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• Crisp techniques. Ensure your techniques are executed crisp and snappy. The arm, leg, or body should move from one position to the next as quickly as possible and should stop exactly in it is next position. If the technique calls for a flowing motion, seek to be smooth rather than fast.

• Flexibility. If your flexibility is good, you will be able to perform difficult kicks with ease.. I do not think there is anything more exciting than watching someone throw a kick straight up with good execution and power.

• Difficulty of movements. The more difficult your moves are, the higher you will score. However, many people put difficult moves in their routines before they can perform them flawlessly.

• Perform for the back row. Stage actors make exaggerated movements so the movements may be seen by people sitting in the last row of the theater. When performing patterns, you should perform for the person sitting on the top row of the bleachers. When sweeping movements are required, make them very large sweeping movements; when snap is required, make it very snappy; when power is required, make it very powerful. When performing patterns, you imitating a fight against multiple opponents. Remember, are performing a fight, not using realistic fighting techniques.

• Have a good backup. Make sure you know the rules regarding ties. Some tournaments may require a different routine. Even if they do not require a different form, have a solid backup. If you can go out and do a different form just as well as the first, you are showing how multi-dimensional you are.

Each pattern has unique characteristics which serve as special learning tools to the developing student. If these moves are mixed, or arbitrary, the pattern loses its effectiveness as a development exercise. There is no longer a systematic, incremental development process that leads the student toward imprinting correct form, power, breath control, etc. If alterations are made, patterns will lose their individual characteristics and standards will be lost.

When performing patterns, form and technique must be true to the Taekwondo fundamentals, for example, body transitions must not be altered to make it easier to maintain control. Incorrect body transitions lessen the level of difficulty and the efficiency of movement. The validity of the transitions actual sparing or fighting may be lost to theatrical value. Perfection of movement, and thus, perfection of character are focal points of pattern performance

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