Annotated Bibliography:
TADESSE, Michael Emru. “Benefits and Challenges of Practicing Taekwondo to Adolescents in Addis Ababa City, Ethiopia.” Revista de Artes Marciales Asiaticas, vol. 11, no. 1, Jan. 2016, pp. 1–17. EBSCOhost, doi:10.18002/rama.v11i1.3310.
With this citation of the article “Benefits and Challenges of Practicing Taekwondo to Adolescents in Addis Ababa City, Ethiopia.”, its goal is to show the advantages and disadvantages of taekwondo on the adolescent population in Ethiopia. It consisted of 12 participants, all of which varied and came from different clubs within Addis Ababa. They conducted questionnaires and they came to the conclusion that the benefits of practicing taekwondo include social benefits, physical benefits, mental benefits, self-defense, addiction avoidance, etc. While there are benefits, some problems were identified that could impact the wellbeing of the adolescents involved in taekwondo.
This source relates to my taekwondo community because I believe that I personally, along with the other students at Gordon Martial Arts have benefitted greatly from practicing taekwondo. With emphasize on the mental aspect of taekwondo, it has taught students how to be stronger and better people as a whole. This article depicts how taekwondo benefits practicing students as a whole and therefore can help to further my project.
However, I believe that this article may include dissonance with how it relates to my own paper due to the fact that the research within it was conducted in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, which is a completely different country and it contains a very different group of people and cultures.
This article provides information on the varied population of the taekwondo community by providing images of data they collected. The images show that there is a large age range between students and that there is a lot of years of training that go into taekwondo instruction. It also provides that there are many advantages to practicing taekwondo than what meets the eye.
Hausegger, Thomas, et al. “Peripheral Vision in Martial Arts Experts: The Cost-Dependent Anchoring of Gaze.” Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, vol. 41, June 2019, pp. 1–9. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1123/jsep.2018-0091.
With this citation of the article “Peripheral Vision in Martial Arta Experts: The Cost-Dependent Anchoring of Gaze.”, it’s goal is to explain how the ability of martial arts experts to anchor their gaze on people’s bodies can allow them to hold the most beneficial gaze pattern to optimize peripheral vision. As soccer players focus their gaze on the ball and hips, which best enables them to play well. Anchoring your gaze will allow your eyes to process changes in your peripheral vision and therefore be better at martial arts and to predict possible attacks.
This source relates to my community of Gordon Martial Arts because as a martial arts facility, it focuses on many things, one of which is focus. When you focus your gaze on someone’s shoulders, you can see most of what is going to happen, as most of the time someone’s shoulders move before anything else does.
This relates to my other sources as it applies to martial arts and the benefits of practicing it.
I find this source particularly interesting because it talks about some medical aspects of things such as the fovea, and how the body reacts to certain attacks. I am interested in the medical field and this helps me to better understand the article and the point it is trying to convey.
“Martial Arts as a Mental Health Intervention for Children? Evidence from the ECLS-K.” Child & Adolescent Psychiatry & Mental Health, vol. 3, Jan. 2009, pp. 32–40. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1186/1753-2000-3-32.
This citation of “Martial Arts as a Mental Health Intervention for Children? Evidence from the ECLS-K.”, the article’s hypothesis is that taekwondo helps to provide mental health changes when it comes to” self-esteem, self-confidence, concentration, and self-discipline”. In the end, this article’s evidence does not show that being involved with taekwondo at a young age influences mental health in any way.
This relates to my research topic as taekwondo has helped me to have more self-control and confidence within myself to do better and to never give up on what I want.
This source relates to some of my other sources by addressing the mental health aspect of taekwondo and how it can help/hinder the younger population’s state of mind.
This source is interesting to me because it shows that the mental health of people within the community of taekwondo is not affected, when I believe mine has been greatly affected.
Jansen, Petra, et al. “Effects of Karate Training Versus Mindfulness Training on Emotional Well-Being and Cognitive Performance in Later Life.” Research on Aging, vol. 39, no. 10, Dec. 2017, pp. 1118–1144. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1177/0164027516669987.
For this citation of “Effects of Karate Training Versus Mindfulness Training on Emotional Well-Being and Cognitive Performance in Later Life”, they were trying to show that karate affected stress reduction in a positive manner. When the results were found, they concluded that only small affects can be proven and that it does not necessarily affect stress reduction.
This relates to my community of Gordon Martial Arts by discussing stress reduction, which is discussed often within my community. A lot of fights happen when people are under a lot of stress, and people tend to act out more when they are stressed.
This topic relates to my other sources as a lot of them have mental health within them, and stress falls under mental health. It also does not because it discusses its research within the context of Karate.
I believe this article is interesting because it utilizes hair cortisol within its study, which I personally would not have thought of using.
Creasey, Simon. “Could Mixed Martial Arts Help Children to Learn?” TES: Times Educational Supplement, no. 5350, May 2019, p. 2. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=137361745&site=ehost-live.
In this article “Could mixed martial arts help children to learn?”, its main idea is that martial arts can help children to expand their learning skills along with self-defense. It discusses “cognitive benefits, positive classroom behavior, and the possible harm of inducing aggressive behavior”.
This citation relates to my topic of taekwondo at Gordon Martial Arts by talking about how martial arts skills are more beneficial that the harm they might inflict upon others.
This citation relates to my other sources by dealing with the effect of martial arts on the behavior or people involved with it.
This article is interesting to me because it includes the affects that it has in the classroom setting, instead of only speaking out home-life or activities within the martial arts community.
Hyun Chul Jung, and Jong Kook Song. “Decreased Abdominal Fat and Improved Bone Metabolism After Taekwondo Training in Obese Adolescents.” Kinesiology, vol. 50, no. 1, June 2018, pp. 79–88. EBSCOhost, doi:10.26582/k.50.1.2.
For this citation of the article “Decreased Abdominal Fat and Improved Bone Metabolism After Taekwondo Training in Obese Adolescents”, it explains how the “accumulation of abdominal fat during adolescence is associated with early metabolic dysfunctions and interrupting bone metabolism”. The idea that was being sought out is that taekwondo training could reduce body fat and improve bone metabolism in adolescents that are obese.
This citation relates to my research topic by discussing how it can provide health benefits and how it involves taekwondo specifically.
This source relates to my other sources by involving the health benefits of taekwondo training with adolescents.
I found this article to be interesting because it involved medical work by using blood samples, which intrigues me.
Moscatelli, Fiorenzo, et al. “Relationship between Blood Lactate and Cortical Excitability between Taekwondo Athletes and Non-Athletes after Hand-Grip Exercise.” Somatosensory & Motor Research, vol. 33, no. 2, June 2016, pp. 137–144. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1080/08990220.2016.1203305.
In this article, its main idea is that athletes involved in taekwondo have a delay in the fatigue of their muscles due to blood lactate keeping muscles active. In this study, participants were studied during a hand-grip exercise to determine their “maximal voluntary grip”. They repeated the exercise a few times and determined what strength was needed each time to complete the exercise. In the end, the athletes group reported an increase of blood lactate, but not as much as the non-athletes.
This source relates to my research topic by discussing the health benefits of taekwondo and how athletes in taekwondo do not fatigue as quickly as non-athletes do.
This relates to my other citations by discussing the health aspect of taekwondo.
I found this article interesting because they decided to only focus on a hand exercise instead of several exercises, or something involving the legs. In taekwondo, athletes mostly use their legs, and I found it surprising that they did not focus on fatigue of the leg muscles for their study.
“Martial Arts Crestview, FL - Children Martial Arts Crestview, FL.” Gordon Martial Arts, https://gordonmartialarts.com/.
This citation is meant to be a public resource for anyone interested in Gordon Martial Arts. It holds information about the classes that they offer, the instructors that teach there, and provides contact information for the facility.
This source relates to my community by being the official website for my community.
This source does not relate to my other sources because it is an interactive online website that is specific to my exact community, but it does involve taekwondo.
Information that you will find on this website and nowhere else is specific details about instructors and the facility itself.
Bledsoe, Gregory. Anderson, Heidi. 2019 October 31, Email.
This citation is an email that Master Gregory Bledsoe sent me that answered questions that I sent him. It gives his personal opinion about the tenets of taekwondo.
This source relates to my community because Master Gregory Bledsoe is specifically involved within my community and he is involved in the taekwondo world.
This source does not relate to my other sources because it is an email and not an article.
This source gives the personal opinion of Master Gregory Bledsoe which cannot be found anywhere else as far as the tenets of taekwondo are concerned.
“ITF Taekwondo Patterns with Instructions & Videos.” Black Belt Wiki, https://blackbeltwiki.com/itf-taekwondo-patterns.
This citation is a website that includes links to all of the patterns of taekwondo.
This source relates to my community because the patterns are something that every student of taekwondo must learn in order to advance onto their next belt.
This source relates to other sources that I have due to it being an online source.
This source allows anyone to be able to learn the patterns of taekwondo and more specifically, it allows students of taekwondo to perfect their patterns and to have somewhere to go if they forget one.