During training, emphasis is generally placed on kicks thrown from a mobile stance, using the leg's greater reach and power to disable the opponent from a distance. In sparring, turning, front, reverse turning and side kicks are often used, as well as the backfist and reverse punch; advanced kicks including jump, spin, sliding, and skip kicks, are used often in combination.
Taekwondo training also includes a system of blocks, punches, open-handed strikes and may include various take-downs or sweeps, throws, and joint locks, though it generally does not emphasize grappling. It can be seen from these that taekwondo can be quite physically demanding.
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Therefore safety becomes a high pirioty during training. Our QMs currently ensure proper setting up of hydration point(s) with cold therapy ready during all training. The club inventory is checked periodically to provide two current sets of first aids kits and pain relief sprays.
We also have quite a number of members who are first aiders and/or CPR trained who come down regularly for trainings.
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The training ground is also within minutes of emergency services at NUH if necessary. Automatic external defibrillators(AEDs) are also installed at strategic points to diagnoses any potentially life threatening cardiac arrhythmias of ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia.
They are designed to be simple to use for the layman, and the use of AEDs is taught in many first aid, first responder and basic life support level CPR classes which some of our members attend.
Even with all these facilities and preparation in place, each individual also plays an important part in training safety. The following are tips that allow us to train and compete safely.
- Exercise to strengthen the stabilizer muscles: rotator cuff muscles and hip adductors (inner thigh muscles or groins) and abductors (muscles on the outermost part of the hip), which help to support the back and hips—critical to the activity
- Maintain proper breathing techniques when practicing taekwondo to avoid injury—breathing out during the contraction portion of any stretching movement, and breathing in during the extension portion of any stretching movement
- Wearing the appropriate protective gear. For full contact sport like taekwondo,head guard, a body protector, forearm and shin guards, and a groin guard are usually worn.
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