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Originally posted by Tom Yum
Karate & TKD can be learned by books, but I think you can't learn past yellow belt level. White belt techniques can be learned - lunge punch, reverse punch, knife hand, basic palm strikes and blocks - same with the basic front snap, round house and side kick.
Without any experience it would be difficult to perform more advanced techniques. Get an instructor.
If you're attempting to learn chin na and shuai jiao, you definintely need an instructor as the moves are complicated and difficult to visualize without any previous grappling experience.
Stick with your conditioning and practice your basic karate and tkd techniques. Then find instructors in karate, tang soo do, tkd and Chinese Martial Arts.
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Actually it is best to have a teacher in the begining that prevents you from making mistakes, lateron it is hard to get rid of bad habits like telegraphing your punch
As for the advance techniques, once you undestand the priciples of the art and how body mechanics work, you can learn out of a book, most arts do not work against bodymechanics in excecuting the techniques ( you work against the bodymechanics of the opponent but use it)
If you are critical and have mirror or videotape yourself, videos might be a replacement for a teacher in the early stages
As a teacher I had the hardest time correcting the mistakes other teachers had allowed to creep in