Congratulations to all those who tested. This was a pretty large test. Thanks to Theo and Finn for their help in “producing” the videos. Thanks also to Terri for being the videographer.

Finn and Dylan

Theo

The Hills

The Cael

Red belt patterns, sparring, and board breaking

By the way, did you know that students have sort of a “home page” on this website?
You can type in http://oneontatkd.com/wordpress/tag/ followed by the student’s first name and last name separated by a hyphen in lower case. This url will bring up all archived articles “tagged” with the student’s name. For example, Dylan Winsor’s page would be:
http://oneontatkd.com/wordpress/tag/dylan-winsor/

Congratulations to Theo on his promotion to Blue belt. Theo began his Taekwon-Do journey many years ago in Oneonta where he earned a blue belt but was forced to stop training when his instructor retired.

We are pleased that Theo could put on a white belt and train dilligently while working back to his previous level and we look forward to his future training with us.

(For some reason, these videos did not convert properly and are a bit jagged!)

Below are videos of the January promotion test. Our red belts took turns sparring each other. It takes a great deal of courage and confidence to stand face to face and fight with people. Especially people who are already pretty good at fighting! We are very pleased that our students demonstrate self-control while still demonstrating solid sparring skills.

With an excellent board breaking display, all 4 of our red belts each broke 2 boards with each leg in a continuous manner. Taekwon-Do emphasizes equal training for left and right sides of the body for balanced results. This demonstration shows how effectively our students have practiced.

Oneonta Taekwon-Do was recently featured in The Daily Star in January 23rd’s paper. We are very grateful for The Daily Star to feature us as this is great publicity for Oneonta TKD. For those who haven’t read the article or don’t get The Daily Star you can read the article here.

Please download and print our school calendar for 2010.

This calendar contains test dates, closings, as well as Taekwon-Do International events and the dates for Grandmaster Kim’s summer camp.*

*Calendar is subject to change

otkd 2010 calendar

Thanks and congratulations to everyone who tested.  It was great to close the year with a black belt interim test and a long overdue promotion for Cael McCabe.

I’ve posted the videos for each student in it’s own article:

Brian Davis 2nd Dan interim test

Finn Brown-Collins earns yellow belt

Jennifer Butler earns blue stripe

Terri Graig earns a blue belt

Cael McCabe earns his 2nd red stripe

It was great fun to finally do a flying side kick.  Thanks to Jennifer and Terri for their trust and thanks to Mr McCabe and Mr. Goodrich for bravely allowing me to run at them full speed.

Congratulations to Jennifer Butler on earning her blue stripe!
Basics and Won-Hyo


Jennifer demonstrates self-defense with Kristian and then executes a rear leg side kick to break 2 boards

Choong-Jang has 52 movements. Note that there is very little symmetry in this pattern, making it very difficult to learn and even harder to master


Mr. Davis and Mr. Goodrich Sparring:


4 boards with a back kick:

Cael demonstrates Joong-Gun:


Cael breaks two boards:


Finally, Cael was asked to spar with Matt Goodrich with no gear and limited contact.