My New Approach

Lessons have begun for two weeks now and I am still experimenting with my new training approach.

Last year, I am only begin training for poomsae one month towards grading but this year I am begin poomsae training from the beginning. we'll be doing one poomsae a week until the practitioners' own poomsae. Even then, the practitioners will have to practice all the poomsae below theirs in order for them to remember and master all the poomsae. Poomsae training will only be done at the end of the training.

My approach will also focus on their physical aspects and sparring. The physical part will be covered at the beginning of the lesson with dynamic warm-up followed by sports-specific endurance. For the start now we will be working on one basic upper body and lower body strength training which is the push up and squats. Not forgetting the core strength using sit up upon competing the poomsae training.

After that, we will work on some basic free-sparring movements. The focus is on the techniques and the movement speed.

This way, I feel that all the components are covered for the general training. However, this program only can run on the maximum of 6 weeks before moving on to a new program. Otherwise, it'll become redundant and getting bored. Nevertheless, the sequence will be the same and they still have to do poomsae after free-sparring training.

2010

It's been a long while since I last updated my blog. All the gradings for the year 2009 had ended lessons for the year 2010 has just began. As it was a 1st week of lessons, therefore training was light and just a lil' bit of physical with a lil' bit of skill training.

For this year I'll be taking a new approach in conducting my classes. I had just taken my first step this week and will try to keep it going and see how it goes.

It was an eventful week seeing old faces turning up for training and also a couple of new faces trying out for training. Students returning from oversea and will join back the classes. There was also an accident happened in one of the classes where 2 girls fell down and cried.

Well, all and all, it's a good start of the year and I wish the momentum will continue....