TKDTony2179
Blue Belt
"Understanding" patterns. TKD Tony and others. What do you think about what this person said;
" Patterns are various fundamental movements....a pattern can be compared with a unit tactic or word if fundamental movement is an individual...'s training or alphabet."
Using the above metaphor, each motion is a single letter. Letters may have some meaning by themselves, but different meanings emerge depending on how they are arranged and connected with other letters.
First you learn to recognize letters, then you learn to recognize certain arrangements as words. Finaly, based on what you have learned you can try to figure out arrangemets you haven't seen before and learn how to use them.
Useful metaphor?
Yes, Useful. I sometimes say to students that once you learn a punch, kick, block, or stance then never forget what you learn. You may never use it all the time but sometimes you will. I ask them do they ever forget how to count or abc's and they are like no. Well I say in order to count, add, subtract, or write a word, sentence, or even a paragraph you must know the basic and the intermidate levels and then the advance in order to do those things. Same as our forms. I don't look at one tul and say that it is a self-defense in itself but take a lil from here and a lil from there and before you know it you have different movements that work.
Ex. Someone grabs your opposite wrist and you do a hooking block, front kick, step into a front stance in a angle and perform a pressing block which causes a armbar. Yul Gulk and joon gun.