Search Forum Home   Discussions  Ask the Ref Doctor  Learning Poomsa...  Learning Poomsae Above Your Rank    7/24/2008 8:10:38 PM Michael Soper 33 posts Learning Poomsae Above Your Rank Since the intorduction of the WTF Poomsae Championships, did anyone have strange feelings about learning poomsae outside of their regular rank? I know for myself that I have felt a little strange learning some of the high poomsae outside my rank, anybody else with the feelings of awkwardness or is it only me as usual ;) On another poomsae topic in the same vein, what do you do in your club if you have a green or blue belt who has already mastered their poomsae and is asking for more? Do you show them higher forms, ask them to spend their time perfecting their current forms, branch out into another style's forms, or something completely different?  7/25/2008 9:02:53 AM Jenny 23 posts Re: Learning Poomsae Above Your Rank My instructor would never have allowed us to learn forms outside of our rank, so at first I felt as you do. But I got wondering, why not. By the time you have reached the point where you might want to compete in Poomsae, you should have sufficient proficiency to do any of the techniques in the forms, it's just a matter of time spent to actually learning to do the form. Unfortunately, as I am a very slow study, it would take me the next 8 years to learn the other 3 forms well enough to do them in public, let alone compete. In our school, we never let people proceed beyond their rank in learning forms, but I think it is mainly that there are very few people who actually learn their required form well enough to be ready to move on.  Page 1 of 1   Discussions  Ask the Ref Doctor  Learning Poomsa... Flat View Tree View Oldest To Newest Newest To Oldest