Taekwondo: Reflections of Korean Spirit

The art and origins of the Korean martial art Taekwondo.
Air Date: 2000
Channel: National Geographic

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[@terrydawson2239]

Just goes to prove that you can do a documentary on Taekwondo/Tangsoodo without mentioning or acknowledging its true founder, Won Kuk Lee of the Chung Do Kwon School.

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[@blaa443blaa2]

my view of the matter is that even though they say they created a wholly novel korean martial art, based on japanese karate and a bit of other styles mixed in , it is still karate. I have a solid perspective on this because I have trained taekwondo for years and lately I have also started training karate. You can't argue that they are different arts altogether. Of course there are differences but so is there between a karate style and another. You can't even recognize the same katas of different styles! You could even argue that the difference between taekwondo and some style of karate is not any greater than the difference between a karate style to another. -- - - --

[@mvkuri]

It is true that Taekwondo is a martial art rooted in karate. However, this is only one part of the overall fact that Taekwondo's formation prototype carries. Also, your saying, "Taekwondo is still karate," only reveals your ignorance in terms of kinematic mechanics and modern martial arts history.

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Taekwondo took on unique characteristics that differed from karate as several schools, which learned and taught karate and Kwon-beop in karate-style gyms, competed fiercely for about 10 to 15 years from the 1940s to the mid-1950s. These distinct and distinctive features were prominent in terms of 'the position of the center of gravity in the operation of the body' and 'the revolution of kicking'.

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Originally an independent kingdom, Ryugu State (Okinawa) was completely annexed by Japan at the end of the 19th century after under indirect rule for more than 200 years. Karate was a localization of several martial arts from southern China in the 19th to early 20th centuries, and this fact is well illustrated in its composition and kinematics. Karate was introduced from Okinawa to Japan in the 1920s, and gradually became known in mainland Japan in the 1930s, but it was still a non-mainstream martial art until the 1940s. It was slowly becoming known mainly in university clubs, but in the late 1930s and early 1940s, Korean students who came to Japanese universities, and they learned Karate in their universities, and soon became prominent among the trainees.

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With the exception of some schools made or led by Koreans, such as Choi Young-ui and Cho Young-ju, karate was practiced in a contactless manner until the 1950s, even until recently. On the other hand, things were completely different in Korea. Since the early 1940s, when karate was introduced to Korea, various martial arts gyms competed actively and competed frequently or regularly. And the method of playing was to strike the opponent directly. In this process, Korean trainees of martial arts came to understand practicality through a tough exploration of hitting the body, breaking away from the idealism of martial arts. By striking each other, they had a clear understanding of the art of fighting. And this understanding gave them a better understanding of the existing karate method, and at the same time, made them broke away from the existing karate style and freely sought new search.

[@mvkuri]

Meanwhile, in those early years, from the 1940s to the 1950s, Korean traditional culture that different from karate and Kwon-beop dominated Korean karate in formation and transformation process. It is a traditional Korean martial art and play that is represented by the name 'Taekkyeon' today. It did not have a trainee despite the existence of a few leaders. However, it remained a legacy of Korean traditional culture, a mark of it, as the nation's overall cultural habit, from the 1940s to the 1950s. It is a culture of free and diverse kicks, and winning or losing by kicking or pushing an opponent's body through such kicks. Today, many people deny the connection between taekwondo and Taekkyeon. However, they cannot explain the innovative difference between karate and Korean karate between the 'the postion of body gravity's center' and the 'movement and control about center of gravity' that took place in just over a decade.And it doesn't explain the fact that innovative and diverse kicks that didn't exist in traditional karate were adopted in Korean karate in that short period of time.