Originally posted by takeshitoyama
Putting your foot above your head can be effective, an axe kick that lands on your oppenents head can do some serious damage, and lumping TKD with JJ isnt all that silly, they both practice throws and TKD is anything but modern IT can be traced back hundreds of hundreds of years Many historians have traced Taekwondo's origins as far back as the Koguryo Dynasty (37 B.C.-668 A.D.), during which 'Tae Kyon,' an ancient form of the martial art, flourished. During the Silla Dynasty (57 B.C.-936 A.D.), forms of Tae Kyon were practiced by the Hwarang ('flowering youthä), an elite troupe of aristocratic warriors, who practiced martial arts as a way of life and who were closely associated with the king and his court. Also besides Judo, Tae Kwon Do is the only olympic martial art which certainly says that it is an effective martial art and can still be pretty.
Putting your foot above your head can be effective, an axe kick that lands on your oppenents head can do some serious damage, and lumping TKD with JJ isnt all that silly, they both practice throws and TKD is anything but modern IT can be traced back hundreds of hundreds of years Many historians have traced Taekwondo's origins as far back as the Koguryo Dynasty (37 B.C.-668 A.D.), during which 'Tae Kyon,' an ancient form of the martial art, flourished. During the Silla Dynasty (57 B.C.-936 A.D.), forms of Tae Kyon were practiced by the Hwarang ('flowering youthä), an elite troupe of aristocratic warriors, who practiced martial arts as a way of life and who were closely associated with the king and his court. Also besides Judo, Tae Kwon Do is the only olympic martial art which certainly says that it is an effective martial art and can still be pretty.

Boxing is a martial arts too as is wrestling, 2 far more effective arts than TKD, Olympic recognition doesn't say shite about effectiveness of the art, just of the officials in promoting the art to the olympic commitee
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