In the glory days of my old TKD school it was trained as soon as you got the basics down. Then you were taught how to break holds, how to throw and where to target your stikes and kicks. Once you had that you were exposed to various attacks and strategies and tactics against them. As time went by it gets more free form with one taking the role of defender and the other attacker. Finally once you got good control over the techniques and you could use the techniques in sparring. It was never self defense technique 1, technique 2, etc, it was more free form. You really learned how to respond rather than look up the appropriate technique in your head. Those days are gone in that school but the karate school that I now go to does almost the samething.
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The crap that many schools do is not the crap I was taught or train in or teach.
Damnit... it made sense when it was running through my head.
DM
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