TKD UPDATE

Gave my kid orange belt today.

Had a VERY good lesson: much like Monday's.  Things seemed to be clicking.  We drilled footwork, focusing on keeping a strong stance while moving, which I think made one-steps and forms better.  Thumbs still get crazy, but significantly less so than they were before.  Punches looked strong.

After a 50-ish minute lesson, we did a 10 minute test in front of the audience of my wife.  Demonstrated punching, snap kicks, push kicks against a pad, break aways, one-steps (defending against push kicks and punches) and the form.  Only mistake I caught was using the wrong block for one of the one steps, but otherwise retention of material was solid and could be demonstrated on command. 

I'm excited, as I'll be teaching them roundkick and knifehand from the TKD curriculum, along with thai roundhouse and hook punches, to add some circular attacks to all the linear ones they've learned.  Will also be teaching them the second form (Dan Gun), which means learning high blocks and knifehand blocks.  Those are...less exciting, haha.

Going to introduce pad work too.  My kid seems to be able to keep form long enough that I think they can hit some pads without hurting themselves.