Count Your Form Moves

What are you thinking about when you are doing your form? Some of you are trying to remember the next move and some of you are thinking about the quality of the next move.

After you first learn your form, try counting the moves. It will help you learn/remember where the Ki-Haps are, get your sequencing down, and know if you are doing the correct number of moves. If you get to the end and you have too many moves, you know that you added something and vice versa. If you learn the move number for the corners, it will help you pin point where you made a mistake before getting all the way to the end. That becomes very important in black belt forms since the lowest number of moves is 81 for the 1st degree form.

Written by: Stan Shields, Chief Instructor, Top Ten Competitor almost every year since 1998, 2008 Top Ten finisher in forms, sparring and weapons, 2007 State Champ in all five categories, 1999 Sparring World Champion and 2006 XMA Weapons World Champion. Visit www.kicks4all.com for more information on ATA Family Martial Arts.