Taekkyon DVD Preview

[SkydinZeal]

I'm in NYC and would really love to study this here...

[tarnshadowhawk]

I recently went to an international TKD tournament as a guest from Okinawan karate roots. I was impressed by what I saw. Not at all like some of the branch offs of TKD. I saw the top 10 grandmasters in the world in TKD there as well as many other high ranked masters. These people still teach combat TKD and even tho they have sport events they are not happy with the turn some offshoot branches have taken with their art. But all I saw at the tourney were serious martial artists.

[blase15]

If anyone is intrested in learning from a real Taekkyon Master, Master Guy Lark from Korea is comming to Washington State at Martial arts Seminar called Super Summer Seminar. Check it out Certainvictory The only knowen teaching in america that I know of.

[searock1988]

AAIIKKKK..!!!!!

[gundrag000]

it will be seriously dagerous if you use taekkyon at MMA or kick boxing... taekkyon is not kidding. it has history. and why it has so looong history ? and here is fighting taekkyon and non-fighting taekkyon. even if the japanese has weapon, the korean could win them ... and the japan prohibited the taekkyon.

[kungfufreddy]

@gundrag000 they prohibited taekkyon because it was culturally korean! not because it was super deadly. stop being foolish. japanese martial arts are just as good/bad as korean martial arts. we're all human.and i dont care what martial art you do if you face someone with a sword or a gun. you are going to lose 9 times out of 10

[ronki23]

How effective is Taekkyon? It seems like the internal version of TKD.

AFAIK TKD came from 3 styles: Taekykyon,Hapkido and Karate with Jiu Jitsu being the founder of Hapkido,Kung Fu and Ju Jitsu founding Karate,and Kung Fu founding Taekkyon?

[tomurso]

@ronki23 The name Tae Kwon Do was coined in late 1950's by Choi, Hong-hi, although striking arts were already being studied during the Japanese Occupation under names such as Kongsoodo & Tangsoodo. These are the Korean pronunciations of Karatedo & are obviously highly influenced by them. Choi has stated that he combined Shotokan & Taekkyun to form Tae Kwon Do. Hapkido is a different art with roots leading back to Daitoryu Aikijutsu. Ji, Han-jae is said to have added the kicking techniques.

[chrisgeorgegray]

ITF taekwon-do remains the same as it did when the major general created it, ITF still keeps to the traditional style of taekwon-do, WTF taekwondo can tend to be sport based, but ITF still is the real deal.

[GuamKomudo]

I love watching these martial arts vids where everyone loks so badass and legit and serious. Because I know, if it's like any ,martial arts school I've been to, everyone laughs and jokes and is rediculous when were all together haha

[GuamKomudo]

AIIII-KUUUUU!!!!!

[EiKukaan554]

i hate this show stuff.

[MDNSBS]

@EiKukaan554 its not shoq stuff this is real martial arts that were used in war

[kungfufreddy]

@MDNSBS you dont dance in war. you use guns and swords.

[wotcherme]

@kungfufreddy You know, there actually WAS a time when there were no guns, and physical CQ combat was important to combatants.

[Vodkakinesis]

It seems to vaguely resemble capoeira and/or performance kung fu.

Why the complete lack of guarding with the hands, though?

[hardrain08]

god bless korea for taekyon

[MrComano]

i learn the same things in my taekwondo class

[hardrain08]

@MrComano thats coz they're related to one another

[faro0485]

Anyone got this DVD?

[sylvester134]

taekkyon is a martial art. tkd is a sport.

I was a tkd black belt.

Being experienced in martial art, I know Taekkyon is fluid and powerful.

TKD practitioner shall learn the fluidity in taekkwon to apply in their TKD Sport sparring.

[tkddiuryl]

when you become a black belt you never stop being one. maybe you stopped practising, but you're still a black belt.

tkd only began being an official sport in 2000, but it existed way before that as a regular art.

tkd is rooted in taekkyon, and clearly there are many similarities between the two arts.

[1yellafella]

taekkyon has a bad reputation so only killers learn it. there's this "public" face of it that arose in the choson era as a "folk art" and "village game" which hides the lethality of it. this version can be shown publically, but real taekkyon is so hard to pull off (its awkward, unbalanced striking takes decades to be useful) & they don't show the other way they can be employed publically. students in the 50s maimed some ppl, so tkd arose to make it practical only footwork remains in tkd.

[1yellafella]

only the jumping double front kick (like the LAST kick you learn when you're like 8th dan) comes from taekkyon, but otherwise TKD was created to take out all the lethality of taekkyon. taekyon is all singing, dancing, twisting, strenth training, bone manipulation, and acupressure. then you learn to really wreck people, not practical quickly, whereas TKD can be mastered in a year and be useful right away & you won't kill someone with it except by accident or if u have monster strength

[HwarangKnights]

nice vid.

[muddy485]

Jidokwan has no idea whats he's talking about, Taekkyon was out way before tae kwon do, when the japanese invited korea into martial arts. Korea then made a martial art, "Takkyon" which was very deadly, and was banned by Korea and Japan. Korea then developed taekwondo, which is less lethal.

[1bol1]

wrong

[enjoytk02]

"when the japanese invited korea into martial arts" ?? WRONG WRONG

BaekJae, which was a part of Korea long time ago, TAUGHT Japanese those kind of things.

Because Japan accepted western culture and developed it earlier than Korea, most people tend to believe that Japan had and has always been superior to Korea.

[taekkyonkorea]

Oh boy!

Take a history class, will you!

It's comforting that you don't use your real name; just for you!

Please study Korean history if you like. Don't embarrass yourself please!

[faro0485]

I'd love to learn the real history behind why taekkyon was so dangerous.

[GuamKomudo]

I learned alittle bit of the history, the first version of Taekkyun was the one everyone said was so deadly. It was kicking, hand techniques, grappling, and joint manipulation. The deadly parts is that, not everyone at the time had seen anything like it before, there was no TV shows with flying kicks, the average person wouldent be ready for a leg to come flying up at their head, or know anything about human anatomey to use pressure points or locks. It was only tought to a specific few warriors

[Lonandil]

Do you in trained in Taekkyon? Because I 4th Dan Taekwondo and what jidokwan says is the same what I about the korean martial arts. I want to know more if you have any informations it. I will learn learn the differences from you.

[Peace0MamaCas]

That kick at :24 was nice.

[jaeshim1]

Cool~~ 5 stars

[TraditionalTKD]

Taekwondo, unfortunately, has let itself devolve into a few techniques to make points. I remember doing half these techniques in class. Unfortunately fewer and fewer people are doing them.

I think TKD should go back to this instead of focusing on tournaments.

[luchadorlibertad]

Agreed. I have noticed there is a distinguishable rift between those who practice TKD as a MA, and those who practice it for show, such as olympic TKD. TKD and Karate are two martial arts that have suffered immensly from it's immersion into the American culture.

[jiggahippo]

@luchadorlibertad what? WHAT? ur blaming America for the WTF? U sir are without a doubt a retard! The KOREANS started the whole sport thing and the SOLD it to American and the world that way! I have been in TKD for about 36 years and have trainined with Gen Choi himself back in the late 1970's. Americans only followed what thier Masters told them to follow, we didnt ruin it WTF did that on thier own NOT AMERICANS!

I teach and train in TKD as pure self defense ONLY! thank you.

[mennoace]

@jiggahippo That sounded so wise...no wait...so typical american. If you have been in TKD for so long, trained with the general himself and thus should be considered a master, this kind of ridiculously childish behaviour should be completely out of the picture. At least try to maintain the little bit of good name America has left.

[ekrcuqudtls1215]

it is not Taekwondo... Taekkyon. The different one.

[jidokwan]

Taekkyon and taekwondo are different but they have verry similar kicks and Taekkyon is said to be taekwondo's ancestor

[docjrose]

@TraditionalTKD There are several schools of TKD. I am part of a more traditional school (RMTKD), and we focus on the original teaching of General Choi and Mr. Ra. -We do not do Olympic style.

[kungfufreddy]

@TraditionalTKD or rather just remove the padding and allow hard punches, kicks to the legs etc, muay thai rules maybe. that way competitors would be forced into using their full arsenal, rather than just the oint scoring techniques.

[RasheemH]

@TraditionalTKD Just depends on where you train bro. My instructor teaches his students techniques from Hwa rang do and Taekkyun. Olympic tkd is a sport and ppl do it for fun and to stay in shape. Not everyone wants to be a killing macine :-P

[wwechamp2020]

ownage sweet video

[boss5040]

on the first kick to that guys head, i was hell surprised like "oh! shit!" i think taekyyon can be more entertaining than tkd at times

[BIGJOHNTON80]

these people are awesome!!! what a martial art.. but like with tkd...no hands to the face :(

[peabean]

sounds like they r saying "act cool"...

[onurozbek89]

that was jks

[carlosmenciaROX]

the dancing is to decieve. The other people think its for fun, but us Koreans have a deadly art hidden in the dance.

[Nuggi7777]

Fantastic! The only thing that I don't like is the dancelike moves in taekkyon, but of course it is a matter of taste...

[ddandbd]

love it,

so natral and skilful.

[gkwkwkr]

awesome!

[poofly02]

awesome!

[MaximilianBeers9825]

Wow!