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On Saturday, October 21, 2006, Maryland Governor<br />
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for our children to develop discipline, character,<br />
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achievement and fitness through the martial arts”<br />
as reasons for his decision to honor the school and<br />
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Immediately following the recognition, more than 50<br />
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in a 15-minute Kung Fu demonstration led by Sifu<br />
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The following drills are some of my favorite Tae Kwon Do<br />
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Kwon Do school, you can offer a special Tae Kwon Do class<br />
or seminar over the summer as a special event, or adjust<br />
it to fit your style.<br />
Drill 1: Bag Tag<br />
� Skill(s) enhanced: Speed<br />
� Recommended equipment: sparring gear<br />
� Recommended ages and levels: seven and eight-year olds<br />
advanced, nine to twelve-year olds intermediate and above,<br />
and adults intermediate and above<br />
� General description: Two students at a time will compete<br />
against each other to see who can execute the following<br />
combinations first.<br />
Combinations:<br />
1. From right sparring stance (right leg in front); front hand<br />
back fist (right hand), back hand punch (left hand), and back<br />
leg round kick (left leg)<br />
2. From right sparring stance (right leg in front); turn hook kick<br />
(left leg), front hand back fist (left hand), back hand punch<br />
(right hand), and back leg round kick (right leg)<br />
3. From right sparring stance (right leg in front); front leg<br />
hook-round kick (right leg), back leg round kick (left leg) land<br />
forward, back leg spin hook kick (right leg)<br />
Procedures:<br />
1. Split the class into pairs. Have them each practice all<br />
three of the above combinations ten times. (Use left sparring<br />
stances with the opposite hand and leg techniques if time<br />
permits)<br />
2. Line up two wave bags next to each other—close enough<br />
so that you can watch both students but far enough that the<br />
students don’t hit each other while they are executing their<br />
combinations.<br />
3. When you say, “Go!” both students will execute combination<br />
one. The student that hits the bag with all of the techniques<br />
first receives a point.<br />
4. The first student to three points is the winner.<br />
5. Continue until each pair has a turn.<br />
6. Repeat the drill with combinations two and then three.<br />
7. You can make it a tournament with winner and non-winner<br />
brackets to end up with the class “combination-speed<br />
champion”.<br />
Dynamic Sparring Drills<br />
by Melody Shuman<br />
Drill 2: Underdog<br />
� Skill(s) enhanced: Perseverance<br />
� Recommended equipment: sparring gear, face masks, and<br />
chest guards<br />
� Recommended ages and levels: seven and eight-year olds<br />
advanced, nine to twelve-year olds intermediate and above,<br />
and adults intermediate and above<br />
� General description: While point sparring (in five-point<br />
match), one student will start three points behind with only<br />
30 seconds left.<br />
Procedures:<br />
1. Set up a ring equivalent to the size of a standard sparring<br />
ring. Split the class into pairs. If you have more than six pairs,<br />
you may want to make additional rings if size permits and you<br />
have enough instructors to operate each ring.<br />
2. Let each pair warm-up with a 30-second round of freesparring.<br />
3. After each pair has a turn to free-spar, have one pair<br />
volunteer to go first. Assign one of the students to be the<br />
“underdog” that has zero points while their opponent has<br />
three.<br />
4. Have them point spar for 30 seconds. The student with zero<br />
points will try to catch up and outscore their opponent. The<br />
opponent can score as well. The goal is to teach the underdog<br />
how to have perseverance and step up their sparring with only<br />
30 seconds left.<br />
5. Continue until each pair has gone.<br />
6. You can make it a tournament by having the winner stay in<br />
the ring and be the underdog in the next round against another<br />
student.<br />
Drill 3: Goalie<br />
� Skill(s) enhanced: Courage and concentration<br />
� Recommended equipment: sparring gear, face masks, and<br />
chest guard<br />
� Recommended ages and levels: seven and eight-year olds<br />
advanced, nine to twelve-year olds intermediate and above,<br />
and adults intermediate and above<br />
� General descriptions: The goalie will have to defend one- to<br />
five-move combinations for 30 seconds.<br />
Procedures:<br />
1. (Like the game of Underdog) Set up a ring equivalent to the<br />
size of a standard sparring ring. Split the class into pairs. If you<br />
have more than six pairs, you may want to make additional<br />
rings if size permits and you have enough instructors to<br />
operate each ring.<br />
2. Let each pair warm-up with a 30-second round of freesparring.<br />
3. After each pair has a turn to free-spar, have two students<br />
volunteer to go first. Assign one of the students to be<br />
the “goalie” that will attempt to defend one- to five-move<br />
combinations from their opponent for 30 seconds. The 30second<br />
round will be conducted just like point sparring, except<br />
the goalie cannot score, just defend.<br />
4. If the goalie is scored on, then the goalie is out and the<br />
winner is the new goalie and a new opponent comes in.<br />
5. If the goalie is not scored on, then the goalie stays in.<br />
6. Continue until every student has a turn.<br />
Drill 4: Slap shot<br />
� Skill(s) enhanced: Speed and courage<br />
� Recommended equipment: sparring gear, face masks, and<br />
chest guards<br />
� Recommended ages and levels: seven and eight-year<br />
olds intermediate and above, nine twelve to twelve-year olds<br />
intermediate and above, and adults intermediate and above<br />
� General description: Set up like a hockey goal, one student<br />
will be the goalie and try to block the targets that his or her<br />
opponent attempts to kick in the goal.<br />
Procedures:<br />
1. Against the mirror or wall, set up a goalie box that is no<br />
longer than six feet wide and five feet tall. (You can use cones<br />
to mark the width and tape to mark the height.)<br />
2. Split the class into pairs.<br />
3. Have one pair volunteer to go first. One student will be the<br />
goalie, and the other will be the striker.<br />
4. An instructor or assistant will hold a small square target<br />
vertically, slightly above waist level of the striker.<br />
5. The striker will kick the target in an attempt to score by<br />
hitting the mirror, or wall, within the goalie box. The striker<br />
will have five attempts.<br />
6. Continue until each student has a turn to be both the goalie<br />
and striker.<br />
7. You can make the drill more challenging by having the<br />
goalie do 20 to 50 push-ups or squat-thrusts for every point<br />
that the striker scores.<br />
8. You can also make it a tournament by letting the goalie<br />
stay in the goalie box if the striker doesn’t score a point.<br />
Drill 5: King of the Box<br />
� Skill(s) enhanced: Agility and balance<br />
� Recommended equipment: sparring gear, face masks and<br />
chest guards<br />
� Recommended ages and levels: seven and eight-year olds<br />
advanced, nine to twelve-year olds intermediate and above,<br />
and adults intermediate and above<br />
� General descriptions: Both students will stand in a small<br />
box and try to knock each other out of the box.<br />
Procedures:<br />
1. Make a small box that in no larger the 6'×6'.<br />
2. Split the class into pairs.<br />
3. Have on pair volunteer to go first.<br />
4. Each student will hold two striking mitts in their hand and<br />
try to use the mitts to push their opponent out of the box.<br />
The goal is for the students to use their agility and balance to<br />
manipulate their opponent. The students cannot touch their<br />
opponents above the shoulders or below the waist.<br />
5. You can make this drill a tournament by letting the student<br />
who knocked their opponent stay in the box to see which<br />
student is the “king of the box”.<br />
These drills can be used in one full class, and even extended<br />
to make an entire sparring seminar. Make sure when you are<br />
running these drills that you always reinforce safety. Also, make<br />
sure that you are teaching the students how to use these drills<br />
to improve their overall sparring skills.<br />
For more information, visit Melody at:<br />
ShumanConcepts.com.
K-STAR: Martial Arts Reality TV<br />
by Gene Ching & Gigi <strong>Oh</strong><br />
It’s no surprise that martial arts are capitalizing on the<br />
“reality” game show trend. In the wake of boxing shows<br />
like NBC’s The Contender, Fox’s The Next Champ, and<br />
WWE’s Tough Enough, American networks televised two<br />
pilots last August, MTV2’s Final Fu and Oxygen’s Fight<br />
Girls. What is surprising is that China has been leading<br />
the world with martial arts reality shows. Sandawang<br />
(literally ‘free sparring king’) is a fight-based reality show<br />
that has been on the air for years. For several seasons,<br />
it was the most watched program in the most populous<br />
nation in the world. In 2006, Shenzhen Media Group<br />
unveiled a new martial arts reality show, K-Star, and this<br />
program was supported by the <strong>Tiger</strong> <strong>Claw</strong> Foundation<br />
and Shaolin Temple.<br />
The premise of K-Star is an international quest for<br />
fresh action stars. Unlike Sandawang, where the object<br />
was to find the best fighter, K-Star was looking for screen<br />
presence. The winners earned roles in an upcoming<br />
Shenzhen TV series, Legends of Shaolin Temple Monk<br />
Soldiers. Accordingly, contestants were not only examined<br />
on form and sparring, they had to show talents like singing,<br />
dancing, painting or other non-martial skills. The show<br />
began last April with thousands of competitors from all<br />
across China vying for 18 semifinalist spots. Then K-Star<br />
went international, combing the globe with auditions<br />
in Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Russia and North<br />
America. The Friends of Shaolin, a special committee<br />
Plaque presented to<br />
<strong>Tiger</strong> <strong>Claw</strong> by K-Star<br />
of the <strong>Tiger</strong> <strong>Claw</strong> Foundation, helped K-Star find talent<br />
for the North American qualifier, which was held in Los<br />
Angeles on July 14–15. Gigi and Jonathan <strong>Oh</strong> of <strong>Tiger</strong><br />
<strong>Claw</strong> worked with coordinator Norma Futini and Shaolin<br />
warrior monks Shi Yanhao, Shi Yanliang and Shi Yanxue,<br />
to select the four North American representatives: Ryan<br />
Lloyd, Philip Sahagun, D. Y. Sao and Jack Tu. Nineteen<br />
international semifinalists in all were selected. They went<br />
to China to face the eighteen Chinese semifinalists at<br />
the original Shaolin Temple where they all underwent a<br />
special closed-door session of meditation, training and<br />
vegetarianism to prepare for the elimination rounds.<br />
The four-hour finale was televised in China on October<br />
1st, 2006. Seated on the judges panel were action star<br />
Jacky Wu Jing (Sha Po Lang, Tai Chi Master, Legend of<br />
Zu) Director Stanley Tong (The Myth, Martial Law, Mr.<br />
Magoo) and Director Wang Xiaoshuai (Frozen). China’s<br />
Gu Shangwei won, with American Philip Sahagun<br />
taking second and China’s Xue Jiangtao capturing third.<br />
American D. Y. Sao received a special award for “most<br />
potential.”<br />
The first season of K-Star was seen by an estimated<br />
300 million viewers. It reported over half a million in net<br />
earnings and made a large donation to the Buddhism<br />
Research Fund on behalf of Shaolin. Since K-Star was<br />
only shown in China, there’s been some discussion about<br />
creating a special, akin to the the international versions<br />
of Tyra Banks’ Top Model shows. The entire season<br />
of Britain’s Next Top Model was compressed into one<br />
special extended episode of America’s Next Top Model.<br />
K-Star doesn’t have the benefit of a running American<br />
program, so at this point, they are looking towards<br />
something for an Asian American network, but nothing<br />
is firm yet. Some highlights can be found on the web on<br />
sites like YouTube. Meanwhile, in China, K-Star is looking<br />
forward to a second season in 2007.<br />
For the complete story on K-Star, see Rising K-Star:<br />
Reality TV Brings Global Competition to Shaolin Temple<br />
by Gene Ching and Gigi <strong>Oh</strong> in the January/February 2007<br />
issue of Kung Fu Tai Chi magazine.<br />
TIGERCLAW’S<br />
� P A I D A D V E R T I S E M E N T �
THE GRANDMASTERS COME TO TIGER CLAW<br />
Grandmasters Ralph Castro, Ming Lum, Al Novak and Wally Jay visit our California Studio<br />
On October 17th, 2006, <strong>Tiger</strong> <strong>Claw</strong> was graced by the presence of four leading pioneers of martial arts in America: Grandmasters<br />
Ralph Castro, Ming Lum, Al Novak and Wally Jay. The gathering was at the behest of Ed Parker Jr., who is helping filmmaker<br />
Patrick Million with a documentary about his father Edmund Parker Sr., the father of American Kenpo. Fresh off his work<br />
on Bella (recipient of the audience award at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival), Million is returning to this ongoing<br />
project, tentatively titled American Grandmaster. Million shot several hours of interview footage with these Grandmasters<br />
inside the TC Media studio at the <strong>Tiger</strong> <strong>Claw</strong> headquarters in Fremont, California.<br />
After the filming, <strong>Tiger</strong> <strong>Claw</strong>’s founder and president, <strong>Thomas</strong> <strong>Oh</strong>, treated the Grandmasters to lunch; and, Kung Fu Tai Chi<br />
Magazine’s Associate Publisher, Gene Ching, held a round table interview with the four grandmasters. That interview, “Tea<br />
with Grandmasters,” is available online at KungFuMagazine.com. It can be accessed for free through the author’s index in<br />
the e-zine section, along with nearly 800 other free access articles.<br />
TC Media, Intl. houses a permanent video and photography studio. It is completely outfitted with professional lighting and can be<br />
rented on a space-available basis. Interested parties may contact Gigi <strong>Oh</strong> at (510) 656-5100 x141 for rates and availability.<br />
L—R: Front: Ming Lum, Ralph Castro, Wally Jay, Al Novak. Back: Gene Ching, <strong>Thomas</strong> <strong>Oh</strong>, Gigi <strong>Oh</strong>, Bernice Jay,<br />
Patrick Million, Ed Parker Jr., Bob Maschmeier, Andy Ching.<br />
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MYLES PORTER, VISUALLY IMPAIRED<br />
JUDO ATHLETE, NOW A RESIDENT<br />
AT U.S. OLYMPIC TRAINING CENTER<br />
Myles Porter of Toledo, <strong>Oh</strong>io, a visually impaired judo athlete,<br />
has become a resident athlete at the United States Olympic<br />
Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado in preparation<br />
for the 2007 International Blind Sports Association (IBSA) World<br />
Championships and the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing,<br />
China.<br />
“This is a incredible opportunity because I train at a first class<br />
facility with first class coaches with some of the best Judo athletes<br />
in the country,” said Porter. “This training accelerates my progress<br />
for the upcoming Worlds and the 2008 Paralympic Games.”<br />
Porter’s residency at the U.S. Olympic Training Center follows in<br />
the footsteps of the U.S. Women’s National Goalball team, who<br />
became the first disabled athletes ever in residency at an Olympic<br />
Training Center, prior to the 2004 Paralympic Games in Athens.<br />
“We are excited to have Myles here at the OTC. Myles had proven<br />
to be athletic and hardworking,” said Eddie Liddie, United States<br />
Judo National Coach. “Myles is sure to benefit from the training<br />
he will receive here as part of an elite group of athletes and the<br />
quality of the coaching available to him.”<br />
In November 2006, Porter became just the third visually impaired<br />
judo athlete to be nationally ranked by U.S. Judo among his<br />
sighted peers after finishing second at the 2006 Dallas Open, a<br />
U.S. Judo Senior E Level Elite Tournament. Porter also finished<br />
5th at the 2006 International Blind Sports Federation World Judo<br />
Championships in France.<br />
About USABA: A member organization of the U.S. Olympic<br />
Committee is a non-profit organization that provides training<br />
for blind and visually impaired athletes for competition in nine<br />
sports. USABA members range from blind children developing<br />
sports skills to elite athletes who train for competitions such<br />
as the Paralympic Games, the world’s second largest athletic<br />
competition that draws more than 4,000 disabled athletes. For<br />
more information visit www.usaba.org. <strong>Tiger</strong> <strong>Claw</strong> is a proud<br />
sponsor of the USABA Judo Team.<br />
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