Shooter and Elbow!
Elbow,
You may have that backwards. If you are not training the techniques you are not practicing the art! Thus the phrase "bastardization"
Shooter,
Many are not aware that the Pyong Ahn (Tang Soo Do) are nothing more than another name for the Heian Katas of Karate-Do. Gen. Choi readily credits his training in Karate Do as the primal existance of what became the Chang Hon (Chon Ji) patterns. Matter of fact, Gen. Choi's original TKD text has some of these Karate-Do patterns along with his newer Taekwon-DO patterns.
The primary reasoning behind the name "Taekwon-Do" as we all know was to deliniate from the Japanese influence. Being that the Pyong Ahn set was Karate-Do Katas, they needed replaced to seperate the techniques of the new art!
Also, Tang Soo Do (Tang=Chinese Dynasty, Soo=hand, Do=way)...the way of the China Hand is a comparison to Karate-Do...As Korea did away with all things Japanese, earlier Japan had done the same thing to all thing Chinese (Karate-Do was originally China Hand, then changed to "Empty Hand"!
TAEKWON!
Spookey
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