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Taekwondo Kyorugi: Olympic Style Sparring

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Even if you just started sparring or if you are a seasoned competitor, you will find this book infinitely valuable to you in your training. I am a first degree black belt and I read this book and my sparring strategy, speed, accuracy, strength, power, responses, and reflexes were all improved dramatically. There is no other book on Taekwondo sparring that can improve your sparring ability this much. It is simply amazing. Kuk Hyun Chung is very well known in Korea and I consider him to be one of the best taekwondo Competitors on this planet. Kim Sang Hoon is also a terrific martial artist and Author. Together, they have made the most informative book on sparring ever.

So if you are serious about sparring, get this book and you won't regret spending that extra 20 dollars.

I trained in Korea from 1992 to 2000, and can honestly say the programs outlined in this book are equal to if not more complete than the training I received in Korea. In conjunction with the "Future Champions" video there is no better training product.

This is a very good manual for drills, attacks and counters for the beginner and also the advanced student. For an instructor, the book is invaluable. Jam-packed with drills of all sorts, sparring classes will never be dull again. I look forward to the next book by Chung et al.

Having been involved in the martial art of Tae Kwon Do for over 25 years and currently holding a 4th dan black belt in the art, I am always more critical on books and DVD's on the subject of Tae Kwon Do more so than I am towards most any other martial art, with an occasional exception or two. Therefore, I was almost a little reluctant to read this book, but relented anyhow after skimming through the first few pages.

Now normally I try and write a fairly complete and descriptive review on each unique section in a book, however, in this case I am going to forego my normal style and simply base my review on the overall quality of the entire book.

If you are already a senior ranking student (gup) or black belt in Tae Kwon Do, then this book will not only be a welcome addition to your martial arts library, but the information provided within it is very valuable and relevant to the subject of "free sparring" in Tae Kwon Do. I can't imagine anyone not being able to learn a considerable amount about the subject even at just a first cursory look through this book.

I found the material very well organized and easy to understand, if you already have a significant amount of experience in Tae Kwon Do. If you are a novice or beginner student, then I would recommend that you hold off on getting this book until you within a year or so of testing for black belt.

This book recommends that you primarily use the following three kicks in competition.

Roundhouse Kick
Back Kick
Axe Kick

I should make note that its not that other kicks aren't used, it's just that these kicks tend to be more effective in the competition arena.

This book covers just about every possible subject that could or would come up on the subject of Tae Kwon Do "free sparring," although not all subjects are covered in great detail, they are discussed to varying degrees and offers the reader a pretty good overall view of the subject. I highly recommend this book to all individuals interested in Tae Kwon Do "free sparring."

Shawn Kovacich
Martial Artist/Creator of numerous books and DVD's.

This book helps with the fundamentals of Olympic sparring and gives the student or instructor a clear understanding of how to apply the basics. A lot of good combinations. Maybe not the book for someone who does not work out in a Dojahng. You do need to know something about Taekwondo.

I am a Japanese student. In Japan, there are few Japanese books of WTF taekwondo, so people uses English TKD books to learn taekwondo. And this book is one of the most popular TKD books in Japan. This fact would represent value of the book.
As for me, this book is felt to be very useful,too. It helped me constructing training menus and sparring strategies. It contains lots of helpful instructions.

I've never been a fan of point sparring, but I have to admit this is a pretty good book. It's definetly not for the beginner, though. The technique section is very basic, giving only the briefest of discriptions on the kicks, but also providing suggestions on how the moves are best utilized. The book then goes into stratagies for TKD style sparring, though most of the drills and principles can be used by karateka as well. What does show a lot of depth is that the authors include chapters on sports medicine, nutrition, mental preparation, and conditioning. A lot of that information is useful to any serious martial artist who participates in point sparring, and I'd recoment the conditioning excersises be applied to any program. The book ends with a chapter on Olympic TKD rules, including weight classes and a list of fouls. A glossary follows. As this book was designed to prepare competitors and coaches for Olympic-level competition, I'd call it an essential publication to anyone who is competing at the national levels in any martial art point sparring.

I think this is a great book. If you ar looking for a big book with a lot of pictures in it, then this is not the book for you since wery few of the combinations are shown. But if you already know how to kick and how to punch, then that should not be a problem for you. Everyone involved in sparring as a practicioner or as a coach could learn a lot from this book. I certainly did, even thaug i practice ITF Taekwon-Do, since a lot of the bodywork and qualities you need are similar.

I didnt like this book and it was very boring. Its said the same things many times and the only thing I found useful were the moves that it showed. If this is the best book of TKD sparring I wonder what kind of books the others are.

It's a very well written about Taekwondo Kyorugi. One of the best. It tells you almost eveything about Olympic Style sparring. From the Skill, Strategies to the aspect of Sport Medicine.
Also, this book is very useful for all WTF style competitor.