Taegeuk Yi Jang Companion
Mat Manual companion guide to "Taegeuk Yi Jang, Taken Apart." Print it. The full 18-movement chart with checkboxes, chapter-by-chapter learning for the form's five chapters, schools for the kick-punch landing, the paire…
| Art | Taekwondo |
|---|---|
| Family | Korean Arts |
| Level | beginner |
| Format | deep-dive |
| Topics | forms, fundamentals, training-plans |
Mat Manual companion guide to "Taegeuk Yi Jang, Taken Apart." Print it. The full 18-movement chart with checkboxes, chapter-by-chapter learning for the form's five chapters, schools for the kick-punch landing, the paired blocks, and the long turn, Il Jang cross-references printed where the forms share material, a fault table, a four-week practice plan, and a grading-standard self-test.
Name: ______________________________ School: ______________________________ Belt: ______________ Instructor's count standard confirmed: ☐ Block start: ______________
BEFORE ANYTHING: SAFETY AND AGREEMENTS ☐ Forms are performed on a clear, even floor with space for the full pattern in every direction. Students check the space before the ready stance, every run. ☐ Front kick work in this book is performed into the air or onto a held pad at the height and contact the holder agrees to. No kick in this book is thrown at a partner's body. ☐ Turn and balance work stops for dizziness or unsteadiness. The student sits out turning drills for the day; the chart records it without penalty. ☐ No partner drill in this book involves contact. Partner jobs are marking, checking, holding pads, and calling, and partners keep clear of the performer's pattern lines. ☐ Grading-condition runs (silent, full standard) are performed fresh, never as the last run of an exhausting session, because the standard being measured is the form, not fatigue. ☐ A student who is ill, hurt, or returning from injury tells the instructor before class; chapter work adapts and full runs wait.
Part 1: The Specification
Every drill in this book is measured against this page. Your instructor's standard governs where it differs; the structure does not change.
| Element | The specification |
|---|---|
| Form | Taegeuk Yi Jang, second of the Taegeuk series; trigram Tae, the lake |
| Count | 18 movements on the standard Kukkiwon count; school counts vary around the kick-punch pairs, and your instructor's count is your standard |
| Pattern | Three-line pattern shared by the Taegeuk series: up the center, across, back, across, home; begins and ends facing the start direction |
| Stances | Walking stance (ap seogi) and front stance (ap kubi); their distinction remains the form's central examination |
| Hand techniques carried over | Low block (arae makgi), middle punch (momtong jireugi), inside body block (momtong an makgi) |
| Hand techniques new in this form | High block (eolgul makgi), high punch (eolgul jireugi) |
| Kick | Front kick (ap chagi), five times, each landing forward into a punch |
| Kihap | On the final movement, number 18, on the standard count |
| Full movement chart | Mark each movement ☐ clean, S (shaky), or L (lost) after every full run |
| # | Direction and action | Stance | Technique | Check |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Turn left 90°, step forward | Walking stance | Low block (arae makgi) | ☐ |
| 2 | Step forward | Front stance | Middle punch (momtong jireugi) | ☐ |
| 3 | Turn right 180°, step forward | Walking stance | Low block | ☐ |
| 4 | Step forward | Front stance | Middle punch | ☐ |
| 5 | Turn left 90°, step forward | Walking stance | Inside body block (momtong an makgi) | ☐ |
| 6 | Step forward | Walking stance | Inside body block | ☐ |
| 7 | Turn left 90°, step forward | Walking stance | Low block | ☐ |
| 8 | Front kick, land forward | Front stance | Front kick (ap chagi), then high punch (eolgul jireugi) | ☐ |
| 9 | Turn right 180°, step forward | Walking stance | Low block | ☐ |
| 10 | Front kick, land forward | Front stance | Front kick, then high punch | ☐ |
| 11 | Turn left 90°, step forward | Walking stance | High block (eolgul makgi) | ☐ |
| 12 | Step forward | Walking stance | High block | ☐ |
| 13 | Turn left 270°, step forward | Walking stance | Inside body block | ☐ |
| 14 | Turn right 180°, step forward | Walking stance | Inside body block | ☐ |
| 15 | Turn left 90°, step forward | Walking stance | Low block | ☐ |
| 16 | Front kick, land forward | Walking stance | Front kick, then middle punch | ☐ |
| 17 | Front kick, land forward | Walking stance | Front kick, then middle punch | ☐ |
| 18 | Front kick, land forward | Walking stance | Front kick, then middle punch with kihap | ☐ |
Count honesty. Some schools count each kick and its punch as two movements, and some describe the middle turns with different geometry. The material does not vary: the same lines, techniques, kicks, and final direction home. Learn your instructor's numbering; this chart's structure is the map, not a ruling against your school.
The Il Jang rule for this book. Where a fault belongs to material the two forms share, the correction is sent back to the first form's drills and named as such. Yi Jang time is spent on Yi Jang's new material and on the shared material at its new standard, not on relearning the first form badly inside the second.
Taegeuk Yi Jang Companion
Mat Manual companion guide to "Taegeuk Yi Jang, Taken Apart." Print it. The full 18-movement chart with checkboxes, chapter-by-chapter learning for the form's five chapters, schools for the kick-punch landing, the paired blocks, and the long turn, Il Jang cross-references printed where the forms share material, a fault table, a four-week practice plan, and a grading-standard self-test.
What's Inside
- Part 1: The Specification
- Part 2: The Diagnostic Set (Run First)
- Part 3: Chapter Learning — The Opening (Movements 1–4)
- Part 4: Chapter Learning — Inside Blocks and the First Kick (Movements 5–8)
- Part 5: Chapter Learning — The Mirror Kick and the High Blocks (Movements 9–12)
- Part 6: Chapter Learning — The Long Turn (Movements 13–14)
- …and 22 more sections
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