The Old Taekwondo forms were very close to Shotokan Kata. Some of the blocks were changed so that both hands moved in the same direction where the original Shotokan blocks had more contrary movement. ..one hand always retracting while the other moved forward or laterally. Back during the early phase of Taekwondo the stances were still deep but already there was less commitment to the Japanese Shotokan rule of maintaining a constant height relative to the floor. Taekwondo's founders wanted to integrate old Korean kicking arts and this required a less strict approach to stance depth. From the 1930s the Shotokan approach went in the other direction by deepening stances during training to add extra stress to the legs for strength building... You see similar ideas in Shaolin Boxing. The Japanese Kicks were delivered as explosive single attacks from legs under tension. The Korean response was the reverse... to lighten the load on the legs to allow quicker shifts in leg weighting and thus allow easier combination kicks. Taekwondo gradually lost its Shotokan-like characteristics... This was both a gain and a loss. Korean kicking became higher, more aerial and more constant... but what was lost was the intense exertion that trained balance and leg strength . The bouncing also weakened hand techniques by lightening the centre of gravity and de-emphasising hip rotations. Taekwondo kicks have become versatile and spectacular but their forms lack the discipline and control required in early Taekwondo and in most Japanese Katas.
As opposed to bouncing around or relying on adding boxing/kickboxing and escrima to make their art "better", Taekwondo could really benefit from going back to emphasizing traditional stances and footwork.
My academy still trains very much this style sometimes I like to read the original book from Choi Hong Hi, his vision was never what taekwon-do is today… it’s lost it’s side of combat and is to far into sport competition.
Notice how he sinks into initial attacks... Notice how he steps straight through into punches.. No Half mooning, and No Excessive Bouncing !!! Take note !!
Odd.. At 4:55 you can see he twists or rotates his fist long before he punches. I was taught to rotate towards then end of the extension . Rotate as you are making contact of your punch generating more power. As a matter of fact, I have never seen anyone punch like this before.
It was a lot less refined and less precise back then. Heights of hand positions, stance width and weight distribution are all standardized now. I see a lot of people in these comments talking about how Taekwon-do was back when it started and how they think Gen Choi wanted it to be. The simple fact is he developed it with sine wave and although some people exaggerate it, when you see sinvewave and understand it's purpose and usefulness, it makes immense sense.. The patterns are far more beautiful with the precise movements of today, like how Jarek Suska performs them. Crisp, exact, with the body relaxing before exploding into the strikes and finishing the movement and breath at once with maximum coordination.
The Old Taekwondo forms were very close to Shotokan Kata. Some of the blocks were changed so that both hands moved in the same direction where the original Shotokan blocks had more contrary movement. ..one hand always retracting while the other moved forward or laterally. Back during the early phase of Taekwondo the stances were still deep but already there was less commitment to the Japanese Shotokan rule of maintaining a constant height relative to the floor. Taekwondo's founders wanted to integrate old Korean kicking arts and this required a less strict approach to stance depth. From the 1930s the Shotokan approach went in the other direction by deepening stances during training to add extra stress to the legs for strength building... You see similar ideas in Shaolin Boxing. The Japanese Kicks were delivered as explosive single attacks from legs under tension. The Korean response was the reverse... to lighten the load on the legs to allow quicker shifts in leg weighting and thus allow easier combination kicks. Taekwondo gradually lost its Shotokan-like characteristics... This was both a gain and a loss. Korean kicking became higher, more aerial and more constant... but what was lost was the intense exertion that trained balance and leg strength . The bouncing also weakened hand techniques by lightening the centre of gravity and de-emphasising hip rotations. Taekwondo kicks have become versatile and spectacular but their forms lack the discipline and control required in early Taekwondo and in most Japanese Katas.
As opposed to bouncing around or relying on adding boxing/kickboxing and escrima to make their art "better", Taekwondo could really benefit from going back to emphasizing traditional stances and footwork.
My academy still trains very much this style sometimes I like to read the original book from Choi Hong Hi, his vision was never what taekwon-do is today… it’s lost it’s side of combat and is to far into sport competition.
Notice how he sinks into initial attacks... Notice how he steps straight through into punches.. No Half mooning, and No Excessive Bouncing !!! Take note !!
Interesting how lower the stances were then. Great vids. Thanks for sharing.
Excellent !! This guy is good !!
This looks great because the sine-vawe wasn't yet introduced. This is how we still do the techniques in kukkiwon style
Odd.. At 4:55 you can see he twists or rotates his fist long before he punches. I was taught to rotate towards then end of the extension . Rotate as you are making contact of your punch generating more power. As a matter of fact, I have never seen anyone punch like this before.
It was a lot less refined and less precise back then. Heights of hand positions, stance width and weight distribution are all standardized now.
I see a lot of people in these comments talking about how Taekwon-do was back when it started and how they think Gen Choi wanted it to be.
The simple fact is he developed it with sine wave and although some people exaggerate it, when you see sinvewave and understand it's purpose and usefulness, it makes immense sense..
The patterns are far more beautiful with the precise movements of today, like how Jarek Suska performs them. Crisp, exact, with the body relaxing before exploding into the strikes and finishing the movement and breath at once with maximum coordination.
@@bryanking1428 I was taught by General Choi.
@@grabir01 well,that's very cool. Are you still practicing? What country?
Gracias por publicar estos vídeos solo el que ve esto puede entender el objetivo de el autor muchas gracias
Una pregunta es el propio general choi quien esta haciendo las formas
No . Porque el no era del area tecnica sino administrativa