Opinion: What region of the world do you believe has the best assortment of styles?

[yak sao]

LOL. China only on a technicality. I mean, adding peanuts to a dish doesn't make it a whole new dish.

If that's the case, then fencing and wrestling open up into a vast array of discrete martial arts styles.

I like peanuts....so I say China

 

[Jenna]

LOL. China only on a technicality. I mean, adding peanuts to a dish doesn't make it a whole new dish.

..Unless that dish is peanut butter.

 

[Jenna]

I'm partial, but New York has just about all of them-you can find someone teaching just about any of them,or at least, saying that they are......

Exactly true. The greatest variety of current practice is in the west.

 

[mmartist]

The best are in the west, but also in Brazil and Japan.

 

[puunui]

From the ages of 11 to 18, I went to a tae kwon do dojang, Duk Song Sun's chung do kwon. I posted on this months ago:/QUOTE]

GM Son left Korea early, and his style never really evolved. I wouldn't look to him as the exemplar for taekwondo.