What Types of TKD have you studied?

[eXcessiveForce]

Just wanted to see what types of TKD people have studied.

[IPON]

I have not studied TKD but I have a question...was tae kyon the precursor to TKD...just curious of the history

[eXcessiveForce]

Some say it was, others disagree. Since TKD is a created style it probably was at least some part of the development.

[Great Sage]

According to my Master, we were learning ALL 7 styles of TKD. However, our main style was Oh Do Kwan. A few years down the line, our dojang joined the WTF and we started doing Ji Do Kwan, because it was an international movement. At the time, I didn't really care, since I hated forms practice and the original forms were a nuisance to learn and maintain. I hated Taeguek forms too, but they're easier, although I don't remember any.

[swagman]

Many moons ago

I did WTF.

I didnt enjoy it much as the instructor was crap, and there was way too much politics involved.

My instructor was made into a 5th degree black belt and yet I have met many other martial artists of a much lower rank who knew more and could teach more and better.

I am sure that the majority of TKD clubs are far better than the one I went to (I know this because I have seen them).

One good thing he did for us, was to work us hard, I was as fit as a butchers dog at the time

[BeCubic06]

Tae Kyon, though some people would like to believe it for some reason, HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH TKD. In fact, Tae Kyon still thrives in Korea today. If you watch anything on it, you can get a video of it from turtle press by the way, you would see that it is a very unique martial art with a very rhythmic range of movements. One main distinguishing factor is they are proficient at the inverse/reverse roundhouse kick. Now, I have noticied that for some reason, people relate Tae Kyon with Su Bahk Do, dont know why. I would like to say that TKD is more rooted from the "Chinese Hand Way" or Dang Soo Do(Mu Doo Kwan) or Karate Do(Okinawa) than any other martial art. Since Koreans are very nationalistic, and often try to stay away from relating anything to Japan(for some good reasons), thye often speak about TKD as being related to previous ancient Koryo and Sill martial arts, though their influence is probably non-existent in most TKD.

[Great Sage]

I tend to agree with you, BeCubic06... TKD is actually more related to Japanese karate than the Koreans would like to admit. In fact, it's almost identical in some regards; same stances, knife hands, reverse punch and kicks etc...

This is due to the fact that during the Japanse occupation of Korea, civilians were prohibited from engaging in cultural activities, including martial arts. They COULD, however learn Japanese arts. Therefore, many koreans studied karate.

After the war, several Korean karate masters continued their training in Japan. When karate began to spread wide in Korea, it was changed little by little into what is now called TKD. The stories of the Three Kingdoms of Old Korea has little, or nothing to do with TKD.

[Damian Mavis]

Yes I think of TKD as Korean Karate, the older Korean arts seem to have little to do with modern TKD.

I run an ITF school but I train in WTF as well and may be teaching WTF soon in Thailand.

Damian Mavis
Honour TKD

[Andrew WA]

I am a 2nd dan in WTF Taekwondo but I dont train in sport sparring, I train in fighting.

I dont see ANY difference between the kwans now days. I was under a jidokwan school before then went to a chungdokwan school and its the EXACT same teachings! Same forms and everything. I quit TKD though last week because I got fed up with the crap that went on at that school.

[Silent Giant]

I'm not sure what style TKD I trained in but I think that it was WTF. I started training when I was 8 made 1st dan when I was 12. I stuck in it until I was 14 and quit after our head instructor got forced out of the school and our Grandmaster brought in a real asshole who didn't know how to work with kids. They also changed all of the requirements for all belt promotions (new forms) and I would have had to go back to the beginning to re-learn everything and that would've taken at least a year. Its damn embarrasing to come into the dojang, be the highest ranking student in the class, and not be able to do the basic white belt forms. I finally got tired of all the crap that was happening and quit.

[brokenelbow]

Oh Do Kwan (aka Odokwan).

I tend to agree with you, BeCubic06... TKD is actually more related to Japanese karate than the Koreans would like to admit. In fact, it's almost identical in some regards; same stances, knife hands, reverse punch and kicks etc...

We still have an arm load of Shotokan kata (Bassai, Tekki 1-3, Hangetsu, empi and a few others that crop up). We're very Japanese in execution and style.

[falcon3624]

I trained in TKD for about a month before I went to bigger better things.

I think I did the TKD style that sucks the worse out of all of them whichever one that is.

[bvermillion]

ATA

Why doesn't the American Taekwondo Association ever get any credit? We do have more members then any other martial arts association.

[eXcessiveForce]

Because for 25 years we didn't play well with others.

[falcon3624]

And didn't win well against others.