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Actress and Taekwondo Athlete Taemi Aims for First Pitch Supremacy
Korean ceremonial first pitches: Where the real war of skill takes place on a baseball mound.
Taemi (also known as K Kim and Tammy which just makes google searching much too difficult) must have seen rhythmic gymnast Shin Soo Ji’s first pitch and decided to challenge her for the What-Kind-of-Fuckery-is-This Title by fighting her way onto the mound for a Doosan Bears game (pun entirely intended). Once there, Taemi stared down the catcher, arched her back and then unleashed a Street Fighter cheat code on the baseball world:
What in the flipping fuq.
She could beat me up any day.
I’m not even sure which one is more impressive, the girl who bent her entire torso around her leg like a loose windmill, or the girl who launched herself into an in-the-air somersault to deliver a pitch near home base without throwing up everywhere.
All that I know is that…
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The Five Most Basic Motions of Taekwondo
Does Taekwondo have a Clinch?
A version of the clinch is a popular technique in Olympic style competition.
One of the many criticisms of Taekwondo is that it’s not a complete striking system. I wrote previously refuting this idea. One area that I missed was the so-called clinch. The clinch is a close-range grapple technique which either immobilizes the arms or places the players at a position of control to execute elbows, knees, and/or take-downs. Sports that include its use include, but are not limited to, Boxing, Muay Thai, Kickboxing, various Wrestling styles, and yes, to some extent, even Taekwondo.
Muay Thai clinching:
Boxing clinch:
In boxing, the clinch is more of a survival technique; if you are hurt, you burst in and immobilize the opponent, trying to regain your bearings. You can also attack from their but it’s close range punches which in relation to other techniques might not be maximally effective. In Muay Thai…
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Taekwondo Basic Information
Ashour Zadeh Fallah- Iran’s Taekwondo Prodigy
This 18 year old kid whom the Taekwondo world has nicknamed “The Tsunami” has begun to make a name for himself taking a dominant hold of the sport.
On December 3rd at the World Taekwondo Federation Grand Prix Final in Queretaro, Mexico, Fallah mowed through his opponents easily to the championship bout. Winning a gold medal by taking apart Korean Taekwondo star Tae-Mun Cha, beating him by 12 points. He took up Taekwondo at the age of 6 and made it onto the Junior National team by the age of 12. Now at age 18 he’s also won the Incheon Asian Games and the Manchester Grand Prix, all this before even achieving the rank of black belt. He says he plans to compete in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
“For me, what is very important is the mental fight, not the body fight, I…
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Roger Gracie Wins Fight…With Taekwondo
7 Benefits of Olympic Sparring for Taekwondo
***Re-posted from White Dragon Dojang
Although Olympic Sparring has in some ways plagued Taekwondo and helped to taint its image, it has also benefited it in several ways. Below is a list of the biggest benefits it has had on Taekwondo:
1. It’s full contact. Many styles suffer from a lack of full or hard contact sparring. Why are Muay Thai, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, and Judo stylists so powerful? They do tons and tons of pressure testing through full/hard contact sparring (or freestyle “rolling”/”randori”). Being forced to make your techniques work against a skilled and fully resisting opponent makes all the difference. Including this factor in Taekwondo has caused Taekwondoin to be able to not only use but successfully pull off insane kicking techniques in both Olympic sparring and other types of matches. Note that not all WTF-style dojangs practice full contact, unfortunately. But they should.
2. It forces you…
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Pinoys clinch silver in world Taekwondo Tiff
By Olmin Leyba (The Philippine Star) | Updated November 3, 2014 – 12:00am
MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines settled for a silver and three bronze medals in the wake of the gold rush of powerhouse Korea and Southeast Asian rival Vietnam in the third day of the ninth WTF World Taekwondo Poomsae Championships in Aguascalientes, Mexico Saturday.
Jeordan Dominguez and Jocel Lyn Ninobla fell short in the freestyle pair over-17 event, losing the mint to Vietnamese Thi Thuy Dung Ngo and Than Trung Le (8.080) by a close .020 points.
Dominguez was gunning for his second gold in the four-day, 46-nation tourney after a triumphant effort in Friday’s freestyle mixed team over-17 competition in partnership with Glenn Lava, Jaylord Seridon, Janice Lagman and Rani Ortega.
The Dominguez-Ninobla pair finished ahead of Russia’s Nikolai Avdonkin and Nadeshda Pak (7.620) and USA’s Long Nguyen and Heather Huynh (7.340) who shared the bronze medal.
Rinna Babanto landed in the podium in two events, the freestyle female individual under-17 and recognised female individual junior.
Babanto posted 6.620 points in the freestyle category to share the bronze medal with Serbia’s Olga Petrovic (6.660). Vietnam’s Thi Mong Quynh Nguyen dominated play with 6.780 as USA’s Trina Dao (.6.700) finished second.
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The Cebuana ace lost the battle for the gold to Korea’s Se-bin You (8.63). Chinese Taipei’s Hsiao Chi Huang took the silver while Canada’s Rose Ramsarran joined Babanto at third.
Team Philippines also snagged a bronze in male team under-30 hostilities via brothers Dustin and Raphael Mella and Rodolfo Reyes, Jr. Americans Tuong-Huy Nguyen, Albert Jong and Alvin Jong lorded the field with 8.32. Turkey’s Habip Okcu, Adil Tekin and Ali Ustabas (8.26) won runner-up honors.
Korea collected four gold medals in the penultimate day, bringing its total to nine. Vietnam’s two for the day upped its collection to three golds, two silvers and four bronzes, allowing the Vietnamese to overhaul the Filipino poomsae artists who had two golds, two silvers and three bronzes.
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