This is the second part
of the Taekwondo Forms Workshop. Although this workshop was meant to
target higher colored-belts, many lower colored-belts showed up for the workshop
as well. Our guest instructor is Dr. Dennis Lieu, who is a 4th Dan
Black-Belt, with Aviva Shimelman assisting.
We split off the Red-Belts from the lower colored-belts to make sure the
Red-Belts have time to learn all the higher Taegeuk and Palgwe forms while
giving the lower colored-belts a chance to practice their forms without confusing
them with forms they did not need to know yet. The large degree of variation
in levels between the students is what makes teaching at Oracle Taekwondo
a challenge. When it is just one black-belt teaching, it is almost
impossible to attend to every student during forms without delegating some
teaching duties to a Red-Belt. At the same time, Red-Belts do not get to
learn the forms they need to know. That is mainly one reason that we require
Red-Belts to attend Advanced Class at UCMAP at least once a week - to not
only learn the forms that is required, but also to practice sparring techniques
with students of the same level.
For this workshop, Dr. Lieu instructed the Red-Belts and Aviva instructed
the lower colored-belts.
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Dr. Lieu Introduces the Workshop
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Aviva Observes Thoughtfully
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Body Punch in Front Stance
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Out-to-In Block in Front Stance
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Turn Around, then Body Punch in Front Stance
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In-to-Out Block in Back Stance
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Double Knife-Hand Block in Back Stance
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Face Block, Step Forward, Punch
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Double Knife-Hand Block in Back Stance the Other
Way
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Upper Colored-Belts Runs into Lower Colored-Belts
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Ah...OK! It is NOT a form!
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Face Punch in Front Stance
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Well Someone Thinks It is Funny! :-)
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Jason's Back Stance Gets a Critical Eye
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Dr. Lieu Shows What NOT To Do!
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A Looooow Horseback Stance
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Everyone Gets Reeeeeal Low
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