Great Sage

Has anyone read General Choi Hong Hi's book, "TaeKwon-Do?" It's quite a fascinating piece of literature, although at times it gets downright humorous... For example, there's quite a lot of information regarding military etiquette in TKD. One such lesson teaches that a student must never object to his master's wishes, even though his master is in the wrong. How's that for brainwashing?...

There's more... The book shows TKD's applications against soldiers with machine guns. Yes, a knife hand followed by reverse punch can defeat an armed soldier, or so this book says. One has to really wonder how many people can really get into such an encounter. In all fairness, the soldier would simply point and shoot.

The most interesting thing about the book is that it is very thorough in covering every aspect of TKD: history (questionable), theory & practice, techniques, applications & original forms.

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And accomplishes without action;
He accepts the ebb and flow of things,
Nurtures them, but does not own them,
And lives, but does not dwell.

Szczepankiewicz

What are you doing reading this book. It is well known that General Choi was a racist.

Hypocrite.

Damian Mavis

Heh, I guess I should be glad that Spanky has pointed his humorous attacks at the next guy to come along and disagree with him. I'm FREE! FREEEEEEEDDDDOOOOMMMM! Where's my face paint?

Damian Mavis
Honour TKD

Great Sage

You know what, dude... You need to take a good look in the mirror and ask yourself, "...you have dishonored my family and you have dishonored the shaolin temple..." Then, you can stop following me around because we need "emotional content."

"Try again! With meeee...."

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The sage experiences without abstraction,
And accomplishes without action;
He accepts the ebb and flow of things,
Nurtures them, but does not own them,
And lives, but does not dwell.

Szczepankiewicz

Hypocrite.

Kosh

You shouldnt avoid reading his book because hes a racist.

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gregimotis

How does one ask oneself a statement?


Also, he's following you around because you called him and everyone else on this forum a racist.

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Szczepankiewicz

In all seriousness, I have no proof that Choi was a racist. I have no idea what kind of fellow he was.

All I know is that he help organize the deadliest martial art in the world, next to Ninjutsu.

Spanky

BadgerFu57

That's why the U.S. had to win the Korean war.... Korea's Generals would rather use knife hands instead of real knives. And they called a sloppy version of the cross, a "reverse punch."

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brokenelbow

I've seen the entire TKD encyclopedia. I found it interesting and it contains many things that just aren't taught in most dojangs. If you look at the close up pictures of the hands and feet you can tell someone was training in a very serious manner. If someone teaches ITF TKD they really should have these as a reference.

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The crap that many schools do is not the crap I was taught or train in or teach.

Damnit... it made sense when it was running through my head.

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AaronC

BadgerFu57, your ignorance astounds me... I suppose that North Korea having the support of China had nothing to do with the United States intervining with the war... If you look at facts, the South Korean Army has to date one of the most feared armys in the world. During the Vietnam conflict, a ROKMC platoon of about 13 people wiped out around 400 NVA soldiers. The ROKMC had a kill ratio of 25:1. I guess that their training sucked major donkey balls... Just to show i'm not making this up, here's the link.

http://www.specialoperations.com/For.../Default2.html

Spookey

There's more... The book shows TKD's applications against soldiers with machine guns. Yes, a knife hand followed by reverse punch can defeat an armed soldier, or so this book says. One has to really wonder how many people can really get into such an encounter. In all fairness, the soldier would simply point and shoot.

...It is not as easy as you make it seem. Try pointing a 40" Rifle at a scared man less than 20" away from you...now imagine he grabs to reciever and bashes you in the head, pokes your eye out of socket, and cracks your femur with his foot!
Hell, if it was as easy as point and click why do they use those darn bayonets, and why do they have knives, and why wouldn't a battle hardend VET fight with all he has even when out armed!
Glad you arent my protective agent! And what race was Gen. Choi prejudice against?
Please grace me with your superior knowledge!

Greenthink

I have a copy of that book. It is a big table top version with a orange cover. I am willing to sell it , any offers?

I have recently sold two of Mas Oyamas books for $300.00. I will sell this one for $150.00.

doubleouch

Truly this book is one of the reason I quit TKD. It is full of BS. It is obvious that Choi trained hard, but his knowledge of what really works had to have been very limited. He got second hand karate. He obviously misunderstood the applications of the techniques. TKD in its early days was nothing more than warmed over karate poorly done and misunderstood. This guy was the founder and most knowledgeable expert at the time!

brokenelbow

Who did Choi learn shotokan from?

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The crap that many schools do is not the crap I was taught or train in or teach.

Damnit... it made sense when it was running through my head.

DM