First of all you have to know what you want out of the organization/federation. If it is a "legit" organization they want certain standards. Some will say they want everything done a certain way, others will sway a little. I have seen schools teach Taegeuk, Chang Han and Palgue forms, way too much in my opinion. Even in the black belt levels of the "ITF" forms there are multiple forms.
My question is why reinvent the wheel? Choose the pattern set that complements you and study the patterns to see what they are all about. Believe it or not, there is a lifetime of information in a form let alone a set. But one the same hand, the Chang Han are just a reinvention of Shotokan forms and the "WTF" patterns are just interpretations of the Chang Han set. So people are reinventing all the time.
Guess it all comes down to this, what is it that you want out of forms????
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J Stinson
Stinson's Korean Martial Arts Academy
Glasgow, KY
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