Class Week-In-Review July 20, 2014

Small class on Monday, but we covered much!

For this week in sparring we reviewed footwork drills: Sliding, one-step-in, switching and pivoting. Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. This included basic strike and kick attacks. All of these can be practiced at home. We still have a lot of work to do when it comes to using our techniques in actual sparring rounds.

Special thanks to Angel for holding yet another successful warm-up class Saturday. He has covered for other students who were assigned, but did not arrive on time. Check your calendars. Your name may be assigned to lead a class. Be ready. Be early!

The most enjoyable part of Saturday was the showing off the homework projects. This was the first of such projects inspired by martial arts teaching expert Keith Pascal. We hope to assign more such projects in coming months.

This first project was to write a report based on the story of Master Hee Il Cho in an article published by Black Belt Magazine. Master Cho vividly describes the differences between martial arts training when he was a child to the training widely used today. They also had a choice of writing a poem, creating a Venn Diagram, comic book or illustrated scene of his life as described in the article. The students who did the assignment created wonderful projects. Although every single project was fantastic and none exceded the other in creativity, Niabelle's project must be noted as exceptional in that she created seven page comic book in Korean and English for her report!

You can view or download a PDF of everyone's projects for free below.

Hee Il Cho Projects