This is work-in-progress. Below is attempted to outline and diagram the Pyung Ahn forms practiced at Western Michigan Tae Kwon Do, Kalamazoo Chapter.
Introduction
About this page, please take note that...
Purpose
These outlines are not intended for independent study. A certain familiarity with each of the forms is assumed. Both the outlines and their diagrams are stripped to essentials. Nuance is utterly lacking therein. Their purpose is merely as an ex-post-facto memory aid. They are fit only for review by enrolled students who have gone on to higher levels so that they may stay refreashed.
Outline defaults
I have broken down the elements of motion as follows:
Key elements
- Left and right are not distinguised except where confusion is likely.
- One whole sentense describes one whole movement, ending with a full stop (".").
- Continuation is marked by ellipsis ("...") with...
- ...next sub-movement following in a sub-bullet.
- Turns flow from stance of prior bullet into stance of next (sub-)bullet.
- Strikes and blocks are outward (not inward).
- Sequential elements for same hand or foot are joined by a comma (",").
- Simultaneous elements are joined by an ampersand ("&").
- The lead (foremost) hand or foot will be listed first.
Default conditions
Unless otherwise noted, assume the following:
- Strikes and blocks are outward (not inward).
- Punches and strikes are mid-range (not high or low).
- Punches and strikes employ hand on same side as lead foot (not reversed).
Diagram schemata
The diagrams are not to scale. Their purpose is schematic. The tipped-over H has been disected and layed out to represent time...not space...as described below.
Key elements
- Letters correlate each diagram to its outline.
- Solid lines show physical travel: steps and turns.
- Dashed lines show connectedness in time: end of one branch leading to start of another.
- Retraced paths, which normally lay atop one another, instead display as if alongside (because I can’t show 3D...yet).
- Loops show sequence and direction of each turn, pivot, etc.
Default conditions
- Paired diagrams are duplicates, separately highlighted: 1st & 2nd halves.
- Starting position is center bottom, facing up.
