Patterns - Tul
The following points should be considered while performing patterns:
- The pattern should begin and end on exactly the same spot. This will indicate the performer's accuracy.
- Correct posture and positioning must be maintained at all times.
- Muscles of the body should be tensed or relaxed at the proper critical moments in the exercise.
- The exercise should be performed in a rhythmic movement, with an absense of stiffness.
- Movement should be accelerated or decelerated at appropriate moments during the exercise.
- Each pattern should be perfected before moving to the next.
- Students should know the purpose of each movement.
- Students should perform each movement with realism.
- Offensive and defensive techniques should be equally distributed among right and left hands and feet.
Videos & Diagrammatic Demonstrations
Full descriptions and demostrations of patterns up to Moon-Moo are can be found by following the
links below, courtesy of sonkal.taekwondo.cz. Video demonstrations
are available up to and including pattern Ge-Baek.
For movies to display correctly, Divx codec 5.1 or above must be installed.
Pattern information can be viewed in several different ways:
- GO THROUGH
- run through the pattern, step by step, viewing each technique in sequence. Each technique can be displayed from all four sides.
- FIGURE
- view a mapping of all the techniques in the pattern, with thumbnail images of each technique.
- LIST OF TECHNIQUES
- a list of each technique involved in the pattern, in the order in which they are performed.
- MOVIE
- a video demonstration of the pattern (available up to and including Ge-Baek)
A summary of all the techniques introduced in the patterns above can be found here.
*Note that Saju Jirugi and Saju Makgi are exercises to practice techniques, and not patterns.