Taller People Doing Tae Kwon Do

[Dirty Dog]

I don't know the full TKD rules, but I know leg kicks aren't allowed,

You're right, you don't know the full TKD rules. Because we most certainly DO allow leg kicks.

and it seems that in a game which is essentially a kicking game, and where sweeps and KO via body punches aren't possible the advantages seem limited.

See above. There is more to TKD than the teeny tiny portion of it shown in the Olympics.

 

[Earl Weiss]

You're right, you don't know the full TKD rules. Because we most certainly DO allow leg kicks.

See above. There is more to TKD than the teeny tiny portion of it shown in the Olympics.

I did not know WT and ITF sparring allowed leg kicks so I guess I also did not know the rules.

 

[Simfers]

When I did WTF TKD, back between 1997-2002, we absolutely did not allow leg kicks. I don't know if that was purely an Olympic rule or a Federation-wide rule, but the only acceptable points of contact were the body and the head (starting at a certain belt level which escapes me at the moment).

 

[Dirty Dog]

I did not know WT and ITF sparring allowed leg kicks so I guess I also did not know the rules.

And as I am sure you know, those two orgs are not TKD. Each is a part of TKD. Not all of it.