students serious and interested in learning self-defence
- Training:
- Combination of basic techniques to be used in close combats (patterns of self-defence)
- Usual self-defence techniques (12 to 15 techniques for different circumstances to be meet outside the dojang)
- Meditation and mental preparation to develop self-control in case of emergency (attack on the street)
- Questions and answers
- Note: Participants are required to bring pen and paper to take notes. All of them are also required to wear ITF doboks.
