Sparring Lesson: Front Leg or Rear Leg?

Sang H. Kim teaches a beginning level sparring lesson on choosing the right leg - front or rear - to kick.




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Sparring Video Lesson: Roundhouse Counterattacks

In this free 1 minute sparring lesson, Sang H. Kim teaches several effective counterattacks against the roundhouse kick.




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Tae Kwon Do Sparring Lesson: Feint to Score

In this free one minute video lesson, Sang H. Kim teaches a simple feinting technique along with several variations that can be used to score in tae kwon do sparring.

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Sang H. Kim Seminar Video Downloads

Sang H. Kim retired from giving Seminars several years ago, but we have an archive filled with hundreds of hours of seminar footage. So if you never had the chance to attend on of Master Kim's popular seminars, here's your chance to see what you missed. The first of his seminar highlight videos is now available for download - a sparring seminar filmed in 1993 in Hartford CT. Look for more seminar videos on a variety of topics coming soon.

Taekwondo Demo Video

We've opened our video archives and are in the process of reviewing hundreds of hours of seminar, demonstration and competition video. Below -- just a little sampling of what we've found -- are highlights from taekwondo self-defense and breaking demonstrations given by Master Sang H. Kim in 1994. The footage was filmed in Glasgow Scotland and Bristol England during a series of seminars that Master Kim gave there.

Grappling: Defending Against Chokes

While we all may like to think that we’re the ones putting our opponents in bad situations and not having to be defensive very much, the fact remains that being skillful at defending yourself against strangles and chokes is an important aspect of any form of grappling. If you want to be a complete grappler, you need a good defense. Being able to stay in the fight and being well versed in keeping your opponent from tapping you out means that you are competitive and doing what is necessary to try to turn the tables on your opponent. Just like John Saylor said; “Staying out of trouble keeps you in the fight.” As long as you’re in the fight, there’s the possibility that you will win.

read the rest of this article excerpted from Grappler's Guide to Strangles & Chokes by Steve Scott

Preorder & Save: Grappler's Guide to Strangles & Chokes

In The Grappler’s Book of Strangles and Chokes, Steve Scott makes it easy to learn the most effective and popular chokes and strangles of modern grappling. This book is a comprehensive, in-depth look at chokes and strangles that really work in gi and no-gi combat sports, allowing you to use them in a wide variety of situations, including self-defense and street applications. Every set up, application, variation and defense has been used successfully in all levels of competitive judo, submission grappling, sport jujitsu and mixed martial arts.

Preorder now and save $5.00 off the regular price of $18.95.

Preorder & Save: Shotokan Karate Kata DVDs

The first 2 Shotokan Kata DVDs are available for preorder. Save $5 when you order Shotokan Karate Kata Volume 1: Kyu Level Forms
or Shotokan Karate Kata Volume 2: Black Belt Forms

Renshi Steve Flores is a world kata champion and provides expert instruction on the first 17 katas of Shotokan Karate.

Coming soon: Shotokan Kata DVDs

Turtle Press has just filmed a series of Shotokan Kata DVDs with USKA World Champion Renshi Steve Flores. The DVDs will be released in May, but check out the sneak previews below.

Shotokan Kata DVD 1: Kyu Level forms

Learn the following forms: Heian Shodan, Heian Nidan, Heian Sandan, Heian Yodan, Heian Godan, Tekki Shodan, Bassai-Dai and Kanku-Dai






Shotokan Kata DVD 2: Black Belt forms

Learn the following forms: Tekki Nidan, Tekki Sandan, Bassai-Sho, Hangetsu, Kanku-sho, Nijushiho, Jion, Wankan and Gankaku





Shotokan Kata DVD 3: Black Belt forms

Learn the following forms: Unsu, Sochin, Jitte, Giin, Empi, Gojushiho-Dai, Gojushiho-Sho, Chinte and Meikyo

Martial Arts DVD Blowout Sale

From now until March 31st, our most popular DVDs are only $14.98. This is the kind of sale that won't be repeated anytime soon so check out the list of sale DVDs today.

Coming Soon: Ultimate Flexibility DVD by Sang H. Kim

Thanks to many customer requests, Sang H. Kim has created the Ultimate Flexibility DVD as a companion to his popular stretching book. The DVD has 3 follow along workouts of variable difficulty levels as well as tips and exercises for high kicks. The DVD is scheduled for release on April 6th. Only $15.95 when you order now.

New titles shipping today

Zen Buddhism: In Search of Self and Power Breathing are shipping today. If you've ordered either of these new DVDs, look for them in your mailbox soon!

Taekwondo Sparring: Countering against a front leg kick

There are a number of simple ways to counter your opponent's front leg kick in a taekwondo sparring match. Here are two methods:

Sliding back and double kick from closed stance against a front leg atttack.

The korean term is moolo doobal dangsang Chagi. Moolo is back step, doobal dangsang chagi is double kick.

The first step is to read your opponent's innitiative and move your entire body backward by sliding back. The second step is to stop his movement with your double roundhouse kick, by roundhouse kicking first with your rear foot and then throwing a powerful roundhouse with the other leg. The primary target is the middle section.

In competition, you can stop your opponent's innitiative by using cut-kick with your front foot instead of sliding back. Then follow up with a double kick.

Sliding back and turn kick from closed stance against front leg atttack.

The korean term is Moolo momdora chagi. Moolo is sliding back, momdora chagi is turn kick.

The first step is to read your opponent's innitiative and move your entire body backward by sliding back. The second step is to fill the space between you and your opponent by bringing your rear footup and turning into a turning roundhouse kick (turn kick). The primary target is the middle section

In competition, be cautious not to rebound too far since your opponent is comming at you. You just need a short turn kick with a perfect timing.

Get over 50 more counterattacking techniques on the Complete Sparring 2 DVD by Sang H. Kim.

New Martial Arts Video Downloads

Check out the latest martial arts video download titles:

Conditioning videos
Speed, Agility, Timing video download
Power, Strength, Stamina video download


Taekwondo videos
Taekwondo Footwork video download
Taekwondo Scoring Skills 1-25 video download
Taekwondo Scoring Skills 26-50 video download
Taekwondo Scoring Skills 51-75 video download
Taekwondo Scoring Skills 76-100 video download
Taekwondo Hanmadang video download

Weapons videos
Jangbong Fundamentals video download
Jangbong Patterns video download


Kickboxing videos
Kyuktooki: Korean Kickboxing video download
Kickboxing Conditioning video download
Kickboxing Basics video download
Kickboxing Kicking & Defense video download


Tai Chi videos
Yang Tai Chi Simplified 24-Form video download
Chen Tai Chi Broadsword Form video download
Chen Tai Chi 38 Form video download

Power Breathing Website

Check out the Power Breathing for Life website for more detailed information about the Power Breathing DVD, exercises and program. Also, look for a Power Breathing book by author Sang H. Kim in the near future.

Power Breathing DVD Coming Soon

Martial arts expert and Power Breathing for Life creator Sang H. Kim guides you through easy to follow breathing exercises that you can do anywhere, in as little as sixty seconds, to relieve stress, increase your fitness level and feel better instantly. With workouts varying from sixty seconds to 14 minutes, the Power Breathing DVD is an excellent way to add a daily breathing and exercise practice to your life.

Zen Buddhism Documentary

Turtle Press has acquired the distribution rights to a documentary, Zen Buddhism: In Search of Self, filmed and produced in Korea by MBC television. Following a tradition dating back over 1000 years, two dozen Buddhist nuns gather for a ninety day period of meditation, fasting and contemplation deep in the mountains of South Korea. With the singular goal of attaining enlightenment, the women undertake a rigorous schedule of meditation, at one point sitting for seven days without sleep.

In this first ever documentary on the practice of Dong Ahn Geo (Winter Zen Retreat), you’ll be invited into the Baek Hung Buddhist Temple to witness not only the nuns’ strict meditation practice, but their daily lives in which we see not only a deep spiritual discipline but an almost childlike joy and simplicity.

Complete Taekwondo Poomsae book released

Complete Taekwondo Poomsae, the new book by Kyu Hyung Lee and Sang H. Kim, has been released and all of the preorders have been shipped out. If you placed a preorder, you will be arriving soon. Thank you for your patience!

Discontinued Korean Martial Arts Videos available for download

Thanks to numerous customer requests, we've decided to make a number of previously discontinued Korean martial arts videos available as video downloads. Now available for download:

Kyukpa: Taekwondo Power Breaking video download
Kuk Kung: Traditional Korean Archery video download
Ssireum: Traditional Korean Wrestling video download
Yudo: Korean Judo video download

We've also had quite a few requests for Kuk Hyun Chung's Future Champions video, which will son be released on DVD. Watch the New and Coming Soon page for a preorder special toward the end of this month.

Fighter's Fact Book 2 Released

Fighter's Fact 2, Loren W. Christensen's follow-up to his successful Fighter's Fact Book, has been released. Subtitled Street Fighting Essentials, when you've mastered the skills taught in the book you will truly be ready to defend yourself in some of the most desperate situations imaginable.