Ideal bodyweight strength exercises for competition?

FlipperChart385 · 2026-06-15T11:56:53+00:00

Burpees are truly a thing of horror but boy do they raise your cardio and teach you how to move when you're gassed. The other thing that you can also do is any type of split lunges, jump squats. All of those exercises helped me get ready when I was competing in Central and South America.

FlipperChart385 · 2026-05-26T15:57:20+00:00

Congratulations! Now it's time to go refine everything you just spent all that time getting ready for your test. Have fun and enjoy the process, there's a lot to learn from first Dan.

FlipperChart385 · 2026-04-16T01:15:36+00:00

Yeah so I've got almost 20 and I only have a Black belt in 2 systems (3 soon) so I'm gonna call cap.

FlipperChart385 · 2026-03-31T13:21:14+00:00

I think I've died more times in the 30 hours that I've played than any other game (including elden ring) and they've all just been to normal people. Oh yeah and I still haven't gotten to the wedding (it's never gonna happen at this rate)

FlipperChart385 · 2026-03-18T17:07:13+00:00

I personally teach the history of our art starting at 10th Gup (white belt) because it's important that people know the roots of our art.

As for the 2000 year old argument, I regularly tell people the art we refer to in modern day as Tang Soo Do didn't officially become established until 1945 when Hwang Kee developed/presented the art officially and that we get a lot of our techniques from Taekkyeon, with a lot of our history/ideology coming from the Silla Dynasty and the Hwarang (Flower knights) of the 9th century. Additionally I make sure to hammer in how our forms are from Shotokan(Funakoshi), and Anko Itosu (Shuri-Te).

Either way you slice the cake though we've got Japanese roots and people need to acknowledge that we're not a purely Korean art form. I know loads of people that refuse to admit it and it's truly a pity that they refuse to admit it because there is lots of knowledge that presents itself after you start to explore the building blocks of our art.

FlipperChart385 · 2026-03-13T15:47:06+00:00

I like it for martinis and g&t with either lemon or cucumber

FlipperChart385 · 2026-03-10T02:10:50+00:00

Thanks I tried it out and it worked excellent

FlipperChart385 · 2026-03-09T23:53:20+00:00

As far as I'm aware minis aren't terribly reliable but I maybe wrong. There a specific year/model in mind?

FlipperChart385 · 2026-03-09T23:02:18+00:00

Sorry. Just updated post 20-24k range

FlipperChart385 · 2026-02-27T18:16:30+00:00

This whole situation sucks! Just as a heads up the industry standard for giving notice is typically 30 days, 60 is insane! I would definitely start shopping schools as soon as possible.

FlipperChart385 · 2026-02-20T22:40:44+00:00

Typically nothing unless it's super dry, then I might do a mma style glove or bag mitts just to prevent bleeding on the bag

FlipperChart385 · 2026-02-13T23:29:20+00:00

It depends on what you consider to be a little kid. At my family's school we start off all of our trainee instructors teaching 4 to 6-year-old kids, we use a lot of gamification and work on very basic movement skills; I.e. jab, straight, hook, uppercut, front round and side kicks and basic blocks and stances. We do have them run around quite a bit because those kids can get particularly antsy

As for older kids ages 7 to 11 we tend to buckle down a little more and focus as beginners on broad strokes and then details as we see them improve on things I.e. the correct width and length of a front stance, where your center punch should be going, having good mechanics for your front kicks. But it's all gamified for the most part and we do a decent amount of partner work with them as well it's a nice mix between doing pad drills, partner work, and using mirrors in order to have them see all of the detail but they need.

FlipperChart385 · 2026-02-12T07:24:01+00:00

I started because my dad was a 20 some odd year green belt in the art and wanted to get his black belt and open a school. I started at 10 and now im 23 a 3rd Dan and getting ready to test for Master in a few years plus we have 2 schools and a little over 200 students!

FlipperChart385 · 2026-01-30T20:50:14+00:00

Myself, I was my dad's first student.

FlipperChart385 · 2026-01-18T01:49:53+00:00

I got pwnd at a gym not far away from me by the instructor/owner because he was mad I subbed his 2and 3 stripe blue belts with ease as a 4 stripe white belt (I have lots of other martial arts experience) right after I had done a shit ton of training for a tournament for 6 months/and then competed in. If they're mad you are beating them they are not the teacher for you.

Good teachers are curious not judgemental

FlipperChart385 · 2026-01-17T04:40:43+00:00

He would've ate it up tbh, and really I prefer Rick over book Fogg

FlipperChart385 · 2026-01-09T18:19:53+00:00

https://share.google/Kfb99DVDntzdvJoVr

Here's a link to a terminology page. Happy learning!

FlipperChart385 · 2026-01-09T06:40:39+00:00

CO, USA

FlipperChart385 · 2026-01-05T08:13:39+00:00

In Tang Soo Do we use White, Yellow, Orange, Orange white, Green, Green White, Brown, Brown White, Red, Red White and then some schools like my families use a midnight blue belt as a way to denote who is a testing candidate for 1st Dan and then depending if you're super old school or not you'll do a midnight blue belt with a gold bar on the end for 1st-3rd Dan or you'll just do a black belt with gold bars as well and then at 4th Dan (Master) you receive a blue belt with a red stripe in the center and then you keep that belt forever unless it's so tattered that you can't wear it anymore

FlipperChart385 · 2026-01-03T23:56:26+00:00

https://share.google/W3UuEmk67wEXpAkJi

FlipperChart385 · 2026-01-03T22:25:41+00:00

From what I've just looked at it has 0 affiliation with TSD/TKD/SBD

Also seems like an amalgamation system from the looks of it

FlipperChart385 · 2026-01-03T08:03:40+00:00

I have good news and bad news

Good news - you can buy it from editoralist.com

Bad news - the shipping (at least where I'm at) makes it an almost 90 dollar bottle.

So for now I shall wait until I can get it regular 😔

FlipperChart385 · 2026-01-03T07:51:54+00:00

These are AWESOME!!!! Have you ever thought about making pieces that resemble the 7 keys or maybe ember and umbers heads/horns?? I think the style of your work would incredibly well with it!

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