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Video Reference 3 – Songahm III – Yellow Belt Form

 

Yellow Belt Form – Songahm 3 and Sparring Combinations

 

This is a reference page for Students at Kowkabany’s Family Martial Arts in Tampa, Florida, and covers ATA’s Yellow Belt Form and the Orange/Yellow Sparring Combinations; it is broken down into five parts:

 

1) A video of the Form – Songahm 3 – being done slowly, with a voice-over by Sr. Master David Kowkabany providing additional guidance on how to execute the techniques properly while avoiding some common mistakes.

 

2) A video of the Sparring combinations being performed slowly, with a voice-over providing additional guidance on how to execute the techniques properly.

 

3) A video of the Yellow Belt One Steps.

 

4) A text segment for those who want to read more about the design of this Form, as well as some of the philosophy and methodology behind the Songahm Forms in general.

 

5) A page showing the specific breakdown of the form line by line.

 

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Songahm 3 Performed Slowly with Voice Over Explanations

Video of Songahm 3 – Yellow form

 

Sparring Combinations for Orange/Yellow Belt Forms!

Video of Orange/Yellow Sparring Combinations

 

 

ONE STEPS for Yellow Belt Form!

Video of ONE STEPS FOR YELLOW BELT FORM

Here is some additional information regarding this Form!

 

At Kowkabany’s Family Martial Arts, we teach the Songahm Forms developed by the American Taekwondo Association in 1983. As with most forms taught in traditional martial arts, our forms were developed to help students improve the quality of their technique. The ATA took this basic concept much further, allowing for three main differences in our Songahm Forms:

 

First, every form is symmetrical—techniques done on one side of the body are done later in the form on the opposite side, promoting balanced development of techniques and of the body.

 

Second, every form is designed to teach the basic kicks, strikes, blocks and stances that a student at that rank should be practicing. For example, in Songahm 3, the student will practice round kicks, jump front kicks, and knifehand blocks (“single” and “double”).

 

Third, every form taught in our traditional taekwondo system is on a set pattern of lines as depicted in the Songahm star, and begins and ends at the same point. There are 9 Color Belt Forms that use North, South, East and West lines; there are also 9 Black Belt Forms that use the same 4 basic directions, but also the diagonal lines that run Northeast, Southeast, Northwest and Southwest.

 

Songahm 3 Basic Facts:

 

* The form consists of 28 moves, including a 6-move opening segment that is repeated on the opposite side as the closing.

 

* The pattern of the form is a simple rectangle.

 

* The strikes in this form are all done at midsection level, which should be equal to the student’s solar plexus (not shoulder level).

 

* There are three stances in this form, the back, front and middle stances.

 

* This form introduces the jump front kick, the first jump kick introduced in the Songahm system.

 

* The kihaps (yells) are on the first two punches, moves #7 & 8, and the second jump front kick, # 17.

 

* The color “Yellow” represents the sun rising higher in the sky during the color belt’s journey; just as the sunrise is beautiful when Orange but not overly hot, the student is now beginning to feel more power in the techniques.

 

* As with all Songahm forms, the passive hand (hand not executing a technique) should be drawn back tight and high on the ribs after the other hand executes a technique; however, both hands should be “up” when executing kicks.

 

 

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