Taekkyon DVD Preview

Highlights of the Taekkyon DVD filmed at the national Folk Village in Korea available from http://www.turtlepress.com/Taekkyon_DVD_p/147.html

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Sports

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• taekkyon
• taekwondo
• martial
• arts
• taekkyun

[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.

[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.

[SkydinZeal]

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

[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

[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.

[wotcherme]

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

[kungfufreddy]

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

[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

[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.

[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.