British Taekwondo phenom Aaron Cook has just accomplished a European Competition First – A Quadruple European Gold haul.

Cook pulled off a stunning fourth European Championships title, making him the first competitor ever to win continental Gold in every possible age group.

After spectacularly knocking out the World’s best Taekwondo player Steven Lopez in Mexico, Cook has since been racking up the titles.

In Taekwondo competition, especially at World and Olympic level, there are those that stand out from the rest. There are those athletes that everyone wants to see, everyone believes will will and everyone almost wants to be like. These people aren’t very common on our sport, or any sport for that matter. Every sport has this type of person…

Every so often, someone comes along, and it doesn’t matter what they do, they inspire us with what they do.

They reminds us of what we can truly achieve in our lives. They show us what is possible, and that we are only using a small percentage of our true power.

The 5 most common mistakes in Taekwondo Competition are very simple ones. In fact, in Taekwondo competition YOU can actually be your own worst enemy rather than your opponent!

Over the years of watching Taekwondo matches I have seen so many people making mistakes and losing due to their own errors. The reason why I know this on a personal level is because I have made these mistakes myself!

So let’s look at how you can cost yourself the win and see which are the most common mistakes in Taekwondo competition.

At a local Taekwondo Competition last weekend. The competition wasn’t a very high standard, but it was good enough for experienced players to try stuff out and more or less get a good workout from it.

While watching a match, I overheard a Taekwondo player talking about how he was “looking at his next opponent” and how he was trying to “psych him out” – and it really made me laugh.

What this guy didn’t know was that the opponent he was trying to “psych out” was one of the athletes I work with.