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 , it will take you to the corresponding taekwondo form page. Each form has a trigram which I describe scientifically and call scigrams. The animation in the middle of the 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.
Stance | Movements | Poom |
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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 stance | Turn 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 stance | Turn 270?to the left after the kick into left forward stance, left high outside block (twisting inside to outside), right middle punch | 6 |
forward stance | Right front kick and into right forward stance, left middle punch | 7 |
forward stance | Turn 180° to the right. Right high outside block, left middle punch | 8 |
forward stance | left front kick and into left forward stance, right middle punch | 9 |
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 stance | Turn 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 stance | Turn 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 stance | Bring left foot forward and return. | Kuman |
Learn just enough Hangeul to complete a crossword puzzle! | |
GO TO HANGEUL CROSSWORD PUZZLE | |
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 |
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 |