Carl Sparring Drills Counter the spins

World Champion Mr Carl van Roon is an amazing sparring coach who works on far more than the physical aspects with his athletes. This is the first of a series of coaching videos for advanced students.
In this video Mr van Roon takes athletes Riley Philips and Trent Hayden through some drills initially, then further in he starts working on particular sparring strategies.
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[@marting6037]

Fantastic masterclass - thank you fellas. A lot of info to take on-board - probably gonna need several views for any of this to stick but all good.

[@JalynCroft]

I just ran across this channel and I love it! Keep up the good work!

[@ayokay123]

I wonder why we don't see more of these analytical breakdowns on ytube. This is excellent.

[@externitiy3692]

I lost it when the coach starts giggling. 😂

[@willwilliams1974]

that is awesome

[@bossafahka2089]

I love how they showing me the techniques counter

[@Tylerthegrappler]

The five dislikes are from people who don’t understand scoring. Lol.

[@prinsfloor]

Question: I always teach my students to keep their hands in a guard position (palmok daebi makgi) during sparring. Is there a reason or benefit to keeping your hands low to the side of your body?

[@MomoFX]

There is no reason to keep it low I always jeep my hand up in a tight guard so I can blitz with my hands after throwing a few side kicks as it gets there faster

[@VanRoonMartialArts]

@@MomoFX hi team! I came across this randomly :D
Ok so one thing you notice with top TKD fighters is they often hold their hands down. What you find if you do a lot of dynamic kicking and footwork is that when you guard is held high it can throw off your balance / axis of rotation during kicks and make it more difficult to adjust the distance and timing. Having a tall posture with hands lower makes things easier. Of course there is a downside but TKD generally relies on footwork as a defensive skill rather than covering which is more secondary.
Cheers!
Carl van Roon

[@MomoFX]

@@VanRoonMartialArts thank you very much sir for the reply I asked my instructor about this question aswell and he gave me a similar answer.I agree it is that bit easier to have ur hands down .

[@twistedbliss4398]

@@VanRoonMartialArts very wise

[@SythAdv]

My teacher learnt us to keep the back hand in guard and the front one down and completly relaxed to surprise the enemy with a fast jab, but it depends on the distance

[@glyndavies4613]

Inside round

[@robertbaker3126]

The fighters keep fighting an open stance they should switch stance to close stance and throw the reverse

[@okish02]

Any punches anytime soon

[@okish02]

This is so hard to watch

[@jojolafleche158]

Taekwondo Have a realy bad habit with their no guard