Interesting training curriculum
I'm just curious if practitioners are willing to share any interesting training curriculum or methodologies that they do at their dojang.
For context, at my current dojang, we're a Kukki accredited club and we are associated with the Korean Taekwondo Moo Duk Kwan. During our training sessions, we implement Kyuk Too Ki (kickboxing) training methodologies weaved into our basic techniques (especially for punching techniques). For example, on the heavy bags, our combinations are pretty close to kickboxing except we add a lot of spinning techniques into the combinations. Such as jab, cross, switch kick, slide out, tornado kick. Or jab, cross, hook, rear leg low kick into jumping spinning back kick. Then on the paddles it would be purely WT specific sparring techniques like cutting, cut cancelling, clinch work, cover punching etc.
The only thing we dont do is any form of hosinsul or any form of hanbon kyorugi as my master is a specialist in K1 and WT sparring. Not that he has an issue with self defence but he believes pressure testing through the use of basic techniques against moving opponents probably translates better in real life than a compliant partner doing a series of self defence techniques. However we still do taeguk poomse as part of curriculum.
In some sessions, we do olympic style sparring and the following round we trade our hand protectors for 16 oz gloves and move to a modified K1 ruleset (no low kicks). We still have our hogus (in the interest of time) but we have more agency to trade blows, and stand and bang. It really challenges us as students to adapt to these situations and get us comfortable of using both our hands and feet.
I know some ITF dojangs do something similar to us but im wondering if any WT dojangs do this.
What does your dojang do?