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IB<br />
Each month, we will be highlighting some of the<br />
work IB students have done for their Creativity,<br />
Action Service (CAS) work.<br />
This is Da Seul’s reflection.<br />
As a part time job / hobby I've been working as a<br />
Taekwondo instructor in Cisse Taekwondo Gym,<br />
Pattaya, since the last summer holiday. I started<br />
learning Taekwondo at the age of 13 and now I am a<br />
black belt taekwondo champion.<br />
I go to competitions and sometimes take part, other<br />
times I just go to coach and take care of the fighters,<br />
getting them registered and help them looking for their<br />
fighting fields. Recently, there was a competition in a<br />
sports centre next to Big C Rayong and I want to share my<br />
experience as a Taekwondo coach in a competition.<br />
Special training for competition began two weeks before the competition. During the days<br />
we only train by coming to the gym, put on the fighting gear and fight whoever gets to be<br />
your pair. Our master is one of the strictest masters in Pattaya, with him there's no 'giving<br />
up'.<br />
Since I was registered as coach I didn't do the fighters' training with them but I did some<br />
other training such as running and practising kicking skills while others were lined up in<br />
two lines fighting behind the punching bags. We have training every Tuesday, Wednesday<br />
and Friday but since they were 'special training weeks' master had arranged morning runs<br />
in a park near the gym at 8am at weekends.<br />
I joined the morning run and it was really challenging to keep up with our master since he<br />
ran so quickly, but because of how scary he is no one dared to drop out of the running<br />
squad even if they couldn't catch their breath anymore! Everyone trained very hard for the<br />
competition.<br />
The competition was packed with people from different gyms all wearing different gym<br />
shirts in different groups. Once we got to the place, we went to register all the fighters and<br />
the coaches. There were 10 fighters from our gym and 3 coaches including myself.<br />
Fighters registered with their belt colour, age and weight. When we were done, all the<br />
fighters got fighter badges and coaches got coach badges which allowed us to get into the<br />
fight fields.
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