24th Foreigner Instructor Training Seminar - Day 1

Day 1 was the opening ceremony by the Deputy Minister of Youth & Sports of Malaysia and also speech by the President of Kukkiwon.

The first session was the briefing by the President of Kukkiwon  followed by theory session by Grandmaster Kang on Taekwondo basic motion of stances, hand techniques and leg techniques. The theory included the 'measurement' of the stances. Later we have a  practical session of the basic motion. The basic motion was to 're-align' the basic motion that we had been 'misguided' all this while. The 'misguidance' such as the proper movement of the basic such as stances, punches, blocks and other hand techniques.

Grandmaster Kwon then went through with us on the history of Taekwondo which tell us the martial arts involved in the different era till the evolution of Taekwondo.

Later of the day, there was another practical session on Taekwondo poomsae from Taegeuk 1 till Taegeuk 7. The whole poomsae session was 3 hours long as the grandmaster had to correct everything that we had been taught wrongly.

The day end with roll call to mark our attendance.