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[chronicpride]

...and merging into Taeglish. This is good for foreigners looking for an English-friendly dojang, mind you. But selling out your national sport? It all feels like a cultural fire sale, at this point.

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Taaekwondo is a fucking joke to begin with I always thought Taekyun was a more of a Korean sport, Teakwondo just became more popular due to olympics. . Big fucking deal english instruction..

I am in Kyuk Too Ki and my master uses english terms, and he doesn't speak english either.. Did he sell out? No its just that Kuyk Too Ki borrowed a lot from other martial arts that originated in English.

Do I call my master a Thief? *beep* no. Stupid post stupid article and you are not that wise to post it here. Cause people like me will just Flame you.

Even in North America we call it Taekwondo. Are you accusing North American stealing the National sport of Korea?

Stupid marketing ploy and your too stupid too see it.

[Young FRANKenstein]

[xingyiman]

Taekwondo is basically a martial sport. That is true in the US as well as here. That can also be said of many martial arts and the preceding Taekgeyon comment might hold true also but I studied Taekgeyon for two years and can honestly say that it's one of the most brutal martial arts I've ever studied. And before I get bombarded with any amrchair heroics, I studied Muay Thai in Bangkok for a year so I've got some hard fighting experience to compare, be sure.
Sadly Taekwondo has evolved into a feel good, bread and butter martial art that endowes you with about as much effective combatives as Tae Bo.

[Davew125]

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[GoldMember]

To those of you that do Taekwondo, at the begining of class do you bow to the Korean flag, as is required?

Karate has 3 bows, instructor, dojo, and each other, no bowing to flags.

[toddswift]

THAE QUEER DO,





muy thai is the best, loser


I saw a thai demolish a taekwando master, no joke

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[the ireland]

i do taekwondo, i have been doing it for well over a year now, it is not a brutal sport, because it had to be modified to make it safe for the olympics, feet must be placed forward so as to not kick someone with the ball (underside, don't know it's official name, but that part under your big toe...and also so as to not kick them with the heel of your foot too). i got my black belt and it only involved about 25 seconds of fighting and you had do the formation thing called poom se (spelling).

I did boxing for 8 years, as an irish person it's part of your way of growing up. My father was and still is a boxing coach in my hometown. Boxing is way more brutal than taekwon do, (well for the amateur learner, i can't vouch for professionals, but i wouldn't like to fight any of the masters around here) but i think taekwon do has much more skill; kicking is more difficult, balance, and overall everything is harder to master than throwin a jab, hook or uppercut.

My master teaches his kids in English, they count in english and he tries to teach them the names of kicks and stuff, it is not a marketing ploy by him, he just likes to speak english and the kids love to try speak it too.

[Davew125]

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Boxing is pretty difficult.. It doesn't seem like much but If you truly want to be good at it.. Effective/Devistating striker it takes years..

As far Taekwondo taking a lot of skill, yes and no. No for any effectivness or skill Yes for performance art.

If your looking into Entertainment factor Taekwondo is interesting, if your looking into actualy doing something with it.. Well thats just not going to happen. Take Muay Thai or Kickboxing/Kyuk Too Ki or JuJitsu, or even Judo those martial arts require tons of skills.

I just don't care for Taekwondo, never have never will, I think its a goofy ass martial art with little or no practicality.. I considered it as Tae Bo equivalent.

[the ireland]