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Originally Posted by Spookey
It encompasses striking, trapping, releases, throws, and joint destruction!
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?
The lack of properly trained instructors promoting watered down TKD (as well as all TMA) is the main reason for the common perception that TKD is not an effective means of fighting.
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I study Chung Do Kwan and the school I attend also teaches joint locks, throws, reversals and a wide variety of hand techniques in addition to the wide cirriculum of kicks that most people see as the whole of the art.
It really bothers me that schools like mine and yours seem to have become the minority for our art.