Question about TaeKwonDo?

Question

I attended my first white belt Taekwondo lesson this week. I learned some of the basic stances. I forget what each is called and would like to know so I can practice. I need the names of what it is called when you:

bow after you are in "jury-ut" (forgive the spelling)

go into a ready stance (bring fists up to face, step left, and bring fists down to hips)

return to "jury-ut", bow, and say 'thank you sir'

I appreciate it - thank you.

Answer 1

You must be in the Midwest. Seems like all the ATA school American teachers there mispronounce the terms because they've never seen them written, and they are so many generations removed from Son Duk Song that there aren't that many still teaching who even trained with the grandmaster. They all say something for "attention" that sounds like "Cheeriyut." The Korean word for "attention" is charyo. You will also hear them say "Kinee" for bow. The Korean word is kyungnae. The command to stand ready in parallell stance at the start of a form is "chunbee." This they seem to be able to pronounce if they know it. I'd suggest you not embarass them by correcting their Korean, but if you become a teacher some day hopefuly you'll either teach in English or learn to use the proper Korean terms correctly. You can see from the above posts how many different ways Americans butcher the Korean. I've had the advantage of being an Army linguist trained at Defense Language Institute and I trained at the KukKiWon while living in Korea. Not everyone is so lucky.

So:
The proper sequence is Charyo! (attention with feet together at the heels and hands flat alongside you body, eyes front)
Kyongnae! (bow at the waist with eyes forward, do not look down)
Chunbee! (Ready, slide your left foot to the side into parallel stance, shoulder width, don't lock your knees, as you slide, bring your arms in front of body, hands clenched in fists forming an X with your palms toward you and then bring your hands down in a double down block, elbows slightly curved, fists away from the front of your body and in front of your short ribs)
Shijak (Begin). Perform your pattern in the sequence taught and when you execute the final technique of the form it will generally be with a yell (kihap).
Remain in position until given the command to face front "Apuro." Usually sonds like "paro." At which you face front and return to parallel ready stance.
Then Charyo! (attention with feet together and hands flat to the side of your body, and Kyungnae (bow).

The link below has the Korean commands and technique names spelled out for easy pronounciation if you want to learn them, whichI think makes it a more fun experience.

Good luck with your training.

Answer 2

These are the basic stances I learned when i was in white belt.. (currently red now)

Forward stance - front leg bent, rear leg straight, shoulders straight, eyes fixed front, toes pointing forward

Back stance - both legs bent (rear leg bent more), shoulders facing side, eyes fixed forward, toes forming an "L" postion

Horse-back Riding Stance - feet apart, toes pointing diagonally outward, shoulders facing front, eyes fixed forward

Ready stance - For forms: feet apart, fists brought together in front of the stomach, no extra movements For sparring: fists up infront of chest, body in a Back stance position.

Here are the commands for Taekwondo:
Charyeot - Attention
Kyeongre - Bow
Joonbi - Ready
Shijak - Start

^_^ Hope it helps..

Answer 3

Chyr-ut- attention
Kun-ye- bow
Jun-be- redy position- at my school this means feet paallel and sholder width apart and hands in fists a lilltel below belt level a
fist apart this might be "bring fists up to face, step left, and bring fists down to hips"
barro- retun to ready position- then we say Chyr-ut
i dont know how to say thank you
keep going its really fun an great excersice

Answer 4

Char-yeot = attention
Kong-gye = bow
jom-bi = ready (bring fists up to face, step left, and bring fists down to hips)
xi-zhe = begins
different countries will have different ways on this one...a mixture of english and certain Korean commands for example.
Happy training~!!!

Answer 5

I'm in Tang Soo Do and it's very similar to Tae Kwon Do so the commands should be similar

Char Yet: come to attention
Kyung yet: Bow
Ba Row: return to ready motion
Jhoon be Jaseh: ready stance (not fighting stance, but ready for commands)
Ja Yu Dae Ryun: that's about as close to "fighting stance" as I know of, but you may need to ask your instructor
Cahm Sahm Ne Da: thank you sir (I can't quite remember the correct spelling of it.)

I hope this'll helps.

Answer 6

I think what your referring to is a horse back stance
Feet are double width apart you look like your riding a horse

Answer 7

Here's a site with some TKD terminology
http://www.uky.edu/StudentOrgs/TKD/terminology/term.pdf#search='tae%20kwon%20do%20terminology'

Answer 8

not sure bout da bowing but ready stance i believe is somethin like chombe (ch pronounced like that in "cheese" and the end "e" is also pronounced like the e in "keg") i might be goin for my class later on or tomorrow so il try to get back to you.

Answer 9

This is a great website!It has alot of Korean Taekwondo terms.
http://www.martialartsresource.com/korean/TKD.list.htm

Answer 10

Depends on your club organisation, there are different interpretations; ITF WTF

Best place check on line at www.ukta.com and check under schools, some of the web site for the schools have Korean instructions