Hot answers tagged tae-kwon-do
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Mind Maps
The BJJ community is big on mind maps, which are close but not an exact match in your search for ontologies. For instance, Aesopian has this one:
This is not surprising, since the entire concept that set BJJ apart from judo was the idea of an inexorable flowchart:
Takedown
Pass guard
Mount (using a broad definition of the term--not ...
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What style of TKD? ITF, WTF, ATA, STF, etc? I would suspect that they are probably WTF, and their bounce has to do with the style of sparring that they train for.
TKD sparrers in general use their feet a lot, and there is a lot of switch stance, spins, aerial kicks, things of that nature, so the requirement is to be light on your feet. Watch any WTF or ...
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The primary change is that daredevil / suicide moves now lose all interest.
Jumping up and hitting the top of the head
Spinning kicks, in particular the spinning hook/reverse/something kick to the head
super-lunge-punch
All these moves, and more, are now begging for punishment much more than before, when a judge might decide to call a point and stop the ...
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Some of the answers on the following questions may be helpful:
What qualifies a school or business as a legitimate martial arts system?
How important is lineage when it comes to credibility or trustworthiness?
What characteristics should I look for in a sensei?
Some of the danger signs I would look for in what people call a "Belt Factory":
Either ...
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Rulesets determine skillsets. Tactics are determined by the "battleground" (read: competition setup).
If a style focuses on competition that doesn't allow foot-sweeps or clinching, and kicks are scored higher and more frequently than face punching, your fighters will end up looking like Olympic TKD: hands at the sides to deflect body kicks, facing sideways ...
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Tai chi can be best described as "mediation in motion." It is more slow-moving than tae kwon do and focuses more on internal energy development whereas tae kwon do is more external. However, that does not mean that tai chi itself will not provide a workout for you. It may not be as strenuous or physically demanding as tae kwon do, but you will see some ...
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The same principles should apply to the young as well - if you look at them statistically they will be pretty similar to the adults with the speed they learn. I personally would not make a rule about ages and half belts, but that's just me (there are no magical changes when you turn 7, so the rule is most likely based on tradition rather than cold hard ...
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From my experience point-stop sparring can really lead to 'tag'-like situations, where both opponents are only trying to touch eachother as quickly as possibly with no regard for what happens after the attack / counter-attack.
One of the most frequently used techniques in TKD point-break is the jumping back fist, after which the attacker basicly falls over ...
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I think that style is less relevant than Sensei. I don't practice either TKD or karate, but I believe that the most important factor in determining whether you'll take the kind of blows you want to avoid is the instructor (and the senior students).
Watch a few classes. In particular watch juniors sparring and look for evidence that they're being observed ...
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Edited for the differences portion of the question:
For the most part, TKD is TKD is TKD. A front kick in WTF looks like a front kick in ITF looks like a front kick in ATA, etc. Differences in execution are relatively minor, even if you go from TKD to a Karate flavor, the techniques are pretty much the same. The differences between TKD and Karate are the ...
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There are a couple of benefits of the x-stance (or x-stop as you call it).
Reach. If you are in a middle or front stance and you simply slide forward, your body weight and torso are centered between your feet (Mostly, there is some percentage difference in weight distribution, but for the purposes of this they are equal). Now, your torso is 6" to 1' or ...
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I agree with other answers here that cardio is definitely a factor. I have to disagree regarding more variation in technique moving from point-break to continuous sparring. I submit that, because the dominant form of competitive TKD sparring is Olympic-style sparring, that you will see less variation in techniques moving to that style. I believe that the ...
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If you're sedentary in a new city and looking for exercise, the best school to join is whichever one actually moves around vigorously that you will enjoy and stick with. Whether it's Tae Kwon Do, tai chi, yoga, lifting weights, or soccer doesn't particularly matter. Whether or not you sweat matters. Whether you like it and keep going matters.
However, it's ...
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Permit me to reinforce what Matt Chan states.
Style (tae kwon do or tai chi) (in my opinion) ought to be a tertiary selector. I believe that I'm not alone in stating that long term success/happiness in martial arts derives first from the instructor, second from the classmates and only third from the art.
You may want to read one of my prior prolixities ...
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I don't know of an existing ontology, but we can create one. Everyone should feel free to edit this to make it more complete. I have organized it with the headings (big and small) as well as lists as end nodes. I expect it will become cumbersome very quickly. Feel free to rearrange. (Perhaps the lists would be better off paragraphed instead of bulleted, for ...
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Around the beginning of 2012, I spent some time online trying to locate a freely available design for a martial arts board holder. At the time there was nothing available*. So after taking some inspiration from a few commercially available compact designs (see: http://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=board+holder+martial+arts) I came up with my own.
In ...
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In short, grading every 3 months as a lower Gup is fairly normal. You will begin to be able to tell if you're in a "belt factory" if you look to the higher Gups and Black Belts and wonder how on Earth they have X Belt.
I'm an instructor for an ITF-based Taekwon-do school and the approach that our umbrella organisation follows is to have gradings four times ...
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Most styles of any art will have a prescribed syllabus which lays out what you need to know and/or achieve for each ranking, and they will also usually contain a suggested time period to be spent at each rank level.
Note the word suggested - an instructor has the right to advance students or invite them to attend gradings as he sees fit. It is quite common ...
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If you are looking just for exercise and fitness, martial arts in general is probably not a good choice. Crossfit, P90X, walking, jogging, biking, swimming will work better. Most "lifers" don't rely on class for conditioning, and will tend to practice and condition on their own.
Tai chi is good if you want to start correcting your posture but so can the ...
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1 A short good hint that helped me a lot (I am also a 2 m. long guy).
Don't lean backwards. Many do this to counterweight their legs. From that position it's hard to follow it up by a punch and you are vulnerable for overtakes and even more (if allowed): takedowns and swipes.
It may take some practice.
2 Extend those arms!
I still find so many people ...
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Tae Kwon Do itself is actually a very recent development as well. Call it Korean Karate and you're not being inaccurate, just some Koreans/TKD exponents will lose their shit if you say it in front of them. If you're looking for the actually traditional art, it's Taekkyon, which as of 2011 was on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity List. South ...
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Specific advice
Between karate and Tae Kwon Do, it very much matters what style of karate, and how each school trains.
You'll want to avoid a competitive school. Go to the schools nearby and ask them how they spar. If they train knock-down or full-contact sparring, you'll want to go somewhere else. The risk for concussion and brain damage is slight, but ...
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Your workout routine as it stands isn't unusual in any respect. For nutrition, I would go with the maxim of shopping the outside edges of the store, i.e. lean meats, veggies, fruits, whole grains, etc. I'm not going to recommend a ratio of the carb/protein/fats, other than to say you should be getting around 1.5 - 2 grams protein/kg per day to support the ...
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Jammed toes
I can't speak to the TKD technique, but I found trouble during years of karate with the ball-of-the-foot recommended mawashi geri technique. Many others have done fine with it. For instance, Shokei Matsui shows it to be a formidable technique against the body and the head in his 100-man kumite; he uses it to devastating effect about a half-dozen ...
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This is sort of a lost cause, as I doubt Sabyaschi will want to come back given his cold welcome, but let's take a look. I'm going to ignore the latest iteration and actually go with the original question.
Given the assumption that there are multiple TKD and multiple Karate schools available, with differences among each, here's what you're looking at for ...
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It's good that you're looking at it now, settle on something that works for you quickly, and then don't change it. One of the worst things you could do with tournament diet is change it up a week before your tournament and find something disagrees with you. Even if technically something you're eating is 'bad' for you, if you're used to it you at least won't ...
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TKD people usually aim for competitions and tend to train techniques which would score them the most points. Most of this high-score techniques are high kicks. In competitive TDK (WTF) there is very little (if any) room for grappling and things alike.
Most of the time it's an exchange of kicks.
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Stretching the calves and alternating exercise type from high impact (running) to low impact (walking and swimming) can help prevent them from happening again. Avoid jumping type movements or hill runs. I've known more than one person that has had this injury due to box jump exercises. Slowly ramp up the training intensity during recovery to avoid re-injury.
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I find there's not enough time to change hip position after a kick, so if the combo is kick first then punch, I typically can only make use of a punch with the same side I kicked with.
So if I'm lunging in with a right kick, the punch is also with the right. It feels a bit weird if you've never tried it that way before, and you have to set up your upper ...
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I've recently come back to a Korean punch-kick system similar to my first formal martia art after ~7 years in other punch kick systems, ~3 years of doing an akido derivative and ~3 years of not having a regular workout.
Not quite the same situation because I'm re-entered that world in a new school, which means that I at least get to wear my white belt ...
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