As a tkd-er on hiatus, and knowing enough about good technique, it sounds fine to me. I forget again what types of classes you teach, and how advanced the students are, but as long as they know the proper technique for the roundhouse (as in, not swinging the hip wide- we learned it as: bring the knee up, flip the hip over and then kick out- and obviously doing it in a rapid, flowing movement), I don't see an issue. Sounds like a good workout!
I'm being stupid and can't picture where the ends of the bands are. I guess bands are safe, but the students would have to watch out for their backs, i.e. not using their lower backs to do the kick instead of their legs. Hmmm, does that make sense?
Well, doing kicking drills in general, without resistance, isn't that unsafe, as long as they learn proper technique. We had a cardio-kickboxing class offered through my old tkd school, and a lot of the people who took it were not tkd students- most were just plain old 20-30something women. And we did a lot of similar warm-ups in that class that we did in regular martial arts class. Every cardio kickboxing class I've ever taken has resembled what I did in tkd in some respect. (roundhouses, front kicks, side kick, back kick)
Hmmm, I'm still worried about the kicker's back. What if they just chambered the kick? We do drill all of the time with just the chamber because you can do twice as much in the same amount of time. But I'm thinking that the chamber drills with the band would be safe because you would have less joints to worry about.
Or in general, just doing it slowly, going step by step, so there is less room for error. That's how we learned everything in white belt class, and it actually makes it harder to keep balance, etc, so works the muscles a bit more. But then you don't end up doing weird things with your hips.
I'm being stupid and can't picture where the ends of the bands are. I guess bands are safe, but the students would have to watch out for their backs, i.e. not using their lower backs to do the kick instead of their legs. Hmmm, does that make sense?
Paula
Hmmm, I'm still worried about the kicker's back. What if they just chambered the kick? We do drill all of the time with just the chamber because you can do twice as much in the same amount of time. But I'm thinking that the chamber drills with the band would be safe because you would have less joints to worry about.
Paula