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Page 6/The Battalion/Tuesday, April 21, 1987
Tae kwan do instructor merges
art with discipline, academics
By Amy Couvillon
1 Staff Writer
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Innovation of traditional martial
artj forms is inevitable and has the
paential to improve the art, says a
Te^as A&M lecturer and tae kwan
do hstructor.
“Modernization of the traditional
tae ^wan do style is necessary for im-
projed performance of skills,” says
Stufe Powell, who has been an in-
stnttor with the Tae Kwan Do Club
sin e 1971. “This is the same for any
physical activity. If this was not so,
we would still be using metal or
woolen poles for the pole vault. . . .
We vbuld still have prize fights with
barersts.”
Pow.ll, an instructor at the U.S.
Black \elt Academy in College Sta
tion, isy sixth-degree black belt in
the JlioWi Rhee system of Tae Kwan
Do. \
jhoon Rhee, often called the
“father o\tae kwan do in the United
States,” sarted a program in the
early 1984 that modernizes the Ko
rean tae \wan do discipline and
merges it ^vith academic achieve
ment, Powll says. Students in the
program ha/e to achieve a “B” re
port-card ayrage to qualify for the
black belt ex^n, lie says.
“Ninety-fiv percent of my kids
that I have hep have d ‘B’ average or
better,” Pow^ says. “Jhoon Rhee
has for manyyears promoted the
martial arts, ny only as a means of
self-defense, bi^also as a way of im
proving one’s sef-image.”
Modern knowledge, Powell ex
plains, can contribute to martial arts
as it has to all sports.
“Current research in other fields
such as exercise physiology, motor
learning, motor development and
sports psychology are changing our
approach to training and perfor
mance of many activities,” Powell
says. “More research is still needed
in the martial arts in order to im
prove skills.”
Technology can lend a hand, too.
In his doctoral dissertation, Powell is
studying tae kwan do movements
with cinematography. By filming the
techniques at 200 frames per second,
he explains, he can determine the
most efficient technique for a kick or
punch.
“It gives you a stop-action,” Powell
says. “You can see every little
movement all the way to the target,
so you can analyze it. You can find
out which way is the best way, how
you can get the most power and the
most efficiency.”
Powell says he disagrees with re
cently published research linking
modern forms of martial arts with
juvenile delinquency. An April 6
Battalion article described a 1983 re
search project conducted by Dr. Mi
chael Trulson, an associate professor
of anatomy and martial arts instruc
tor.
The study made the assumption
that a certain form of training can
cause delinquent behavior. But,
Powell says, it did not take into
acount the effect of the instructor.
Powell says the psychological effect
of martial arts training on a student
depends heavily on the attitude of
the instructor; it’s not something in
herent in the form being taught.
Powell teaches children and teen
agers at the U.S. Black Belt Aca
demy. He says the mental aspects of
tae kwan do are just as important as
the physical training.
"You can’t have one without the
other,” he says. “Especially with kids.
You’ve got to get out there and ap-
ily yourself, physically and mental-
y-”
Modern forms of martial arts are
not based only on fighting and ag
gression, Powell says, but emphasize
achievement, discipline, responsibil-
“Gurrent research . . . in other fields (is) changing our
approach to training and performance of many activ
ities. More research is still needed in the martial arts in
order to improve skills. ”
— Steve Powell, Tae Kwan Do Club instructor
Fishing industry, beaches
lose in battle with erosion
HOUSTON (AP) v- Erosion eats
up at least 100 acreshf beachfront
and 300 acres of bayf^nt each year
resulting in multirjllion-dollar
losses to landowners ail cuts in tax
rolls, researchers say.
Two-thirds of the site’s shore
lines experience some Cosion, said
Boh Morton, a Universe of Texas
geologist.
“Some parts lose just attle while
other parts lose 25 feet £r year,”
Morton said. “There aretperiods,
such as after hurricanes where
losses are tremendous.”
The fishing industry also ises be
cause some of the state’s mq pro
ductive estuaries are bein de
stroyed in the erosion proces said
Bob Nailon, a Texas A&M n\rine
agent. \
“Each acre of marsh habitiion
produces $80,000 worth of sprts
and commercial fishing,” he sjd.
“It’s the nursery where it all begirt”
Sediment washing into bays can
cloud the water and block sunlight to
shallow waters, Nailon said. Vital mi
croscopic organisms that would have
fostered new fish die.
And sediment dropping on oyster
reefs eventually smothers them, he
added.
State officials are considering sev
eral possibilities to curb the erosion
problem including newly-designed
bulkheads and hauling in sand, said
Lisa McGiffert, an assistant for state
Sen. Chet Brooks. The senator
heads a legislative committee that in
vestigates coastline rehabilitation.
“Anything we would do is proba
bly only a Band-Aid,” she said. “But
maybe it would last for our lifetime,
if not forever.”
The consensus of the legislative
committee is that the state must first
adopt a coastal plan and then try pi
lot projects, McGiffert said.
“Maybe we should have expected
our shorelines to erode," she said.
"Maybe we never should have inhab
ited places like Galveston Island, but
it’s not realistic to . . . move every
body out ”
In Chambers County, soil conser
vationist Eddie Seidensticker and
Nailon have been planting a special
grass they believe might one day
slow the erosion of inland hays. The
grass, called soft chord grass, acts as
a “shock absorber” when waves crash
against the shore, they say.
“It can actually reverse the ero
sion process and build back the
shore,” Seidensticker said.
Morton, however, says, “It may he
good therapy, but in most cases it’s
not effective. A good storm or tropi
cal cyclones could kill it."
In addition, more water fills
oceans and hays because of what the
U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency calls “the greenhouse ef
fect,” he said.
Cause of pipeline blast undetermined
ODESSA (AP) — Investigators Wjrked Monday to
determine why a crude oil pipelir\ erupted into a
plume of fire and smoke that desttyed nine mobile
homes and left two people hospitalized
The blaze, fed by a split 10-inch oil he owned by the
American Petrofina of Midland, destryed the trailers
and two cars between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.Larry Felio, re
gional pipeline engineer for the Texastailroad Com
mission, said Monday.
But “we don’t know the source of the tpition . . . it’s
speculation,” Felio said, adding that he Ould not esti
mate the monetary amount of damage tohe Andrews
Highway mobile home park and sales office
The two men injured in the blaze — D<ig Turner,
45, who was visiting his brother-in-law at\ne of the
burned-out mobile homes, and Odessa fireijapt. Dick
Corbell — were in stable condition Monday y Medical
Center Hospital, a spokeswoman said.
Three other firefighters were treated for heat ex
haustion, the hospital spokeswoman said.
The fire apparently ignited under one of the mobile
homes, Felio said, noting that the extreme tempera
tures the fire produced made the investigation difficult.
“The way everything melted down, it’ll he difficult to
tell for sure,” he told the Odessa American.
Felio said the fire may have been started by a pilot
light on a water heater or a short in electrical wiring.
Petrofina employees worked through the day Sun
day to remove the 10-inch, 60-year-old line and replace
the affected joints, Felio said. The line, which was in
stalled in 1927, had a split about 20 inches long.
Workers cut out a section between 40 and 50 feet
long and replaced it, he said. The line is not expected to
be used for about a month.
No Petrofina officials in Midland could be reached
for comment by late this morning.
ity and self-confidence. Hesa«|
stresses this idea to his studenu,
“I get out there and say,‘Hetj
is self-defense, you only use j
when you have to,’ ’’ Powell a
“You learn to respect other»
through the training. And ifsj
teacher that does that, the leaji
that instills that in the students.
“It’s in the role model you an|
those kids. You know, I'vegott
in my classes that wanltoleS
Steve Powell, and that's tadr,
nice.”
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complish a goal.
“There’s no ‘Mayhe lean don
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w all that has the word“Can’fmj
a circle and slash. “It's Def*#
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students — you can! 1 can,ynjg
evervbody can! It's almost lib|
Rogers, but it’s a grown-up\eu
of tnat."
Powell teaches the studentsui
the it skills responsibly. Even 4
iK-gins with a recitation of tin
dent’s c t eed, which is posted#!
front wall of the t raining rooni;
“To build true confidn
through knowledge in thee
honesty in the heart and strati
the boriv,” the creed says.“Tolu
triendship with one another:
build a strong communitv. )i«
light to ac hieve selfish ends,hi
at hieve might for right."
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Roller coastei
throws boy, 15,
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AMARILLO (AP) - Aw
ager whose mother reluctantlul
lowed him to ride a rollercok
one more time died when ate
straining bat gave way, hurl:;
him about 10 feet in the air, in
thorilies said.
An autopsy was ordered on tlt|
body of 15-year-old Migirf
Perez, who died about 6pmb
ter Sunday at the Wonder!
Park!
“He asked me, 'Mama,an
ride the coaster one more time
Just one more?’ ” Angie fern
the hoy’s mother, said,crying,
Perez said she agreed to W
son’s request alter he begged ant
that site and her younger soi
Marcelo, watched Miguel
the last car of the Zyklon, als
known as the Big Coaster.
Marcelo Perez said that as ih
ride was coming to an end, he si'
the bar that restrained li
brother fly up and Miguelfal.
Amarillo Medical Services#®
called at 6:05 p.m. and an
lance arrived at 6:10 at Wonds
land, but an AMS spokesman.*
there was nothing its emergent
workers could do for the boy
Wonderland operator ft
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as the participant enters the n(t
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night, Borchardt said the “pi
has been in operation for36yt*
and the accident on the Ip
coaster is the first fatality we ftt
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that rides along red tracks,iso*
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