tommarker Posted May 27, 2003 Share Posted May 27, 2003 Vash, First off, welcome to the wonderful world of Korean Martial Arts. As you've already seen, Tae Kwon Do means a lot of things to a lot of people. There are several TKD resources available, both offline and online. Most of them center around forms. For example, you may find Master Mac's Korean Forms Resource Page a good start to get a rough idea as to what some different forms look like. http://mchenry.homeip.net/TangSooDo/forms/ Tang Soo Do and Tae Kwon Do are slightly different animals, and from there, you can work your way back into researching other forms of related martial arts: Shotokan, Shorin Ryu, Shaolin White Crane, Tai Chi, etc. Each of these will give you some interesting spins and opinions. Why does one group do technique A and the other Technique B? Why do two people call something technique C and it looks completely different? I'm going to go on a limb and assume you are either not highly advanced in either martial arts or computers. If so, you would know where to find lots of great free stuff online already. Some of the best ways to start are to see what sort of clubs and arts are close to you. If you don't know what it is, look it up on google. You'll start to see other names and info repeated over and over. Look that up, and continue to dig. I'm no longer posting here. Adios. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Posted May 27, 2003 Share Posted May 27, 2003 Hi Vash, Here's a link to the Palgwe and Taeguek forms. Each one is printable and a very good reference. http://www.fisks.com/tkd/tkd_poomse.html Here's a link to the USTU page ( United States Taekwondo Union ) which is the governing body for the WTF in America. As Taekwondo was the name formed under the coming together of about 10 different kwans .. schools of Korean martial arts .. There are many different associations that instruct in the art of TKD. http://members.aol.com/ustccolospgs/USTCStudentGuide.htm Good Luck !! There's lots to learn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karatekid1975 Posted May 28, 2003 Share Posted May 28, 2003 I was about to give Vash that one (USTU, that is). And here's the WTF site http://www.kukkiwon.or.kr/eng/ Hope this helps Laurie F Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VashTheStampede Posted May 28, 2003 Author Share Posted May 28, 2003 oh thank you karatekid ,orange-belted guys for helping me =========== I'm going to go on a limb and assume you are either not highly advanced in either martial arts or computers. If so, you would know where to find lots of great free stuff online already. ========== In computers i'm semiprofessional but in the martial arts i don't know anything (poooor) I just hate to search the web for sites likes this ,i did find TKD sites but in arabic, Thank you see ya soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Posted May 29, 2003 Share Posted May 29, 2003 Here's a good link for you Vash .. everything you ever wanted to learn about Tae-kwon-do from beginner basics, all the Taeguek and Palgwe forms, Kicking, sparring, pretty much everything. They are all very well done as i have a few of the DVD's. http://www.turtlepress.com/default.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Padawon Posted June 4, 2003 Share Posted June 4, 2003 wtf is sports orinated, ITF is traditional its up to you WTF-TaeKwonDo White belt________________________________________Bill Cho's National TKD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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