ITF Only please

[dancingalone]

I'm not a fan of the sine wave movement. I wonder what percentage of TKD people in the world use it? It's definitely a minority from my anecdotal experience.

 

[Inugami]

I cant believe no one besides me uses Jhoon Rhee's forms.

 

[StuartA]

Just to add to the pot.. there are actually two types of sine wave performed these days.. see: http://www.raynerslanetkd.com/ARTICLES_Patterns_Sinewave.html

I'm in the 'original' sine-wave camp.. now often termed 'natural motion' to diffientiate it from the newer (down/up/down) version. That said, its because thats how I learnt it, Ive no issues with the 'horizontal' patterns that people do, but dont agree with the over-emphasised version either.

Then again, I dont see patterns as a performance first, but a training tool. Looking nice at comps is secondary and a by-product IMO.

Stuart

 

[Svart]

I cant believe no one besides me uses Jhoon Rhee's forms.

Its devastating when you find out there are other things in life isnt it.

 

[dancingalone]

I cant believe no one besides me uses Jhoon Rhee's forms.

Well, you did ask ITF style people only. ITF people do Chang Hon patterns. Mr. Rhee, although at one point affiliated with the ITF, has been doing his own thing for years. Properly termed, if you learned Jhoon Rhee martial ballet as your primary set of forms, you're not really ITF either, not that it's saying much these days with the three different splinter orgs.

 

[Kwanjang]

We practice both taegeuk and chong hon forms. The ITF forms are very demanding and commanding.

 

[jim777]

The funny thing is that my favorite books of the ITF forms are the ones done by GM Jhoon Rhee