Sine wave

Sine wave
What is a sine wave? For this answer I, being of a pragmatic nature, must turn you

to Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sine_wave

I have read over the years so many descriptions of the “sine wave” and how you’re not doing TKD unless you are using it. I really find this topic boring and unintelligent based on the mere fact that so much time is wasted in the conversation. It’s pretty basic and easy to understand. Power is generated from somewhere, amplified, then delivered…wow what a concept. I don’t even see how this can be attributed to TKD when it was a topic in Chinese Boxing centuries before. It does not compute to have your students discussing it outside of class as if it’s some spiritually intellectual conversation piece, when they could be using that time to research the rise of obesity and its direct correlation with the rise in use of artificial sweeteners. Or how Aspartame and Acesulfame Potassium are seeping into all our drinks, meanwhile the lobby behind such products are moving to schedule sugar as a drug.

Those are topics that matter. However sine wave does not matter. It’s not hard to teach and I guess my real frustration is how so many TKD (ITF) instructors make it out to be something magical. There is nothing magical here, it’s a basic concept of where power originates. You practice it not discuss it. It’s not a philosophy it’s a law of physics. So read the Wikipedia article and apply the same concept to your kicks and punches, knees and elbows.

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