Brighton Choi Kwang Do

Someone able to perform a full front split would make this shot more impressive, i can’t yet but the good thing about doing this in this confined space is you have leverage of both walls to relax into the stretch without needing to drop your full body weight onto your hamstrings as you usually do in a front split.

It’s a bit like a partner stretch but you can stay here as long as you like without your parter getting tired with the weight of your leg cutting into thier shoulder.

I’m not how long you’d want to stay in this position. There are also some less intense versions of this stretch to develop flexibility before going for the full Buffett car corridor standing split because it is a little narrow but a great stretch when you are ready for it. Someone able to do a full front split would probably have thier foot on the ceiling which would be an interesting shot

Again I’ve posted this one because visually it’s a bit of fun especially with the guy with his Xmas hamper catching us in act.

I generally try and avoid fellow travellers as much as possible while doing these, that way I find it easier to relax a little more without being to concerned what people might think, also my kids get less embarrased and might be persuaded to take a couple shots, although normally it costs me.

let me know what you think, we got some better shots on the slr camera and I’ll try and put a few up later.

Have fun
All the best

Eugene

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I’m not sure there’s any great benefit to doing a forward fold in such a small space, other than being a bit of fun when no one is watching.

You the rear wall does stop your feet slipping back and by leaning into the wall a certain amount of body weight assists the stretch and sense of lengthening through the spine.

The main point about stretching on the train is
1. It’s often dead time we don’t do much else other than read
2. on long journeys we often sit for long periods without moving so it’s a good habit to into.

There are more subtle equally benefical stretches that can be done a train, I’ve just put this one on here for a nit of fun,

More later

All the best
Eugene

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Took some pics on the train on the way to Cornwall today for a book I’ve been meaning to start for a while, the girls challenged me to get it finished and published within a month. So we’ve had a bet on it and im putting on here so I’m more accountable to get it done, some clues in the next pics to subject of the book, it might be a completely nutty idea, I don’t know, perhaps one or two people might be interested for entertainment value

There is some rhyme and reason to the idea I think, please let me know your thoughts when you see the pics.

Many thx
Eugene
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PRESS RELEASE
3 Grandparents take their Black Belts in Brighton, it’s possibly the most
diverse group of martial art students in the world.

See attached pdf for press release, please let me know if you have any
difficulty viewing it or have any questions.

Kind regards

Eugene Butcher

Tel: 01273 307 500

Oceans Wellbeing Centre,
10 – 14 High Street, Rottingdean, Brighton. East Sussex BN2 7HR

brightonchoikwangdo.co.uk

Pil Suhng!

Join us for a big day in martial arts history.

The date for your diary 10th October 2010, this will be the date of Choi
Kwang Do’s first Korean seminar, it will be a landmark event not only in
Choi Kwang Do history but also in Martial Art history. There are very few
martial artists with ability, credibility, connections and experience to
evolve a new Martial Art and then reintroduce it successfully to the people
of Korea through the original Tae Kwon Do Grandmasters and the remaining
founding founders of Korean martial arts.

These are the same grandmasters that Grandmaster Choi trained with back in
the day while he was spreading the word of Tae Kwon Do as a young Chief
Instructor in Korea and Malaysia. One of the obvious differences between
grandmaster Choi and many other grandmasters from that era is the fact
Grandmaster is still extremely physically capable as a martial artist and is
still very much progressing in terms of ability, speed, power, agility and
flexibility, while most of the original grandmasters stopped practising Tae
Kwon Do many years ago. The people of Korea have had longer than we in the western world to observe
the long term effects of Tae Kwon Do on adult students and this might
explain the fact that Tae Kwon Do has become mainly an afterschool activity
in Korea, taught to children with relatively very few adults actively
training including the instructors who actually teach the children. Korean
masters and grandmasters alike however have been amazed by Grandmasters
Choi’s energy and ability at age 67 and by the fact he is still able not
only to participate fully but that he very much continues to set the
standard for excellence in the art.

Obviously as a native Korean Grandmaster Choi is able to fully communicate
the extensive science and research behind his art in their own language and
in a way the grandmasters can fully grasp and understand and explain in
detail his research on the long term effects of traditional martial arts
training. Never before has a martial art been developed outside east and
then taken back to such an influential group of martial arts masters in a
country like Korea. Grandmaster Choi has recently been spending a lot of
his time training the Korean masters, we do not yet know to what extent Choi
Kwang Do will be embraced by other Korean grandmasters and Tae Kwon Do
schools but those who have already had the opportunity to learn from
Grandmaster Choi are welcoming the changes with open arms.

Some very influential Korean Tae Kwon Do schools and organisations have
begun the conversion process to Choi Kwang Do, nobody really knows what
knock-on effect this have on schools and organisations outside Korea as the
Tae Kwon Do masters and grandmasters obviously carry a lot of weight and
credibility throughout the world of martial arts. Many of these
grandmasters trained or tested most of the overseas instructors in the
western world either directly or indirectly. There are estimated to be 20
million Tae Kwon Do practitioners worldwide. The founding grandmasters of
Tae Kwon Do embracing the evolved art of Choi Kwang Do could well signal the
beginning of a new era in Martial Arts. Students and instructors from Brighton Choi Kwang Do will travel to the
other side of the world as we have done before to support Grandmaster Choi
and the organisation at this landmark event. Please get in touch with us at
the school if you are interested in finding out more about this once in a
lifetime event. It will only happen once and we all have a chance to play a
small part in a big day in martial arts history.

Pil Suhng!

Eugene Butcher

Brighton Choi Kwang Do
01273 307 500

brightonchoikwangdo.co.uk

P.A.C.E (Progressively Accelerating Cardiopulmonary Exertion)

Grandmaster Choi has been researching some of the latest studies on exercise and based on his findings, he has implemented an exciting new way of training into the Choi Kwang Do syllabus. Some of the latest research[i] shows that shorter, interval based exercise is much more effective than traditional ‘aerobic style exercise’ at strengthening the heart and burning fat. Short bouts of faster exercise interspersed immediately by resting stages increase the hearts maximal output and over time will strengthen the heart. Traditional longer periods of aerobic exercise such as long distance running actually trains the heart to become more efficient which it does by ‘downsizing the size of your heart and lungs’[ii]. What this actually ends up doing is robbing your heart of vital reserve capacity. If we take this idea back to our roots in nature, we would need that reserve capacity to allow us to sprint away from predators. Therefore this idea of sustained activity at a relatively constant heart rate is un-natural. Traditional longer periods of sustained aerobic exercise are also not very effective at burning fat, as your body learns to store more fat which is will use as fuel during these long bouts of exercise. By exercising for shorter periods at higher intensity your body turns to carbohydrates for fuel and it won’t store the fat. After exercise, your body will then start burning the fat, so you will effectively be burning fat while you are resting[iii]

What does this mean for our workouts?

This tells us that we should redesign our exercise regimes, so that the optimum workout for strengthening our hearts and burning fat is to challenge our hearts maximum capacity for short periods followed by recovery. Each person will have their own maximum exertion and one person might be working much harder than the other, but they might still be both challenging their hearts maximal capacity.  For the less fit or able it is important to start gradually.

How does P.A.C.E[iv] work with Choi?

There are a lot of ways we can implement P.A.C.E into Choi, the most obvious being in speed drills. Rather than going to a count of 4, we will instead work at maximum exertion for a 30 second period. This will be followed by a period of rest, to allow the heart to recover. We can then repeat this process for a period of time, let’s say 5 minutes to start with, but it could go on as long as 20 minutes, of interval based speed drill training. For each ‘exertion phase’ you can stick with the same speed drill, or change.

Patterns can be done in the same way, where you would do both sides of a four direction pattern as fast as possible and then rest. As you move up the belts, and the patterns become more intricate, this can become a real challenge to execute these patterns at maximum exertion. Again, after the exertion set, this would be followed by a period of rest, to allow the heart to recover.

We can achieve a P.A.C.E workout with pads and shield also, and we will continue to explore these in class.

How hard do I need to work?

The level of exertion required to raise the heart rate to the required level is subjective and will be different for each person. It will depend on your current level of fitness and your physical ability. Each person will have a different level that they will need to work at and you will all get to know what that is. Once you are used to P.A.C.E training you will want to work as hard as you can for that period of exertion. You should feel out of breath afterwards and find it difficult to talk, and will start to sweat. As your heart gets stronger and your maximum reserve capacity increases, you will be able to work harder and will need to challenge yourself harder next time. Every person in the choi class will be able to achieve a P.A.C.E workout.

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