Purely a TKD school, or are you mixed?
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DSMartialArts
White Belt
Ill just remind you to Remember that this is Subjective - To Who is Instructing the TKD, and How it is being Instructed. In your Instance, this is likely Accurate.
Just Remember not to Generalise
You are correct, It is MY Opinion of TKD as taught mostly as a sport not an art. The art can be useful, however in my area I see a lot of sport trainning facilities, not school that teach the art of TKD.
Cyriacus
Senior Master
Id recommend specifying that in future, as TKD is a Martial Art, and just about all of us on here Train that side of it. And if you re-read your Statement, you may be able to see how that could be negatively interprited.
Definitely a mixture. I suppose you could term it 'old school' TKD (which as others have indicated included other elements than striking and kicking). Surely a mixture of what would be seen as a hard style or combative style of TKD mixed with Hapkido (which a lot of the instructors have Dan ranking in as well). And some of us have yet additional training such as various styles of Karate, Aikijujutsu, Chin Na etc as well to augment or reinforce. Each KSD school would be a bit different depending upon the individual instructor(s) of course.
As far as an open door to other arts, absolutely. When we had a commercial school there were four partners. All of us had TKD, two had HKD, one Goju, one Shudokan and I had Pangainoon, Shuri Te, AJJ, Chin Na and KM. So we were definitely a mixed bag in the beginning! Interestingly enough, it was very pleasurable experience to blend things together into a very useable system of complimentary techniques and principles. But considering that much of the arts are identical/very similar with only the names to separate them, it should be an relatively easy fit.
Wow! Have you been to korea? Europe? How about mexico? Tkd is both a sport and martial art. Purists will say: "Those itf guys can't fight" or "those wtf guys keep dropping their hands". Get over it already. Almost all tkd schools outside the us are wtf style and they train hard. Forms, sparring, drills, one steps (useless in my opinion) and self defense.
Hi everyone.
At my school we only train KKW/WTF TKD. Sometimes (I'd say once a month or so) we train out of the TJD curriculum, something like boxing punching basics or presumably hapkido self-defense grapling. I believe my KJN only shows us that to make us understand there are other ways to do things, but the training is never enough, at least to me, to input the new techniques in my repertoire. I wish we practised a little more about those techniques, and I wish we had more SD-oriented classes sometimes. As it's a small school, although the GM is the highest-rank in the city, I believe it's difficult for him to give deeper martial art-oriented classes, coz most people unfortunately aren't interested on that.
At my school we only train KKW/WTF TKD. Sometimes (I'd say once a month or so) we train out of the TJD curriculum, something like boxing punching basics or presumably hapkido self-defense grapling. I believe my KJN only shows us that to make us understand there are other ways to do things, but the training is never enough, at least to me, to input the new techniques in my repertoire. I wish we practised a little more about those techniques, and I wish we had more SD-oriented classes sometimes. As it's a small school, although the GM is the highest-rank in the city, I believe it's difficult for him to give deeper martial art-oriented classes, coz most people unfortunately aren't interested on that.
dancingalone
Grandmaster
That has been my general experience as well, particularly with the younger set. They want to do some basics, mostly kicking and then sparring. They actually tend to get bored with training the skills that IMO are more focused towards life preservation.
