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Everyone states that TKD came from Japanese ma(s) but always state that the system is lacking in its range of technique...so why if TKD (or the many original Kwans) was developed by Koreans who first practiced Japanese styles (ie. Shotokan and Jujutsu) would it be so far fetched an idea as to accept that true TKD/Oh Do Kwan would have joint locks, throws, and reversals?
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Depends on who taught them their Shotokan. If Choi learned watered down Shotokan which was watered down Okinawan karate then he started off on the wrong foot no matter what. If he learned from some of Funikoshi's better personal students he'd be doing OK. Nam Tae Hi from what I understand had much better skills than Choi. One thing you haven't mentioned is that the Oh Do Kwan was supposed to be a place where the best Korean martial artists could teach and the best distilled into Choi and Nams art. Good idea ruined by typical Korean politics.
And please stop with the "True TKD" stuff as that battle is over and regretably the ITF lost. Choi fiddled and faddled with his TKD over the years and made it worse IMO. Maybe if he stuck to making it a good system of combatives and not self improvement TKD would still have respect as a martial art.