About Applied TaeKwon-Do
This is a very new website giving TaeKwon-Do students information about the Applied TaeKwon-Do sessions being run in Bristol by Mr Russ Martin, 5th Dan.
The site is currently home to Mr Martin’s blog about the new applied TaeKwon-Do sessions, but in time will include further articles, photos and even downloads of DVD’s and other material you may wish to purchase. Watch this space!
Applied Taekwondo is aimed at senior grade Taekwondo practitioners; it is supplementary and hopefully complimentary to standard training. Without the solid foundation that Taekwondo gives, Applied TaeKwonDo would be impossible. Often, much of TaeKwon-Do training is led by the needs, rules, strategies and distancing of sparring and tournament fighting. Applied TaeKwon-Do is led by the applications of techniques found in the patterns. Not just the techniques of low kicking, knees and elbows that are not permitted in sparring but by looking beyond the first simple level of application there are found techniques of throwing, locking, restraining, joint breaking, nerve striking, escape from grabs and much much more.
Twisting kick using x knifehand checking block as a block/lock and restraint as performed in tkd pattern Gae-Beck.
The [TaeKwon-Do] patterns point to fighting techniques and strategies that combat the Common Acts of Violence that man does against man (or woman) in real life where there are no rules or the artificial distancing of sparring. Applied Taekwondo aims at training to combat these Common Acts of Violence.
For further information about the classes Mr Martin runs in the Bristol area, see his other website at http://www.tkdbristol.com/.
