Class Log Sept. 24, 2008

Angela Taught. We went through the forms slowly, watching each other and critiquing.

Class Log Sept. 17, 2008

Eric Taught. We went through all the forms and worked on kicks.

Class Log Sept. 10, 2008

Angela Taught. We did stretches and worked on the new form.

Class Log Aug. 28, 2008

Eric Taught. We worked on the new form, and also worked on jumping 360 for the new jumping kicks. We worked on doing turning side kicks to the target down the length of the room.

Class Log Aug. 21, 2008

Katie Taught. We worked on kicking combinations, with "turning side kick, roundhouse, jumping half moon" and "crescent-side kick to the back - jumping side kick to the front", We also worked on the new form.

Class Log, Wed. May 28, 2008 - Master Hariramani's visit

Today Master Hariramani taught. We started off with our stretches, punches (double punches), stretch kicks, and then did kicking combinations.
Kicking combinations we did that were ultra cool:

• 6 sidekicks and a jumping sidekick
• sidekick, turning sidekick, roundhouse

We did basic movements. Things that we went over are double spearhands, palm strike (upward angle), side attack, and knifehand block.

We then moved to forms, we went over all the forms. General advice was to be careful with our stances and preparations. We went over Chil Jang slowly. Things to remember about Chil Jang

• after the pull-upper punch and keehop, on the low hammer fist, the back hand (left) should be open palm
  
• after the low-hammer fist, the outside knifehand attack should be in a forward stance.

We worked on our new form, Palgue Pal Jang, up until the side kick and elbow strike. The form means earth, and in this form, you feel like you are tilling the soil with your hands. We imagine someone grabbing our low block, quickly breaking away, and then a back fist to the head with reverse punch. After repeating on the other side, we are then firmly rooted to the earth in defensive arm movements in different stances. We are also introduced to a new combined attack (side punch/elbow attack).

We then moved to our jumping kicks, starting with the jumping back whip. The main advice for this was to work on bringing the knee up higher to get the kick higher off the ground.

Next we worked on sparring. Remember to yell before you start free fighting. Also, remember to stay fluid and try to keep things going. Prepare for the attack with your own counterattack. One way to work on this on our own is with the attack counter attack.

Finally we worked on the grappling. When someone grabs your belt with fist down (inside arm break) and fist up (use leverage and twist their pinky down into the outside arm break). When someone grabs you from behind, you need to twist their arms together.

Advice for the break, take your time with the turning side kick to aim it and focus. Time sure went by fast.

We also might have to look for a new space after this summer.

Class log, May 14th, 2008

Katie Taught. We did kicking combinations, and worked on our turning side kicks. We also worked on our advanced kicks: backwheel, back whip, jumping backwheel.

Class Log, May 7, 2008

Eric taught. We did kicking combinations and all the forms.

Class Log, April 31, 2008

Eric taught. We did kicking combinations, all the forms, and attack-counter attack (pre-empted).

Class Log, Jan 23, 2008

Katie Taught. We did stretches and warm-up kicks. We did 30 punches and did turning side kicks down the floor. We practiced a combo turning side-kick, roundhouse, crescent kick. We did some regular kicks (crescent and front whip) and jumping kicks to the target (jumping front whip, jumping crescent kick. We went through all the forms.

Next week we'll do our own practice, and look up the forms on the JDK website.

Class Log, Jan 16, 2008

Eric Taught. We did 30 punches, stretches and kicks. We did a kicking combo turning back kick, roundhouse, and jumping side kick toward the back.We did some back whips to target and also back wheels. We went through all the forms.

Class Log, Jan 9, 2008

Angela Taught. We did stretches and warm-up kicks. We did 30 middle punches. We did a turning back kick, round-house kick, and jumping side kick combo. We did some calisthenic arm exercises. We went through all the forms.