Tuesday, September 15, 2009

At Taekwondo

Master Koo doesn't encourage visiting grandparents to watch Sidharth during Taekwando class. Visitors distract his students, he says. On an earlier occasion, grandparents of a classmate of Sidharth were politely asked to wait in the car.
Prospects of sitting it out in the car didn't deter his patti and me from joining Sidharth for Taekwondo class, just once, if only to get a 'feel' of what it is all about. We must admit we were not familiar with this Korean version of martial art.

We were impressed by his outfit. And we had witnessed his spins, swings and his punches in the air, accompanied by the intimidatory battle-cry Taekwando practioners raise during a workout.
Watching Sidharth doing his things in the house, kid brother Nikhil gets into the act as well. On occasions when his mom takes him to Sidharth's Taekwondo class an observant Nikhil is quick to copy his brother.
This was as far as I could follow Sidharth with my camera. We did,for a few minutes, step into his class, conducted in a hall as spacious as an aircraft hanger. It was only for few minutes, after which we gracefully left the hall to wait out Sidharth's Taekwondo class in our car.

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