Taekwondo Follow Along Class - White Belt - Class #4

In this class, you will do a TKD warm up, and then work on Self Defense #1 and #2. Finish up with a pivot practice, leg conditioning, and deep stretching.

Warm Up - 00:20
Self Defense 1 - 5:56
Self Defense 2 - 13:18
Pivot Practice - 21:32
Conditioning - 25:13
Cool Down - 28:48

[ynrnervy]

Thank you so much! You’re the best taekwando master ever

[hanburgundy]

Thank you, Sensei!!! These classes have been _very_ effective, so far. I'm on my third day of training - day 1 I did lessons 1 and 2 back to back, day 2 I did lessons 2 and 3 back to back, and today I did lesson 3 this morning and lessons 1 and 4 tonight; I know, I'm pushing my body pretty hard, especially in addition to my job, but I'm enjoying the challenge and the increase in athleticism is already palpable.
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Day 3 - Learned a lot this lesson. Starting off with some cardio! My feet no longer feel awkward; now, I can move forward, backward, or off-line comfortably. Combining moves into drills is becoming a lot easier, and I'm finding that flowing between them is beginning to feel natural; I'm pushing this by adding more moves (offense and defense) in succession. The Self Defense drills taught me a lot, and I've altered the grapple from the high block into two variations: the cross, like you taught, and a takedown where I pull them _past_ me while tripping them with my other leg. [If they have a belt you can grab, you can throw them and/or flip them onto their backs.]

Anything that I _could_ use a chair or other object to help balance... I'm not lol Just gonna skip the training wheels; why practice it wrong? As you said, better balance, anyways. *"Practice makes permanent."* I've been doing the standing stretch where you hold your foot behind you for a few years thanks to yoga, and I tend to combine it with touching my toes; I like to hold the knee on my standing leg and really get the leg I'm holding up, get my body flat and get a good stretch - it wasn't until I was doing it tonight during this lesson that I realized something: *I've been training roundhouse kicks with this stretch.* Sure enough, I let go of my foot and voila, I'm in the stance ready for a roundhouse; this time, with my leg much higher and my body in a straight line. A lot of this stuff is becoming intuitive.

Still no full splits, but getting deeper. I thought about Jayden Smith in the Karate Kid reboot in how he practiced his splits, so I've stopped using my hands at all and am just letting gravity help push my hips towards the ground. I've also come to the realization that I'm more comfortable as a southpaw; I never would have thought that, as I do everything else in life right-handed, but there it is. Switching stances feels good, and I'm enjoying the fact that I'm working on improving my ambidexterity.

*bow*

[ArAdAn]

I love your classes. You are by far the best sensei I have ever had. In just these few classes I’ve have I have learned plenty and cannot wait for class 5 Tomorrow! Keep up the GREAT work!

[aideneksteen]

Thank you for this awesome Taekwondo series. Me and my buddy love following this tutorial. We were worried it had ended and are super stoked to carry on kicking ass with this class.

[urscharlesdaviddelfin]

This is my 4th day and i am new here i want to practice this because i want to defend myself thankyou my quaring may not be bored with ur taekwondo teaching lesson

[notboyslammer]

Black belt testing rn and this is a life saver.

[khaoulachami]

The best class for beginners ive found so far.thank you so much for your detailed explanations.
Keep it up.please keep uploading classes

[esthermaina]

Hey am from Kenya and my son follow the training every day ❤

[rabuortindi]

thank u from the past few classes i do know so much no one will be messing with me now

[payton_Gabriel]

i am lurning alot and my bully tryed to beat me up agan and i blocked one of his punches and snap kicked hin in the FACE!

[PriyalTheTopper]

complete day 4 still going strong after a mental breakdown this morning, round house kick is sort of difficult for me but i will earn myself, i learnt a lot today thank you sensei❤‍🔥

[danroars]

Teacher Adam: Warm ups
Me: I'm dying😂

It's because I'm asthmatic so I'm physically weak, but as I continue taking these classes, I definitely feel stronger💪😎

Thanks so much Sensei, God bless you 🥰👌✨

[ilyasshaikh]

Very nice . Keep it up. I like the way you teaches. You are the best teacher

[alejandrobaraquiel]

Ive learned so much from this instructor!!!

[MarDoesBoxing]

Thanks for helping me out I've been following you're classes for a week learning everything.

[bogusboys]

ooh! another Idea! let's say the opponent throws a kick, and you use the low block to counter it.Yes, you said it would be good to do a snap kick after, but the also will leave a lot of power in the hand that you didn't use for the low block, meaning you could do a fierce uppercut as another counter. Again, this might be a bad Idea, but I'm just throwing out ideas

[amulyaravi]

Awesome workouts...we want to see more moves..Thank you for explaining every move..Great
Work Keep Going..

[kingscorpzy]

Hey thank you very much for the training, I’m actually improving but I’m still not close to doing splits

[sierralvx]

I can tell just how experienced you are as a teacher, you have so much good feedback even when you can't see what we're doing! You definitely deserve your black belt! 😉
Just the annoying thing is doing those pivots and stance switches right really depends on your floor and feet. You must have a slick floor and dry feet because I was trying to do this on tile with sweaty feet and I could barely move 😅 I tried anyway!

[fazelhadiakbari]

i love your videos my kid learned a lot because he's been getting bullied since.