Ok, hi. Really I should try to be more positive than negative but you have to think that when a club puts some videos on youtube and on it’s website, nobody forced them to upload the videos. You would have thought that you would cherry pick a bit and choose videos that made you seem at the very minimum, a club operating at an acceptable level of skill. See below:
This isn’t really acceptable, right. I mean, the jump-turn before the back kick I would find embarrassing for a red belt. God bless the kids in these videos but they shouldn’t be wearing any colour taekwon-do belt. If the instructor wants to reward them with stars or badges or something I’m fine with that but they shouldn’t be wearing those belts. There’s not even one thing from those patterns where I would walk away thinking, well they do this particular thing right at least we don’t have to start from scratch. They don’t even show any effort - their breathing is an imitation of hard breathing whereas in reality they are moving very comfortably in slow motion. I don’t expect young students at the bottom of the belt ladder to be much good, but you can’t progress people when the stances are wrong, when there is no impact or imitation of impact, when seriously they have never been properly instructed in their lives, that they have all these bad habits and have been taught nothing.
Phew…good to have a rant every now and then. Stress releasing.
Could you post videos of yourself doing both of those things shown in the video for comparison? I was thinking about uploading some patterns myself but i’m never happy with what i do .
This is the bit where I link a Suska video and pretend that it’s me, right?
Lol, good point. Should be able to at least hold myself up for criticism if I’m going to criticize others, right (and, yes there is great scope for criticism in my technique). I haven’t filmed myself for a number of years so I don’t have anything to hand but if I can get something soon, I’ll put it up on here.
[QUOTE=progressivetkd;2608719]This is the bit where I link a Suska video and pretend that it’s me, right?
Lol, good point. Should be able to at least hold myself up for criticism if I’m going to criticize others, right (and, yes there is great scope for criticism in my technique). I haven’t filmed myself for a number of years so I don’t have anything to hand but if I can get something soon, I’ll put it up on here.[/QUOTE]
People put up all kinds of things… such as them practicing so rather then get a good idea of what they can do …instead we get a idea of how they practice
The real question for the second video is techniques? They appear to have no idea what the different techniques are and what the application is. I find a lot of people do forms because they have to and have no concept of why much less what the form represents. They will pass down this questionable concept and it starts to slide from there with each group gradually worse then the one before. I looked away and didn’t see the first couple of seconds of the video and then I was surprised when it stated it was Won Hyo. I could not identify the form by watching it the first time.
I don’t want to be too harsh perhaps it was their first time through.
I can’t believe it took someone this long to comment how bad that Won-Hyo was. Even if it was their first time, my advice would be - go learn Chon Gi again, you don’t have the walking and L stances down yet. Again, don’t put a jot of blame on the students - just feel that an instructor should be stepping in here and correcting this or at the very least not handing out green and blue belts left right and center. It’s one thing for someone to put a film of themselves on Youtube but this instructor put the videos on his own website, which isn’t really fair to the people involved because it’s not a good representation of them and the grade they hold.
You now what would be better? Add videos on the Good TKD thread. There are thousands of terrible TKD videos. All you are doing is restarting the “BASH TKD” threads of old.
Though I have not done tae kwon do in class for many years now, it is times like these that I silently thank [SIZE=2]my hard-ass of an instructor in making me do those forms right. I only got to Won Hyo, but man, my old broken ass still understands the concepts of a level stance and power. Even now, I can hear his voice in my head when I practice the forms and screw up.
On another note, I’m glad to see someone else here who did the Blue Cottage forms. Whenever I talk to someone else who did Tae Kwon Do, they look at me funny when I show them the forms.
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Hwa Rang (from Chang Hon) is the first ever taekwon-do form (unless you count all the Pyong-Ahns which technically are taekwon-do forms, but these were put together in okinawa, not Korea). Palgwes and Taeguks came later. Not a swipe at WTF guys as I love the WTF style but jus’ sayin’.
[QUOTE=progressivetkd;2610298]I can’t believe it took someone this long to comment how bad that Won-Hyo was. but this instructor put the videos on his own website, which isn’t really fair to the people involved because it’s not a good representation of them and the grade they hold.[/QUOTE]
The saddest part may be that these people and their instructor think they are doing a proper rendition of this pattern.
It looks like there’s an extra knife hand block in their rendition of Won-Hyo. Not that that makes it any more or less combat effective, hell, it doesn’t matter AT ALL for fighting purposes as far as I know, it just looks weird I guess since I learned it the other way.
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