Blog 18: 2-hour Meeting Answer #3

Q1) What is your essential question?
A1) What is key in winning a sparring competition in a National championship?
Q2) What is your third answer to your essential question?
A2)  My third answer for my essential question is experience.
Q3) What are three details to support or justify your third answer?
A3) -Practice makes perfect
       -Effective training develops a fighter who reacts automatically, with speed, power, and accuracy.
        -Effective training reinforces a strong mentality and a desire to win.
Q4) What source helped you prove this answer is justified for your essential question?
A4) I used my research book "Competitive Taekwondo : Winning training and tactics". because it helped me with a lot of my understanding and my research.
Q5) What do you plan on doing next?
A5) I plan on continuing my research on sparring techniques and trying to apply them to myself when I personally spar.
     

You already know though.

Blog 17: Fourth Interview Questions

Q1) What is key in winning a sparring competition in a National championship?

Q2) What are your most effective strategy for offensive attacks?

Q3) what are your most effective strategy for defensive?

Q4) how would you regain control the match if you are losing by points?

Q5) How do you improve your foot work skills?

Q6) what specific training methods do you do to improve speed and agility?

Q7) How do you improve in your kicking power?

Q8) how do you improve in your kicking speed?

Q9) how do you improve your speed in your kicking combinations?

Q10) what advice would you give to a competitor’s first time competing in the sparring category?

Q11) How would you get rid of the fear?

Q12) how do you strengthen the mentality?

Q13) what equipment do you use to train and for what?

Q14) How do you look for different opponents to spar with?

Q15) who do you usually spar with regularly?

Q16) How do you gain more stamina for sparring?

Q17) how are you personally training for nationals this year?

Q18) what were the first steps you took to train for sparring competitions in a big championship like nationals?

Q19) Who is your Taekwondo sparring role model?

Q20) what would you say is the #1 thing your coach has always told you?

Blog 16: 2-Hour Meeting Answer #2

Q1) What is your Essential Question?
A1) What is key in winning a sparring competition in a national championship?

Q2) What is your second answer to your essential question?
A2) My second answer that I was able to draw a conclusion through all my research and mentorship is, Execution.

Q3) What are three details to support or justify your second answer?
A3) Just like my first answer, I broke down my second answer into two parts:

• Speed 
• Timing 

Speed and timing are one of the most basic yet vital pillars in sparring and also because Taekwondo Sparring  is renown for its fast and power kicks. With speed the Taekwondo athlete is able to deliver the punishing strike and with timing the athlete will be able to score the point or even score a K.O.

Q4) What source helped you prove this answer is justified for your Essential Question?
A4) Through my research with the "Competitive Taekwondo Strategy" book, my mentorship, and my personal experience with sparring.

Q5) What do you plan to study next with your second answer and why?
A5) I plan to continue my research on my 2nd answer by looking up more training drills to improve kicking speed and reaction time.

Blog 15: Independent Component 2 Approval

Q1) Write a description of what you will be doing for your independent study component.
A1) I plan on to continue my mentorship at the Taekwondo school but now focus more specifically on the sparring rather than form and kicking techniques.

Q2) Describe in detail how you think your plan will meet 30 hours of work requirement.
A2) I plan make sure I am there on sparring days, which is every Friday, and study close with my mentor and learn as much as I can for sparring.

Q3) How does your independent component relate to your working EQ?
A3) It relates to my EQ because this component is now directed towards Taekwondo sparring.

Blog 14: Independent component 1

Literal

a) I, Indra Noor, affrim that i completed my independent component which represent 30 hours of work.
b) My main source was my mentorship at the Taekwondo school I work at in Rancho Cucamunga.
c) Digital spread sheet.
d) I basically continued doing my mentorship.

Interpretive 
Look at earlier posts to see photos.

Applied 
This component helped me understand my foundation because I was constantly learning new techniques and skills that can be used in different scenarios and cases during certain matches. For example, the shuffle back roundhouse kick is used for a defense kick, and the stepping back kick is used for an offensive technique. With basic attack and defense techniques I can add different variations to the technique.