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Hello and good evening/morning/afternoon depending on where you are.

Are any of you posters familiar with a style/approach of Taekwondo known as "Professional Taekwondo"? My master, who is from Korea, was explaining once to us about Taekwondo competitions. Aside from WTF and ITF, he mentioned about a branch of Taekwondo called "Professional Taekwondo" which, unlike WTF and ITF, employed the use of knees and elbows in addition to its other techniques in free sparring.

I have not been able to find anything else on this TKD branch. If anyone does know about it, I'd be grateful if you would list its origins, tactics and strategies in sparring, and techniques which separate it from WTF and ITF (aside from the ones already mentioned).

Thanks.

Perfect Practice makes Perfect.

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from my limited knowledge of this sort of thing PTKD is simply a set of rules for sparring..... it cna be applied to either ITF or WTF and in itself is not a particular style.

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My instructor participated in forming a Professional Tae Kwon Do Federation (PTF) here in the U.S. about 6 or 7 years ago. She was to be the director of the north eastern region (or something like that) and we had a couple of demonstrations at our school by some korean master who seemed to be almost force feeding us the new style of sparring that was to be used in PTF events. The whole thing was going to be run (supposedly) like the World Boxing Federation and other professional boxing and kickboxing leagues. There was some amount of hype about it at my school for a couple months, but then no competitions ever ended up happening and the whole thing just fizzled out. Later, about a year ago, I asked my instructor what ever happened to it, and apparently it never got off the ground due to extreme conflicts between the korean and non-korean masters over how the league should be run. I personally didn't even realize that there was a conflict between korean and non-korean masters here in the states, but according to my instructor it runs deep in a number of schools and between a particular group of masters that I really know nothing about. The whole thing sounds a bit mcdojoish (for lack of a better term) to me, which surprised me because my instructor is usually way beyond that sort of pettiness. (or perhaps that's why she stopped endorsing the league.) Anyway, I'm getting off topic now, but that's what I remember of the PTF and as far as I know, it has been the only attempt to bring about a professional TKD league. (in the states anyway.) If anyone has any fillers for the holes in my story, or any updated info I'd be interested in hearing it. I'd love to actually see a professional tkd league startup some time.

Tae Kwon Do - 3rd Dan, Instructor

Brazilian Ju Jitsu - Purple Belt, Level 1 Instructor

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