Po Eun Tul Applied

This is ITF Hyung Pattern Po Eun performed to demonstrate the applications as they are presented in Gen. Choi Hong Hi's encyclopedia of TaeKwon-Do. There are other applications for each move but these are the ones officially recognized by the ITF (all of them). Please let me know what you think :)

[@HeyLookaWildKaisu]

I feel like the sound effects are just a bit too much here and take away from the video itself

[@ct000374910]

+Kaisu Yeah, I could do without the "car alarm" effect at the very end. (What's up with that?) As for the rest, let's just be grateful he didn't go full-on "Kung-Fu Theatre". Watcha!

[@SimonScher]

+Kaisu I was going for the old kung fu movie feel. sorry that the sounds distracted from the experience for you.

[@SimonScher]

+ct000374910 lol

[@blestodf]

I couldn't disagree more. I liked the sound effects.

[@shanerogers-nz]

It is cool to see this in action. However, a few of the moves demonstrated, are being applied incorrectly. In this pattern we have four fore-fist pressing blocks (moves 6-7, 24-25), but in the video clip you are using the outer forearm? The (fore-fist) pressing block can be used for blocking the top of the opponents instep etc . Also when you demonstrate moves 16 and 34 performing a side back strike, the other hand is ''extended to the side downward", it isn't a block, and is straight. It isn't a forearm low block like you demonstrated.

[@user-xk7dz4kl5n]

+shane rogers Correct!

[@ct000374910]

+shane rogers Regarding your statement on the application of the techniques shown as being "incorrect", I would disagree. Although there is a generally accepted application of each technique, it would seriously limit our abilities if we restricted ourselves only to the singular, accepted use for each technique. In example, a U-shaped block is "accepted" as a defense against a bo-staff, however it seems a bit unlikely that you would fight someone on the street armed with that particular weapon (as opposed to a knife or a gun, for example). In practice, you might be more likely to deploy a U-shaped block to grab and throw an opponent. I think treating techniques as "tools" having many possible applications, rather than as "keys" which fit only one lock, is a more useful mindset for martial artists to have.

[@shanerogers-nz]

I completely agree that techniques have many different applications. However, if a pattern movement is a fore-fist pressing block then the technique is a pressing block (not a forearm low block).

[@premiertkd]

+shane rogers correct. It is not "Po Eun", but a nice demo all the same.

[@jozef09]

I was here to figure out if move 16 was a block or strike and you really helped me there!!

[@YuZewolf]

nice moves.

[@SimonScher]

+roly otrew thanks