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In this video Richard Forde gives 3 vital tips to help you achieve all your training goals this year. Make sure you don't quit like everyone else this time of year by setting your Taekwon-Do training goals and resolutions up correctly.  So in today’s video you can expect to pick up some valuable tips to structure your goals for the new year in a much more productive way. The principles we are going to talk about today will not only help with your TKD training but can be applied to any aspect of your life.  The new year is a great opportunity to set yourself on the right path for the coming months to get closer to some of the goals you may have.   The reality is most people fail every year with the resolutions but luckily for you by the end of this video you will be able to avoid the biggest pitfalls where most people quit.  In this video we are going to tackle 3 of the most important factors which you can apply to achieve your goals for 2020 weather it is with your training or any other aspect of your life. 1st: we are going to talk about Adherence and the keys to building a new habit without quitting a few days or weeks in 2nd: We will take a look at action and how most people can 10x the effectiveness of their resolutions with this simple step 3rd: finally we will address the single biggest factor to achieving anything worthwhile - “your why”

**Full video tutorial available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXelr2_5wbM  . A systematic approach to building footwork from isolation to performance for ITF TKD Sparring.  The biggest problem we have with training footwork is leaving the practice in isolation. We must bring the footwork steps and patterns into representative environments if you ever hope to have good dodging, movement, entries and exits in sparring.  Follow us on Instagram for daily tips and exercises: https://instagram.com/tkdcoach_academ...   www.TKDCoachAcademy.com

This is a chat between TKDCoach Academy's Richie Forde and Carraig TKD's Eoin O Connor, about coaching martial arts and finding an approach which is representative, transferable and applicable to what we are preparing for.

Tips how to better handle nerves and anxiety which come with competition and fighting in combat sports.

Mr Adrian Byrne discusses the importance of discipline in Martial Arts training in order to progress towards your training goals.   Last night we had a discussion about what Discipline looks like in Taekwon-Do. Sometimes the perception is that discipline is standing in line and doing what you’re told, being a good robot! Actually, we feel it’s a much broader concept that is fundamental to achieving success in Taekwon-Do initially and has a much wider range of real life applications.   Our daily routines include turning up to class; prepared to train, properly dressed, with all our equipment, with tasks or chores completed (like homework), fuelled to train, well rested and focused on the task at hand.   In class we repeat key activities; line up, bow, warm up, stretch, practice fundamentals, touch gloves, thank our partners, tidy away our equipment, high 5 or clap at the end.   All of these are small things that are easy to do once but also easy to forget, leave out or ignore. Discipline is about doing things consistently well for a long period of time, even when; it’s hard, you don’t want to, other things are more interesting. Initially we build good habits around small things that are easily done, but when these are done consistently and we have a foundation that is solid we can build on these and aim for greater things.   Our students felt that discipline helps us be organised and calm, get more done and have better classes. Not a bad message.

Full audio from seminar at Carraig TKD including full podcast epsiode where we break down TKD coaching and the philosophy for which the seminar was based on. Skip to 36.43 for Podcast Clip