Affiliated to TSA Taekwon-Do South Africa
1. Camp 2010
Try not to miss it!
Always a highlight of the year.
Date: 13- 15 August 2010
Venue: Greystoke, Klein Paradys bird reserve, Parys ( on the Vaal River)
Cost: R770 pp (Including accom, food,training & activities)
2. Gauteng Open championships
Date: Saturday 4 September 2010
Venue: Rivonia, Sandton more to follow.
Cost:: To be confirmed
Events: Sparring & Patterns
1. Imperial British Open 9&10 October
Venue: Reading,England
2. Breaking & Special Techniques tournament.
Date: 13 November ‘10
Venue: Cresta Dojang
Hosin Sul (Self defence)
The Magua Taekwon-Do clubs are renowned for this aspect of training because their hosin Sul (Self defence) syllabus is highly refined and complete. Being one of the best and most complete in the world.
The students striking self defence is built throughout all of the other aspects of the art and the grabs, grapples etc are focused on in the Hosin Sul section. The defence manoeuvres are for street and danger purposes only and focus on causing the opponent to voluntarily or involuntarily holt the attack.
We teach many moves that would be completely illegal in even No hold barred or ‘no rules’ competitions. Those competitions would mainly use grappling techniques to reverse holds etc. That is a great sport but takes too long under real nasty situations. We do also learn various grappling techniques that are useful and also learn to defend against them.
Our syllabus includes, defending from the ground, against a wall, being strangled etc, etc............
Each belt level will have various defences to consistently practice. Self defence seminars are also held through out the year and vary from novice to advanced including against weapons.
While learning self defence the most important tool the brain is conditioned and given knowledge about, fear response, adrenal dump, visual cues for imminent attack and situational awareness etc
The children learn hosin sul (self defence) through fun wrestling and other games in their classes. We are careful in our classes not to impart potentially lethal techniques to immature minds. Some people might teach kids submission techniques, but we believe that is irresponsible, and could cause unnecessary damage to other kids. A child is not mature enough to strangle out another kid at school because they might not stop because they didn’t feel a tap out like in their class etc.
The adults and children will build a solid self defence platform and most importantly cultivate confidence.