After the miserable weather at the festival last year we decided to come back in 2015. Our luck was better this year with sunny weather all day. Unfortunately, many of our students were busy this weekend, but many thanks to Deirdre and Ioannis for helping out on the day, we literally couldn't have done it without you!
As with similar demonstrations, we performed aspects of the traditional junbi undo warm up exercises, moving onto basic punching, blocking and kicking and then a few of the San Dan Gi exercises. We went on to perform Gekisai dai ichi, with bunkai. Sensei Louise and I performed Sepai kata and a few of the bunkai, before moving onto padwork, highlighting the importance of developing strong punching power, along with elbow and knee strikes. We finished off with Sanchin kata.
It was a great day with lots of friendly people and good performances from the various dance groups and the local Tang Soo Do club. We'll be back in 2016, hopefully with a larger contingent!
As with similar demonstrations, we performed aspects of the traditional junbi undo warm up exercises, moving onto basic punching, blocking and kicking and then a few of the San Dan Gi exercises. We went on to perform Gekisai dai ichi, with bunkai. Sensei Louise and I performed Sepai kata and a few of the bunkai, before moving onto padwork, highlighting the importance of developing strong punching power, along with elbow and knee strikes. We finished off with Sanchin kata.
It was a great day with lots of friendly people and good performances from the various dance groups and the local Tang Soo Do club. We'll be back in 2016, hopefully with a larger contingent!
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