forms

[fujita san]

why r tkd forms so easy to do

[CloudDragon]

which ones?

[UpTheIrons]

Who says they're easy? They're probably very easy if you don't do them right, which can be said about any forms.

[ninjanurse]

Here's my 2 cents:

1. If you already have martial arts training in kata, then learning a new styles forms will be easier for you.

2. Having taught in several different styles I can say that I have not found that students have any more difficulty learning forms in any one style than the other.

[tsdtony]

I would have too agree tkd forms do look simple and thay dont look practical.But thats only because i take tsd and where taught a diffrent way of devloping powere.So wile it looke simple and rong too me.Its neather I would think its just as hard to learn a tkd form as it is any other art.While it easy for you it could be hell for someone else.

[ranger1100ky]

Tae Kwon Do forms, and most other martial arts forms SHOULD be 'relatively' easy to learn.

Martial art, involves moving your body, in ways it was DESIGNED BY NATURE to move.

I'm firmly convinced, any drunken fool can DO Chon-ji, for example... and could probably do Po-eun if they wanted to.

DOING EM RIGHT... now that's another matter.

To do a form RIGHT in TKD... a few things need to happen...(and I speak with experience in the Songahm and Chang-hon form systems... I don't know ANY of the WTF forms)

1.) You need to begin and end, on exactly the same spot.

2.) Chambering properly is important

3.) Stances MUST be solid, and uniform, and you MUST transition from stance to stance EASILY and with BALANCE AND CONTROL

4.) Don't just 'slop' the kicks up... do them RIGHT.. (lift, chamber, extend-HOLD, rechamber, step into next stance)

5.) LOOK before you chamber, and chamber BEFORE you turn or move.

6.) BREATHE PROPERLY

7.) Perform the form in ITS OWN proper rhythm..

8.) Know the meaning/philosophy surrounding that form, by HEART.

9.) When you think you have your form down perfect... admit that you're WRONG, and do it another 100 times and find out where it's STILL not PERFECT.

It might seem boring... but believe me... I've found no better way to improve one's own technique... than to do the forms properly, paying rapt attention to details.

Your's in TKD,

Paul

[Sam]

So what your saying is ALL tkd forms are easy - which set? just interested in which ones you've learnt...

other than that anything i would put would be a repetition of what paul has put [having also learnt a number of sets]

Also in interested - why do you say they are look impractical tsdtony - i understand about hte power creation differences, but other than that?

Thanks in advance for the reply

[Kicks]

I find the Tae Gueks very easy to learn. What you do to the left you repeat on the right. However, to do them correctly and understand their application is a different story. Each punch, each kick, each block should be delivered with power and snap. Enough power to break bone. No one single technique has only one application for use in self defense. Each form has its own meaning and application.

[tsdtony]

its not posible to know the form if your not doing it right.So y the drunk would try the form if its not perfect its not right.so i think your rong when you say anyone can learn the form.Also you are right there is a great many thing that have to flow together to do the form.But in many tkd schools the expectashin on the forms is much less thean most arts.So if people go online thay will see a lot of lazy forms.but you cant base all tkd schools on that.In my experonce the itf tend to have more complicted forms thean the wtf.

[TSDforChrist]

Taekwondo forms, just as any other forms, should not really be evaluated in terms of complexity. They are a catalogue of technique, both obvious and less so. You can teach any idiot to go through the motions. With a little bit of effort, that same idiot can make those motions look good. But the entire point of the hyung is the application of the techniques contained therein, both those that are obvious (a punch is a punch, a kick is a kick) and those not so obvious (areas sometimes called "hidden movements" meant to remind the advanced practitioner of techniques). While a hyung may appear simplistic, it takes a thorough understanding of its depth, and even the fact that forms have depth to them to begin to see the "why" of a hyung.

In Christ,

Master Phil Stewart

4th Dan Tang Soo Do