I'd been waiting so long to get a video of this! And finally, Thursday, I had my chance.
Several times, before my rag-tag tkd group started our session, the black belt competition group would practice their performance routines. This is a series of taekwondo moves (punches, kicks, blocks) coordinated to music. Cool, right? Yes, it's cool, but it cracks me up--these performance taekwondo routines seem to be the closest thing in Korea to organized cheerleading routines! There's punching, jumping, kicks, uniforms....all put to music.... But isn't taekwondo (fighting!) one of the farthest things from girly cheerleading? What I also enjoy is watching their faces. The girls sometimes goof-off a little, but the boys are straight-faced, giving it 110%. Ashley and I started learning one performance routine, but we're hopeless.
The juxtaposition of everything never fails to amuse me. I hope you enjoy. I sure do!
Several times, before my rag-tag tkd group started our session, the black belt competition group would practice their performance routines. This is a series of taekwondo moves (punches, kicks, blocks) coordinated to music. Cool, right? Yes, it's cool, but it cracks me up--these performance taekwondo routines seem to be the closest thing in Korea to organized cheerleading routines! There's punching, jumping, kicks, uniforms....all put to music.... But isn't taekwondo (fighting!) one of the farthest things from girly cheerleading? What I also enjoy is watching their faces. The girls sometimes goof-off a little, but the boys are straight-faced, giving it 110%. Ashley and I started learning one performance routine, but we're hopeless.
The juxtaposition of everything never fails to amuse me. I hope you enjoy. I sure do!
steps look like cheerleading but korean peoples call it tkd dance (태권체조) almost every tkd practitioner does it. these steps are basic movements of tkd (태권도 기본동작)
ReplyDeletekids are doing well in this video. i hope you can learn good 태권체조 :)