Pics of my fight with a tae kwon dork

[Roland]

Originally posted by Brokenmace
The Japanese helped twist TKD into a sport during their occupation. Basically cultural sabotage.

Er...no...

The Koreans had no trouble "twisting" TKD into a sport all by themselves. The Japanese had nothing to do with this.

"Cultural sabotage"? In terms of martial arts, there really wasn't any cultural sabotage at all by the Japanese unless you consider Koreans taking to Judo or the fact that TKD has its roots in Shotokan Karate (unrecognizable now due to the divergent ways both arts have evolved) to be "cultural sabotage".

[Goku]

No no no, u guys have it all wrong... it's

Take one dork as in some dork to take to the dojo and beat the shit out of to test how good u'r punching and kicking got since the last time u sent him to the hospital... :P

[Sean J]

Originally posted by Roland


...the fact that TKD has its roots in Shotokan Karate (unrecognizable now due to the divergent ways both arts have evolved) to be "cultural sabotage".

Where is the link between TKD and Shotokan? I have seen TKD-forms that resemble kata from Goju-Ryu but I thought they had them from a common source.


Sean

[Roland]

From what I understand, General Choi learned Shotokan Karate (I believe he was a 2nd Dan) when he was studying in Japan (many Koreans were educated in Japan during the Japanese education of Korea).

Many of the early TKD forms were Shotokan forms that had been "Koreanified" by giving them new (Korean) names. The ITF still uses these forms.

The WTF has tried to distance itself from both General Choi and TKD's Japanese origins so they made up a bunch of new forms so the Japanese origins in WTF TKD forms is not so evident.