Rhythm and Movement

I enjoy martial arts, and am interested in martial arts of the world. And as I am practicing Taekwondo, I know the importance of maintaining one’s own rhythm. If you lose your own rhythm, by being dragged into the pace of the opponent it is more likely that you will lose the match. Hmm… maybe it is easier to understand this aspect of martial arts if you think of when you are playing arcade games like Street Fighter.

Thus, I invested some time in searching for good drum rhythms. The following, which I’ve discovered in vadrum’s blog, is one of the sounds that caught my attention. I wish you spend some time in listening to it!

 

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Photo Credits: “African Drum” by whiteafrican on Flickr

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Taekwondo

Taekwondo is a martial art (do), promoting strict self-discipline and character building through strenuous but controlled movements of fists (kwon) and feet (tae). My maternal grand-grand-father was a ninth dan black-belt holder in Judo. The ninth dan was the highest rank in martial arts at his time. Probably I got a gene from him and since my early childhood I kept asking my dad to enroll me at training centers for several martial arts (including Taekwondo, Kung-fu (Wushu), Jeetkun-do, Judo, and Capoeira). My dad is a “static” man, working several hours without pause on the desk, and he vainly wished my determination to get weak with time.

He finally allowed me to select just one and in March 1999 I started my Taekwondo practice as a beginner wearing the white belt. Since then, Taekwondo practice became my daily routine and I spend one hour and thirty minutes everyday from Monday to Friday. Most recently, in March 2007, I was tested for promotion to the fourth dan black-belt (the level of an instructor or master) and succeeded.

Still I am very much interested in other martial arts that I was not able to practice. On my bookshelf, I have a collection of books on Taekwondo, Kung-fu, Jeetkun-do, Judo, and Capoeira, which I bought with my allowance in my grade school years. These books remind me of my early childhood dreams to be a general, even though a general no longer appears on the list of my career goals.

If you are interested in Taekwondo, you may visit Kukkiwon (World Taekwondo Headquarters)

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Photo Credits: “Korean Marital Arts 15” by thivierr on Flickr

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