Totally Tae Kwon Do Magazine - Issue 17 - Usadojo

ight in Choi Yong.
As we move on to the 4th degree patterns
we still find a right-leg bias.
In Ul Ji, the right leg again performs more
kicks than the left. With the right leg, a
middle crescent kick, middle side piercing
kick, mid-air kick, flying high kick and
middle turning kick are all performed. The
left leg has only three kicks: two middle
front snap kicks and a middle back piercing
kick.
Yon Gae is a symmetrical pattern and is
therefore without bias to one leg, and the
same is nearly true of Moon Moo. Nearly.
Moon Moo is almost entirely symmetrical,
but move 58 is a mid-air kick with the right
leg, which isn’t repeated with the left.
We now move to patterns with which I am
not familiar, namely the two 5th degree
patterns (Se Jong and So San) and the
24th and final pattern in Taekwon-Do
(Tong Il) for 6th degrees. I can, however,
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comment on these patterns by studying the
lists of moves.
Se Jong has only two kicks. It is not
symmetrical, but the kicks balance out: a
right leg middle side piercing kick and a left
leg middle turning kick.
So San, though, has nine kicks: five for the
right leg and four for the left. The right leg
has a flying front snap kick that is not
performed with the left.
Finally, with Tong Il, both legs perform a
back piercing kick (middle section for the
right leg, high for the left) and an inward
vertical kick. The right leg performs a
downward kick, but this is balanced by an
outward vertical kick with the left leg. The
balance is lost when the right leg performs
one kick more than the left leg: a high side
piercing kick.
Again, let’s summarise the kicks in a table:
Pattern Right Leg Kicks Left Leg Kicks No. of
Kicks
Kwang Pressing kick x 1
Pressing kick x 1
6
Gae Middle side piercing kick x 1
Middle side piercing kick x 1
Middle front snap kick x 1
Middle front snap kick x 1
Po Eun Pressing kick x 1 Pressing kick x 1 2
Gye Baek Low twisting kick x 1
Middle side piercing kick x 1
Middle turning kick x 2 (1 x shifting)
Flying side kick x 1
Low side front snap kick x 1 6
Eui Am Low twisting kick x 1
Low twisting kick x 1
8
Middle reverse turning kick x 1 Middle reverse turning kick x 1
Middle side piercing kick x 1
Middle side piercing kick x 1
High reverse turning kick x 1
High reverse turning kick x 1
Choong Low front snap kick x 2
Middle front snap kick x 1 7
Jang High turning kick (crouched position)
x 1
Middle side piercing kick x 1
Middle front snap kick x 1
Knee front snap kick x 1
Ju Che Middle side piercing kick (slow) x 1 Middle side piercing kick (slow) x 1 14
High reverse hooking kick (slow) x 1 High reverse hooking kick (slow) x 1
Middle hooking kick x 1
Middle hooking kick x 1
High side piercing kick x 1
High side piercing kick x 1
Reverse turning kick (dodging) x 1 Reverse turning kick (dodging) x 1
Two direction kick (side kick) x 1 Two direction kick (twisting kick) x 1
Pick-shaped kick x 1
Middle back piercing kick (slow) x 1
Summary Of Kicks In Black Belt Patterns (continued opposite)