Fish_headz

My school is sort of different as well in that we have ten ranks in our school so everthing up to Gwang-gea is for the colored ranks and when you hit black you get po eun and gye baek from the itf but we also get koryo from teaguk forms. though there is only one 2nd degree black belt in our school as it takes like 6-10 years and our 2nd degree took like 16 to get his 2nd and as a result i dont really know what foms 2nd degrees get. we also have several difference but these are more in the covers and slight changes in the covers and that we dont use sine wave. though i think our original organization was aau, right now we dont belong to anything due some problems with the original organizations.

Man that guy speaks fast Japanese but at least he pronounce words somewhat normally so i can at least understand a good chunk of that through bits and pieces and context.

I have recently started shotokan karate during study abroad in Japan. Coming from a taekwondo background I have accelerated at pretty much everthing they have thrown at me. Just a few switches in techniques here and there to account the slight variational differences in technique. My hand techniques aren't godly but they are clean and fairly. I usually have no problems breaking and when I hit the pads, I hit them pretty hard for my size only weighing 150ish pounds but my karate teachers have been telling me I putting power in my techniques too early which reduces the smoothness of it. This is something i have been trying to work on for years and only have been getting mediocre results until yesterday when I was messing with a different way to punch, i realize i have been torquing my hips the wrong way. Now there is a quite noticable difference in power and speed. Have any of you had anything like that in which you thought you were doing the technique or techniques correctly for a long period of time and you find it is a wrong way of doing it?

Can't check anyway as i am in japan but after further inspection online we are using the ITF Form list. As i have not done any research into wtf taekwondo and as i had a book that said wtf did taeguk set, i inaccurately assumed that we did the only other set i knew the name of which was palgwe, because our set wasn't taeguk. My bad. Thanks for the correction.

After further inspection it seems my school only has white, brown and black. Though brown look like black belts, so it is sort of hard to tell.

I am quite amaze that there are no side kick to the knee. I also think that a front leg side kick is also quite effective, though one needs to have a mastery of it. That can produce a enourmous amount of power just standing and can be thown and return quite fast. If you have space and put slight step behind in it, it becomes almost deadly.

I have done ITF'ish tkd for a while and right now doing both wtf tkd and shotokan. If you are afraid of missing a few techniques from shotokan, there is really nothing to worry about because many of shotokan and tkd techniques are essientially the same with a few differences in the covers and the way they use their stances but the applications are quite different. Shotokan focuses on lower stance and the front stance because of its focus on punching rather then tkd focus on kicking. Though the techniques are the same if not similar the strategies and applications are quite different.

I find that to be very true after I started taking Shotokan. There are only a few minor differences in the way they use stances and their covers but they have all of the kicks that are in tkd. Sometime I see the guys doing like spin kicks and hook kicks and we compare. There are even a few kata(forms) that look similar. The tekki katas and poen are quite similar.

My spin side kick is rather interesting in that it is really a turn around side kick and allows me to produce a huge amount of power with. Don't know how it turned into that but i like. I also use the turn around back kick(heel kick) quite a lot in sparring but i through it without turnning my upper body so many people don't even see it coming. I cal it the hidden heel kick.

No, we have a 10 ranks. So we learn one form a rank and 3 forms for shodan. Though on top of these forms we have 5 additional form we call fighting forms 1-5 we learn through the colored ranks but they are sort of short and in are sort of a bunch of techniques the go in a straight line. i did not include these because i think they are either my teachers creation or his teachers.

I guess we do both. I was under the impression that we did palgwe especially since i checked wikipedia to sort of verify name spellings, though i did know that Koryo was WTF. Our sort of different then other schools anyway. I have been taking WTF over here in Japan and all there techniques are a bit different from my techniques, and even the way our kata are performed is different from what i see on the internet.

my taekwondo kata from palgwe set. chon-ji dan-gun do-san won-hyo yul-gok jung-geun toi-gye hwa-rang chung-mu gwang-gae po-eun gye-baek koryo from shotokan. heian shodan heian nidan heian sandan heian yondan heian godan tekki shodan tekki nidan tekki sandan gankaku enpi and the first three kendo kata. ippon me nihon me sanbon me My taekwondo kata are sort of taking a break as i am focused on my shotokan kata.

Actually, just learned today that i will probably test in June for my shodan rank. hopefully i do alright.

My American school also learns kata by count, but this school does kata exclusively by count but as i said its seems to be more because tournament is team based no real individual kata. You may be right that they don't plan on grading and if that is the case, i can deal with it but i have also been told that there is a possiblility that i may be able to obtain shodan rank before i leave. That may be another reason. Either way, it doesn't matter. As long as I get better at japanese and karate, im happy.

My particular taekwondo school didn't really focused that much on the sine wave that much but that are a lot of differences in their approach to kata. In my experience with taekwondo, your practicing the kata to do it by yourself in competition but in my shotokan school that is not much of a focus. There is a lot of kata practice with a group which is similar to taekwondo but in taekwondo, we sort of end up practicing at our own paces, in shotokan everyone in the group practices at the same pace, the same kata, and allways in count. This may also be Japanese thing though because there a collective mentality here. Which may be the reason that in the shotokan tournaments, they do team kata instead of individual kata.