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I used to learn Taekwondo as a kid until one day I eventually stopped. I still don't know to this day why I stopped or how did I stop. I barely have any memories from my past self that was a kid. Don't worry, I planned to consider continuing Taekwondo in the future to finish what I've started in the past.

Thats pretty cool

I think they appeal to people who might actually still have needed time to develop whether that be literally cognitively or just personally. I think thats why you see wall flowers and people with autism so much, I'm kind of both. I can entertain a room full of people now, very socially confident when I'm on my game. A bit rarer because of the autism making such a thing more cognitively demanding, but the ability is still there. Martial arts was a huge part of the growth I needed.

True.

Thank you. I needed that encouragement today. I'm a white belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu right now, and I got ragdolled a few times today. So I needed this. Thank you.

Great to see you upload here again!

“Work smarter, not harder” is a pretty accurate statement in a lot of cases.

You forgot the ATA style called songham taekwondo

When I studied Tang So Do, the instructors were bad asses. All of them were extremely fair and very nice folks. These guys came from Cali to Virginia and opened the first Chuck Norris Karate studios. I loved doing demos all around several cities. I was the dummy punching bag and boy did I keep my ass best. Those were the days

dude you look like the karate kid! i had to write it i hope you dont dislike it! you should have been playing remake of karate kid!

Nice overview of martial arts

Awesome video! Thanks for educating me this morning :)

I'm curious as to if you teach any difference between the TSD vs TKD kicks, especially the side kick? Or are the kicks all the same?

I took both taekwondo (moo duk kwan) and tang soo do lessons as a kid, and even then was struck by the fact that the basic movements and forms were virtually identical. This was right around the time that the new taegeuk forms were being introduced, and I don't know if that had any effect on what we were taught.

I'm a green belt in Tang Soo Do. I bought a martial arts book called "American Tang Soo Do Hyungs: A Guide to Black Belt." It is a very good book to buy if you are looking to learn each form step-by-step. That is the book I recommend to everyone.

Hey teach I think you may be dealing with TH-cam unsubbing folks.

Twd for self-defense fight should be the main topic and not deviate to self-defense in general. As cato here said, the modern TWD is still marketed to new enthusiasts as self-defense just like the old school TWD, and that is incorrect and dangerous for their belief of what they can do. Modern twd should be renamed to Taekwonsports, meaning "the sports of punching and kicking" thus emphasizing SPORTS.

Chuck Norris is a black belt in Tang Soo Do

tang soo do = way of chinese hand.

Taekwon-Do guy! I love your channel!

Through out my years of doing martial arts (Kosho Ryu, Capoeira, Jeet Kun do and Muay Thai) I always looked at TKD and TSD and wondered what the difference was. So I decided to join a TSD school and give it a shot. Well it's been over years now and I still have no idea what the difference is between TSD and TKD. I get asked that question every time I tell someone that I do TSD. I've seen the TKD matches and it looks pretty much like the same thing we do in TSD. I guess it's just the forms that are different. We don't use the chest guard when we spar. I'm not sure if that's a TSD thing of if that's just my school.

another great TH-cam video. but you forgot the photo of ed sell in front of the Tae Soo So sign.

ITF Taekwondo is original Taekwondo, WT Taekwondo is not Taekwondo, they are Tang Soo Do new version..

I like Tang soo do better than Taekwondo.

Tkdo exhibition Martial art, tsdo military Martial art.

ANDTHE HIGHEST RANKING BLUEBELT, ENCOMPOSING THE. SKÝ . ALSO TSD HAS A HIGHER GATE

Like Baseball and Softball?

Main difference, is the pivot foot.

19 years training in old-school MooDukKwan TKD which from what I can see is 90%the same as TangSooDo.We do all the same kicks, style of sparring, same forms- Gitchu/Pyeong-ahn/ Basssai/Nianchi etc,, even the same uniforms lol

The school I go to teaches both Taekwondo and Tang Soo Do also. We're also able to compete in open martial arts tournaments and closed Taekwondo tournaments too. We also have separate Judo and Jiujitsu classes by a jiujitsu black belt and a judo coral belt. Its all the traditional styles too, not MMA.

Thank you. This has helped me make my decision.

I appreciate this greatly

Taek comes from the Korean triangle that the Chinese children use to establish as a footwork game. The Tang as in Tang Soo Do comes from the Tang Dynasty in China. However Taekwondo had been established along time before it became a sport as with most martial arts. Just because Taekwondo and Karate came from the same ancestry does not make these the same, two main different types of Karate types arrived at the same time for obvious reasons one the imperial version where most Karate types and Tang soo do and Taekwondo, the other was Shaolin monks the imperials rivals with Quan Fa where Kempo/Kenpo originated from.

Way of the Chinese hand......denied

Well, it started with Moo Duk Kwan's Hwang Kee, while he originally joined the 5 kwans to form KTA(Korean Taekwondo Association), using his MDK Tang Soo Do, he quit the organization and continued the separate art. While there are conflicting stories about which organization started Tang Soo Do, the other faction, Chung Do Kwan was fully integrated with KTA, the Moo Duk Kwan branch became more well known world-wide, due to Chuck Norris's contribution. As there were other splinters of Tang Soo Do (Karate-based), Hwang Kee decided to add Subak, another ancient Korean Martial Arts, along with Northern Chinese elements, he decided to name his art, Soo Bakh Do. Meanwhile, Hwang Kee's students, Kim Young-taek, Hong Chong-soo, and Lee Kang-ik, wanted to remain with Kukkiwon or then KTA, hence retaining the membership of Moo Duk Kwan Taekwondo in the organization. Together with Chung Do Kwan, MDK-TKD defined some of the techniques in modern Kukkiwon TKD, hence, unofficially, TKD is the direct descendant of TSD. Unofficially, because Kukkiwon is a bit hush about it, and wants to retain TKD as the official Korean Martial Art that is recognized by the state of South Korea.

I need to stand up 4 myself!

Makes my pants tight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I agree to a 'degree' (pun intended) but there needs to be a level of competency. I've seen some black belts within the TKD community that can't even throw basic round kicks and these guys are teaching incorrect technique and habits to lower ranking students. If they have a physical impediment, they are the exception to the rule but to everyone else. There needs to be a standard. The BJJ community is ruthless to even the hobbyist practitioners and I think this should be applied even to traditional martial arts like tkd. You used a degree as an example but to be conferred you need to be competent otherwise, you fail. I don't know why most schools don't apply this. Again, this nothing has to do with toughness or competitiveness, it's being competent.

In Korea both north and south, Taekwondo training is mandatory for the military and many law enforcement agencies. That says a lot about how effective it is for self defense and unarmed combat. Any solid practioner will be able to hold their own against an opponent on the street or battlefield regardless if that opponent is trained in martial arts or not.

Both Tang Soo Do and Taekwondo are great for self defense. I've practiced Tang Soo Do for about a decade total and was a Cho Dan before leaving my Dojang in 2012. I just joined a WT Taekwondo Dojang in my hometown and very much enjoy the training. It's important for a Taekwondo teacher to emphasize both the self defense and sport aspects of the art. Because it is really both a traditional martial art and a sport. The same goes for any other martial art that's considered a sport like Judo and now even Japanese Karate.

Tang soo do means Way of the china hand during the Tang Dynasty. Monks practicing tang soo do were enlisted in the army and fought with great success

I have no idea about which style is more practical. Aside from my training in Kukkiwon(WT), I agreed that Chang'Hon(ITF) is more practical though. Also someone gave me an opinion that Kukkiwon style looks like took out most part of TangSooDo and rearrange & branding as nowadays not like ITF which unique in Sine-Wave & more practical in hand technics.

Yes, thank you, some tsd kicks are applied differently and with more power.

We do ITF. General Choi founded the system correct?

I went into the gym knowing i don't know jack shit. I love sparring. Because I know I'm shit. Any time I do something good I feel great.

The forms question is an interesting one. I started learning Korean martial art in 1971, in a small town south of Gwangju called Hwasun (I was a Peace Corps volunteer). That gym called the art moodukwan and sometimes TKD, although the latter was clearly political as an earlier poster stated. We learned the first couple of the Taeguek forms, but primary emphasis was on the Pal-gueh forms. Those did get shuffled around in 1972 - all of the instructors went up to Seoul for retraining, and when they came back we relearned Pal-gueh 8 as Pal-gueh 6, Pal-gueh 6 (which starts with the scissors block) as 4, and so on. Later, in the 80s, I studied with Master Roh in Minneapolis, whose father, a man from Kaesong just across the border with northern Korea, also studied with Funakoshi. His style, called Songmoogwan, included not only Taeguek, and Pal-gueh for the colored belts, but a third set called Chungbong (th-cam.com/video/KrDLQs1_E0o/w-d-xo.html) that are a lot of fun.

when you get into a real fight they all look the same period.Real fighting is based on distance and timing.Distance is always changing and if you’re not proficient in said distance with your limb that is closest to the target you will miss your opportunity to score.Peoples who adhere to so called styles who say we do this or dont do that,will be in for a rude awakening when they find themselves out of their comfort zone in a fight.Have you not learned anything from MMA.

Tkd has many different forms other than Taeguek. Before Taeguek, Pal-gueh forms were taught and still being taught. And black belt forms.. for WT TKD. ITF has its own set of forms. So, does ATA. Other minor styles must has their own forms. Another thing I like to mention is that "T'ang" doesn't necessarily mean China that commonly known to us. T'ang disappeared over 1200 years ago. There is no clear connection between T'ang and Okinawa. Instead of T'ang it could be either Ching or Ming.

Its all about experience not the belt the belt usually just represents what you have learned so far when it actually takes years to really call yourself a master and I can say confidently I have many years to go I'm only 25 right now so I might be a master around 55 because I want to learn other styles but hey it could happen