Black Belt Tae Kwon Do the Ultimate Reference Guide to the World's Most Popular Black Belt Martial Art
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Facts on File
- Publish date: 06/01/2000
Description:
Tae Kwon Do is currently practiced in more than 163 countries by more than forty million students of the art. It made its debut as an official Olympic sport at the Sydney games in 2000. The authors of Tae Kwon Do, the definitive and best-selling reference to the sport, have created a follow-up guide designed expressly to meet the needs of students who have mastered the basics and come up through the ranks of the lower-level belts. Following the format of its predecessor, Black Belt Tae Kwon Do combines a complete explanation of the physical aspects of the martial art with a full description of the philosophical elements of its training.
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Coverage includes:
-- Practice, warm-up, and advanced techniques and forms
-- Sparring strategies and techniques
-- Self-defense and breaking techniques
Accompanying the text are:
-- A special section on successfully opening and running your own Tae Kwon Do school
-- More than 700 photographs that illustrate each step and motion students must learn
-- Extensive appendixes that cover official rules of competition, weight classes, governing bodies, and international organizations and associations
-- Two glossaries, English to Korean and Korean to English.
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