This is a great ground basis for solid martial arts in many respects: balance cordination, flexibility, tkd-like kicks, etc. I study a derivitive of this art called Dahn Moo Do and its alazomg to watch this because it verifies that DMD is so similar to this ancient art. Like Bruce Lee said in Jeet Kune Do, take advantage of the good things, discard the bad. I'll be studying Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Judo, along with these principals as the foundation for my stand-up game. I
This is amazing. I'm going to have to ask my Mastet about Taekkyon tomorrow, I also love the Korean drums. I play as well, and I think it would be awesome to have the other members play for a demo.
Was that like real full on sparring? Or was that more the kind of light practice style where the opponents just kind of chroiographs the moves and don't hit hard? Because it looks like they are actually hitting with some real force, which is amazing. Are these the old Goguryean arts or is this a modification of those ideas, like post Joseon era
@IvonoftheGWF this is the game version of the goguryeon art. much of the art of taekkyon is gone and the deadly moves aren't allowed in the game. the deadly ones usually go towards vulnerable and dangerous spots like the neck
@aivopark I've heard it's because the mountainous terrain made the legs particularly strong, but it's probably far more likely that someone just liked kicks when they invented the style.
@strygwyrthrist if you mean do they teach taekkyon to non koreans...yes they do, but the problems is the only taekkyon schools are in korea. You would have travel to korea and live there if you want to learn taekkyon. There many foreigners living in korea learning taekkyon right now
One last thing - the Taichi as taught is America is so watered down it's basically yoga.
If you want to see real combat taiji, go to the Chen Village in China, the birthplace of taiji. You'll be lucky to get out of there without needing surgery to repair damaged elbows or knees.
The Marines don't have years to learn a martial art. That's why, if they even get any hand-to-hand combat training during basic training, they might learn something like kickboxing or some basic grappling.
Everyone I've talked to who's been to basic training within the last 25 years tells me they get very little to no hand-to-hand training. Two or three lessons seems to be the record.
The cool thing about taekkyon and capoeira is that everybody thinks they are 90% kicking technique arts, and sometiems not even fighting arts but warrior dances, but like Tai Chi, you can kick ass if you know what, how and when to use it on who, you can kick ass and not get kicked back. Plus, music, rhythmical methods are wonderful for muscle memory and reflex conditionment
1. Taekkyon is one half of another martial art called Subak. The other half of Subak is called Yusul, which is groundfighting. Subak itself (combining Taekkyon and Yusul) is a very effective art - like TKD and BJJ together.
2. Why not? Song Duk Ki (the man responsible for the revival of Taekkyon) practiced the art daily until his death at the age of 94.
Taekkyon doesn't rely on aburpt knee movements, so it is less harmful to the joints.
The folk dance mix into Taekkyon is usually used to fool imporants by instep trips, tempo changes, jumping off walls, fake outs, slide-stepping and etc. It also uses more fluid kicks rather than stiff, kicks that use the sudden extension of the legs by abrupt knee motions. It's a lot of footwork. Probably learning this and boxing or Kang Duk Won, a Korean martial art that emphasizes punching more than kicking, would be pretty hard to beat if some one could combine the two to make it right.
Taekkyon is probably one of the few Korean martials arts that retains its Korean roots. Arts such as Tae Kwon Do and other modern ones originally started with Japanese and Chinese roots that evovled into a distinctly Korean verstion.
Gen. Choi had a lot to do with promoting Tae Kwon Do and for that he is to be commended. He did, however, not create Tae Kwon Do. All of his Oh Do Kwan students were originally Chung Do kwan black belts under Won Kuk Lee.
I doubt very much he ever studied Taekkyon. He was notorious for taking credit for the work of others (including naming Tae Kwon Do) and embellishing his record.
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I dunno about that, from the looks of things I think that a good old street fighter who doesn't have a fighting style would beat the heck outta any of these guys.
Taekkyon can beat any street fighter. Street Fighters Cheap shot too. Us koreans and chinese and japanese, thai, any other great asian country, we all fight Honorobly. Martial arts is for self defense, not to see whos stronger
Dude Street fighters cheap shot and eye gouge. All the other martial arts and those strong enough to use the martial arts fight honorbly. And martial arts isnt for being better than someone. its for self defense, mill giass.
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Blah blah blah. You sure seem stuck on that "it's not for being better than someone" crap when your first statment was... And I quote. "Taekkyon can beat any street fighter."
That is a misstatment. The reason why streetfighters are hard to beat is because they fight with instinct and don't have a set skill-set. I can tell you right now that in a REAL fight most martial arts are rendered USELESS.
No, not really. Martial arts training improves your fighting skills in general. Forms, sparring, footwork, training to react to different strikes and graples. If that does not improve the fighting instincts that only street fighters have according you millgias, what the heck does? Plus, you will never get close enough to try eye gouging if you receive a strong kick to the head.
On another note, a martial artist fighting on the street is smart enough to also use cheap shots if he gets the chance
@Kantzarakos Still, real experience makes all the difference. Taekyyeon, though one of favourites, is good in theory, but it's actual practicality probably isn't the hottest the way it's being taught. Who knows... maybe way back when, it could be used in a true fight. But today... unless it's full, unforgiving contact...
@19Aries91 I don't know about the practicality of Taekkyon either, and the part about forms seems silly now, but the rest stands. Training in an alive environment can improve on your reactions. "Street fighters", whatever that might mean, are not some special breed and human instinct is pretty common amongst humans. Dirty strikes are not magical, either. Biting can get your teeth broken, eye jabbing can get your fingers jammed and you might not even feel the groin shot in the rush of the fight.
Using your instincts has nothing to do with being an undisciplined mammoth. Martial Arts are only useless if you're a tool who studyied at a McDojo for 2 years and got an easy black-belt. A real martial-artist makes the techniques he learns into instinctive reaction through repetitve and exhaustive training sessions.
Ah yes... I should also point out, that asian martial arts are so effective that they are widely used by lawenforcement world-wide... the elite police units of my state actually train Aikido...
Even Krav-Maga the most eficient real combat system in the world borrows many moves and concepts from asian martial arts, especially jujutsu...
Just to clear up the TKD talk...General Choi Hong Hi, the founder of TKD, was taught Taekkyon by his calligraphy teacher Han Il Dong when he was a boy and when he arrived in Japan he was taught Shotokan Karate by a Korean man named Kim Hyun-Soo. After he was in the Korean Army he had a vision of a more modern Martial Art and combined the elements of Taekkyon and Shotokan Karate to create Tae Kwon Do.
if im not mistaken its called taekyeun, modern day taekwondo was said to have been formed from aspects of this. I saw a documentary on taekwondo a while ago, thats where i learnt this
I doubt it. Taekkyon shares a vein with Capoeira in that though people perform the moves similarly, it's completely ad hoc. Perhaps for the purposes of demonstration they've choreographed some of the more fanciful things, but it's generally totally unscripted.
This is a great ground basis for solid martial arts in many respects: balance cordination, flexibility, tkd-like kicks, etc. I study a derivitive of this art called Dahn Moo Do and its alazomg to watch this because it verifies that DMD is so similar to this ancient art. Like Bruce Lee said in Jeet Kune Do, take advantage of the good things, discard the bad. I'll be studying Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Judo, along with these principals as the foundation for my stand-up game. I
sheenababe202 8 months ago
This is amazing. I'm going to have to ask my Mastet about Taekkyon tomorrow, I also love the Korean drums. I play as well, and I think it would be awesome to have the other members play for a demo.
vampirepie 1 year ago
This style mixed with Boxing would be epic...
manakurei 1 year ago
Was that like real full on sparring? Or was that more the kind of light practice style where the opponents just kind of chroiographs the moves and don't hit hard? Because it looks like they are actually hitting with some real force, which is amazing. Are these the old Goguryean arts or is this a modification of those ideas, like post Joseon era
IvonoftheGWF 1 year ago
@IvonoftheGWF this is the game version of the goguryeon art. much of the art of taekkyon is gone and the deadly moves aren't allowed in the game. the deadly ones usually go towards vulnerable and dangerous spots like the neck
kero7642 1 year ago
hmmm....gotta try taekkyon vs capoeira?
hannibal230 1 year ago
Koreans are the tallest nation in the far east and that is why they like to kick alot. Korean kicking technics are the best in the universe.
aivopark 1 year ago
@aivopark I've heard it's because the mountainous terrain made the legs particularly strong, but it's probably far more likely that someone just liked kicks when they invented the style.
IvonoftheGWF 1 year ago
@thegoldpompadour It's older than Tk-D i think
qiankundanuoyi1 1 year ago
Do Taekkyon can teach to non-korean person?
strygwyrthrist 1 year ago
@strygwyrthrist if you mean do they teach taekkyon to non koreans...yes they do, but the problems is the only taekkyon schools are in korea. You would have travel to korea and live there if you want to learn taekkyon. There many foreigners living in korea learning taekkyon right now
babotaechi 1 year ago
Leg fight plays an important role on Korean martial arts.
hkll1958 1 year ago
excellent
How many years have they practiced this
martial art?
hkll1958 2 years ago
actually the marines has based their martial art program on Tae Kwon Do
809jewelz 2 years ago
One last thing - the Taichi as taught is America is so watered down it's basically yoga.
If you want to see real combat taiji, go to the Chen Village in China, the birthplace of taiji. You'll be lucky to get out of there without needing surgery to repair damaged elbows or knees.
tampasifu 2 years ago
@tampasifu Taiji is a martial art. A real taiji master cannot be moved,carried and lift up.
qiankundanuoyi1 1 year ago
The Marines don't have years to learn a martial art. That's why, if they even get any hand-to-hand combat training during basic training, they might learn something like kickboxing or some basic grappling.
Everyone I've talked to who's been to basic training within the last 25 years tells me they get very little to no hand-to-hand training. Two or three lessons seems to be the record.
tampasifu 2 years ago
fucking losers!
CoolRapist 2 years ago
taekkyon is more fun to look at thank tkd
MageKirby 3 years ago
lol sparta kick at 7:02
cnxop 3 years ago
actually taekkyon is 80% kicking 20% hand strkies dunno about capoera
chunkysupreme 3 years ago
i do practice kung fu 5 years already, this martial art is just great, those kicks amazing and beautiful!
puppeteye 3 years ago
The cool thing about taekkyon and capoeira is that everybody thinks they are 90% kicking technique arts, and sometiems not even fighting arts but warrior dances, but like Tai Chi, you can kick ass if you know what, how and when to use it on who, you can kick ass and not get kicked back. Plus, music, rhythmical methods are wonderful for muscle memory and reflex conditionment
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PSQVN 3 years ago
man taekkyon is a sexy style x]
RomanceChaos 4 years ago 7
Answer to your "weaknesses":
1. Taekkyon is one half of another martial art called Subak. The other half of Subak is called Yusul, which is groundfighting. Subak itself (combining Taekkyon and Yusul) is a very effective art - like TKD and BJJ together.
2. Why not? Song Duk Ki (the man responsible for the revival of Taekkyon) practiced the art daily until his death at the age of 94.
Taekkyon doesn't rely on aburpt knee movements, so it is less harmful to the joints.
tkdmaestro 4 years ago
You need to know brazilian capoeira. Here we have similar moviments. I remember capoeira wen I sowthis video.
thanks
freirepc2000 4 years ago
lol nice demo
KensaiZen 4 years ago
amazing i want to fight also?its great
:-))
ultragoku17 4 years ago 2
1955 to be exact.
OathOfCalm 4 years ago
Although you need a good stance for a strong punch so too much movement might get in the way.
AHeartInSolitude 4 years ago 2
The folk dance mix into Taekkyon is usually used to fool imporants by instep trips, tempo changes, jumping off walls, fake outs, slide-stepping and etc. It also uses more fluid kicks rather than stiff, kicks that use the sudden extension of the legs by abrupt knee motions. It's a lot of footwork. Probably learning this and boxing or Kang Duk Won, a Korean martial art that emphasizes punching more than kicking, would be pretty hard to beat if some one could combine the two to make it right.
AHeartInSolitude 4 years ago 2
Taekkyon is probably one of the few Korean martials arts that retains its Korean roots. Arts such as Tae Kwon Do and other modern ones originally started with Japanese and Chinese roots that evovled into a distinctly Korean verstion.
AHeartInSolitude 4 years ago 3
Gen. Choi had a lot to do with promoting Tae Kwon Do and for that he is to be commended. He did, however, not create Tae Kwon Do. All of his Oh Do Kwan students were originally Chung Do kwan black belts under Won Kuk Lee.
I doubt very much he ever studied Taekkyon. He was notorious for taking credit for the work of others (including naming Tae Kwon Do) and embellishing his record.
TraditionalTKD 4 years ago
yea and i heard it was a lot more effective then tkd in real life situations too
savedxsoul 4 years ago
its more affective because unlike the other martial arts that were made to be flashy instead of affective, taekkyon was actually made for a reason
nerdofallnerds 4 years ago
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I dunno about that, from the looks of things I think that a good old street fighter who doesn't have a fighting style would beat the heck outta any of these guys.
millgiass 4 years ago
Taekkyon can beat any street fighter. Street Fighters Cheap shot too. Us koreans and chinese and japanese, thai, any other great asian country, we all fight Honorobly. Martial arts is for self defense, not to see whos stronger
carlosmenciaROX 4 years ago
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What the hell ever man. Bruce Lee himself said you do what ever you can to win.
That includes cheap shots and dirty tactics.
millgiass 4 years ago
Dude Street fighters cheap shot and eye gouge. All the other martial arts and those strong enough to use the martial arts fight honorbly. And martial arts isnt for being better than someone. its for self defense, mill giass.
carlosmenciaROX 4 years ago
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Blah blah blah. You sure seem stuck on that "it's not for being better than someone" crap when your first statment was... And I quote. "Taekkyon can beat any street fighter."
That is a misstatment. The reason why streetfighters are hard to beat is because they fight with instinct and don't have a set skill-set. I can tell you right now that in a REAL fight most martial arts are rendered USELESS.
millgiass 4 years ago
No, not really. Martial arts training improves your fighting skills in general. Forms, sparring, footwork, training to react to different strikes and graples. If that does not improve the fighting instincts that only street fighters have according you millgias, what the heck does? Plus, you will never get close enough to try eye gouging if you receive a strong kick to the head.
On another note, a martial artist fighting on the street is smart enough to also use cheap shots if he gets the chance
Kantzarakos 4 years ago 10
@Kantzarakos Still, real experience makes all the difference. Taekyyeon, though one of favourites, is good in theory, but it's actual practicality probably isn't the hottest the way it's being taught. Who knows... maybe way back when, it could be used in a true fight. But today... unless it's full, unforgiving contact...
19Aries91 1 year ago
@19Aries91 I don't know about the practicality of Taekkyon either, and the part about forms seems silly now, but the rest stands. Training in an alive environment can improve on your reactions. "Street fighters", whatever that might mean, are not some special breed and human instinct is pretty common amongst humans. Dirty strikes are not magical, either. Biting can get your teeth broken, eye jabbing can get your fingers jammed and you might not even feel the groin shot in the rush of the fight.
Kantzarakos 1 year ago
Yeah, useless... sure...
Using your instincts has nothing to do with being an undisciplined mammoth. Martial Arts are only useless if you're a tool who studyied at a McDojo for 2 years and got an easy black-belt. A real martial-artist makes the techniques he learns into instinctive reaction through repetitve and exhaustive training sessions.
danytibi 3 years ago
Ah yes... I should also point out, that asian martial arts are so effective that they are widely used by lawenforcement world-wide... the elite police units of my state actually train Aikido...
Even Krav-Maga the most eficient real combat system in the world borrows many moves and concepts from asian martial arts, especially jujutsu...
danytibi 3 years ago
One of the coolest martial arts performances I've ever seen. Such wonderful control and creativity! Those outfits are cool too.
hubrisrathhart 4 years ago
you should also check pencak silat :P
venomxtreem 4 years ago
wow i can do all of that except the splits
-_-' which i am training to i also use the same principles on my friends they find it hard 2 play fight me makes me more squirmy lol.
BSPrince 4 years ago
Just to clear up the TKD talk...General Choi Hong Hi, the founder of TKD, was taught Taekkyon by his calligraphy teacher Han Il Dong when he was a boy and when he arrived in Japan he was taught Shotokan Karate by a Korean man named Kim Hyun-Soo. After he was in the Korean Army he had a vision of a more modern Martial Art and combined the elements of Taekkyon and Shotokan Karate to create Tae Kwon Do.
sabumnimsgirl24 4 years ago
if im not mistaken its called taekyeun, modern day taekwondo was said to have been formed from aspects of this. I saw a documentary on taekwondo a while ago, thats where i learnt this
Sensibrian 4 years ago
I doubt it. Taekkyon shares a vein with Capoeira in that though people perform the moves similarly, it's completely ad hoc. Perhaps for the purposes of demonstration they've choreographed some of the more fanciful things, but it's generally totally unscripted.
subaru84 4 years ago
were any of the fights choreographed?
Janth 4 years ago
because it is not a fight.. it is a demonstration.
bradtacs 4 years ago
oh.
Janth 4 years ago
Yes it's very old. I think the korean government classified it a national treasure
spamllpitdept 5 years ago
Yeah its actually I think the only korean martial art to be named a acultural asset. I'm pretty sure it can be traced to pre BC.
OriginalBlace 5 years ago
it strangly as some connection with capoeira
BenzenXVI 5 years ago
i heard this is an original korean martial art and came way before TKD. It's like mixed with traditional korean folk dancing.
aiigo 5 years ago