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Ever wondered why it’s so easy to loose your balance while you are practicing your Taekwondo? Here are some ideas to help explain it! Balance is an essential activity. It affects more than one’s ability to stay upright; it impacts the speed, power and outcome of our techniques. Balance is central to proper technique as well. Resisting gravity is the most critical role of balance, though all its functions are important. To maintain balance throughout execution, we must learn to monitor and control eight interrelated aspects.
Hand and Body position. Keeping the foot of the base leg placed firmly on the floor during execution is known as a Solid Sole. Bent Knee refers to angling the knee of the base leg to hold weight energy while executing a kick, basically serving as a shock absorber.
Control of height, Control of Distance and Control of Power pertain to directing the velocity of strikes and kicks to maintain balance. The revolution of an object on a single plane (spinning on the ball of the foot) is known as Axis. Keeping or regaining equilibrium with the torso and abdomen during execution is called Body Alignment.
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They have a similar concept to solid sole in yoga. They basically say to have four points (right and left in the front and back) on the ground. Once one of these comes off the floor, teetering ensues.
That is true but you also must engage your core. The major trick to balance is to engage your core muscles. Without that one key ingredient solid footing can not be established.