Juchum Seogi : The first pose of Traditional TRAINING<1>
However, you should remember, Taekwondo is one skillart. Taekwondo begins at one skillart and gets complete in the one skillart. Its beginning and its end are same(Ch.57). If you understand the deep inside of Taekwondo you will have to practice this basic again although you skip this hard and boring step. The correct pose of Juchumseo-montong jirugi should be like the picture of the right. Let me explain the basic pose in detail. The first thing to be emphasized is that you should drop your waist to the
hight of your knee like the pose in the picture. Usually most people do not
drop so low, but rather stand high like the samll picture of the left part. The reason why people don't stand low like the picture of the right part is simple : It is very hard to keep such a low standing. Amost beginners hate to keep this
pose until they fully understand why it is worth standing so hard pose. They
say the Taekwondo man in the far past should train only this pose(+ montong
jirugi) at least 3 years. There is few people who train themselves so hard these
days. But you should remember that only hard training of basics makes you strong(
Let me explain why you should have your back spine straightened. With your bent back spine, you cannot make use of the power from the shaking waist, which is the most important source of Taekwondo's power. The efficient power of Taekwondo comes from the sudden movement of your whole body even when you strike your target only with your finger. When you cannot walk forward in attack, you can get the power of whole movement with shaking your waist. Juchumseo-momtong jirugi is the best and most important training method for that power. In case your back spine were bent when you shake your waist, it would be injured or it would be imposible. Therefore, the following poses are incorrect an useless in itself. But I know that they prevail in almost Dojang. If you have a sound reason, not insisting whatever you've learned at first are always right, you shall understand why those poses are not correct in the following pages. Any way, if you don't know why you should train Juchumseo-momtong-jirugi or you cannot use them in actual Kyorugi, you may be practicing the wrong poses. <The wrong patterns of the Juchumseogi>
The closed knees will be the target point of your opponent at first and you cannot resist a slight strike on it, as you shall see later. Any way the more you practice this pose of the given pictures the clearer it will be that you can obtain nothing useful in that pose. To the contrary, the correct pose will impose you really hard traing at first, but later, it wiil give you comfortable power and high-level fighting skills. |
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