Master Nardizzi, thank you very much for sharing your knowledge and providing such a great resource with excellent content, fantastic! Regarding procedure, the pg37 of Vol V and pg 612 of the 1999 Condensed Encyclopedia defines the starting procedure differently. They show attention stance, bow, return to attention stance. The attacker measures and adjusts as needed with a right walking stance. Defender still in attention stance. The attacker returns to attention stance. When instructed to start, attacker takes a left walking stance low block position. The defender steps toward D (to the left with left foot) into a parallel stance. When instructed to commence, they move through the punch and block sequence (as you show). Has there been a change to this start procedure? Thanks again for sharing your time and knowledge!!!
I do Taekwon do and my instructor hasn’t been going over this for me and I have grading in 3 weeks I had said this is the one that I need to do but the one I’ve been doing is yellow stripe one but I’m yellow belt
Is it appropriate to do a 360 degree turning kick and jumping backside for 8th kup?i have previously learn takewondo many years ago and restart as white belt a few months ago.
Dear Grand Master Donato Nardizzi thanks for these lessons on RU-vid so now i can learn outside of lessons too . i have subscribed and hit the notafication bell .BTW This is your old student rockmund from 2015. from rockmund
-Sir in sambo matsogi # 3 after the counter attack with apcha busigi is back in walking stance or in forearm guarding block in niunja sogi? Someone teaches that in the event of a counter attack with the leg technique, one always returns to the forearm guarding block. It's correct?
It is not necessary to adopt Niunja So Daebi Makgi but many instructors teach this way and it is ok. The Taekwon-Do encyclopedia doesn't show it with Daebi Magki after a kick.
Hello Sir, What an honor it was to attend your seminar in San Jose, CA (USA) back in May 2019! A quick question? We've been told to "kihap" with the counter attack. Are doing this as well or is something that just our schools do here?
This is something that many traditional martial arts do. Even I was taught to do this when I was a colour belt student. In the Taekwon-Do encyclopedia, General Choi indicates that you need to shout "Ya" as ready signal but does not mention the need to 'kihap' on the counter attack. Using correct breath control on the counter attack is good enough. There is no harm in practicing a 'kihap'. It helps to raise the spirit and it even has a practical use in actual combat. I have used it to great effect in a real situation when I was 17yrs old. My friend and I were attacked by 8 youths. I shouted a very loud 'kihap' on my first counter attack which caused 6 of them to instantly run away.
I believe this is not correct. Using correct distance is one of main aims of 3-step sparring and that's why the Taekwon-Do encyclopedia specifies that the players "are required to stance at the appropriate distance apart because it is necessary for both practitioners to take full, natural steps to correctly perform the attack and block". When the practitioners become more advanced and do 2-step sparring, then they can judge the distance by eye as recommended in the encyclopedia.
My only issue with being "too close" as you demonstrated is that you've put yourself in range of contact, which is what actually will happen in real life. If that block does not work at contact distance, would it not be fair to say that block is inappropriate for the situation?
You raise a really good point. My interpretation is, the block would be inappropriate if you do not move out of range whilst doing it. Many blocks require you to move away from the focal point of the attack. So the block is not just to intercept the attack but to prevent a follow through or an easy follow up from the attacker and also to expose the attacker to a counter attack. Blocks that can be done at close range such as side front block, or checking block are those that can also be done in close stance or parallel stance where the defender does not necessarily need to retreat.
I’m just curious, is this an early stage in learning a more advanced movement? I briefly took ITF TKD almost 20 year ago but no one explained the significance behind these lessons, nor the patterns. I’m very much wanting to get back into this, and eager to understand it.
These Taekwon-Do lesson videos progressively take you from White belt onwards. The 3 Step Sparring is usually taught at yellow belt level. The more advanced patterns and pre-arranged sparring will be covered in later lessons. If there's anything you don't understand, feel free to ask me via the comments.
Thank you for your suggestion. Yes, I was actually thinking about that after I made the last video. It will take some time to do this for all my videos but I will try as soon as I have time.
