{"id":1936,"date":"2017-05-29T05:00:08","date_gmt":"2017-05-28T21:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ywo.id.au\/blog\/?p=1936"},"modified":"2025-02-23T21:27:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T13:27:27","slug":"may-2017-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/2017\/05\/29\/may-2017-action\/","title":{"rendered":"May 2017 action"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this month, Master Vernon Low was in Perth to teach senior students and black belt members. Master Low spends considerable time and effort on his students, analysing their Tae Kwon Do techniques and going over improvements in detail. In the photographs below, he goes through side kick breaking with two senior students preparing for their black belt grading examination.<\/p>\n

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FTKD side kick instruction, May 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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FTKD side kick break, May 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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FTKD side kick break, May 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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FTKD instruction, May 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On this particular visit, Master Low covered a range of blocking techniques in a special training session for black belt members and instructors. This forms part of the ongoing training that members undergo as they progress through the black belt ranks (1st Dan, 2nd Dan, and so on).<\/p>\n

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FTKD blocking drill, May 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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FTKD blocking instruction, May 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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FTKD blocking drill, May 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I shot these photographs with my standard kit for low-light action: a Nikkor AF 85 mm f\/1.4 lens mounted on a Nikon D700 body.\u00a0In terms of technology, this is an old set of equipment\u2014the body was released 10 years ago, and the lens goes back even further\u2014but I find that this combination is still a very capable one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earlier this month, Master Vernon Low was in Perth to teach senior students and black belt members. Master Low spends considerable time and effort on his students, analysing their Tae Kwon Do techniques and going over improvements in detail. In the photographs below, he goes through side kick breaking with two senior students preparing for… Continue reading May 2017 action<\/span> →<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[27,278,70,222,162,260,277],"class_list":["post-1936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-martial-arts","tag-breaking-action","tag-ftkd","tag-martial-arts","tag-nikkor-af-85-1-4","tag-nikon-d700","tag-tkd","tag-vernon-low"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4144,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936\/revisions\/4144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}