1- Techniques

Legs

Double Front Kicks

Double Roundhouse Kicks

Cut/Teep Kick

Spinning Axe Kick

Flying Knee

Horizontal/Buffer Knee

Jumping or Flying Front/Thrust, Roundhouse/Thai, Side Kick, and Hook Kick

Hands

Spinning Cross, Hook and Uppercut

Knife and Ridge Hand (Clinch)

Elbow Techniques (Front/Cross- Thrust- Downward- Upper- Slashing- Rear- Side/Backhand)

Bolo Punch (Half Hook/ Half Uppercut)

Superman Punch

Blocks

Guarding Block

Elbow Block

Knife Hand Arm Trap

Concepts

Able to recognize and display Offensive, Defensive and Counter Stances/Actions

Counter off of Catching kicks (Push/Guide, Trip, Punch, Kick, and Combinations)

Clinching fundamentals

Proficient at Swimming/Sticky Hand Techniques, in and out of the Clinch

Clinch Defense (Head up, Arms out, and Cross Block)

Defensive Clinch Hook Strike

Defensive Horizontal Knee

Combinations

Lead Roundhouse, Lead Hook, Cross, Thai Kick

Lead Elbow, Rear Knee

Knife Hand/Ridge Hand, Single Clinch, Knee

2- Self-defense

Standing head locks

Pop ups

Elbow cartwheels

Kidnapper

3- Breaking

Legs- Reverse Side Kick

Hands- Palm Heel

4- Form

Won-Hyo

Won Hyo (617–686 CE) was the noted monk, leading thinker, writer, and commentator who introduced Buddhism to the Silla Dynasty in the year 686 AD. Won-Hyo was famous for singing and dancing in the streets in order to draw people to Buddhism. While the Buddha discouraged such behaviors, his songs and dances were seen as a way to help save all sentient beings. Among his most influential works were his commentaries on the writings within the text called Awakening of Faith.

He spent the earlier part of his career as a monk. In 661 he and a close friend were traveling to China to study Buddhism when they were caught in a storm and took shelter in what they thought was a cave. In the night Won-Hyo was thirsty. Searching in the dark, he grabbed what he thought was a gourd. He drank cool refreshing water from it which satisfied his thirst. When they woke in the morning they found that the cave was actually an ancient tomb littered with human skulls, and the “gourd” from which Won-Hyo had drunk was a human skull full of foul water. Upon seeing this, Won-Hyo vomited. Won-Hyo was astonished by the power of his mind that convinced him that the foul water was a refreshing drink. After this “One Mind” enlightenment experience, he abandoned his plan to go to China. He left the priesthood and turned to the spreading of the Buddhadharma as a layman. This story led to Won-Hyo becoming a popular folk hero.

Won Hyo has 28 movements and its diagram is a capital “I”.

5- Knowledge

Korean Martial Arts

1-Taekwondo derives its roots directly from Taekkyon and Karate.

2-Taekkyon is one of the oldest Korean Martial Arts. Taekkyon includes hands and feet techniques to unbalance, trip, or throw the opponent. Taekkyon has many leg and whole-body techniques. A taekkyon practitioner is called a "taekkyon-kkun".

3-Kwonbeop is the term for unarmed methods in Korean martial arts as developed in the Joseon era. It is the Korean rendition of the Chinese Quan fa/ Kung Fu.

4-Ssireum (Cy-ree-um) is Korean wrestling art and the traditional national sport of Korea.

In the modern form each contestant wears a belt that wraps around the waist and the thigh. The competition employs a series of techniques which inflict little harm or injury to the opponent. The opponents lock on to each other’s belt, and one achieves victory by bringing any part of the opponent’s body above the knee to the ground.