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EARTH

The Earth is one of eight planets. The planets should move in a straight line when there is no other force (Newton's first law), but they revolve around the Sun due to gravitational attraction, resulting in elliptical orbits. ...In my school years, when Pluto was still regarded as a major planet, the planets could be memorized with the following mnemonic device: My Very Elegant Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas --- Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto. However, in 2006, Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet, so the mnemonic changed to: My Very Elegant Mother Just Served Us Noodles. There are four more dwarf planets along Pluto: Eris, Haumea, Makemake, and Ceres. The mnemonic for the dwarf planets is: Playful Elephants Have Many Cookies

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The solid and broken bars in the eight image tiles in the top navigation are called trigrams. The octagonal trigram pattern is a common symbol for the Chinese term Bagua. The pattern has eight (ba) areas (guas). "South" is always found at the top of the Bagua. Each trigram represents a particular natural phenomena: Sky ☰, Lake ☱, Fire ☲, Thunder ☳, Wind ☴, Water ☵, Mountain ☶, Earth ☷. 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. In order to print the directions clearly, deselect print background graphics.


Trunk reverse punch The sides of the forward leg and the punching arm are the same. - momtong pandae chirugi
Trunk straight punch The side of the forward leg is opposite that of the punching arm. - momtong paro chirugi
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
inside block (from inside to outside) - an makki
middle punch - momtoong chirugi
middle double punch momtong tubon chirugi
back stance, backward stance twit kubi
back fist high strike dung chumok eulgool ap chigi
knife-hand middle block sonnal momtong makki
body block momtong makki
back fist strike dung chumok ap chigi, deung jumok ap chigi
palm hand middle block or palm fist inside block patang son momtong makki
back fist strike to face dung chumok ap chigi
single knife hand sideways block han sonnal momtong yop makki
cross stance kkoa sogi
part mountain shape block oesantul makki
assisted low block koduro arae makki
upper cut/fisted jaw strike chumok tang gyo tok chigi
high elbow twisting strike palgup eulgool dollyo chigi
double front jump kick tubal dang song ap chagi
outside forearm middle assisted block pakkat palmok momtong koduro makki

I haven't been tested for the eighth form yet so I didn't write it out yet.




Learn just enough Hangeul to complete a crossword puzzle!

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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.
TKD Vocabulary: Korean to English Vocabulary for Forms TKD Vocabulary: English to Korean

Lesson 8

Taegeuk Pal Jang, New Techniques

Blocks 막기 makki
momtong koduro makki 몸통 고두로 막기 middle koduro block/body block
oesantul makki 외산들 막기 part mountain shape block
koduro arae makki 고두로 아래 막기 assisted low block
Punches, Strikes, Thrusts 치기, 지르기 chigi, chirugi
chumok tang gyo tok chigi 주먹 탕교 톡 치기 upper cut or fisted jaw strike
palgup eulgool dollyo chigi 팔꿈 얼굴 돌려 치기 high elbow twisting strike
Kick 차기 Chagi
tubal dang song ap chagi 두발 당 성 앞 차기 double front jump kick