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Originally Posted by JStinson
All you have to do is 1) look at them, just modifications in the stances and 2)look at the people who made the forms, they practiced another set before they come up with them. They got ideas from the earlier sets to make the "new" sets. The forms were not culminations of decades of work, they were done in a short time. That tells me they had a template to go by.
When it comes to organizations and forms, even the same form set is done differently in each organization. There is no set standard for them. Some instructors forget some of the parts of the form, some change them to fit their wants and some try to recreat them. This takes tradition and shoves it out the door. This is one of the reasons I quit doing TKD at the organization level and just concentrate on Hapkido, no forms!!!!
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The Palgwe, Yudanja/Kodanja and Taegeuk Poomsae did not come from the Chang Hon Hyungs.
As a matter of fact.........
From the 1940's up to the creation of the Palgwe and Dan Poomsae in 1965-67, all the Kwans of that era used the Pyong Ahn and related Dan Hyungs. No Kwan's except Oh Do Kwan used their newly created Chang Hon set (along side the Pyong Ahns).
Oh Do Kwan had only one member on the Poomsae Committee that created the Palgwe, Dan and Taegeuk Poomsae and he had not even completely learned the few existing - and newly created Chang Hon Hyungs at that time. His practice for over 15 years was with the Pyong Ahn and related Dan Hyungs.
However, regardless of historical fact, all we have to do is look at the Taegeuk Poomsae, done by the Kukkiwon standard, and we can see that is far removed from the large clunky movements of the Chang Hon Hyungs created by NAM and HAN. If anything, it is clear that the first 3 taegeuk Poomsaes are direct descendants of the early Okinawans forms and not reworked Chang Hon hyungs.
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