Hey,

There is an open house performance rehearsal organised by the council on the 4th and 12th of January 2010. For those involved in this performance, I really hope you can keep yourselves free on the following days.

4th Jan [School Rehearsal]
6th Jan [Normal Training + Club Rehearsal]
12th Jan [School Rehearsal]
13th Jan [Actual Performance]

On the coming Monday, the duration of the rehearsal is from 1pm to 4pm. However, so far our rehearsed performance had several problems. Firstly, we do not have full attendance for even one time. Secondly, much prompting is needed. Lastly, we have not tried the performance with the music. Hence, we have to come down in the morning on Monday to carry out our own rehearsal and practise with the music before puting up a good show in front of the school. As you have noticed, I have set the time to be at 8am. I urge everone to be punctual even though it may not be official training. There are altogether 18 performers this time. The club needs every person to be responsible for your part in the performance so as to impress the juniors.

Generally...
Poomsae: Coordinated, Precise and a Loud Shout at the end
Self Defense: Aggresive, React Fast, Don't hesitate
Target Kicking: Scream and Shout, Move Super Fast
Plank Breaking: Shout and Scream, Break the plank, Kickers and Holders must adjust the distance

I have listed the individual points one would need to note. Please be clear of them and come for Saturday trainings if you have any doubts or want to practise more.

1. Yi Ling [Poomsae/Self D/Plank Breaking]
-Self D, after winning, you may want to go to the centre and bow before everyone gets up and leave the mat to signal the end of this showcase and that you won. Plank breaking, you will be holding the planks for Kai Yu and Bertram. You will be part of the human obstacle for Ren Jie's flying side kick.

2. Elizabeth [Poomsae/Target Kicking/Plank Breaking]
-Poomsae, some changes were made in the training yeseday with regards to the formation. So just ensure that you are clear of your position. Plank breaking, you are holding a plank for Kai Yu.

3. Luo Hui [Poomsae/Plank Breaking]
-Poomsae, you will also have to note your position in the poomsae formation. Plank breaking, you are holding for Wei Jing.

4. Wei Jing [Poomsae/Self D/Target Kicking/Plank Breaking]
-Plank breaking, the people holding your planks are Luo Hui, Jomain and Wen Jing. Do adjust the distance so that your strikes can break the planks.You will also be an obstacle for Ren Jie's flying side kick, beside Jaron.

6. Jomain [Self D/Target Kicking/Plank Breaking]
-Plank Breaking, you are holding a plank for Wei Jing and you will do a side kick as an obstacle for Ren Jie's flying side kick.

7. Jaron [Self D/Target Kicking/ Plank Breaking]
-Plank Breaking, you are holding for Wen Jing's Back Hook and lying down beside Wei Jing as an obstacle for Ren Jie's flying side kick.

8. Sam [Self D/ Target Kicking/ Plank Breaking]
-Plank breaking, try to choose the 5 planks you are comfortable with doing your mega chop earlier. You are holding a plank for Bertram. Basil and Jonathan will help to set up the bricks.

9. Basil [Self D/Plank Breaking]
-Self D, I feel that you revived a bit too early after getting hit by Sam. There's a part where you got to stone quite long for Sam to finish hitting Jaron before you can use the pole to hit Sam. So maybe you can get up a little later so that after you grab the pole you can hit Sam without much lag time. Plank breaking, you will help to carry the bricks for Sam's mega chop.

10. Yit Khai [Target Kicking/Plank Breaking]
-Plank breaking, I think you have not tried with the planks yet. So in the next training, you can familiarise yourself with the formation and try out the slamming kick and jumping back thrust. Ren Jie will be holding the plank for your jumping back thrust and Wei Qi will be holding the plank for your slamming kick. You are holding a plank for Ren Jie's flying side kick.

11. Jasmine [Target Kicking/ Plank Breaking]
-Plank breaking, you are holding a plank for Jonathan's slamming kick. You will need to know the formation so that you will know when and how to enter and exit.

12. Wei Qi [Target Kicking/Plank Breaking]
-Plank breaking, you are holding a plank for Yit Khai's slamming kick. Just practise the formation more and it will be fine.

13. Zhen Ping [Target Kicking]
-Target Kicking, as yesterday was the first time you are doing the kicks, do train more in your free time. I'm sure you can be ready for the performance. Do ask if you have any doubts on the formations.

14. Ren Jie [Target Kicking/Plank Breaking]
-Plank Breaking, you are holding a plank for Yit Khai's jumping back thrust. For your flying side kick, Yit Khai will be holding the plank at the end. Your human obstacles are Yi Ling, Kai Yu, Jomain's side kick, Jaron and Wei Jing. Just adjust their positions and the plank if necessary. I think the plank should not be too far from the last human obstacle because yesterday when I held the hand mitt, the distance was too far.

15. Bin Hao [Target Kicking/Plank Breaking]
-Plank breaking, you are holding a plank for Wen Jing's back thrust.

16. Jonathan [Target Kicking/Plank Breaking]
-Plank breaking, you will help with the breaks for Sam's mega chop and Jasmine will hold the plank for your slamming kick while Bertram will hold the plank for your jumping back thrust.

17. Kai Yu [Plank Breaking]
-Plank breaking, Yi Ling, Elizabeth and Yit Khai will hold the planks for your strikes. You will help to hold a plank for Bertram before becoming a human obstacle for Ren Jie's flying side kick.

18. Wen Jing [Target Kicking/Plank Breaking]
-Plank breaking, Bin Hao will hold a plank for your back thrust while Jaron will hold a plank for your back hook. You will help to hold a plank for Bertram and Wei Jing.

All the best, hope to have a great performance for Open House. Happy New Year!

Bertram

Labels: Announcements, Events, Trainings

HELLOOOOOOO :D

Here's the details of the self defence cip this sat (:

Date/ day: 4th April 2009, Saturday
Time: 1245PM- 530PM (HCTKD MEMBERS ARE TO MEET AT 1145AM OUTSIDE TKD ROOM TO BRING MATS AND TARGETS OVER TO HIGH SCHOOL HALL)
Venue: High School Hall
Attire: BLACK tkd shirt, gi pants
Schedule:

1245: Participants to report to the hall

1315: Briefing/ Introduction to TKD (+ Chil jang performance)

1340: Ice-breakers
- Mass game: form the longest line!
- Group game: Buddy Whacko!

1415: Basic Moves
- Punches (to head, nose, neck)
- Front kick to the groin

1430: Break

1440: Self-Defense Techniques (I)
-Knife Attack I
-Knife Attack II
-Knife Attack III
-Knife Attack IV
- Grip I
- Grip II

1545: Teabreak!

1615: Self-Defense Techniques (II)
- Grip III
- Grip IV
- Bear Hug
- Collar Grap I
- Collar Grap II
- Shoulder Grap

1700: Revision

1730: Dismissal

The rivervalley participants will be divided into 4 groups (3 groups of 8 and 1 group of 10). HCTKD members will also be split and attached to these 4 groups. the groupings are as follows:

Group1:
Shinyi, Elizabeth
Rachel, Audrey
Jamie, Xinyi

Group2:
Angela, Eileen
Kaijun, Jackie
Yongji, pekyee

Group3:
Yuqin, pohting
Felix, Kee en
Yanyan, Xiaochun

Group4:
Celia, yingying
Eric zhuyun

so..yup please ensure everyone's sure of all the techniques and stuff so we'll be able to answer any queries from the partcipants (: yup that's all! thanks (:

Labels: Events

DAJIAHAO!!! :D okay i'm here to tell you guys about IVP next year!

1. The NTU Taekwondo Open Championship 2009 will be held from 27th Februray to 1st March 2009. The following is a brief outline of the events:
   

   20/12/2008
   Submission of Nominative Entry
   
   05/01/2009
   Submission of Final Team List and coaches
   
   14/2/2009
   Registration and Final TM Meeting& balloting 1400hrs to 1600hrs
   

   
   

   27/2/2009
   Pattern Competition
   1400hrs to 2000hrs

   28/2-1/3/09 [NOTE: WE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN SPARRING :( ]
   Sparring Competition
   0900hrs to 2000hrs



2. We are only allowed to send in 2 teams (3 players and 1 reserve) each for yellow, green and blue belt patterns and 1 team each for brown and black ones. According to the rules, only people who attained their brown belt in Jan 2006 is allowed to participate in the brown belt one and only black belters under STF are allowed in the black category. SO essentially, most of us are only eligible for yellow, green and blue, thus a total of 6 teams. However, it has to be noted that you can only participate in equal or higher belt levels than your obtained belt level after grading in Jan2009 basing on your base colour. (eg. green tip= yellow) Each person is only allowed to participate in ONE pattern team.


3. Registration fee is $28.00/ pattern team.

yup! basically that's all you guys are supposed to know for now regarding the competition!!! so please do read through the basic criteria in point2 cos it's really important for everyone to understand that it is impossible for us to allow everyone to particpate :( yup so no matter what the end result maybe, we seek your understanding (:

okay on to other stuff!!

firstly, here's the tshirt design for IVP next year, we're spps to hand in the order forms in early jan next year, so please do indicate your interest either to me/ eileen/your section leaders. the price is not confirmed cos it depends on the number of orders they get, so for now just indicate if you're interested ba.

secondly, each schl can allow one photographer in eh! so which kind soul may wanna consider volunteering your services and be there to root for hctkd can also inform us!! (:

lastly, there will be an alumni exhibition match. so seniors regardless of which batch you're from, if you're interested, please do tell me. details are sketchy, but it does sound like some sparring/ competition thing and you'll get medals but your points will not contribute to hctkd's overall score in IVP. yup that's all i know for now eh haha. probably you all can tell me if you're interested, den i can ask ntu again (:

okay that's all!! realised this is a REALLYYYYYY long post. heh paiseh. anws happy holidays still!!

<3 Yuqin!

Labels: Announcements, Competitions, Events

Labels: Events

Hi all. happy post blocks to all j2s! (hur as if there's a diff.)

few important announcements to be made to j1s and j2s.

J1s:

EDIT: SATURDAY (4th april) - training at 0900, attire is track pants and shirt. (don't wear ur gi cos it's needed for sunday's grading)

exco elections - i know we said we'll upload the form and information up by tonight, but due to some delays, the relevant information will be uploaded by sunday night, after grading. do check the blog then for the job descriptions and application form. meanwhile, take some time to ponder seriously as to whether you want to run for the hctkd exco 08/09.

J2s:

Those coming for self defence (the actual thing) on saturday, attire is track pants and tkd shirt (don't wear gi - grading the next day).

J1s AND J2s:

Sunday, 6th april - GRADING. bring full gi, belt, pen, white t-shirt (for girls), neat hair and no accessories like ear studs, colourful hair accessories etc. meet at toa payoh MRT station at 0800 or toa payoh sports hall at 830 if you're going there yourself. GUARDS for J2s (esp groin guards for guys.)

Tuesday, 8th april - pattern competition training, celestine (our imba zai coach) is coming down to teach. meet at 1500 outside tkd room for all involved in the competition. J1s who want to go for the competition come down, we'll figure something out. attire: track pants and shirt (again, don't wear ur gi pants unless you are able to wash it by the next day for training. )

Wednesday, 9th april - normal training. FULL GI and WHITE t-shirt inside for girls. i emphasize this as we notice that there is an increasing number of people not wearing proper attire - i.e. full gi or white shirts inside the gi. the tkd shirt is not white, neither is it a gi. i know it's pretty, but wear it out of formal training please. thanks.

alright that's all for now. take note of all the dates, timings and attire and see you there!

remember to practise your patterns AND basic kicks for grading!

Labels: Events

New aim for hctkd:

Gaobean says that by the time he returns (March), he wants to see beautiful 360s from us all. All. Otherwise, he will zham.

So. This should be incentive enough for self training :D. We're training at the tkd room every weekday from 2-3pm onward (except for tomorrow, since there's X-country), so come down, grab mats and practice. Actually perhaps better to contact me first, 92380098, since there are days we might be using the Room Under Audi for pattern practice. You can come along and correct your 360 in the pretty mirror if you want.

Love,
Chreees.

Ps. I love you 17 days and counting (Go go pattern teams!)

Pps. J1 orientation's on Wednesday, 20th Feb. Next proper training's on Wednesday, 28th Feb. Will update soon!

Labels: Events, Trainings

Hey,

There is an open house performance rehearsal organised by the council on the 4th and 12th of January 2010. For those involved in this performance, I really hope you can keep yourselves free on the following days.

4th Jan [School Rehearsal]
6th Jan [Normal Training + Club Rehearsal]
12th Jan [School Rehearsal]
13th Jan [Actual Performance]

On the coming Monday, the duration of the rehearsal is from 1pm to 4pm. However, so far our rehearsed performance had several problems. Firstly, we do not have full attendance for even one time. Secondly, much prompting is needed. Lastly, we have not tried the performance with the music. Hence, we have to come down in the morning on Monday to carry out our own rehearsal and practise with the music before puting up a good show in front of the school. As you have noticed, I have set the time to be at 8am. I urge everone to be punctual even though it may not be official training. There are altogether 18 performers this time. The club needs every person to be responsible for your part in the performance so as to impress the juniors.

Generally...
Poomsae: Coordinated, Precise and a Loud Shout at the end
Self Defense: Aggresive, React Fast, Don't hesitate
Target Kicking: Scream and Shout, Move Super Fast
Plank Breaking: Shout and Scream, Break the plank, Kickers and Holders must adjust the distance

I have listed the individual points one would need to note. Please be clear of them and come for Saturday trainings if you have any doubts or want to practise more.

1. Yi Ling [Poomsae/Self D/Plank Breaking]
-Self D, after winning, you may want to go to the centre and bow before everyone gets up and leave the mat to signal the end of this showcase and that you won. Plank breaking, you will be holding the planks for Kai Yu and Bertram. You will be part of the human obstacle for Ren Jie's flying side kick.

2. Elizabeth [Poomsae/Target Kicking/Plank Breaking]
-Poomsae, some changes were made in the training yeseday with regards to the formation. So just ensure that you are clear of your position. Plank breaking, you are holding a plank for Kai Yu.

3. Luo Hui [Poomsae/Plank Breaking]
-Poomsae, you will also have to note your position in the poomsae formation. Plank breaking, you are holding for Wei Jing.

4. Wei Jing [Poomsae/Self D/Target Kicking/Plank Breaking]
-Plank breaking, the people holding your planks are Luo Hui, Jomain and Wen Jing. Do adjust the distance so that your strikes can break the planks.You will also be an obstacle for Ren Jie's flying side kick, beside Jaron.

6. Jomain [Self D/Target Kicking/Plank Breaking]
-Plank Breaking, you are holding a plank for Wei Jing and you will do a side kick as an obstacle for Ren Jie's flying side kick.

7. Jaron [Self D/Target Kicking/ Plank Breaking]
-Plank Breaking, you are holding for Wen Jing's Back Hook and lying down beside Wei Jing as an obstacle for Ren Jie's flying side kick.

8. Sam [Self D/ Target Kicking/ Plank Breaking]
-Plank breaking, try to choose the 5 planks you are comfortable with doing your mega chop earlier. You are holding a plank for Bertram. Basil and Jonathan will help to set up the bricks.

9. Basil [Self D/Plank Breaking]
-Self D, I feel that you revived a bit too early after getting hit by Sam. There's a part where you got to stone quite long for Sam to finish hitting Jaron before you can use the pole to hit Sam. So maybe you can get up a little later so that after you grab the pole you can hit Sam without much lag time. Plank breaking, you will help to carry the bricks for Sam's mega chop.

10. Yit Khai [Target Kicking/Plank Breaking]
-Plank breaking, I think you have not tried with the planks yet. So in the next training, you can familiarise yourself with the formation and try out the slamming kick and jumping back thrust. Ren Jie will be holding the plank for your jumping back thrust and Wei Qi will be holding the plank for your slamming kick. You are holding a plank for Ren Jie's flying side kick.

11. Jasmine [Target Kicking/ Plank Breaking]
-Plank breaking, you are holding a plank for Jonathan's slamming kick. You will need to know the formation so that you will know when and how to enter and exit.

12. Wei Qi [Target Kicking/Plank Breaking]
-Plank breaking, you are holding a plank for Yit Khai's slamming kick. Just practise the formation more and it will be fine.

13. Zhen Ping [Target Kicking]
-Target Kicking, as yesterday was the first time you are doing the kicks, do train more in your free time. I'm sure you can be ready for the performance. Do ask if you have any doubts on the formations.

14. Ren Jie [Target Kicking/Plank Breaking]
-Plank Breaking, you are holding a plank for Yit Khai's jumping back thrust. For your flying side kick, Yit Khai will be holding the plank at the end. Your human obstacles are Yi Ling, Kai Yu, Jomain's side kick, Jaron and Wei Jing. Just adjust their positions and the plank if necessary. I think the plank should not be too far from the last human obstacle because yesterday when I held the hand mitt, the distance was too far.

15. Bin Hao [Target Kicking/Plank Breaking]
-Plank breaking, you are holding a plank for Wen Jing's back thrust.

16. Jonathan [Target Kicking/Plank Breaking]
-Plank breaking, you will help with the breaks for Sam's mega chop and Jasmine will hold the plank for your slamming kick while Bertram will hold the plank for your jumping back thrust.

17. Kai Yu [Plank Breaking]
-Plank breaking, Yi Ling, Elizabeth and Yit Khai will hold the planks for your strikes. You will help to hold a plank for Bertram before becoming a human obstacle for Ren Jie's flying side kick.

18. Wen Jing [Target Kicking/Plank Breaking]
-Plank breaking, Bin Hao will hold a plank for your back thrust while Jaron will hold a plank for your back hook. You will help to hold a plank for Bertram and Wei Jing.

All the best, hope to have a great performance for Open House. Happy New Year!

Bertram

Labels: Announcements, Events, Trainings

HELLOOOOOOO :D

Here's the details of the self defence cip this sat (:

Date/ day: 4th April 2009, Saturday
Time: 1245PM- 530PM (HCTKD MEMBERS ARE TO MEET AT 1145AM OUTSIDE TKD ROOM TO BRING MATS AND TARGETS OVER TO HIGH SCHOOL HALL)
Venue: High School Hall
Attire: BLACK tkd shirt, gi pants
Schedule:

1245: Participants to report to the hall

1315: Briefing/ Introduction to TKD (+ Chil jang performance)

1340: Ice-breakers
- Mass game: form the longest line!
- Group game: Buddy Whacko!

1415: Basic Moves
- Punches (to head, nose, neck)
- Front kick to the groin

1430: Break

1440: Self-Defense Techniques (I)
-Knife Attack I
-Knife Attack II
-Knife Attack III
-Knife Attack IV
- Grip I
- Grip II

1545: Teabreak!

1615: Self-Defense Techniques (II)
- Grip III
- Grip IV
- Bear Hug
- Collar Grap I
- Collar Grap II
- Shoulder Grap

1700: Revision

1730: Dismissal

The rivervalley participants will be divided into 4 groups (3 groups of 8 and 1 group of 10). HCTKD members will also be split and attached to these 4 groups. the groupings are as follows:

Group1:
Shinyi, Elizabeth
Rachel, Audrey
Jamie, Xinyi

Group2:
Angela, Eileen
Kaijun, Jackie
Yongji, pekyee

Group3:
Yuqin, pohting
Felix, Kee en
Yanyan, Xiaochun

Group4:
Celia, yingying
Eric zhuyun

so..yup please ensure everyone's sure of all the techniques and stuff so we'll be able to answer any queries from the partcipants (: yup that's all! thanks (:

Labels: Events

DAJIAHAO!!! :D okay i'm here to tell you guys about IVP next year!

1. The NTU Taekwondo Open Championship 2009 will be held from 27th Februray to 1st March 2009. The following is a brief outline of the events:
   

   20/12/2008
   Submission of Nominative Entry
   
   05/01/2009
   Submission of Final Team List and coaches
   
   14/2/2009
   Registration and Final TM Meeting& balloting 1400hrs to 1600hrs
   

   
   

   27/2/2009
   Pattern Competition
   1400hrs to 2000hrs

   28/2-1/3/09 [NOTE: WE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN SPARRING :( ]
   Sparring Competition
   0900hrs to 2000hrs



2. We are only allowed to send in 2 teams (3 players and 1 reserve) each for yellow, green and blue belt patterns and 1 team each for brown and black ones. According to the rules, only people who attained their brown belt in Jan 2006 is allowed to participate in the brown belt one and only black belters under STF are allowed in the black category. SO essentially, most of us are only eligible for yellow, green and blue, thus a total of 6 teams. However, it has to be noted that you can only participate in equal or higher belt levels than your obtained belt level after grading in Jan2009 basing on your base colour. (eg. green tip= yellow) Each person is only allowed to participate in ONE pattern team.


3. Registration fee is $28.00/ pattern team.

yup! basically that's all you guys are supposed to know for now regarding the competition!!! so please do read through the basic criteria in point2 cos it's really important for everyone to understand that it is impossible for us to allow everyone to particpate :( yup so no matter what the end result maybe, we seek your understanding (:

okay on to other stuff!!

firstly, here's the tshirt design for IVP next year, we're spps to hand in the order forms in early jan next year, so please do indicate your interest either to me/ eileen/your section leaders. the price is not confirmed cos it depends on the number of orders they get, so for now just indicate if you're interested ba.

secondly, each schl can allow one photographer in eh! so which kind soul may wanna consider volunteering your services and be there to root for hctkd can also inform us!! (:

lastly, there will be an alumni exhibition match. so seniors regardless of which batch you're from, if you're interested, please do tell me. details are sketchy, but it does sound like some sparring/ competition thing and you'll get medals but your points will not contribute to hctkd's overall score in IVP. yup that's all i know for now eh haha. probably you all can tell me if you're interested, den i can ask ntu again (:

okay that's all!! realised this is a REALLYYYYYY long post. heh paiseh. anws happy holidays still!!

<3 Yuqin!

Labels: Announcements, Competitions, Events

Labels: Events

Hi all. happy post blocks to all j2s! (hur as if there's a diff.)

few important announcements to be made to j1s and j2s.

J1s:

EDIT: SATURDAY (4th april) - training at 0900, attire is track pants and shirt. (don't wear ur gi cos it's needed for sunday's grading)

exco elections - i know we said we'll upload the form and information up by tonight, but due to some delays, the relevant information will be uploaded by sunday night, after grading. do check the blog then for the job descriptions and application form. meanwhile, take some time to ponder seriously as to whether you want to run for the hctkd exco 08/09.

J2s:

Those coming for self defence (the actual thing) on saturday, attire is track pants and tkd shirt (don't wear gi - grading the next day).

J1s AND J2s:

Sunday, 6th april - GRADING. bring full gi, belt, pen, white t-shirt (for girls), neat hair and no accessories like ear studs, colourful hair accessories etc. meet at toa payoh MRT station at 0800 or toa payoh sports hall at 830 if you're going there yourself. GUARDS for J2s (esp groin guards for guys.)

Tuesday, 8th april - pattern competition training, celestine (our imba zai coach) is coming down to teach. meet at 1500 outside tkd room for all involved in the competition. J1s who want to go for the competition come down, we'll figure something out. attire: track pants and shirt (again, don't wear ur gi pants unless you are able to wash it by the next day for training. )

Wednesday, 9th april - normal training. FULL GI and WHITE t-shirt inside for girls. i emphasize this as we notice that there is an increasing number of people not wearing proper attire - i.e. full gi or white shirts inside the gi. the tkd shirt is not white, neither is it a gi. i know it's pretty, but wear it out of formal training please. thanks.

alright that's all for now. take note of all the dates, timings and attire and see you there!

remember to practise your patterns AND basic kicks for grading!

Labels: Events

New aim for hctkd:

Gaobean says that by the time he returns (March), he wants to see beautiful 360s from us all. All. Otherwise, he will zham.

So. This should be incentive enough for self training :D. We're training at the tkd room every weekday from 2-3pm onward (except for tomorrow, since there's X-country), so come down, grab mats and practice. Actually perhaps better to contact me first, 92380098, since there are days we might be using the Room Under Audi for pattern practice. You can come along and correct your 360 in the pretty mirror if you want.

Love,
Chreees.

Ps. I love you 17 days and counting (Go go pattern teams!)

Pps. J1 orientation's on Wednesday, 20th Feb. Next proper training's on Wednesday, 28th Feb. Will update soon!

Labels: Events, Trainings