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Originally Posted by lindz
Alright, my first poll...out of the TKD tenets, which do you value the most?
I value self control.
This may be a hard poll.
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Those are not the Tenets of Taekwondo, however popular they maybe.
Those are CHOI, Hong Hi's Tenets. He originally crafted those for his "Taekwondo Oh Do Kwan in 1956. After he was expelled from the Oh Do Kwan, he left Korea and took his ITF with him. Those Tenets also became the ITF Tenets.
None of the other 8 Kwans of Taekwondo used them, they have their own and still use them today.
The Korea Taekwondo Association, the Kukkiwon and the WTF never used them either.
The thing is, many people have no idea with their roots are, or if they have a clue, they usually do not know their Kwan's philosophy. However, CHOI, Hong Hi was very aggressive in getting published in articles to spread his propaganda. He was so successful that many Kukkiwon and WTF people THINK that those are the Tenets of Taekwondo, when in fact, they are only the Tenets of Oh Do Kwan and the ITF.
So the real question should be do you know your Kwan roots, and what was the Philosophy of that Kwan? If you are Kukkiwon Taekwondo, do you know the philosophy of Taekwondo according to Kukkiwon? Of course, if you are ITF or Oh Do Kwan based, those are your Tenets.
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