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A podcast concerning all things related to the Korean martial art of Tang Soo Do
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Text your thoughts and comments to Tang Soo Do Focus The most common weapon or training tool in Tang Soo Do is the staff. This episode explores the use and purposes of staff forms and exercises in Tang Soo Do.
Text your thoughts and comments to Tang Soo Do Focus Many articles have been written about ways to delay or offset the effects of aging. This episode highlights ten ways practicing Tang Soo Do can help defeat aging.
Text your thoughts and comments to Tang Soo Do Focus Paying attention to your surroundings in any situation is an important skill to practice. When we are out at a club, restaurant, or shopping spree we should always project confidence and be aware of our surroundings and the people around us. In our Tang Soo Do training, Situational Awareness is important to avoid collisions with other students and even weapons that being trained used in class. This episode examines the way...
Text your thoughts and comments to Tang Soo Do Focus Many activities from baseball to ballroom dancing have rules of etiquette that are passed on by word of mouth or in person. Tang Soo Do has many such traditions that are good to know for beginners and important for more senior students to pass on to their juniors. This episode details 15 specific rules of good manners that may be written down in a training manual but are better imparted by spoken word.
Text your thoughts and comments to Tang Soo Do Focus Training in Tang Soo Do often involves injuries at some point. The back and knees seem to be the most common areas impacted. This episode gives some advice on how to prevent injury and deal with it when it becomes a reality.
Text your thoughts and comments to Tang Soo Do Focus Though the words waiting and hesitation are often used interchangeably, there are differences in their meaning. In this sepisode we investigate the differences and discuss why hesitation is usually a more negative behavior than waiting. As always the two terms a re applied to our training in Tang Soo Do for our benefit.
Text your thoughts and comments to Tang Soo Do Focus This 45 minute episode has Masters Stickel and Patarini discussing their long relationship n Tang Soo Do training. Master Stickel has been training since childhood and has been a full time instructor at Middlesex Tang Soo Do for over 20 years. This interview tells the story of his TSD journey and highlights moments such as Dan and Ko Dan Ja testing.Enjoy this episode as two old friends share stories of their experiences from over 50 years o...
Text your thoughts and comments to Tang Soo Do Focus We all would agree that Tang Soo Do is fun, but why is it so much fun? Catherine Price has studied fun and has a TED talk with over 2.5 million views detailing her findings. She suggests that fun is composed of a sense of playfulness, a sense of connection, and being engaged in a flow state during an activity. This episode examines how Tang Soo Do ticks off all three of these requirements and results in the fun experience ...
Text your thoughts and comments to Tang Soo Do Focus Tang Soo Do has a history of incorporating other martial arts styles into our practice. Founder Hwang Kee himself studied several Chinese and Japanese styles before creating what we know as Tang Soo Do. As a primarily striking art it may be beneficial for us to study other complimentary styles to improve our overall martial abilities.
Text your thoughts and comments to Tang Soo Do Focus I am pleased to share my first international interview with a Tang Soo Do instructor, Master Angus Rogers of Wales. Gus is a listener of this podcast and reached out to me to share his experiences working with autistic students as well as describe his new book on self defense: "Recipes do not make a delicious meal". Like many of us, Gus trained for some years, stopped for a period of time, then returned to Tang Soo Do with an ev...
Text your thoughts and comments to Tang Soo Do Focus The question of whether folks who train in Tang Soo Do ought to be held to a higher standard of behavior and ethics is covered in this episode. As we recite the creed and practice the philosophy of TSD in our daily lives, we should try to strive to be better people with higher character. Sadly not all instructors and practitioners are of higher character and we see it in other arenas as well such as teachers, police, religious a...
Text your thoughts and comments to Tang Soo Do Focus This episode looks at the role of weapons training an dforms in Tang Soo Do. Using training aids such as staffs, edged weapons, and other tools can add to our portfolio of abilities and allow us to compete. This is the first episode delving into the use of weapons and hopefully the first of many.
Text your thoughts and comments to Tang Soo Do Focus As we are now in the thick of tournament season I wanted to re-release this episode highlighting ten ways to improve your tournament preparation. Hopefully some of these suggestions will allow you or your students to perform better on the big day
Text your thoughts and comments to Tang Soo Do Focus In this episode KJN Master Steve Voelker helps us to understand internal and external forms and types of breath. Often referred to a Weigun and Neigun these differences are the focus of advanced students of Tang Soo Do and help us find the balance in our training.
Text your thoughts and comments to Tang Soo Do Focus More excerpts from my unfinished book "A few thoughts on Tang Soo Do". Targeting , footwork, training vs. practice are among the 15 sub topics covered in this episode.
Text your thoughts and comments to Tang Soo Do Focus In 2011 I began writing a book of short ruminations on Tang Soo Do. Writing and editing a book is a huge undertaking, one that I never finished. However the writing of "A few things about Tang Soo Do " was perhaps the genesis of this podcast. As I looked back over my writings I decided to share some of the topics I wrote about some 14 years ago. I hope you enjoy them.
Text your thoughts and comments to Tang Soo Do Focus Martial arts is a difficult pursuit for many reasons. I took an informal poll of fellow students and collected their responses in this episode. From losing abilities due to age and injury to simply remembering Korean terminology, the following episode will give us all some validation that this thing we do is difficult but worth the struggle.
Text your thoughts and comments to Tang Soo Do Focus A short thank you for the past year, a look at last year's resolutions and making new goals for the upcoming year.
Text your thoughts and comments to Tang Soo Do Focus As a follow up to the the last episode, Nine words for self-defense introduces a simple concept for effectively dealing with an attack. Move closer, move outside, move forward and move the head sum up an easy to remember idea that puts you in the best position to defend yourself against an attack.
Text your thoughts and comments to Tang Soo Do Focus It is easy to argue that one of the main reasons why people train in martial arts is for self defense. There are many ways that the benefits of Tang Soo Do training can help you to defend yourself. This episode covers some general concepts that apply when defending yourself and some simple key terms to remember when you have a situation. Most dojangs work on Il Soo Sik (One steps) and Ho Sin Sool (Grab defenses).&nbs...
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