Friday, March 16
For this semester, dependent on faculty and courses, we were required to take co-curricular activities as a subject and having learn taekwondo before in secondary school, I chosed taekwondo along with a few of my coursemates.
Last wednesday, albeit the amount of assignments and work load piling up on us, we still made it for the 'Hari Mercu' performance where selected subjects were required to do a performance in front of the rector with several VIPs and god forbid, we were the first to perform.
Everything went smoothly till our head of the group gave the wrong command and we were all stunned for a moment there, it was the nerves, but soon we got back on track and did our best regardless of the situation. The performance included, punches, blocks, kicks, self-defense, pattern, sparring and erm.. breaking.
Yea, you heard me, BREAKING!
Tile-breaking to be exact. The closest form of breaking I did was only wooden planks and that was a few years ago, and now we're breaking roof tiles. I was among the 'lucky' ones among 11 guys to attempt the break two layers of roof tiles for the first time and during the first attempt during the performance. No training, no rehearsal for breaking whatsoever till the moment of truth. But as soon as we were on stage, the adrenaline rush and everything you could imagine from a nervous guy who hasn't been involved in taekwondo training for at least 5 years took the best of me. Then I realized that all those nerves and sweats were unnecessary as a simple punch would drive through the 2 layered tiles. Things would've been different if we were breaking 5 tiles and above all at once.
One of my housemate took a few videos of the event (still pending for another video from a friend for a full shot of the event), better lower down the speaker volume.
slight mistake there during the command, but we continued..
self defense
pattern done by my coursemate
group breaking, I was filmed at a bad angle and I don't know why I look so retarded
In the end, we were relieved that it all ended where the crowd all cheered with applause and screams and those cuts and bruises on our arms seemed trivial. That moment meant the world for all of us.
I'd like to express my deepest gratitude to Senior Lau for all the training and Master Chia for the lectures and self-defense techniques. This semester's co-curricular activities was the best and we could not ask for anything more. For the performing ones, congratulations to all for succeeding the performance, thumbs up! Finally, I'd like to take this chance to let all the members including performing and non-performing ones that it was a pleasure knowing you guys and hopefully we'll meet up again around campus.
Tae Kwon!
Last wednesday, albeit the amount of assignments and work load piling up on us, we still made it for the 'Hari Mercu' performance where selected subjects were required to do a performance in front of the rector with several VIPs and god forbid, we were the first to perform.
Everything went smoothly till our head of the group gave the wrong command and we were all stunned for a moment there, it was the nerves, but soon we got back on track and did our best regardless of the situation. The performance included, punches, blocks, kicks, self-defense, pattern, sparring and erm.. breaking.
Yea, you heard me, BREAKING!
Tile-breaking to be exact. The closest form of breaking I did was only wooden planks and that was a few years ago, and now we're breaking roof tiles. I was among the 'lucky' ones among 11 guys to attempt the break two layers of roof tiles for the first time and during the first attempt during the performance. No training, no rehearsal for breaking whatsoever till the moment of truth. But as soon as we were on stage, the adrenaline rush and everything you could imagine from a nervous guy who hasn't been involved in taekwondo training for at least 5 years took the best of me. Then I realized that all those nerves and sweats were unnecessary as a simple punch would drive through the 2 layered tiles. Things would've been different if we were breaking 5 tiles and above all at once.
One of my housemate took a few videos of the event (still pending for another video from a friend for a full shot of the event), better lower down the speaker volume.
slight mistake there during the command, but we continued..
self defense
pattern done by my coursemate
Now this particular video has me doing the tile breaking, I'm the 2nd to go but my housemate didn't know the sequence of the breaking and moved away at the moment of truth when I was about to break the tiles! Well, at least you get to see me at my bittersweet moment of pain and relief..
group breaking, I was filmed at a bad angle and I don't know why I look so retarded
In the end, we were relieved that it all ended where the crowd all cheered with applause and screams and those cuts and bruises on our arms seemed trivial. That moment meant the world for all of us.
I'd like to express my deepest gratitude to Senior Lau for all the training and Master Chia for the lectures and self-defense techniques. This semester's co-curricular activities was the best and we could not ask for anything more. For the performing ones, congratulations to all for succeeding the performance, thumbs up! Finally, I'd like to take this chance to let all the members including performing and non-performing ones that it was a pleasure knowing you guys and hopefully we'll meet up again around campus.
Tae Kwon!
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Dezmond sprouts at 3/16/2007 10:31:00 PM | Permalink
2 Comments:
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Cool! Congratulations to all of you=)
They looked very nice in those videos. But how come the music sounded like Chinese??!!
By 
Jinseon, at
1:58 AM
the background music's from kitaro.. it was just a formality thing, just so everyone's in the mood to see the performance.. hehe :P
By Dezmond, at
4:51 AM
