It's moreso "sport" driven which is what nowadays kids could stand. I've been taught the traditional styles like shown here since a kid but only recently have I been going to a dojang and learned the "sport" style. BOTH definitely are hard and serve different worlds but I get what u mean and feel the same. I hope to go to Korea one day to learn the traditional kind more
Taekwondo is bad ass. Just needs a little cross training but it’s a high level foundation. Look up Steve Vick. Also, a lot of similarities between Taekwondo and Savate. Savate is a highly effective type of kickboxing.
Very true. Theres a reason taekwondo means the way to use the foot and hands, it's really open to interpretation on how you apply techniques. So the possibility are endless and shouldn't be restricted by what you've been taught. The newer generation and younger masters seem to be more focused on the sport aspect and less the old traditional aspect of tkd. Self defense is a must in tkd training as well as sparring.
Competant instructors drill this all the time. A lot of modern WT schools are so sparring focused that they teach and reinforce bad habits. I trained ITF to 4th Dan and WT to 3rd. You dont see gaps like that in most ITF schools as they split their time between different aspects or training better as a whole.
Hello Samuel I like the style of taikwondo you do .You practice the traditional style that includes the knee strikies along with the spinning back fist. Most of the taikwondo I see are usually fighters hopping on one leg while shooting out a hundred side kicks that never seem to make contact with each other.
They are much gone now as the uses for the art is decreasing. Olympic style now refers from hitting too hard so many now have to be reliant on fast but light kicks in tournaments. If you want to learn full traditional you would need a time machine and go back to the 90s but you’ll end up hating it as they used to beat you with a stick if you didn’t do something right. I’ve visited america and the closest I’ve gotten to a practical, hard hitting taekwondo studio was a mma class. They taught taekwondo and sparred heavily, practiced knee strikes and we had poomsae. I never found a taekwondo specialized studio that would teach in a more power focused form, in Korea you may find some but they are rare even here. Still, Korean tkd even if it’s wtf is no joke, demo training is hard and easy only for certain people.
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