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If I started coaching tomorrow and taught old-school Taekwondo (the pre-2016 style), but with a modern tactical twist—meaning I'd teach how to counter the current cut kick meta, while keeping the main focus on double kicks, dwi chagi, classic feints, and traditional defense—do you think it could actually work in today's sparring environment?

Hello everyone; my first official posting.

My post is basically what my title says. I started off in Tae Kwon Do MANY years ago as a teenager. I don't know what style of TKD I was studying. But, the forms were the Chung Do Kwan forms.

Years later in my begging university/college years, the 4th martial arts school i trained at was a Chung Do Kwan school. My Sabunim TKD lineage goes to a school in North Carolina. Unfortunately, i never asked him specifically what school & instructor he trained under. Another unfortunate thing, i had to stop training with him because my university class schedule got really hectic and I was switching between different jobs at the university regional campus i was a student at to a smaller college in the same town as my regional campus.

By the time my work & school schedule calmed down, my Sabumnin had retired from teaching. He had already retired several years before hand; this was in the mid 2000s.

After that, I started training at a WTF TKD dojang in the same town as the colleges. After I few months, I had to stop training there because I was moved to a full-time worker at the smaller college i was working at due to the major projects in the division I was working in.

Over the years, I have wanted to get back into training, but I want to do it at a Chung Do Kwan dojang. The reason why is that im a 3rd Gup Red belt. At the time i had to stop training, it was near testing and I likely wouldve moved up to 2nd Gup.

As far as I knew of, there were only 2 Chung Do Kwan instructors in South Carolina-my instructor and the instructor of our sister dojang. Ive tried searching online over the years. As I have read in many posts in this Subreddit, the closed to finding Chung Do Kwan schools in South Carolina, is the Chung Do Kwan association in North Carolina. When ibe checked for associated schools in South Carolina, there has never been any.

So, I'm a bit stuck. My instructor has never spoke of being a part of any larger Chung Do Kwn or ITF TKD association. And with my instructor never saying what Chung Fo Kwan school he trained at, I have no idea if the North Carolina Chung Do Kwan association is the one the school he trained at is associated with. Ive also checked other Chung Do Kwan associations in the United States, but none on their websites have had a school in South Carolina.

Any assistance to point me in a direction is appreciated.

The title sums it up, i am looking to start a martial art, i have never done any but have done sports in the past. Sadly since covid ive let myself go a bit and i have recentlt started taking care of myself again.

Is it a good idea to start at 33 if im overweight too, i am looking to discipline myself, have fun and get healthier/lose weight

I have influences from both. Let's hear what you guys think. I believe it's more KKW at this point.

I do not practice Tae Kwan Do but my kids do. I am not trying to be a dick. I am genuinely trying to educate myself.

I notice TKD loves demos. Who is this stuff for? Do you get hyped for this stuff? The linked video is from Kukkiwon. This stuff is canon. Does your school do a lot of these kinds of demos? Where do you do them? Do you do them just for yourselves in the dojang? Do you perform these at a county fair?

The Protocol of Accord was a historic memorandum of understanding signed on August 21, 2014, by World Taekwondo (WT, formerly the WTF) President Chungwon Choue and International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF) President Ung Chang.

"Allowed registered athletes from both the WT and ITF to compete in each other’s sanctioned tournaments under respective organizational rules". [1]

You still need to convert the black belt, and as far as I understand this wasn't prohibited prior to 2014. Right? You could always speed track to black belt.

Hello! I'm a white belt, who has been doing taekwondo for about 3 or 4 months now. I've been encountering a pretty major problem. I have cross dominance and, because of that, I often mess up my left and right. This had already been an issue when I did acro as a kid, and it was mostly resolved. (My teacher had me wear a ring to help me know which hand/foot I needed to use.) But, now that I've started taekwondo, I've been noticing it resurfacing in different ways: I keep turning the wrong way, and I'll sometimes get confused with which foot or hand I'm supposed to use next in a combo. This is especially bad when we're doing things at speed, as I have less time to orient myself. While I understand a lot of this will come with practice, I'm wondering if anyone was in a similar situation, and if they had any tips on how to help.

Is there more emphasis on traditional aspects or does it still train for sport primarily?

Is there a different emphasis on the particular kicks?

Is there any difference outside of those I'm asking about?

I saw a sparring match today. And 1 player keeps doing hammerfist punches as part of his attack. Is this even allowed or legal? Thanks in advance. This is WTF by the way

I’m going into seniors from juniors in the 2027 season as a female. I’ve done Taekwondo since I was like three since my dad owns a Dojang. I did some casual competitions before Covid and only got back into competitions afterwards. And even then the sparring team itself was an on and off thing until my dad actually found a sparring instructor. My dad grew up in Korea learning TKD as a kid and now has a Dojang in the states. So when I was a kid I learned a more traditional style of Taekwondo with constant changes after Covid with my dad trying to basically keep up with all the changes, but some of it’s basically ingrained in so I was a semi unusual style which is why I don’t do well in Poomsae at the USATKD state level competitions. And I see myself as more of an all rounder I do really well in demo and breaking, but it’s not like a major part of TKD like forms or sparring. I’ve done states twice with having only one sparring match since apparently they had nobody the first year. I got genuinely obliterated tho because I was going against someone who’s gone to nationals like over 5 times so what am I supposed to do at that point. I did get one head kick. But the competition itself is expensive with like about 500 I think for states itself. But my dad isn’t a millionaire who can spend thousands upon thousands of dollars every years for a chance at me winning. At local competitions it basically impossible, the refs are controlled by one school and most of the matches are rigged if your opponent is from that school. Not to mention that the world class scoring systems is so old that it doesn’t register hits at all. I’m about 110 and for a local competition I went against a junior who was 160 and a 150 cadet(since my division is empty) and they couldn’t even score with a straight kick to the chest! It’s that bad, the only good scoring system is at big USATKD competitions and that costs a lot of money. Not to mention they change the gear like every year. First it was Gen 1, then Gen 2, then Kpnp, then Gen 3. They switch at like the same time every year and only very few schools in the country can get them and we can’t even compete at because we can’t drop like 1000 on the gear every year and there’s no where to buy it anyway. So how do people actually make it? Are people really that rich that they have thousands to drop on gear and competition? (Lowkey Might Delete This Later 🙃)

Our dojang's Bob broke. I went to adjust his height and heard a clinking noise and looked down, and there were some washers on the floor. I examined Bob's back, And the washers and a bolt fell out of his back.

I was wondering if anyone had any ideas how to repair him. Right now things aren't quite in the budget to replace him.

I recently started training again, after like a 20 year hiatus. I am out of shape unfortunately, and have a little extra weight still. My legs are sore as hell, walking down my steps has me looking like an old cowgirl. Ive only able to go to training 1x a week (Mon-Thurs open).

Is that okay until my muscles get better? Eventually I want to move to 2 days a week. Additionally, how does anyone recover from the soreness?

Whenever I block and my opponent hits my blocking arm they register it as a point. I’m never blocking my head because I get really focused on my body. I don’t move around a lot. I also feel like I’m open whenever I try to kick or have just finished a kick. I know all my errors but as soon as I start sparring all that seems to go out the window!

Testing is in a few days, I know most of my forms but not all and not well, and they have us memorize 18 simple movements for sparring that I have sorta down but not really, and another 18 for self defense that I'm less confident in. I've always been sorta advanced but I've been falling behind since I've been busy. The next period is in three months when school starts and I'm confident I'll be ready then. If I do test now, then I will have to do a workout and essay part two three months later that should be easy. I broke my arm earlier this year so it's not as strong also. Another thing is they make us memorize 16 simple “life skills” and their definition that I'm pretty good on but not confident.Also they have us do a five station board break that I haven't even done. I'm not the kind of person that likes to not be the best, and I'm working on that but I'm worried if I do test I'll be behind. They also have a workout section I barely passed. I can definitely learn most everything except the board breaking that should be pretty easy with the week, but is it easier to cut my losses? I've been looking forward towards this black belt and if I undergo this stress now quickly I'll be happy, but I don't know if I can. Thank you for helping!

Edit: I decided to wait. And this is not on my Gym, they’ve been teaching me well I just was thinking of testing EARLY. The way our gym teaches is they rotate what they teach every 3 months and let you start learning all the forms as early as you want, and start teaching you 9 months before testing. I’m halfway to my testing, and know about half my stuff this post was about testing early. Thanks everyone who gave me advice!