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In the case of the word "poomse" we have radically different meanings. Imagine a guy with an odd agenda trying to translate the old terms "poom" and "se" and selecting these meanings from the official CHINESE translations from the CHINESE / English dictionary:
http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=worddict&wdrst=1&wdqtm=0&wdqcham=1&wdqt=%E5%8B%A2
品 pǐn grade / to taste / to sample / to criticize / to judge / to size up
勢 shì outward appearance / male genitals
Brings a whole new meaning to "Poomse" competition!
I know sir and I respect you and everything you have to say.
When you say "sabum" a Taekwondo teacher automatically comes to mind
- Korean's do not think of Sabum as a "teacher of teachers" even if you can find it in Hanja
- ****you have to also know the intended meaning that Hanja was selected for.
This means you have to find out from the people who selected it as Hanja has radically
different meanings
- Jido Sabum in this situation seems to him to mean "Lead Instructor" or "Chief Instructor",
but again, he said you would have to ask the people who selected the term to find it's
intended meaning
Now you have stated that Taekwondo seniors (your seniors or my seniors?) fabricated Taekwondo history. What are the names of the senors that fabricated Taekwondo history? What specific history was fabricated?
Ron and Puunui, I'd like to take this discussion onto Taekwondo-net. We have thousands of dedicated Taekwondoin that would like to see this discussion.
There many other sites like it, but keep in mind we are talking about KOREAN use of these terms, not exactly CHINESE, thought they are often the same. So it is good to supplement your CHINESE Word & Character dictionary with an "Everyday Hanja" reference as well.
Keep the discussion here. There are thousands of dedicated Taekwondoin following it here too.
I think MT and tkd net are geared towards different audiences. Sometimes I think that you and I don't belong here, that we upset the apple cart every time we discuss our perspectives, our studies or our experiences. One person even told me that if they believed everything that I wrote, then that would mean that what they are doing, from the uniform that they wear to the terminology that they use to the way they do poomsae or sparring, basically everything, is wrong.
A large part of taekwondo net on the other hand, are seniors from the highest levels of taekwondo. You post something on taekwondo net, and your name, thoughts and writings will be read by people like Dr. Un Yong Kim, the majority of USTU past presidents as well as the presidents of many WTF MNA worldwide, WTF secretariat, IOC members, IRs including several Olympic IRs, the Kukkiwon, KTA, teaching faculty of chae dae, Samsang S1 Team, etc.
Is tkd net an open forum? Can you give me the url?
I suspect that there are no specific names to be had. It seems that the idea that TKD has a fabricated history is fairly pervasive among some/many members of some MA boards, regardless of factual merit to the statement.I asked sort of the same questions, but never got a response. Perhaps you will have better luck than me.
Funny but that is exactly what the pioneers and seniors say to me. Too bad so many of my juniors don't feel the same way.
My teacher, jongoon Kim, told me - Never expect respect, don't cry if you do not get it but rather always attempt to earn it.
He also told me that if I thought I was trying and I still was not getting it, the problem was then ME, not them.
"fabricated history"
Oh Come on. I love and respect my seniors too. And I totally get a people who suffered and held great pride and why they would want to give greater truth to some truths. But lets cut the crap. From the Kukkiwon to every school out there the magical 2000 plus history with the cave figures yada yada yada was being propagated and almost by everyone. And it was not just TKD in HKD Myungs first book had Choi coming out of 9 years in a cave with great revelations. Suddenly sword fighting went back to ancient times. I watched as my Judo logo in our school suddenly became a Yudo sign and shortly after brochures had tales of ancient times and great wrestling matches.
Everyone got on board the sense of pride but yes it was mostly made up.
Oops, now everyone knows so who cares. Still great arts being done with the Korean flavors that make them better ; )
I don't know about Hapkido or Judo, but you have expressed what many feel about those historical references. But try looking at it from the other perspective, outside of your own. What point was Dr. Un Yong Kim and the pioneers trying to get across, given the context of when those statements were first made and the audience that it was being made to?
I totally agree with you, from their point of view they had to organize and somehow unify martial arts. They had to be nationalistic. Dr. Kim did something that was amazing and really had singular vision. Without him this would all be very different. However, to build the framework they used distorted propaganda and enforced it to dogma. The foundation looks bad because we can all see though it now.
I really think that Steve Capener hit the nail on the head with his old paper:
http://www.eagletkd.com/images/STUDENT FORUM from Korea Journal.pdf
This art and the people in it need to evolve now, if we don't then the weak foundation might fall. This does not mean let go of the past at all, it means know the past and learn from it. Don't try to fabricate information but celebrate the lineages and history that Taekwondo is NOW!
That is also a good point. The same words in Japanese or Chinese may have different usage and inferences than Korean usage. For example the terms Sabum and Kyosa. In Japanese, Sabum is pronounced Shihan and Kyosa is Kyoshi. These are generally looked upon as the highest titles that one can receive in the Japanese martial arts. However, in Taekwondo usage, these are considered now to be the lowest titles to be used, surpassed by Kwan Jang, etc. Different country, different usage and meaning.