tkd potential

[mastertae]

i did a lot of research on different martial arts and discovered that tkd has many unused techniques....m,any people mostly the ones who like bragging...do not utilize tkd's elbows, knees or fingertip thrusts and so on...in fact there are techniques that deal with kneeing similar to mauy tai!....the problem i belive is that many people tend to only focus on 1 area of a martial art instead of the whole...

[three60roundhouse]

Yes....this is what we have been telling the TKD bashers for a long time....just becasue we like to show off our acrobatic yet almost useless flying and spinning kicks, we do have a lot of practicality that is overlooked. A lot of studios even teach grappling nowadays!

[KickChick]

Taekwondo is believed to be one of the oldest Oriental arts of unarmed self-defense.

 

It was widely practiced during Korea's Three Han era,300 years before Christ and has been changing with the times ever since...I mean how could it not?.

 

At the turn of the 20th century, TKD was outlawed by the ruling Japanese occupiers of Korea. It then went underground, where people practiced it secretly and once again kept it alive.

 

In 1945, when Korea was liberated from the Japanese, a number of Koreans who were interested in TKD took steps to revitalize this ancient and traditional martial art. About ten schools were founded by masters with different particular philosophies and different emphasis of techniques to express their differences in style. So this is where you will find the many differences in TKD styles.

 

Bear in mind also the different assciations. Sport and traditional TKD.

 

It was in the early 1960s that TKD began to systematically organize itself both in matters of administration and technique. In 1961, the Korean Taesudo Association was formed in an attempt to organize the administration of the various schools. Finally, in 1965, the Korean Taekwondo Association was formed and the name "taekwondo" became official.

 

In 1966, the International Taekwondo Federation was established for the purpose of promoting TKD outside of Korea. This was an important step in the international development of TKD. But the most important changes that TKD underwent in the 1960s were in the way it was practiced and in the techniques themselves.

 

The 1960s and 1970s were when most of the technical innovations in sparring were developed such as the spinning and jumping kicks and the incredible footwork that allows competitors to execute complex and dazzling kicking combinations while moving forward or backward. I wouldn't call these "useless" by no means! By the 1980s, the modern nature of TKD as a sport including techniques and rules was firmly established. But there continues to be subtle changes in strategy and technique which are a mark of dynamic and the progressive nature of "sport" TKD.

 

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1st dan Black Belt Tae Kwon Do (ITF)/ CardioKickbox/Fitness Instructor

 

[ This Message was edited by: KickChick on 2002-02-26 08:48 ]

[mastertae]

well done and well researched!!!

[Joecooke007]

Wow kickchick! Someone did her homework. Thanks for the interesting read.

 

 

[Old Kicker]

I suppose every school is different..

do not utilize tkd's elbows, knees or fingertip thrusts and so on.

 

We've been using all of these things.

[mastertae]

I did not say "schools

 

"m,any people mostly the ones who like bragging...do not utilize tkd's elbows, knees or fingertip thrusts and so on..."

 

All schools that I've seen teach and utilize these things, though some may emphasize other things a little more

[Bretty101]

Is this why no one can tell me how to do a trist kick?

 

Bretty

[TKD_McGee]

Bah, go ask Jeeves.

 

 

[taezee]

kickchick....good insight as far as useless kicks..man am i tired of hearing that from people who dont know...wanna know about plumbing speak to a plumber..wanna know about electric talk to an electrician ..wanna know about kicking?? talk to a taekwondo stylist!!! thats us..kicks r us..and we make our kicks work!!! any one saying different doesnt know jack about taekwondo!!!!or are in deep denial!!!

 

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Javier l Rosario

 

bayshore new york

 

instructor taekwondo/hapkido

 

"whenever youre lazy enough not to train .someone, somewhere is training very hard to kick your ass"

 

[ This Message was edited by: taezee on 2002-03-15 03:09 ]