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Originated in the Second-half of the 20th Century. Puts the originating date ~1950. The name Tae Kwon Do being accepted in 1955. It's been a short 1300 years these ~58 years, hasn't it? It does make sense if you punctuate it properly, the first bit should really be a sub-ordinate clause to make it read properly: So what its really saying was TKD originated 1300 years ago but developed into modern combat sport in the 1950s +. This could have been a case of mistranslation too... I'm not sure how familiar you are with TKD history but its gets very political about the origins. Yes most of it did come from Japanese and Chinese systems however after the occupation the Koreans were keen to distinguish themselves from Japanese and indeed eradicate Japanese culture from their own. What became TKD was an effort to move away from Karate and to create something of their own in which they could have national pride. Thus they tried to revive TaeKyon and claim that their system of fighting came from this ancient MA. Yet bits of TKD may actually have come from TaeKyon itself. Taking Gen. Choi of the Oh Do Kwan (ITF) for example, it is said that he learnt TaeKyon as a boy from his calligraphy teacher Han Il Dong. He could well have pushed more TaeKyon into his version of TKD. TKDTutor has a much more detailed history on his site looking at TKD from the Three Kingdoms era to present day, he explains it fair better than I can. I'm assuming its based upon ITF rules as Master Anto-Toni Nobilo is ITF. In ITF you do 2x 2 minute rounds. The page says you can win by K.O. Are you awarded so many points for K.O.? If so, why not take the point deduction for a hook, uppercut, or elbow if you can go for the win by K.O. or T.K.O.? I'm not familiar with this league at all but again I'll assume its built upon ITF rules. If hooks, uppercuts and elbows are penilized, then if you score a KO with it I'd assume you wouldn't win. More likely you'd probably be DQed for it as it was excessive contact with an illegal technique. So, you can win by K.O. But wouldn't that count as an injury to the opponent? So you win by ruleset, but loose by default? I don't understand. It looks sound. However, the ruleset has me confused. In this case its up to the referee's disgretion. KO probably isn't counted as an injury.. what it probably means is where the attacker is deliberately trying to do something to incapacitate their opponent, like an eye gouge or something. If the technique's perfectly legal and the attacker wasn't necessarily out to incapacitate the loser then I'd assume 16.2 would apply. If you look at this video just before 3 minutes the Korean takes a roundhouse to the head and from then in the end doesn't continue due to injury.

Came across this: http://www.pro-taekwondo.com/ Its a professional, full-contact TKD league kinda built the same way as UFC. Looks completely different from the Olympics. Anyone heard of it before?

Well likewise the same applies to Taekwon-Do (Foot Fist Way) which should in theory place equally amounts of emphasis on the hands and feet.

I would argue the TKD one... Yes it does appears to more kicking oriented but it is called "Foot Fist Way" with equal emphasis on the fist. I read an article last year in TKD & KMA where this guy was trying to discern exactly what he thought TKD was and he worked out that in the Chang Hon pattern set, there are actually only 6 kicks up to blackbelt whereas there are 18 different hand techniques. Of course this is going to be different for the Poomsae, Taeguks etc. but what could be considered the core of the style, the forms, are mostly hand techniques not kicks. So is it really a kicking style or just more of a kicking style than others. Would Kickboxing classify as a kicking MA?

Never used it but I suppose its good for students to know that the training knife will hurt. With a rubber knife its not too scary and you don't have to be that cautious about where the blade is. It does deliver up to 7500 volts though, I'm not sure but isn't that going to hurt a bit?

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It turns into brawling with the rule set. ITF sport sparring only allows for jabs, nothing else. So its does turn into a brawl where you are basically steamtraining your arms rather than throwing crosses or hooks or uppercuts.

Anyone heard about the new BMW? The BMW GINA looks pretty cool: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTYiEkQYhWY Wonder how it would survive a crash though.

Congrats to yourself and those that got their Shodan!

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They probably have it so they can peel it of once they become full Black Belts. Saves getting a whole new belt just because they become a senior. Because I'm in the ITF, virtually everyone's belt is similar, name in gold on the left with your dan bars and Taekwon-Do in Korean and English on the left and often with ITF at the bottom. You get a new one every time you're promoted. I'm not sure for definate but I think it goes back to the old Oh Do Kwan military side; everyone wears identical doboks no matter where you are in the world and everyone's belt is the same. There are some slight variations on the belt but most of the time they are all the same.

Being in wet and windy England the temp doesn't go up much. There isn't any air-con at the venues we train at (either that or nobody's mentioned it) so usually we make do with having the doors and windows open. We are allowed to wear t-shirts to spar instead of full doboks too.

Do you have a daily training routine? I rarely get up early enough to do anything in the morning but I try to do at least one form or some sort of drill work in the evenings and stretch before I go to bed.

I wouldn't say training gets in the way of things (I usually choose training over other pursuits ) but it has stopped me doing a lot of things. Like in school I played GK on the netball team for years then my training night swapped to a Thurs.. netball games were always Thursday. In the end I gave up my spot on the team to carry on training. Also there are times when I've passed on going out with my school friends because I don't want to miss a training session. My school friends just don't get it though, they're all really into their respective sports but I think MA can really be one of those things that takes over your life. This year has been worse as its my final year in school so the last proper chance I'll get to spend with my school friends yet I still train just as much as ever, if not more, and they can get pretty annoyed at times. And I've got exams that'll determine whether I get into uni or not so its been hard trying to cram in homework whereever possible. Also training means I don't have a job because I can't physically manage the minimum number of hours people want. Whatever money I have goes towards training, or buying stuff for training, or travelling to training.. why don't I give it up? I just love it too much. As for karateism, I guess people just don't understand it. In my experience (being both a girl and going to a school where probably about 1% of people do MA) a lot of people have misconceptions about MA so they can't understand why you do so much. It does seem pretty crazy that he asked you when you were going to stop but if you look at other sports people do stop after a while..

Really cheesey but I used to love this show they had on kids tv on channel Five. Combat Club or something like that. They had all the pint-sized martial artists learning a new martial art each week and then competing against each other. Not strictly MA but I did like watching Last Man Standing.

Better than having your birthday in the holidays! Most of the time my friends are out of the country when its my birthday (August 3rd) and when they get back its too late to celebrate. I must have been the only kid in my year not to have Happy Birthday sung to them in assembly in primary school .

Ouch. Nail guns are dangerous things. My mates uncle shot a nail into into his eye apparently.

Not necessarily champions but I have been to a couple of seminars in the past: - Attended a "masterclass" with GM. Choi Jung Hwa, Gen. Choi's son. - IIC seminar with M. Hwang Ho Yong VIII, he did nearly all the flying kicks in the TKD encyclopedia, got him to sign my very first dobok Also I go to national squad training where there are quite a few people who have medals from Euro and World champs. Two people from my home club themselves have won places on the podium. Also being at squad training you get the opportunity to be taught by some real experts like M. Miller VII and M. Whiteley VII not to mention the coaches who themselves have competed.

I agree with this. One thing I will add is that competition is such a confidence booster with regards to how good you really think you are. You can think you're ok compared to those in you school but when you have to go out there in front of a huge crowd, sometimes centre ring, it really helps to put things into perspective. And of course if you lose you can look at the other people and see why they were better than you and what you can do to improve your own skill. Not to mention you get to meet people from all over thos place and can become really good mates with some of them.

Nicely put. In some cases I think from a fiscal point of view you have to abandon some of the "old" practices. A consumer wont initially want to do 100 push-ups in the stifling heat no matter how character building it is or how strong it builds their body. If a school is lacking in students so much that you are considering watering down your content then you need to think about how to get students through your door and retain them by not scaring them away with SAS type drills. Of course once the students get serious then you can work them as hard as you like.

My sister went out and bought Legend of Zelda today. I hate fishing, can't do it. What's Super Monkey Ball like? I did have the GC version but it got pretty scratched up so never played on it much.

At the moment I've got: Wii Sports, Wii Play, Mario & Sonic at the Olympics, Trauma Centre: Second Opinion Guitar Hero III Big Brain Academy I was thinking of maybe buying a LAN adapter so I could download games from the Nintendo site, we don't have wireless. Also any opinions on Mario Kart? I have the GC version but love the idea of actually using a steering wheel. Seen a vid of it on Youtube and it does look pretty cool.