The Art of TaeKwon-Do Practise Run

Hi, my name is Annie UnKauf. I am a Black-Belt in Unified TaeKwon-Do International, I’ve been training in TaeKwon-Do for eleven years and teaching all ages in a class format for the last 5. Did you know that learning even basic defense skills could save your life? Today I’m going to be showing you 4 of the most common attack in a fight, and how to defend yourself. The defenses I will be showing you today will allow you to escape potentially dangerous situations with little to no difficulties.

TaeKwon-Do Background and Supplies

TaeKwon-Do is a Korean military martial art that focuses on Defensive techniques rather than offensive. TaeKwon-Do translates to The Art of The Hand and Foot, which speaks to the fact that there is a mix of both hand and foot techniques, and some aspects mix punches and kicks together. There are 3 main TaeKwon-Do Federations, World TaeKwon-do – which is the version of TaeKwon-Do seen in the Olympics, they focus more on the combat aspect using more kicks than punches because they train with rifles due to the military background. International TaeKwon-do, they focus more on the non-combat aspects of TaeKwon-do, and then finally Unified TaeKwon-do attempts to have an even combination of combat and non-combat.

This lesson will need to be done in pairs, one person to be the attacker and the second to be the victim and defender. The attacks we are going to be working on are four common attacks in any fight. Two that are commonly used against men, and two that are common attacks on women.