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This topic is also something that I have asked my instructors a lot. During a sparring match, there are times when you need to conserve your energy especially if you don't have a good stamina to last the whole match. The key is timing as in knowing when to attack and when to get away.
Good timing in attacks and counterattacks can help in conserving energy. To improve your timing, carefully observe your opponent's posture, stance, distance, habitual movements, and feints to gain an understanding of your opponent's attack methods and rhythms. Using variety of feints will create changes for attacks and induce attacks from your opponents. The more you know about your opponents, the better you will be able to time your attacks and counterattacks. So it is very important to develop the ability to read an opponent accurately.
Many new at sparring almost always ask the question - where to fix their sight during a sparring match. I know I have asked my instructors about this a lot when I first started. Should they look at the opponent's lower body in anticipation of a kick attack? Should they watch the eyes to get a sense of their fighting style? These questions show the importance of sight during a match.
Depending on the opponent, watch either the eyes or the attacking part of the lower body. Also, watch the posture and motion of the opponent. Reading movement in this way will help you discover your opponent's reaction. Excellent taekwondo athletes can see opponent's movements that occur in the periphery. They read muscular changes, make instant judgement, and react accordingly.
Today, I will be talking about agility and why it is important in taekwondo sparring. Agility is the ability of a fighter to control the body while maintaining power and speed. Step sparring is used to improve agility and reflexes. Other activities for improving agility are running in place, zigzag running, speed kicks, sideways running in small steps, paddle sparring, and sports such as soccer and basketball. Yes, you heard right, I said basketball. I actually been playing basketball to improve my own agility.
Without agility, effective attack and counterattack skills cannot be performed with speed. Agility is the ability to move quick, shift weights, and move back and forth and side to side as necessary in the ring. When an older athlete decide to compete in a younger age class (local tournaments), they are often surprise to find that their agility and and reaction times are somewhat slower than the agility and reaction time of their younger opponents. Agility and speed changes as athletes get older that is why there are different age divisions in a taekwondo sparring tournament.
The video above are drills to improve agility. It was demonstrated by master Sang H. Kim. For more information check out his video Ultimate Kicking Drills.
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