Originally Posted by Acitic

The base of taekwon-do is karate mixed with traditional korean foot fighting(answer based on ITF Theory), so almost all of the kicks are the same, taekwon-do just focus's more on the foot fighting vs the hand fighting..... however don't mistake the ablity of taekwon-do practitioners to use there hands, it all depends on the school and organization of taekwon-do + cross training. In my school you are chastised if you don't keep your hands up / punch when you are to close to kick.. however in the WTF school i train in(cardio) they keep there hands at the side and don't punch at all... it all depends on the school