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My Presence at the London 2012 Olympic Games
I will be at the London 2012 Olympic Games. Or at least, a digital rendition of me will be there.Me, in WTF Taekwon-Do attire.
Motion Without Movement
In this post I am going to discuss the way in which ITF Taekwon-Do’s sine wave motion teaches the practitioner to achieve motion without movement; in other words, how to move the body—shift the body’s centre of gravity, without tensing muscles.The full sine wave motion has three distinct phases in which the body seems to move “down-up-down”, but which is slightly better described as “relax-rise-fall”. In this post I want to speak about an unusual value of the first phase of the sin
The Sine Wave Motion as a Mnemonic Device for Joint-Locks and Throws
In a previous post I referred to the sine wave motion as an icon—it is a simplification of a bigger principle, the Wave / Circle Principle. Martial arts such as Aikido, Hapkido, and Judo that are particularly known for their employment of the Wave / Circle Principle are also known for their throwing and joint-locking techniques and in this post I will give a cursory look at some throwing and joint-locking techniques in ITF Taekwon-Do to show how the sine wave motion is used as a mnemonic to le
