Tactical Taekwondo
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I started Taekwondo as a chubby 16-year-old who couldn't run the length of a training hall without turning red and falling over. However, martial arts was something I desperately wanted to do. With the help of some great instructors, I finally reached black belt. Since then due to work and life changes I have left my home and I am unable to continue training with the people who set me on..
Tactical Taekwondo
3y ago
Years ago, I am told, black belts were rare, and second degrees were unheard of. It would appear that those days are firmly behind us, we live at a time of black belt children and arts with up to 15th degree black belts! This idea of pushing out ranks and titles has extended to the ..read more
Tactical Taekwondo
3y ago
In my martial journey I have been lucky enough to have great instructors in both the traditional and modern art. Unsurprising each seem to have very different views on traditional practices. The traditional arts hold traditional as some thing that must be observed and never questioned. I was watching a class the other day and ..read more
Tactical Taekwondo
3y ago
More and more we see victim of bullying on the news. bullying is an age od problem and despite of years or decades of trying to deal with the issue, it is still here. Maybe it says something about the human condition, but we still need to find ways of helping people. As a schoolteacher ..read more
Tactical Taekwondo
3y ago
To continue the martial words series I will be looking at the word ‘skill’ In the martial art we are all chasing skill, we have all spent many hours and maybe many years chasing skills. However, the internet driven world, I see many people denigrating the skill of others just to get likes or to ..read more
Tactical Taekwondo
3y ago
One topic and even word that stirs up a lot of emotion in people is ‘fear’. I mentioned in a previous article that there was a time that I couldn’t even read articles abut how to face and conquer fears. The likes of Iain Abernethy, Geoff Thompson and many other self defence experts would write ..read more
Tactical Taekwondo
3y ago
Weakness is a plague these days, most people are weak or believe that they are. We are kept down by a relentless media telling that we should be wanting or being more and constantly offering us ‘trinkets’ that will get us a little bit of the way. It is well known that these ‘trinkets’, be ..read more
Tactical Taekwondo
3y ago
In many traditional self-defense schools, the instructors are against sparring, they put forward that sparring is the sport side of martial arts and has no place in a self-defense situation. Whereas there is a small grain of truth in what they are saying I can’t help think that they are interpreting information for their own ..read more
Tactical Taekwondo
3y ago
The terms “self defence system” or “martial arts system” got popular years back. It certain sounds good but how accurate is it? First let’s look at the definition of ‘system’ a set of things working together as parts of a mechanism or an interconnecting network; a complex whole. a set of principles or procedures according ..read more
Tactical Taekwondo
3y ago
This is a repost of an older article that I wrote when I moved from China to Indonesia. having just moved to Australia many of the thoughts here seem, once again, relevant. I haven’t posted in a while, my life has been extremely busy. I got married in December and have spent the last few ..read more
Tactical Taekwondo
3y ago
The movements in the patterns have gone through changes over the years. Going way back, there was no sine wave, then sine wave was altered after its introduction, the way some movements are performed was changed and even a whole pattern was replaced. This all happened after the patterns were formed by changing Shotokan Kata ..read more