I have a love/hate relationship with the I-shape forms

[Haruhiko]

Aren't all forms in Kukkiwon called Poomsae with the black belt set specifically called the Yudanja set?

Correct, it's just how my dojang referred to them.

@J. Pickard brings up the crux:
Why?

 

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[Buka]

Therein lies another important never question (Never to be answered with an answer accepted by all. ) "What is / is not a "Martial Art? How about Boxing? Tae Bo? Cardio Kickboxing?

I’ve found there isn’t much agreed on in Martial Arts. In my opinion, this one’s easy.
Boxing, yes, a specialized and limited Martial Art, but quite effective.

Tae-Bo definitely not, nor was it designed to be.

Cardio kickboxing, no. A fun workout for some, but not a Martial Art.

 

[isshinryuronin]

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It was the clip of Elvis doing his dance moves I tried to import from that thread that I replied to.

 

[Dirty Dog]

Aren't all forms in Kukkiwon called Poomsae with the black belt set specifically called the Yudanja set?

All forms are poomsae. That's literally what the word means.

 

[Haruhiko]

All forms are poomsae. That's literally what the word means.

I'm going to be "that guy":

Poom only means "technique"/"movement".

Sae means "shape"/"appearance".

It's a compound word of two characters: 품새.

 

[HighKick]

I'm going to be "that guy":

Poom only means "technique"/"movement".

Sae means "shape"/"appearance".

It's a compound word of two characters: 품새.

Agree. Straight-out a mashup of words to be part of 'their own creation'.

 

[Earl Weiss]

I'm going to be "that guy":

Poom only means "technique"/"movement".

Sae means "shape"/"appearance".

It's a compound word of two characters: 품새.

If you bifurcate a compound word, you can certainly arrive at a different meanings than what the accepted meaning of that word. Take "Airplane " as an example . I expect the same might apply to other languages.

 

[Haruhiko]

If you bifurcate a compound word, you can certainly arrive at a different meanings than what the accepted meaning of that word. Take "Airplane " as an example . I expect the same might apply to other languages.

Sort of...

Airplane requires even a native English speaker to intuit idiomatic shifts of the words "air" and "plane" to specifically mean a vehicle that flies. Plane refers to a dimension (and not even one related to traversal)... a non native speaker could equally assume it to mean "the sky" or a place to do with "air", and not objects of travel. It could mean a mathematical graph that plots data on a plane about air quality.

Whereas in Korean, Chinese, and Japanese characters, a lot of that meaning is built into the orthography which makes inferencing meaning of the word a lot easier. Single characters convey entire concepts, unlike the English alphabet.