It's our last day and Master Jedut kindly offered to give Mark and Jeremy a one-on-one patterns training session. Unfortunately Mark had ripped his feet to pieces in training the night before and was hobbling around in no shape to be able to do patterns. This left Jeremy to perform with Master Jedut and Mark critiquing.
(It's a couple of months later and I just found I hadn't downloaded these photos from my camera... so here they are.)
Cheers
Doug
Wednesday, 29 October 2008
Our last group training session in Poland – a very special one
Saving the best for last… tonight Master Loboda brought his students from Lublin and Mr Suska came as well to have a training session under Master Jedut and with the kiwis.
It was a huge privilege for us to have a training session with a group of students that included 8 past and present world champions.
At the end of the training session Master Jedut requested some demonstrations and we watched a group of 6 do Juche.
Then Mark and Mr Suska were asked to repeat the 2007 world champs final and perform Moon moo.
Lastly Mr Suska gave a demonstration of some high powered kicks. The only word I can think to describe this is "awesome power".
Here are some of the pictures….
Cheers
Doug
It was a huge privilege for us to have a training session with a group of students that included 8 past and present world champions.
At the end of the training session Master Jedut requested some demonstrations and we watched a group of 6 do Juche.
Then Mark and Mr Suska were asked to repeat the 2007 world champs final and perform Moon moo.
Lastly Mr Suska gave a demonstration of some high powered kicks. The only word I can think to describe this is "awesome power".
Here are some of the pictures….
Cheers
Doug
Tuesday night training new students at a neighbouring village school
Tonight we went with Master Jedut about a 20 minute drive to a school where we counted 74 students were training! This is a new class and it was only their 4th session. Master Jedut trains them two times per week.
Tonight they made a bit of a fuss about the visiting New Zealanders with Mark and Jeremy doing some demonstration. Master Jedut encourages some of the kids to practice their English speech with us but they were a bit shy to do it in front of their friends.
Here are a few pictures…
Cheers
Doug
Tonight they made a bit of a fuss about the visiting New Zealanders with Mark and Jeremy doing some demonstration. Master Jedut encourages some of the kids to practice their English speech with us but they were a bit shy to do it in front of their friends.
Here are a few pictures…
Cheers
Doug
Pick of the Photos
Since the World Cup finished I’ve spent many hours pouring over the many thousands of images that I took sorting them and picking out the ones that stand out to me as being “special”.
What I’ve finally selected is only about 3% of the images taken. With the sport of Taekwon-do being so fast and so much happening, it shows how many images that I need to take to get some good ones!
I hope that you enjoy them.
Pick of the New Zealand photos…
Pick of the International photos…
My Favourites…
Cheers
Doug
What I’ve finally selected is only about 3% of the images taken. With the sport of Taekwon-do being so fast and so much happening, it shows how many images that I need to take to get some good ones!
I hope that you enjoy them.
Pick of the New Zealand photos…
Pick of the International photos…
My Favourites…
Cheers
Doug
Monday night training
Monday was a quiet day for us. Master Jedut had a busy schedule today so we planned to meet at the gym at 7.30pm for 7.45 training.
Tonight's training was conditioning focused. Mark commented that it was much like a conditioning training session that we would do back in NZ.
Mark and Jem had got the gist of the warm up game of tag which goes on for about 20 minutes prior to 15 minutes of more structured warm up exercises.
The training programme went through until just after 9pm and looked exhausting to me. Mark reckons that he and Jem did pretty well in comparison to the others who had the advantage of being more familiar and conditioned to the particular exercises.
Here's a summary of the training with captions...
Cheers
Doug
Tonight's training was conditioning focused. Mark commented that it was much like a conditioning training session that we would do back in NZ.
Mark and Jem had got the gist of the warm up game of tag which goes on for about 20 minutes prior to 15 minutes of more structured warm up exercises.
The training programme went through until just after 9pm and looked exhausting to me. Mark reckons that he and Jem did pretty well in comparison to the others who had the advantage of being more familiar and conditioned to the particular exercises.
Here's a summary of the training with captions...
Cheers
Doug
Monday, 27 October 2008
Sunday visit to ancient Kazimierz Dolny
Because the weather was so good, today Master Jedut took us to a famous and popular town called Kazimierz Dolny about a 50 minute drive on the other side of Lublin.
It is a village nestled next to a large river. The first records of the township date back to 1181 – over 800 years ago! Some of the ruins that we visited are about 500 years old.
We climbed to the castle ruins, tower and triple cross, high up above the village we were hungry by about 2pm having skipped breakfast and had a late lunch at Zielona Tawerna restaurant in the village.
During our visit here in Poland we have had and continue to have many discussions
with Master Jedut about Taekwon-do including training methods, preparation for tournaments, tournament history, many successful Taekwon-do students and many other topics. Mark commented that he found this knowledge and discussion as valuable as the training sessions and we all enjoy the discussions immensely.
Master Jedut has been extremely generous with his time and knowledge and for that we are very grateful.
Tomorrow he has a busy day so we will be on our own but will attend training in the evening. On Tuesday we are hoping to visit the remains of a German concentration camp at a village near here.
We hope you are all having an enjoyable Labour Weekend back in New Zealand.
Cheers for now
Doug
It is a village nestled next to a large river. The first records of the township date back to 1181 – over 800 years ago! Some of the ruins that we visited are about 500 years old.
We climbed to the castle ruins, tower and triple cross, high up above the village we were hungry by about 2pm having skipped breakfast and had a late lunch at Zielona Tawerna restaurant in the village.
During our visit here in Poland we have had and continue to have many discussions
with Master Jedut about Taekwon-do including training methods, preparation for tournaments, tournament history, many successful Taekwon-do students and many other topics. Mark commented that he found this knowledge and discussion as valuable as the training sessions and we all enjoy the discussions immensely.
Master Jedut has been extremely generous with his time and knowledge and for that we are very grateful.
Tomorrow he has a busy day so we will be on our own but will attend training in the evening. On Tuesday we are hoping to visit the remains of a German concentration camp at a village near here.
We hope you are all having an enjoyable Labour Weekend back in New Zealand.
Cheers for now
Doug
Pick of the World Cup training photos
I’ve now had time to go through many of the pictures taken over the last few weeks and here are my favourites from the images taken during training in Reva del Garda.
I hope you enjoy them…
Soon, I’ll post my favourite New Zealand images from the World Cup tournament…
Cheers
Doug
I hope you enjoy them…
Soon, I’ll post my favourite New Zealand images from the World Cup tournament…
Cheers
Doug
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