Morning Fubarians! Its been a little bit since I wrote here. I had finals last week so that took much of my time, but school is out for two weeks so Im free! Woohoo! Anyways I am going to start on my series about the actual Poomse, hope you enjoy it!
There are many types of Poomse taught in the world, and from school to school the poomse vary as well. In my Kwan, or organization we start with the Ki-bon forms. These are simple I pattern forms that have only a couple of moves within them. So they are ideal to help teach the basics to beginners young and old alike. All forms teach muscle memory and how to move while performing moves. These are very important to learn. As Bruce Lee once said "A good fight should be like a small play...but played seriously. When the opponent expands, l contract. When he contracts, l expand. And when there is an opportunity... l do not hit...it hits all by itself (shows his fist)." While learning the form itself is not the secret to martial arts its a good place to start on the path to becoming a true martial artist. I should mention here that while I am not yet black belt (I expect it with in about 5 months) I am well qualified as I am Utah AAU state champion as well as taking gold at the Utah Summer games and 4 other tournaments over the last 4 years in forms.
Ki-bon hana (one) has only two hand movements and one stance. The pattern is done in the shape of an I. The hand moves are simple down block and straight punch. The stance through out the form is a front stance. There is one sorta tricky spin that most all people have a problem learning at first, but thats what practice is for!
To begin you start in you Chum-bi stance, or ready stance (hands in front of the belt approx. one fist and held apart approx one fist, legs about shoulder width) the first turn is to the left (most all forms turn to the left to begin!)as you turn 90 degrees you drop to a front stance (for a list of stances and moves see the 4 previous blogs) and down block with your left hand. This is to simulate blocking a kick being thrown at you from your left side. Then you attack. The next move is a step forward to another front stance and a middle punch with the right hand. Then a 180 degree turn towards your back. This is dropped to a front stance to a right hand down block, step to a left hand straight punch to attack. The next move is a 90 degree turn to the left back to the original direction with a down block. Then there are three steps forward (each to a front stance) with alternating punches starting with the right hand and ending with teh right hand (right, left, right). At this point you would Ki yup (yell). The next turn is the tricky turn I mentioned. This is a 270 degree turn towards the left to end up on the right (confusing huh!) basically after your last punch you would turn to look over your left shoulder and set up for a down block with the left hand. You would then take your back leg and lift it to begin to turn towards your back. Your back leg ends up as your front leg in the front stance and your left hand blocks. The follow up is the straight punch to the middle with another front stance. The turn is the made towards the back, 180 degrees, to a down block with the right hand, then a step forward to a middle punch, front stance. The next move will start to take you back to the start position. Its a 90 degree turn to the left into a down block with the left hand and front stance. Three steps forward (front stances) with alternating punches starting with the right hand and ending with the right hand. Another Ki yup here. Then the tricky turn again to the left to end up on your right for a down block withe the left hand. The next is a step forward, front stance right hand middle punch. 180 degree turn to the right to a down block with the right hand step forward to a front stance with a left hand middle punch. Thats it! you then return to the starting position and call it good! To se what this looks like http://www.natkd.com/movies/NATKD_Forms/Kicho1.wmv
and no this isn't me, my school is working on our site to place videos like this on there and I most likely will be the person in them, though that hasn't been decided yet. Though this isn't the most exciting of forms, it gives a good base of whats to come!
Hope that you enjoyed my little description here ! I look forward to discussing more forms and what the mean in future blogs! Thanks again and you stay classy Fubar!
