Super Sparring with Platinum Taekwondo – 26 Oct 2013

The last Platinum Super Sparring event for this year occurred at the weekend.  Two hours chock-a-block with sparring was on the agenda. My son and I had been looking forward to these sessions as it is our favourite Taekwondo event.

We all started off with an extensive warm up lead by Adeline which consisted of a wide range of movements e.g. over 4 different types of push ups (!), teapots and not forgetting stretching and more stretching and yes, more stretching (you can never do too much stretching I’m told). After that we put on our protective sparring gear. A few rounds with senior students got the ball rolling. Paul kicked off the mixed sparring, where we rotated around and fought more or less all opponents regardless of rank. This was awesome.

Adeline with great enthusiasm led the kids who practised different sparring technics with heaps of hard punching, kicking and blocking. After that it was time to refresh their patterns and finally to wrap it up with some fun games.

What I like the best from these sparring sessions is that you always learn a multitude of new actions and there is always something useful that you pick up. Keeping it simple and keeping your guard up even when it is you kicking is very useful advice.

Viggo and Pontus Olin