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The Chon-Ji Workbook

Mat Manual companion guide to "Chon-Ji, Taken Apart." Print it. The article takes the pattern apart. This book puts it into your body: the full 19-movement chunk map with the two halves side by side, floor-diagram drill…

Key Facts
ArtTaekwondo
FamilyKorean Arts
Levelbeginner
Formatdeep-dive
Topicsforms, fundamentals, training-plans
PreviewThe opening of the guide

Mat Manual companion guide to "Chon-Ji, Taken Apart." Print it. The article takes the pattern apart. This book puts it into your body: the full 19-movement chunk map with the two halves side by side, floor-diagram drills that teach the cross as facings instead of a list, stance fault tables with their corrections, terminology and meaning study cards, and a self-check scorecard that grades your run the way a panel grades it.

Name: ______________________________ Gym: ______________________________ Coach: ______________________________ Grade: ______________ Date started the pattern: ______________

BEFORE ANYTHING: HOW THIS BOOK IS USED ☐ Chon-Ji has 19 movements, three techniques, and two stances. Nothing in this book adds a technique to it. If a drill seems to be teaching a fourth technique, it is a fault drill, and it says so. ☐ The halves are learned in the book's order: the diagram first, the halves separately, the closing three on their own, then the whole. ☐ Your instructor's reading of any movement outranks this book. Note differences in Part 26's margins rather than practising two patterns. ☐ The pattern is performed on sine wave. The checks in this book assume the wave; where a fault is really a wave fault, the book sends you to the Sine Wave Workbook rather than fixing it twice.

Part 1: The Pattern on One Page

The whole pattern, as data. Everything else in this book is an expansion of one row of this card.

Part 1: The Pattern on One Page
ItemThe fact
NameChon-Ji, "heaven and earth"; also Lake Chon-Ji on Mount Paektu
Place in the setFirst of the 24 Chang Hon tul
Movements19
Ready stanceParallel ready stance
DiagramA cross (plus sign): out along each arm in turn
TechniquesLow block, middle punch, middle block with the inner forearm
StancesWalking stance, L-stance
KihapOne, on movement 17
Typical grade9th gup
StructurePart one: movements 1–8, low block half. Part two: movements 9–19, L-stance half, ending with three closing punches
The Companion Guide

The Chon-Ji Workbook

Mat Manual companion guide to "Chon-Ji, Taken Apart." Print it. The article takes the pattern apart. This book puts it into your body: the full 19-movement chunk map with the two halves side by side, floor-diagram drills that teach the cross as facings instead of a list, stance fault tables with their corrections, terminology and meaning study cards, and a self-check scorecard that grades your run the way a panel grades it.

Taekwondobeginnerdeep-diveforms, fundamentals, training-plans

What's Inside

  • Part 1: The Pattern on One Page
  • Part 2: The Full Map
  • Part 3: The Cross — Learn the Diagram as Facings
  • Part 4: The Chunk Map
  • Part 5: Part One — The Low Block
  • Part 6: Part One — The Middle Punch
  • …and 22 more sections
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