Basic Motions of Taekwondo

Taekwondo Stances

Taekwondo stances help you to maintain balance and generate power during your kicks and strikes. There have ready stance, walking stance, long stance, back stance, tiger stance, riding horse stance, crane stance and fighting stance.

Defense Technique

Taekwondo self-defense is known as kinuo and it forms one of the 20 main principles of the art. The self-defense applications would be difficult to score in sparring as they are designed primarily to cause injury or quickly incapacitate an adversary. Defense techniques in taekwondo such as down block, middle block, face block, single knife hand block, cutting neck, pushing stomach, palm block, scissors block, cross down block, cross high block and mountain block.

Hand Attack Technique

Tekwondo hand strikes are performed as a close distance alternative to kicks. They are executed in number of ways from standing, jumping, spinning and rushing forwards. Hand strikes make up fast combinations of strikes which can leave an opponent stunned and unable to defend himself. Such as middle punch, high punch, low punch, double punch, side punch, hammer punch, knuckle punch, elbow punch and pushing eyes.

Kicking Technique

All kick can be executed as jump kicks, spin kicks, jump spin kicks or multi-rotational spin kicks. Also, all can be performed by the front or rear leg in a given stance. The kicks techniques includes front kick, turning kick, axe kick, side kick, back kick and spin hook kick.

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