Are you searching for Taekwondo 77478? Tiger-Rock Martial Arts of Sugar Land’s Taekwondo Scool offers many classes every week. Classes are offered between 10:30 am and 8:30 pm Monday – Thursday, 4-7 pm Fridays, and 8 am to 1 pm Saturdays. No classes are offered Sundays.
Call us today at (281) 491-4949 to learn more about enrollment and scheduling!
Taekwondo 77478 Programs Offered
We offer 4 different Taekwondo programs at our Sugar Land dojo:
Kids as young as 4 can enroll in Taekwondo 77478 classes!
The Tiger-Cub Program offers 30-minute classes for kids aged 4-6. These classes focus on symmetrical movement, balance, and coordination.
Our Junior Program offers 40-45 minute classes for kids aged 6-10. These classes will build your child’s self-esteem, self-confidence, and self-control.
Speed and agility drills including striking, blocking, and sparring drills will help your child channel positive energy, learn real-world self-defense, and participate in anti-bullying education.
Thirdly, our Youth Program offers 40-45 minute classes for teens aged 11-15. These classes focus on providing positive influence, building strong character, growing leadership skills, the benefits of functional fitness training, and the importance of responsible citizenship as well as speed, agility, striking, blocking, and sparring drills.
And finally, anyone aged 16 or above can participate in our adult martial arts training programs including Taekwondo, Kickboxing, and self-defense specific classes.
What Is Taekwondo?
Taekwondo is a martial art developed in Korea. Borrowing from ancient Korean, Chinese, and Japanese traditions, values, and fighting styles, it places a heavy emphasis on agility.
Taekwondo values agility, strength, respect, self-discipline, perseverance, and self-control. These tenets are ingrained in every exercise and drill in every class. Many such drills include kicking, striking, blocking, and speed drills as well as the learning and practice of forms.
The difficulty of the techniques and forms learned is dependent upon your rank. Your belt color determines your rank. You begin as a white belt and with hard work you can earn your way to a black belt.
Equipment And Drills
With each increase in rank, the difficulty of techniques and forms will increase.
You may also use different equipment. Some equipment you may use includes target paddles, padded shields, punching bags, plastic boards, or wooden boards.
Sparring gear includes feet guards and padded gloves.
You may also have opportunities to practice with live opponents in drills such as sparring drills.
Sparring is a drill during which you apply the techniques you have learned in real-time as you battle a live opponent in an attempt to score points. The opponents reset after each point is earned.
You will wear protective gear while sparring. This gear includes elbow and knee pads; feet, shin, and forearm guards; padded gloves; headgear; and a mouthguard.
Forms are a pre-determined set of techniques and movements that flow from one to the next in a mock fight against one or more opponents. The purpose of forms is to apply techniques learned and to learn how to flow between the individual moves.
Other drills will include repeated movement used to practice a technique and then to add power behind that same technique. These drills will often begin without equipment and will likely involve standing in place or crossing the room performing the same movement in quick succession.
You will practice adding power to these techniques using equipment such as target paddles, padded shields, or punching bags. Later, some techniques will allow you the opportunity to break plastic or wooden boards.
Benefits of Taekwondo
There are many benefits to regularly attending Taekwondo 77478 classes, including:
- Better Cardiovascular Health
- Boost Self-Confidence
- Build Physical Strength and Stamina
- Build Up Discipline
- Increase Flexibility
- Improve Coordination and Balance
- Improve Physical Fitness
- Reduce Stress
How Is It Different From Karate?
Karate and Taekwondo both pull from ancient Japanese traditions and fighting styles. Because of this, they have many similarities. Some similarities include the use of a dojo, similar uniforms, and pre-choreographed movement drills known as forms or katas. However, there are two main differences between the two martial arts.
Karate translates from Japanese to mean “empty hand.”
Firstly, when martial artists who practice Taekwondo spar, their strikes and blocks make contact with their opponent. Martial artists who practice Karate often do not.
The second key difference comes from the word Karate itself. Karate translates from Japanese to mean empty hand. This influences the martial art in two ways – an emphasis on open-handed techniques and a lack of weapons.
Martial artists who practice Taekwondo often learn one or more of these weapons: swords like katanas, bo staffs, fans, and kamas.
Other Classes Offered
Tiger Rock Martial Arts of Sugar Land offers 3 main types of classes at our Sugar Land dojo – Taekwondo, Kickboxing, and Self-Defense.
All 3 class types are taught by local self-defense experts and will teach you important self-defense related techniques. However, the classes within our Self-Defense School are specifically focused on real-world skills and techniques you can use to keep yourself safe in your day-to-day life. This is different from our more drill and practice focused Taekwondo and Kickboxing classes.
Some Things You Will Learn
You will learn how to properly form and use various strikes and blocks using a variety of body parts.
One of the earliest and most important things you will learn is how to make a safe and effective fist. This fist will then be used to learn a variety of blocks, punches, and other strikes, including a hammer fist.
You will learn the weak points on your body and how to both protect them and use them against potential attackers. These areas often include the eyes, nose, throat, solar plexus, and groin among others.
You may focus on improving your situational awareness, reaction speed, and any weaknesses you come across in your training such as a weaker non-dominant arm. You may also learn how to safely escape from holds and locks such as a wrist grab or tackle.
Taekwondo 77478
Challenge yourself and learn something new today to feel safer, healthier, and more confident tomorrow. Call our Sugar Land location at (281) 491-4949 for more information on class schedules, enrollment, and affordability.
Look no further than Tiger-Rock Martial Arts of Sugar Land for your Taekwondo 77478 classes.
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