Thursday, November 12, 2009
Does anyone have opinions regarding the mix of Wing Chun and Taekwondo? Have your say?
Have you ever thought about mixing Wing Chun with Taekwondo to create your own special mix of styles?
Do you have anything to say for those who would mix Wing Chun with Taekwondo?
What do you think about the idea of mixing the nice hand techniques of Wing Chun with the nice foot techniques of Taekwondo?
Have your say! I would be interested to know what you people think!|||This is what Bruce Lee did, largely. If you read his book, his kicks come from Taekwondo, while Wing Chun was his base style. He also took some throws and grappling from Judo, and some additional punching ideas from Boxing. |||I have to agree with sifu_frank, each system is unique and complete. Once you have attained a sufficient understanding in one, feel free to cross train in the other.
I get what you say when you talk about mixing the hand techniques of wing chun with the kicks of TKD, but I also see a small problem with this. Yes knowing both systems would help in different circumstances, but that is because each has their own range for fighting.
TKD is excellent for a slightly further distance because of the kicking. That doesn%26#039;t mean there aren%26#039;t any close fighting techniques, there are many kicks even in TKD that can be executed from less than a foot away. Check out a movie called Billy Jack; the main character (actually a famous Hapkido instructor acting as a stunt man) uses a TKD style crescent kick from just inches away to kick an opponent in the head.
While Wing Chun wouldn%26#039;t hurt to add more hand techniques, it is in itself a full fighting system as well. With proper understanding in either art you shouldn%26#039;t have much need for the other. Which brings us back to the idea of cross training; while it isn%26#039;t strictly speaking necessary, it is very interesting to learn new styles.
Calling a fusion of Wing Chun and TKD a new style would be misleading though. simply picking and choosing techniques from each system to use in your %26quot;own%26quot; really means you are incompletely teaching both styles, at the same time.|||I think it%26#039;s a good mix.
The major weakness would remain a lack of practice in blocking hand strikes to the head.
It%26#039;s not that they don%26#039;t, or won%26#039;t, or can%26#039;t, but it%26#039;s been my experience with both of those that they don%26#039;t often train to defend looping punching to the head. In training Wing Chun, it%26#039;s usually against Wing Chun, etc.
But still, it%26#039;s a good combination.
James|||Regarding pure technique, it%26#039;s not a bad idea. On a more strategic and tactical level, there are some principles which don%26#039;t fit well at first. However I%26#039;m a big proponent of cross-training. I say go for it. Any reasonably intelligent person can make these systems work together. People have been doing it for centuries.|||Good idea. Bruce Lee mixed Wing Chun with other styles to create his unique Jeet Kune Do. However, you have to be proficient in those styles before you can do it. I just wonder if Bruce Lee had master all those styles because he was quite young when he created Jeet Kune Do.|||Our school teaches Traditional Tae Kwan Do and Wing chung Kung Fu. We teach them separately as they should, because each is a complete and full system. Our students are encouraged to cross train after achieving a black belt or black sash. You need to commit to the entire system for enough time to understand the principals. This takes time. For the students that have done this the say it is awesome and has lead to the discovery that each art has a little of the other already.|||All that is good in a controlled sparring environment in the ring or dojo but in a sudden violent street confrontation where there is little time to think just react whatever you train in the most will prevail .|||We call it Taekwing Chun Do.
Do you have anything to say for those who would mix Wing Chun with Taekwondo?
What do you think about the idea of mixing the nice hand techniques of Wing Chun with the nice foot techniques of Taekwondo?
Have your say! I would be interested to know what you people think!|||This is what Bruce Lee did, largely. If you read his book, his kicks come from Taekwondo, while Wing Chun was his base style. He also took some throws and grappling from Judo, and some additional punching ideas from Boxing. |||I have to agree with sifu_frank, each system is unique and complete. Once you have attained a sufficient understanding in one, feel free to cross train in the other.
I get what you say when you talk about mixing the hand techniques of wing chun with the kicks of TKD, but I also see a small problem with this. Yes knowing both systems would help in different circumstances, but that is because each has their own range for fighting.
TKD is excellent for a slightly further distance because of the kicking. That doesn%26#039;t mean there aren%26#039;t any close fighting techniques, there are many kicks even in TKD that can be executed from less than a foot away. Check out a movie called Billy Jack; the main character (actually a famous Hapkido instructor acting as a stunt man) uses a TKD style crescent kick from just inches away to kick an opponent in the head.
While Wing Chun wouldn%26#039;t hurt to add more hand techniques, it is in itself a full fighting system as well. With proper understanding in either art you shouldn%26#039;t have much need for the other. Which brings us back to the idea of cross training; while it isn%26#039;t strictly speaking necessary, it is very interesting to learn new styles.
Calling a fusion of Wing Chun and TKD a new style would be misleading though. simply picking and choosing techniques from each system to use in your %26quot;own%26quot; really means you are incompletely teaching both styles, at the same time.|||I think it%26#039;s a good mix.
The major weakness would remain a lack of practice in blocking hand strikes to the head.
It%26#039;s not that they don%26#039;t, or won%26#039;t, or can%26#039;t, but it%26#039;s been my experience with both of those that they don%26#039;t often train to defend looping punching to the head. In training Wing Chun, it%26#039;s usually against Wing Chun, etc.
But still, it%26#039;s a good combination.
James|||Regarding pure technique, it%26#039;s not a bad idea. On a more strategic and tactical level, there are some principles which don%26#039;t fit well at first. However I%26#039;m a big proponent of cross-training. I say go for it. Any reasonably intelligent person can make these systems work together. People have been doing it for centuries.|||Good idea. Bruce Lee mixed Wing Chun with other styles to create his unique Jeet Kune Do. However, you have to be proficient in those styles before you can do it. I just wonder if Bruce Lee had master all those styles because he was quite young when he created Jeet Kune Do.|||Our school teaches Traditional Tae Kwan Do and Wing chung Kung Fu. We teach them separately as they should, because each is a complete and full system. Our students are encouraged to cross train after achieving a black belt or black sash. You need to commit to the entire system for enough time to understand the principals. This takes time. For the students that have done this the say it is awesome and has lead to the discovery that each art has a little of the other already.|||All that is good in a controlled sparring environment in the ring or dojo but in a sudden violent street confrontation where there is little time to think just react whatever you train in the most will prevail .|||We call it Taekwing Chun Do.
I need some advice from other Taekwondo students?
I haven%26#039;t been able to go to TKD classes for over a month since I have been really busy with homework. My goal is to go for the Olympic taekwondo team. But I need to be a black belt. I missed the last testing. But I have all of next month to train. I am a low yellow belt. What can I do to get prepared to be on track for testing?|||I don%26#039;t think so maybe if you attend some joke of an academy. I started traing tkd when I was 12 years old and it took me about a year per belt and I trained until I was 23. Iwouldn%26#039;t even consider myself olympic material and I am 26 now. Sun yi%26#039;s academy of tkd. I made it to 3rd degree black belt. I doubt it for you, good luck.|||Just go back to class, practice your material, and keep active physically. But honestly, you have a .01% chance of making the Olypmic TKD team. First, you do have to be a black belt, but that takes roughly 1-1.5 years. And then, the olypmic team doesnt look first degrees, which is what you will be in 2008. Unless you are trying for the 2012 olympics, just get back into TKD and keep practicing. Remember, to be a good black belt as well, you will need to be able to teach, not just learn.|||you still have a LOOOONNNGGG time to wait until your black belt test. just sit tight, and if you can go back to classes then the next testing if you are ready then you will test.
it doesnt necessarily take 6-7 years, the average it takes is about 4-6 years. however, 1-1.5 years is WAAAYY too short for a black belt because you can barely do a crescent kick sheesh i%26#039;m about to take my black belt test and i%26#039;ve been training for 5 years, and i%26#039;m not even close to the best first degree i%26#039;ve seen, let alone heard about. so if you take your black belt test after 1.5 years man, our purple belts (5th belt out of 10) could beat you. it takes about 1.5 years to get HALF WAY THROUGH the belts, and then much longer to finish (depending on the person). only the TRULY EXCEPTIONAL people get their black belts in only a year. and usually, those people already have experience in other martial arts.
oh. also, never let anyone tell you you can%26#039;t be on the olympic team. if it%26#039;s your dream, and if you act on it, then anything is possible. however, since you%26#039;re only a yellow belt (which is what, 2nd or third out of how many?) it%26#039;s probably too early for you to be thinking about that. first you should set smaller goals, such as getting your next belt and getting your black belt. then after that you can start training full time.
however, if you miss classes then there is no way you could possibly be on the olympic team. those people train, im willing to bet, all day almost every day. and it%26#039;s not enough to dream about something or set a goal for it. you also have to act on it.|||If you hve both eyes on the goal,,you will not see the path to get there.|||Before I start on this...
%26quot; First, you do have to be a black belt, but that takes roughly 1-1.5 years%26quot;
In what dream world? Any black belt you %26quot;earn%26quot; in 1.5 years is a joke, and so is the person who %26quot;earned%26quot; it. Black belts take years upon years to earn properly, the faster of which being upwards of 6 - 7 years unless you%26#039;re at some watered down mcdojo in the states. Anyone who%26#039;s been training for 2 years and is given a black belt should be ashamed to wear it - it was not earned.
Now - to the question at hand. If you wanna be on the olympic TKD team, then missing class for a month is not an option ... ever. Train every day, regardless of whether or not you%26#039;re at your dojang, at least as hard as you train there, if not harder. Your goal should be, in this instance, to surpass your peers and eventually your teachers. Work hard, always move forward, and don%26#039;t cave in.|||i dont know|||train daily (twice or thrice a day if possible), train hard. no dilly-dallying. you%26#039;ll be black belt material in at least four years. and then you train even harder. a couple hundred more hours of training, and you%26#039;ll have a bit of chance making it to the olympic team. black belt isn%26#039;t something that can be attained just like that.
i%26#039;d recommend PLENTY of crosstraining and tournaments (invaluable for experience). try to participate in tournaments regularly. and remember, don%26#039;t rush advancing to the next level. always strive to push every one of your limits. your individual skill is what%26#039;s important (can you do ALL the techniques and forms from white to black belt with ease? how many tournaments have you won? out of how many? do you have confidence in yourself and your skills?). concentrate on cultivating your skills, rather than paying attention to superficial belts and titles. once you start not to care about belts (no, i am not saying not to get your promotions), but on your proficiency, you just might have a shot.|||practice even when you miss classes. If you have a manual keep going over the forms and applications. See if someone will train with you. It is great to have a training partner to keep you accountable and motivated.
In our school it take about 3 yr to get a black belt.
it doesnt necessarily take 6-7 years, the average it takes is about 4-6 years. however, 1-1.5 years is WAAAYY too short for a black belt because you can barely do a crescent kick sheesh i%26#039;m about to take my black belt test and i%26#039;ve been training for 5 years, and i%26#039;m not even close to the best first degree i%26#039;ve seen, let alone heard about. so if you take your black belt test after 1.5 years man, our purple belts (5th belt out of 10) could beat you. it takes about 1.5 years to get HALF WAY THROUGH the belts, and then much longer to finish (depending on the person). only the TRULY EXCEPTIONAL people get their black belts in only a year. and usually, those people already have experience in other martial arts.
oh. also, never let anyone tell you you can%26#039;t be on the olympic team. if it%26#039;s your dream, and if you act on it, then anything is possible. however, since you%26#039;re only a yellow belt (which is what, 2nd or third out of how many?) it%26#039;s probably too early for you to be thinking about that. first you should set smaller goals, such as getting your next belt and getting your black belt. then after that you can start training full time.
however, if you miss classes then there is no way you could possibly be on the olympic team. those people train, im willing to bet, all day almost every day. and it%26#039;s not enough to dream about something or set a goal for it. you also have to act on it.|||If you hve both eyes on the goal,,you will not see the path to get there.|||Before I start on this...
%26quot; First, you do have to be a black belt, but that takes roughly 1-1.5 years%26quot;
In what dream world? Any black belt you %26quot;earn%26quot; in 1.5 years is a joke, and so is the person who %26quot;earned%26quot; it. Black belts take years upon years to earn properly, the faster of which being upwards of 6 - 7 years unless you%26#039;re at some watered down mcdojo in the states. Anyone who%26#039;s been training for 2 years and is given a black belt should be ashamed to wear it - it was not earned.
Now - to the question at hand. If you wanna be on the olympic TKD team, then missing class for a month is not an option ... ever. Train every day, regardless of whether or not you%26#039;re at your dojang, at least as hard as you train there, if not harder. Your goal should be, in this instance, to surpass your peers and eventually your teachers. Work hard, always move forward, and don%26#039;t cave in.|||i dont know|||train daily (twice or thrice a day if possible), train hard. no dilly-dallying. you%26#039;ll be black belt material in at least four years. and then you train even harder. a couple hundred more hours of training, and you%26#039;ll have a bit of chance making it to the olympic team. black belt isn%26#039;t something that can be attained just like that.
i%26#039;d recommend PLENTY of crosstraining and tournaments (invaluable for experience). try to participate in tournaments regularly. and remember, don%26#039;t rush advancing to the next level. always strive to push every one of your limits. your individual skill is what%26#039;s important (can you do ALL the techniques and forms from white to black belt with ease? how many tournaments have you won? out of how many? do you have confidence in yourself and your skills?). concentrate on cultivating your skills, rather than paying attention to superficial belts and titles. once you start not to care about belts (no, i am not saying not to get your promotions), but on your proficiency, you just might have a shot.|||practice even when you miss classes. If you have a manual keep going over the forms and applications. See if someone will train with you. It is great to have a training partner to keep you accountable and motivated.
In our school it take about 3 yr to get a black belt.
Who was the taekwondo champ from the closing ceremony of the 2008 olympics?
He was the korean guy who gave out flowers to the people who had helped out with the olympics this year. Had a white jacket, blue shirt and black pants. Missed his name and I havent been able to find anything about who he was online. Anyone know?|||I believe it was Moon Dae-Sung, the heavyweight gold medallist from the Athens Olympics who knocked out the Greek fighter Alexandros Nicolaidis in the final with a spinning hook kick to the head.
downsouth_houston: This Olympics was a different South Korean heavyweight, who also won gold.|||This olympics South Korea won the gold in Taekwondo in Men%26#039;s for the
Heavyweight
http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing...
Featherweight
http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing...
their names are under the photo
Was he from This olympics?
downsouth_houston: This Olympics was a different South Korean heavyweight, who also won gold.|||This olympics South Korea won the gold in Taekwondo in Men%26#039;s for the
Heavyweight
http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing...
Featherweight
http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing...
their names are under the photo
Was he from This olympics?
Sunday, April 26, 2009
How do you start an ATA taekwondo school or become an instructor?
My wife is wanting to start planning on one day opening an ATA taekwondo school. She is a second degree black belt, only a few weeks away from getting her third, and she has only one certification class to get through to become a %26quot;certified instructor%26quot;. She gets the whole black stripe uniform and a piece of paper, but that doesn%26#039;t do much. We are away from her school and nowhere near a local ATA so i turn to the yahoo answer community. What steps does one take to open, prepare, and start teaching at their own ATA school.|||First, she needs to call her current instructor for advice. If memory serves, and she has a red collar (assisant or intsructor trainee), she can go ahead and open her own club... If her instructor is no help, just call ATA in Little Rock. They will guide her through the process.|||Well being a student of Shaolin Kung Fu, I suggest not letting anyone older than 6 join (too young at start and they may turn away from the arts forever as a result of frustration) Training should be vigorous but after extreme training teach the students some techniquies and have them practice them over and over again untill they can strike, block and kick effieciently. Then get into more advanced things such as forms (first few forms for us include Shaolin Long Staff and Shaolin Stance Form) When you guys know all about your teaching methods, look for a nice slot to rent and fix it up. You may even wish to make a huge room in your house a training center (though it must look clean and professional) Hope I helped you! Good Luck to you and your family.|||This might actually be your wifes chance to make Taekwondo something more than the pile of crap its turned into. If she wants to open her school.... great! but have her follow these rules.
1. NO CONTRACTS... all a contract says is that you will pay and pay and pay..... and that it wont stop until your contract is up. The commitment comes from within the person.... not a piece of paper.
2. ONLY PASS PEOPLE IF THEY PASS.... I don%26#039;t know how many times I have seen taekwondo calsses where there are brown belts and blue belts that have no place being there. Can%26#039;t kick above their waste, can%26#039;t remember form, have sloppy form... the list goes on. Be one of the few and the proud that actually wants to keep martial arts, martial arts... and not some way to scam money out of kids.
3. Do NOT let anyone join under the age of 8. Not only have kids NOT developed, even at that age. But their understanding of what true martial arts is about, does not even cross their mind. Don%26#039;t turn your school into a baby sitting service.
4. A true black belt.... one that has learned all they should, should NOT be attained in less than 3 years.... minimum. I don%26#039;t care what anyone says about natural ability. There was a reason no one was rushed through the system in traditional Korea...
5. FOR GOD SAKES TEACH SELF DEFENCE!!! I don%26#039;t mind if you want to teach olympic sparring or even sparring for fun. But focus your art on DEFENCE and practical application of technique. No one step sparring crap, no standing punching crap... thats fine to learn the technique.... but then apply it to a resisting opponent! Do the people of your dojang a favor by not giving them a false sense of security.
There are a few more you should follow, but this will get her started. Be the first to have an actual TKD school, that is worth paying to go to. Not a McDojo that most have. ATA has the worst reputation of being a pile of crap school.... you can help change that!
Remember kids... only YOU can prevent McDojo...|||http://ataonline.com/about/careers/open....|||hello, My name is Scott Curtsinger, 3rd degree black belt, certified instructor, and former school owner in Fayetteville, Ar. I also say contact your instructor, he/she should give you all the help you need,if not then contact national headquarters, they will tell you everything you need to know and help you.|||okay this is geting on my nerves its not taekwondo,its tai kwane do i been ot like 4 or 5 other poepel today saying that,and you have to be a black belt and have a degree from some other school before you open up your own dojo
i may not be like these old geesers but i%26#039;m 14 and been in the stuff 10 years i am a 6th degree black belt you may not believe me but dont judge me until you had a piece of me,i am quite pieceful though i wont fight inless someone threatens to kill me or something if im in a fist fight im not even going to use over green belt
1. NO CONTRACTS... all a contract says is that you will pay and pay and pay..... and that it wont stop until your contract is up. The commitment comes from within the person.... not a piece of paper.
2. ONLY PASS PEOPLE IF THEY PASS.... I don%26#039;t know how many times I have seen taekwondo calsses where there are brown belts and blue belts that have no place being there. Can%26#039;t kick above their waste, can%26#039;t remember form, have sloppy form... the list goes on. Be one of the few and the proud that actually wants to keep martial arts, martial arts... and not some way to scam money out of kids.
3. Do NOT let anyone join under the age of 8. Not only have kids NOT developed, even at that age. But their understanding of what true martial arts is about, does not even cross their mind. Don%26#039;t turn your school into a baby sitting service.
4. A true black belt.... one that has learned all they should, should NOT be attained in less than 3 years.... minimum. I don%26#039;t care what anyone says about natural ability. There was a reason no one was rushed through the system in traditional Korea...
5. FOR GOD SAKES TEACH SELF DEFENCE!!! I don%26#039;t mind if you want to teach olympic sparring or even sparring for fun. But focus your art on DEFENCE and practical application of technique. No one step sparring crap, no standing punching crap... thats fine to learn the technique.... but then apply it to a resisting opponent! Do the people of your dojang a favor by not giving them a false sense of security.
There are a few more you should follow, but this will get her started. Be the first to have an actual TKD school, that is worth paying to go to. Not a McDojo that most have. ATA has the worst reputation of being a pile of crap school.... you can help change that!
Remember kids... only YOU can prevent McDojo...|||http://ataonline.com/about/careers/open....|||hello, My name is Scott Curtsinger, 3rd degree black belt, certified instructor, and former school owner in Fayetteville, Ar. I also say contact your instructor, he/she should give you all the help you need,if not then contact national headquarters, they will tell you everything you need to know and help you.|||okay this is geting on my nerves its not taekwondo,its tai kwane do i been ot like 4 or 5 other poepel today saying that,and you have to be a black belt and have a degree from some other school before you open up your own dojo
i may not be like these old geesers but i%26#039;m 14 and been in the stuff 10 years i am a 6th degree black belt you may not believe me but dont judge me until you had a piece of me,i am quite pieceful though i wont fight inless someone threatens to kill me or something if im in a fist fight im not even going to use over green belt
What's the difference between Taekwondo And Karate?
I am in taekwondo and just wondering what the difference is.|||TKD uses many aerial kicking techniques as compared to Karate which dos not emphasize kicking techniques as much although it does have many.|||Ok, I shall give it a whirl. I am certain someone else is going to come in and give a better answer, I hope.
Firstly, there are many forms of Karate. That is a general umbrella term that incorporates a number of styles.
I trained briefly in Shotokan Karate and it was 50/50 hand and foot techniques. I have a First Dan in Tae Kwon Do (not my first or main art) and it was 30/70 hands versus foot techniques. Tae Kwon Do emphasized jumping techniques more than Shotokan. The origins of Tae Kwon Do (Hwarang Do? I fear my memory is not good) were developed to take armed soldiers off of horses in Korea so these high kicks and jumping techniques had much purpose. I cannot tell you of the development of Shotokan because I was not in it long.
Both are %26quot;hard%26quot; arts. The techniques were similar but not exactly the same. I would have to be face to face to demonstrate the differences.
I can only answer for Shotokan because I have not practiced any other Karate style.
Karate is Japanese and/or Okinawan, Tae Kwon Do is Korean.|||Not much really, especially since TKD was influenced by the Japanese during the late 40%26#039;s and 50%26#039;s when Japan occupied Korea. and as Japan%26#039;s military advanced further South, the more that the techniques of Karate crept into TKD to influence it more and more.
If you were to look at the techniques and forms of TKD and the katas of Karate, there%26#039;s only small, subtle differences.
but this is true for Most ANY Martial Art, except for the fact that the techniques have been tweaked or modified by the different founders of the disciplines.|||taekwondo is a koren style, so I would think no difference...|||Tae Kwon Do is Korean %26amp; uses mostly foot techniques.
Karate can be either
Japanese, which is about 50-50 hand %26amp; foot or
Okinawan which uses mostly hand techniques.|||it depends on the ryu%26#039;s there r a few (aucually more than a few) types of karate so it could be higher stances.. rounder blocks... broader coriculum...|||Taekwondo and karate have a lot of similarities in that they are both hard arts. Yes, tkd has more of an emphasis on kicks and karate on hand techniques, but they are still both hard arts that require physical endurance and physical fitness. The biggest difference between the 2 arts comes in the later belt levels where karate really starts to focus on internalness and relaxation of the art whereas tkd stays hard forever.|||Tkd emphasises kicks, since Koreans are taller
And Karate emphasises on Punches, since japanese are shorter|||karate will actually help you in a real situation tkd wont.tkd is a semi sports system designed to make money for bogus instructors to teach anyone from 1 to 100.karates real tkd is fake.
karate is from OKINOWA!DUH!NOT JAPAN!DUH!
tkd is from korea.
Firstly, there are many forms of Karate. That is a general umbrella term that incorporates a number of styles.
I trained briefly in Shotokan Karate and it was 50/50 hand and foot techniques. I have a First Dan in Tae Kwon Do (not my first or main art) and it was 30/70 hands versus foot techniques. Tae Kwon Do emphasized jumping techniques more than Shotokan. The origins of Tae Kwon Do (Hwarang Do? I fear my memory is not good) were developed to take armed soldiers off of horses in Korea so these high kicks and jumping techniques had much purpose. I cannot tell you of the development of Shotokan because I was not in it long.
Both are %26quot;hard%26quot; arts. The techniques were similar but not exactly the same. I would have to be face to face to demonstrate the differences.
I can only answer for Shotokan because I have not practiced any other Karate style.
Karate is Japanese and/or Okinawan, Tae Kwon Do is Korean.|||Not much really, especially since TKD was influenced by the Japanese during the late 40%26#039;s and 50%26#039;s when Japan occupied Korea. and as Japan%26#039;s military advanced further South, the more that the techniques of Karate crept into TKD to influence it more and more.
If you were to look at the techniques and forms of TKD and the katas of Karate, there%26#039;s only small, subtle differences.
but this is true for Most ANY Martial Art, except for the fact that the techniques have been tweaked or modified by the different founders of the disciplines.|||taekwondo is a koren style, so I would think no difference...|||Tae Kwon Do is Korean %26amp; uses mostly foot techniques.
Karate can be either
Japanese, which is about 50-50 hand %26amp; foot or
Okinawan which uses mostly hand techniques.|||it depends on the ryu%26#039;s there r a few (aucually more than a few) types of karate so it could be higher stances.. rounder blocks... broader coriculum...|||Taekwondo and karate have a lot of similarities in that they are both hard arts. Yes, tkd has more of an emphasis on kicks and karate on hand techniques, but they are still both hard arts that require physical endurance and physical fitness. The biggest difference between the 2 arts comes in the later belt levels where karate really starts to focus on internalness and relaxation of the art whereas tkd stays hard forever.|||Tkd emphasises kicks, since Koreans are taller
And Karate emphasises on Punches, since japanese are shorter|||karate will actually help you in a real situation tkd wont.tkd is a semi sports system designed to make money for bogus instructors to teach anyone from 1 to 100.karates real tkd is fake.
karate is from OKINOWA!DUH!NOT JAPAN!DUH!
tkd is from korea.
Where can i find good taekwondo classes in Singapore?
I want to attend taekwondo classes that is anywhere near
Ang Mo Kio. Can anyone recommend classes that are near to the place that i have mentioned?|||you can try the community centre in AMK...i think there are 3 in AMK..
Ang Mo Kio. Can anyone recommend classes that are near to the place that i have mentioned?|||you can try the community centre in AMK...i think there are 3 in AMK..
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