A great Youtube clip explaining the virtues of learning an effective martial art. It equips you for confrontation:
- You read situations quicker
- You will be calmer, more assured and have better decision making skills
- You react to situations more effectively
- You're more likely to defuse the situation as you don't need to prove yourself
- If the situation escalates you're more likely to deal with that situation for a better outcome.
Training in an effective martial art gives you necessary skill sets to deal with a confrontation if it arrises. Training at Warwick-TKD will meet these needs, why not give us a go.
I am proud to announce that Alex Cameron won bronze in the patterns at the World Cup in Budapest representing T-UK England, just missing out on getting through to the gold and silver play off. Well done Alex excellent result, our thought are with you for the sparring now.
If you wanted to watch any of the Budapest World Cup please see the below link for live streaming of the event:
In TKD there are a number of kicks that require you to jump or fly. In your black belt gradings you are tested on breaking using these jumping and flying techniques if you do not train specifically to improve this specific skill you will be leaving yourself short when it comes to having to produce this. Below is a video of some volley ball training techniques to help improve their jump height, this has a close relevance to what is required for your TKD.
The 3rd weekend of the month is here again. Get yourself along to Aylesford School, Tipping Road, Warwick 10-11.30am. Sparring drills, competition conditioning in a fun motivational environment amongst nice friendly people motivated to improving their Taekwon Do. If you've not been before, why not give it a go this weekend.
Warwick-TKD's own little pocket rocket Alex Cameron is off to the World Cup in Budapest to represent T-UK England. The best of luck from myself, the instructor team and the whole club, go do your thing and make us proud.
New figures from the Crime Survey for England and Wales show there were 3,745 reports of violence with injury in Warwickshire in the year up to March 31, 2016 - a rise of 120 per cent. This was closely followed by incidents of violence against the person which were up 71 per cent to 8,387. In the West Midlands, the picture also showed an increase in violent incidents with violence with injury up 28 per cent to 23,199 and violence against the person up 19 per cent to 43,187.
Adductor muscle group flexibility is essential in a kicking martial art. Static stretching is fine for achieving flexibility but it doesn't prepare the body for the dynamic and ballistic activity that it is subjected to, and thus you could be at risk of injury. Watch the attached video to add an excellent stretch to your repertoire improving performance and reducing injury.
The results are in from the T-UK British Championships. Warwick-TKD, only one word to describe it, OUTSTANDING!!!!
- John Hoult - Gold sparring, silver patterns, 2 x gold destruction
- Rachel Hoult - Gold sparring, gold patterns
- Harry Hoult - Gold patterns, silver sparring
- Alex Cameron - Gold patterns, silver sparring
- Alix Lees - Gold sparring
- Angus Wilson - Bronze patterns, silver sparring
- Ellis Roberts - Gold patterns, gold sparring
- Angelika Durrant - Silver patterns, gold sparring
- Cello Gamad - bronze patterns, gold sparring
- Josh Burrows - silver patterns, bronze sparring
Take a look at the attached video. I have utilise all of these techniques and more in my own training for years and incorporate them into my clubs warm up routine to great success. To this end I thought that it would be good to post a tutorial that explains fully what the drills are doing and how to perfect them as there is a lot to take in in the early days. These drills are excellent conditioning for your kicking technique and for improving the control of your kicks.
