@LINDAKBECKER yes and no. Midnight blue came along a little later...everybody wore black belts in the early days in Seoul. See the explanation for the black top in the reply to cantakenomore1 above. Represents our roots in kajukenbo.
I thought the real traditional dan dobahk is white with midnight blue as TSD was "different" and Hwang Kee wanted it to be a martial art style for the educated.
@cantakenomore1 Thanks. Black top is carryover from my teacher's roots with kajukenbo. He was one of Adriano Emperado's black belts back in the 1950s. He trained TSD with Hwang Kee in Korea during his Army tour there and decided to teach TSD when he returned to the US because it was better known than kajukenbo. Still, we had a lot of the influences in our curriculum. Our black belts through 4th dan wore white doboks with black trim, but we put on black tops when we earned our 5th dan.
@LINDAKBECKER yes and no. Midnight blue came along a little later...everybody wore black belts in the early days in Seoul. See the explanation for the black top in the reply to cantakenomore1 above. Represents our roots in kajukenbo.
billodom2 8 months ago
I thought the real traditional dan dobahk is white with midnight blue as TSD was "different" and Hwang Kee wanted it to be a martial art style for the educated.
LINDAKBECKER 8 months ago
@cantakenomore1 Thanks. Black top is carryover from my teacher's roots with kajukenbo. He was one of Adriano Emperado's black belts back in the 1950s. He trained TSD with Hwang Kee in Korea during his Army tour there and decided to teach TSD when he returned to the US because it was better known than kajukenbo. Still, we had a lot of the influences in our curriculum. Our black belts through 4th dan wore white doboks with black trim, but we put on black tops when we earned our 5th dan.
billodom2 11 months ago
Good power. Most people who post TSD/TKD vids on here couldn't break an egg.
Why the black dobok? TSD /TKD should be white dobok.
cantakenomore1 11 months ago