Taekwondo Martial Arts Basics : Five Basic Taekwondo Poses

Learn how to do the five basic poses in Taekwondo in this free martial arts video series from Taekwondo Master Instructor Sid Nelson.

Expert: Sid Nelson
Contact: www.tkdamerica.com
Bio: Master instructor, 7th Degree Black Belt Mr. Sid Nelson has been actively involved in martial arts for over 30 years. Mr.
Filmmaker: treg ward

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• punch
• Taekwondo
• kick
• block
• self-defense
• instruction
• martial-arts

[MasterNinja1990]

I wish he was my teacher...

[RDraGon2179]

@StellaOctangula Most of my comments I did a year ago but now I am a instructor and I can tell you if you have 4 and 5 yr olds students then you know what he means about rolling around on the floor.

[RDraGon2179]

@TKDMario08 I was meaning we do the ITF tuls but no we are not ITF. Imitators we are not. We don't do sine wave neither. Some organizations may do sine wave and they are not part of ITF either. Our doboks have that karate look to it ( jacket) but we wear the ranks and our strips correctly. And it doesn't matter if we write it Taekwondo, Taekwon-do, or Tae kwon do it is still the way of the hand and foot unlike WTF which is all feet.

[TKDMario08]

@RDraGon2179 ...I am ITF and this is not ITF. A lot of "imitator" styles claim they are ITF or they train ITF, however, it is all just that, "imitators". Also just because someone claims they train General Choi's style (Chang-Hun) does not mean they are ITF either. Unless you wear the ITF dobok (the Taekwon-Do tree on back of the jacket and ITF initials on outside of the pant legs near the knee), you are not ITF! ITF also spells Taekwondo with hyphen between the N and D, "Taekwon-Do".

[180Patrick360]

Very poor instructional quality.

[RDraGon2179]

ITF and yes it is in america. I am part of the this orginazation. Some people may understand it better as postion and not a stance since it is not really a fighting stance like backstance or frontstance.

[RDraGon2179]

This is Sid Nelson, head instructor of Taekwondo America. He is just showing how to keep students at attention and alert.

[Maffy0Bear]

What i want to know is, what are the instructions he is talking about? Is it Floating text that just appears infront of you?

Normaly we just have InstrucTORS...

[jrmassey1986]

This has to be WTF or just America, and i completely agree in the UK we call them stances and not position

[StellaOctangula]

'Listening Position prevents students from lying on the ground' ?!?

This guy is insane. I do now know how to show my readyness and confidence though...

What kind of Tkd is this anyway? I've never heard anyone call a Stance a 'Position', might just be my ITF teaching though =)