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Water Water waves and sound waves are examples of mechanical waves — waves that propagate through a material medium.
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The solid and broken bars in the eight image tiles in the top navigation are called trigrams. Each trigram represents a particular natural phenomena. If you click on a trigram, it will take you to the corresponding taekwondo form page. Each form has a trigram which I describe scientifically and call scigrams. The tangram animation in the middle of the trigram tiles is supposed to represent a kicking woman. A tangram is a puzzle which originated in China. It is created out of seven flat polygons that can be put together to form shapes.


The movements are listed here so that you can see the Korean translation for some of the techniques by hovering over the green and pink highlighted text.

parallel stance - naranhi sogi
left/right forward stance The feet are wider apart than for the front stance - oen /orun ap kubi
ready stance - chunbi sogi
low block - arae makki
front kick - ap chagi
return - parot
middle punch - momtoong chirugi
back stance, backward stance twit kubi, dwit koobi
knife-hand middle block sonnal momtong makki
outside block (from outside to inside) momtong pakkat makki
single knife hand high outside block hansonnal eulgool pakkat makki
low scattered block, low wedge block, low spread block arae hech yo makki
palm hand middle block, palm fist inside block patang son momtong makki
roundhouse kick dollyo chagi
high outside block (twisting inside to outside) eulgool pakkat makki
StanceMovementsPoom
 
ready stance  
forward stance,
back stance
Turn 90° to the left. Left low block in left forward stance, right front kick, right foot moves back to original position and moves into right back stance, (left) outside block. (The outside block goes from inside to outside.) 1, 2
forward stance,
back stance
Turn 180° to the right. Right low block in right forward stance, left front kick, left foot back to original position and move into left back stance, (right) outside block. 3, 4
forward stanceTurn 90° to the left into by moving your right foot back a step into left forward stance? (I can't explain this part because in the video it looks like the right foot moves into the right forward stance out of left back stance while executing a left knifehand high block, but the book says that I am supposed to end up in left forward stance.) Right knifehand high outside block. Right roundhouse kick, right foot lands in front. 5, 6
forward stanceTurn 270?to the left after the kick into left forward stance, left high outside block (twisting inside to outside), right middle punch6
forward stanceRight front kick and into right forward stance, left middle punch7
forward stanceTurn 180° to the right. Right high outside block, left middle punch8
forward stanceleft front kick and into left forward stance, right middle punch9
parallel stance
forward stance
Turn 90° to the left into natural stance, low scattered block to the sides with both arms (slowly) in right forward stance, left knife hand high outside block, left roundhouse kick with left foot landing in front. 10, 11, (12)
forward stanceTurn 270° to the right after the kick into right forward stance.
Right low block in right forward stance, left front kick, right outside block in left back stance.
(12), 13
forward stanceTurn 180° to the left into left forward stance, left low block, right front kick, and then left outside block in right back stance. 14, 15
back stance
forward stance
Turn 90° to the right.

Move back into right back stance, left double knife-hand middle block.

Move back into left back stance, right double knifehand block.

Move back into left forward stance while executing left palm fist inside block. Right middle punch.

Move back into right forward stance while executing right palm hand middle block. Left middle punch.
16, 17, 18, 19
parallel stanceBring left foot forward and return.Kuman



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PDF documents with taekwondo vocabulary in English, Hangeul, and transliterated Hangeul to download. I had a native Korean proofread the original documents and he corrected the Hangeul in red pen. I don't have time right now to edit the original documents so I am making his scanned corrections available until I have time to correct my documents.
TKD Vocabulary: Korean to English Vocabulary for Forms TKD Vocabulary: English to Korean

Lesson 6

Taegeuk Yuk Jang, New Techniques

Blocks 막기 Makki
eulgool pakkat makki 얼굴 바깥 막기 high outside block (twisting inside to outside)
momtong pakkat makki 몸통 바깥 막기 middle outside block
hansonnal eulgool pakkat makki 한손날 얼굴 바깥 막기 single knife hand high outside block
arae hech yo makki 아래 헤쳐 막기 low scattered block, low wedge block
patang son momtong makki 바탕 손 몸통 막기 palm hand middle block
chagi 차기 kick
dollyo chagi 돌려 차기 roundhouse kick