Dragon01
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TIP #20 Proper Appearance
WHAT.... you do on Test....OR in Tournaments.....is not always as important as "HOW YOU LOOK WHILE YOU ARE DOING IT"! 
BY THAT......I DO NOT MEAN "SHOWBOAT!
I DO MEAN "SHOWCASE"!
Here's a few things you can do to UP your score on Test Day....OR at Tournament Time!
1. Your uniform should be CLEAN and IN GOOD REPAIR..If it is torn...mend it...if patches are falling off...sew them on....if the pants are too long...HEM THEM (Do Not just roll them up), If your sleeves are too long...HEM THEM...(DO NOT just roll them up!)
If it is wrinkled....IRON IT....(Do Not show up looking like you slept in it)
2. BE ALERT....PAY ATTENTION to instructions Speak-Up loud and clear when addressing the Judges or Test Board.
3. BE EARLY....Give yourself Plenty Of TIme to warm up and "get into the feel of the day"
4. Have Everything You Need when you arrive!
5. DOUBLE-CHECK all your equipment and Paperwork before you hand it in!
Bring your "TOP GUN" Attitude!
REMEMBER.....LUCK...is only......
Laboring
Under
Correct
Knowledge
Tang Soo
D01
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Re: TIP #20 Proper Appearance
Recommend on testing, if you need your belt tightened, your uniform adjusted, do it prior to going before the board. When you are called take care of it at that moment before standing in front of a testing board. Makes you look ready - if in the course of the test uniform becomes disheveled, follow standard protocol for your school when fixing it. My students, I tell to let the belt fall off, ignore the uniform unless your pants are down around your knees once in the process of testing until the board gives you a suitable break to turn around and fix it.
At tournaments, same thing. I understand that sometimes fixing the uniform is for show or part of the show prior to starting a form. I also understand that doing so makes a point. Depending on how it is done or how the judges take it, it will either say, "I wasn't ready to come up here and now I am wasting your time" or it can say, "I am a bad man (woman) and I own this ring." Unfortunately, it most often comes off as the former, so I tell my students to have everything ready when they are on deck and not to touch their uniform until they are through.
Now if you want the latter effect (I use it occasionally in musical, extreme or open forms NEVER Traditional) one must realize that the most important thing is the judges perception of what is taking place (ie if they think you are wasting their time your score will reflect it). You can do everything to get the latter effect and the judge may still get annoyed (often the more traditional the judge is the more likely they will be annoyed). To minimize this result all uniform fixes are best if coreographed before hand and are done with percision, pizzaz and pop (not improvised-free styling does not cut it in competition especially if the place is loaded with Pros or talent). Short quick movements.
Example of such would be something like starting the form in open forms with a layout to the knee (back flip) or perhaps a 540 to the knee. The open move is of course for show and to get the attention of the crowd (judges aren't too impressed they see it all the time in open tournaments-but the crowd cheering and yelling does still get to them). Standing up looking serious and then quickly grabbing the Dobahk top and pulling it down right before you explode into perhaps some lighting combinations could be interpretted as, "I am bad and now I am going to tear though a bunch of imaginary folks." If it is done right and you are a good showman you can sell it and the effect made actually increase your score. See the uniform did not need fixing it was done for effect.
Bottom line advice at tournaments, never fix your uniform except if it gives you a desired effect all fixing should be done prior to going on deck. If you wish for effect, always fix it at the beginning right before the action starts, generally never fix a uniform in the middle of a form or at the end, wait till you are done and gone. (Rules like this are not hard-but it helps to avoid going from he/she is "Bad to the Bone" to "hmmmm he/she sure has no discipline fixing their uniform in the middle of the form.")
Remember, fixing a uniform anywhere in a form or in front of judges is dangerous, so if you are going to use the effect it must look sharp and what follows has to loook incredible or you are in trouble. If you sell yourself as "Bad" your performance must deliver.
When in doubt, don't touch the uniform until after your performance.
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Re: TIP #20 Proper Appearance
ALL GOOD ADVICE................. 
Thank You Sir!
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Re: TIP #20 Proper Appearance
BUMP!
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