Badmartialarts.com

john kavanagh

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Valmont

seems to be a step in the right direction. I think it would benefit martial artists and potential martial artists the world over if they made these considerations when taking up a new hobby.

In retrospect I did Karate and Hapkido for two and a half years and I was convinced about that Chi stuff. Eh

gymrabbit

This relates to something I said in another thread:

http://www.badmartialarts.com/CommonSense/sport.php

I really can't get my head around Judo = Sport, Jujutsu = Martial Art, WTF TKD = Sport, ITF TKD = Martial Art. I just see, one trains better than the other for practical performance of the techniques.

Black Swan

WTF TKD = Sport, ITF TKD = Martial Art.

This assumes that all masters and instructors of WTF TKD are identical in their instruction, with the same implied for ITF TKD? And isn't it true that even ITF TKD is no longer in agreement with itself now splitting into 3 groups at last count?

I have intimate knowledge of WTF TKD from two different masters located in two different places in the world (having been a subject of their instruction and supervision for several years), one a former French Olympian and the other a Korean Grand Master. Both masters are very advanced, registered, and well known at Kukkiwon, but the blend of their instruction is very different in many ways, especially in terms of how they incorporate sport and SD into their curriculums. Yes, in tournament they will fight by WTF rules, but on the street? That's why I find it very difficult to accept any broadsweeping generalisations that would suggest that WTF TKD = sport and ITF TKD = martial art. In some cases, I would venture to state just the opposite, depending upon the master and the instructors of the dojang. It would seem reasonable to assume the same for ITF TKD?

And come on guys, don't tell me that all the instructors in your dojang are clones of the master? Identical in their instruction and areas of expertise? In our dojang we have one instructor who is a lean, mean fighting machine with sword, but so so in poomse, sparring, and SD. We have another instructor you would love to have with you in a street fight cause SD is his game, while his sparring is good and his poomse stinks. We have another who fills our cabinets with medals and trophies from WTF tournaments... I could go on and on about individual instructor differences, but so could you about yours?

Tim_Murphy

I fail to see what place critical thinking and common sense have in martial arts training!

Interesting idea for a website.

Leo?

It's no bullshido.net, but it's not bad.