What pattern you like is like what flavor ice cream you like. I don't see Yul Gok as having a lack of finesse. I think you need finesse for:...
Enter the Dragon was released in 1973. Pattern appears in 1972 Book. (It may appear in the 1965 Book, I din't check)
As far as a "Stomping / Stamping" pattern I could see if you said this about Toi Gye with the 6 W shape blocks, but you lost me completely as a...
Moon Moo is a favorite demo / competition pattern for many. Please share your reasons.
Please elaborate?
I just read the forward of GM Ki Bok Man's Bio. he also relates Taekyon training with a monk at a young age.
Exactly. Note that the first link is from the NK controlled ITF, and I think it was the last one that is from ITF HQ, a recent offshoot...
The 'Rash Generalization " point was directed to van Zandt's post. The point you have now made about General Choi stating only a few Taekkyon...
Thank you. We can now agree to disagree on what bothers us. I feel instructors have an obligation to accurately pass along information. When...
I acknowledge he recounts being sent to a calligraphy teacher as a child and being introduced to Taek Kyon techniques by that teacher....
We are talking past each other, my point is not clear or we will agree to disagree. My posts were not about whether or not anyone can teach...
Right, you can call a tail a leg, and there is nothing anyone can do about it. But at the end of the day a dog still has only 4 legs.
Since there is a large body of though concluding ancient Taekkyon was lost to history any modern Taekkyon bio mechanical differences have no...
↑ "Weapons would make it better, since its meant to be a "military" style. TKD often boasts a military heritage, " it is one thing to claim some...
I submit that TKD is an empty hand system. If you learn to use weapons that is outside the TKD syllabus. Nothing wrong with that so long as you...
Since there is a large group who think it may be difficult to impossible to decide whether any modern Taekkyon includes the original art which...
Do you really need to change the system to make it "Better" or are you changing it to provide more of what you want? reasonable minds can differ...
Most of your questions vis a vis amount of contact and time spent on patterns will be club dependent to a great extant as opposed to organization...
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