andrew----31/10/2001 2:56 AM----Post Number: 1


All,

I have recently been taught Ssangsu 11 and am still digesting it and thinking it through. I think that technically this is probably the hardest pattern since Ssangsu 2.
Importantly, this is the first pattern where you do the twisting 'jumpu' with a one handed block followed by a hwaengddang-baegi.

My questin is what is the best way of executing the jumpu. (To me it seems dangerous to jump because you loose too much momentum, spped, control, and stability). Needless to say, I have been unimpressed by the jumpus perfromed by my fellow students and want to do it better.

Anyway, my initial experperimentation has been along these lines:

1. Don't jump! Do the turn with both feet firmly on terra frima. This seems most practical.
2. Low jump - fast and gives distance. The current problem has been finishing in the correct stance.
3. High jump - here I am not trying to be flashy but am concentrating on getting a good full turn in the air and landing in position, much like Ssangsu 2 and 5.

Comments from my seniors gratefully received.

Andrew

Yin----31/10/2001 8:55 AM----Post Number: 2


I think of this one as being a "similar" jump (jumpu??... oh i get it...8P)... if you felt comfortable in ssangsu 9 doing the full terra firma movement, then that is your way, if you were better at the long distance, low jump, then go right ahead... high, short jump... good for you... Since people are made in different forms, we can only do forms in different ways... but i think it's important to understand that your way may not be the exact same way as someone else's way...

Follow your flow, and your form will follow...

wow, wasn't that a bunch of gibberish.... hopefully you can understand my gist...

i think what i'm saying is, there is no single, "best" way... there is only the best way for you, and that is the way you should do it...