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Hello Everyone, I'm Alex I'm new to the community, I'm a practitioner of many styles of martial arts and keep on adding more to my curriculum. I started training at age two and have trained in a very traditional way with many great masters with more than 50 years of experience in the field. I...

Different school's have different levels of contact rules during sparring. (ex: no contact, light, moderate, and full) Why is this? Are all contact levels effective? Our school only allows up to moderate level strikes. We had a black belt from Germany come to our program and his school had only...

I'd like to start out by saying I'm only trained in TKD past the white belt. My instructor never went over high kicks unless they were round house kicks, reverse round house kicks or side kicks. So I've never been sure if i should use the ball of the foot, the top or the heel when throwing a...