One step teaching

[terryl965]

If you teach one step how do you teach them and where did they come from are they past down from previous teacher or did you folks update them to go along with today society.
Terry

 

[rmclain]

Just one-step type drills:

In our curriculum we have Formal 1-steps & Formal 3-steps (from our Okinawan lineage). These have been passed along and preserved through the years.

We have practical 1-steps also. These were created and added by Grandmaster Kim Soo to complement the Okinawan 1-steps. The formality of the Okinawan 1-steps are removed and these are practiced without any beginning stances or preparation.

We also have Hapkido 1-step (from our Hapkido lineage), which are practiced very similarly to the practical 1-steps mentioned above.

Other partner drills include a drill called "Tighening ways" from our Chinese Chuan-fa lineage. These may be older than our Okinawan 1-steps.

R. McLain

 

[Miles]

We do 3-steps for beginners and 1-steps for intermediate and advanced students. Each rank has 2 required sets but the students are encouraged to be creative and make up their own, starting from their assigned poomsae. Those are done formally with a challenge and a response.

We also do "informal" 1 steps where 1 person is designated the attacker and given a set of attacks (say jab, haymaker, or front kick) and the defender has to react and counter.

Miles

 

[TigerWoman]

Our school discontinued one-steps after about a year of it for me. I found it to be helpful but now insuffficient. Rather than teaching it against a punch as most of the initially are, it would be better to combine all attacks. We used to differentiate sparring combinations from these as they do not have self-defense type responses as do one-three steps. Sometimes the new student would think, hey I can do a knee strike while sparring. It was confusing, but then we dropped that part of the program. I think one-step, two, three sparring combinations would be helpful as a base for a new students to gain confidence, but for every attack. I tried teaching a couple of kickboxing students that way, and within eight weeks they were getting the basics down on how to move. Better than the throw you right in to the pot approach that our school does. TW

 

[matt.m]

We do basic moves. Three per belt. We also have one step sparring. Three per belt. I know the cirriculum was brought from Korea by Great Grandmaster Park. It has not changed at all as far as I know. My school has changed the forms as they have been updated. However, I am pretty sure the one step sparring and basic moves are the same.