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Post by sbwright on Jun 6, 2006 10:55:06 GMT 8
Cheers
Colin.
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Post by sbwright on Jun 6, 2006 6:03:38 GMT 8
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Just to let you know I graded to 2nd Dan in my organisation in late February.
Of partticular concern were my board breaks, both went perfectly though.
Cheers
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Post by sbwright on Feb 3, 2006 14:20:09 GMT 8
Forumites,
Despite what some history books/organisations might say Tae Kwon Do is not 2000 Years old, it has influences from a number of arts with long lineages but as a separate cultural/combative entity it is essentially modern.
The first kwan or school in Korea was the Chung Do Kwan or blue wave school (c.1944). Founded by Won Kook(Kyuk) lee (Yi). Lee stated that he taught Tang So Do (Chinese Hand Way).
Lee's instructor was the Okinawan, Funakoshi the founder of Shotokan, although I don't think Funakoshi would have said he taught Shotokan rather, Okinawa Te or Kara Te(meaning both empty hand and chinese hand).
From what I have pieced together is that early Tang So Do was essentially Karate taught by Koreans. As more Kwans began other influences were brought in perhaps from direct from China.
The forms taught by the original Chung Do Kwan were Japanese/Okinawan.
Choi and Nam created the Chang Hon forms I think to distance themselves from the Japanese roots, but many of the moves will be similar to the Okinawan forms.
So if we talk about which Tae Kwon Do forms are the oldest I would have to say Chang Hon as they were created by the first group to split itself decisively from Japanese/Okinawan influence.
I practise Chung Do Kwan under its Second Grand Master Duk Sung Son. We do the following forms
Kuk Mu 1-2 Pyong Ahn 1-5 Chulgi 1-2 Palsek/Balsek Ship Soo Yun Bee
and although we are under the World Tae Kwon Do Association I prefer to state that I practise Korean Karate than Tae Kwon Do as this is more representative.
My style has more in common with Tang So Do and Karate than what the general public would call Tae Kwon Do.
Cheers
Sean
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