Totally Tae Kwon Do Magazine - Issue 17 - Usadojo

Black Belt Patterns
We’ve seen the 55%-45% bias to the right leg in the number of kicks in the black belt
patterns. Will this relative difference increase when we analyse the difficulty levels?
Kick Number of Kicks Difficulty
Rating
Front Snap Kick
(Low, Middle,
Side)
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Total Difficulty Score
(no. of kicks x difficulty
rating)
Right Leg Left Leg Right Leg Left Leg
Choong Jang x 3 Gye Baek x 1 1 7 9
Yoo Sin x 1 Choong Jang x 1
Choi Yong x 1 Sam Il x 1
Moon Moo x 1 Yoo Sin x 1
So San x 1 Choi Yong x 1
Ul Ji x 2
Moon Moo x 1
So San x 1
Knee Front Snap
Kick
Choong Jang x 1 1 1 0
Side Kick Kwang Gae x 1 Kwang Gae x 1 2 32 22
Gye Baek x 1 Eui Am x 1
Eui Am x 1 Juche x 1
Choong Jang x 1 Sam Il x 1
Juche x 1
Yoo Sin x 1
Sam Il x 1 Choi Yong x 2
Yoo Sin x 1 Yon Gae x 1
Choi Yong x 2 Moon Moo x 1
Ul Ji x 1
Yon Gae x 1
Moon Moo x 1
Se Jong x 1
So San x 2
Tong Il x 1
So San x 2
Side Kick (slow Juche x 1
Juche x 1
3 6 6
motion)
Moon Moo x 1 Moon Moo x 1
Flying Side Kick Gye Baek x 1 - 3 3 0
Turning Kick Gye Baek x 2 (1 x Choi Yong x 1 2 12 6
dodging)
Se Jong x 1
Choong Jang x 1
(from a crouched
position)
Choi Yong x 1
Ul Ji x 1
So San x 1
So San x 1
Back Piercing Tong Il x 1 Ul Ji x 1
2 2 4
Kick
Tong Il x 1
Back Kick (slow Moon Moo x 1 Juche x 1
3 3 6
motion)
Moon Moo x 1
Pressing Kick Kwang Gae x 1
Po Eun x 1
Twisting Kick Gye Baek x 1
(Low)
Eui Am x 1
Kwang Gae x 1
Po Eun x 1
2 4 4
Eui Am x 1 2 4 2
Continued opposite