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What do your demo team do? we just do some simple techniques and then forms and breaking... but some people dress up and have music and with props and all that.. so what you do?
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We have demonstrations of taekwondo, hapkido and kumdo. In our taekwondo, we have forms, usually several sets, some done by adult black belts, some done by intermediate students of varying ages, and a part of the demonstration with the kiddies. Then we demonstrate techniques, have breaking, generally high belts and masters, and then a few rounds of sparring; WTF full contact and in hogu. For our taekwondo and hapkido, we have a special, red, white, and blue demo team dobok. For kumdo, we stick with the indigo dobok. Daniel
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My school doesn't have a demo team when we do demostrations everyone in the school is allowed to particpate. We do board breaks, forms, basic drills, sometimes sparring.
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Our demo team starts of by doing forms. Then they move into breaking techniques. Then we have demonstrations of full contact sparring. Next we have some high belts do weapon and kicking demonstrations. To end the program our master does a demonstration.
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Taekwonrobics and breaking mostly.
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ours have a special black sleavless uniform, concentrate on forms in perfect time, breaking, the more 'creative' kicks, and generally just try and put on a show Better than a demo I saw from another club recently, they did a few basic kicks, killed koryo, and then a bit of sub-standard one step sparring. Not brilliant for fourth dan bb's tracey xxx
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Basically every demo I've ever been a part of, is a fast paced snapshot look at our program, from a mini class, to forms/sparring/onestep performances, breaking, and self defense. We always tried to get all rank levels involved, and all skill levels. Some people argue against that, but I believe if all you show off is 'great black belts', that you'll drive off potential signups, who might see a black belt performing and figure, "I can't possibly do that!! That school ain't the place for me because I'm _______ (Not athletic, not coordinated, too fat, too skinny, too wimpy, too young, too old, too untalented, etc)" The best TKD demonstration shows that Taekwondo is an art that anyone can learn with a little effort, and shows that EVERYONE starts off not knowing a bloody thing and builds from that point, on upward, at their own pace. A good demo flows, and is also exciting to watch. It should also showcase the discipline of the martial arts, with the patience also, that a good school has, with building students up at their own pace. I'm not big on 'tricks' at demos. A couple for fun performed by black belts, is 'okay' as a 'highlight', but it shouldn't by any means, be the 'meat' of a good promotional demonstration.
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ranger1100ky wrote:
Some people argue against that, but I believe if all you show off is 'great black belts', that you'll drive off potential signups, who might see a black belt performing and figure, "I can't possibly do that!! That school ain't the place for me because I'm _______ (Not athletic, not coordinated, too fat, too skinny, too wimpy, too young, too old, too untalented, etc)"
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yep, the majority of our demo team are about the same age as my son (he'll be eight in about two weeks) and fairly low down in grade (around 6th kup). on open days and things like that he also encourages the regular students to join in with a snapshot of a lesson. the demo team are there as a way of saying 'it doesn't matter who you are, this is what you could achieve if you apply yourself'
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No demo team for our Dojang but we do follow, more or less, what ranger1100ky stated. We try to involve all of our students in the activities. Whether it be forms, leading exercises, announcing, breaking, or just asking why the student is in our school and why they like Tae Kwon Do. We involve as many students as we can. We demo breaking. From the little ones (with little boards of course) to full on 10 cinderblock block breaks by our Master. Breaks w/ strikes, elbows, feet. Multiple board breaks. And, if we have our Grand Master available, a show stopper 4-wine bottle break! Really a crowd pleaser! We do Self-defense techniques and one steps, 2 steps, and 3 steps. Unfortunately, we don't have any really good weapon instructors though (Pooh ) but we are looking!
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Last demonstration I did, I focused on breaking and poomsae. My single breaking techqniue was breaking sixteen marble tiles (sounded REALLY cool).
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