Oh, I almost forgot! I saw a video from Kukkiwon a few months ago, which said that Kukkiwon is going to start offering the lecture part of the...
The master course should be the same thing, it's just that the WTMU is organizing them in the US so Americans don't have to fly to Korea to take it.
Kukkiwon does, or at least did as of a few years ago, offer special transfer/assimilation testing for people in circumstances like yours. You'd...
What we've found works well is, when students are first learning a form, for the instructor to lead the group by demonstrating each move and...
I have two thoughts. First, spanking your partner isn't a nice or good thing to do (unless that's something that you both enjoy as a bedroom game,...
Even if running the school is the instructor's full-time job, it can be tough for them to offer daytime classes. We tried for a while, but driving...
IMO, it's better to alternate days, to give people some time to recover between classes. So instead of having a beginner class Monday and Tuesday,...
Why did different cultures come up with different languages, out of the same sounds that humans can make with our mouths? Or why do different...
Yeah, that's true. We do sometimes have TKD black belts from other schools come by to try a class. Some of them end up signing up. One acted like...
Maybe 8 or 10 years ago, I was taking part in a TKD demonstration at a local festival. A young man, who was obviously a bit intoxicated, came up...
You say "no, I'm not going to punch you", and walk away. You could also say, "come to the gym/dojo with me for class tomorrow, and I'll show...
Most of the discussion on this thread seems to be about exercise fitness training, and while of course being in better shape will help you be more...
As a random aside, Mr WaterGal found an old uniform of his from the 1980s, and it had a patch on it that said "λκΆλ". I'm guessing this was just a...
I have heard that BJJ and boxing are quite popular in Japan, for whatever that's worth. And China is quite competitive in Taekwondo.
Yeah, the first one feels like a Taekwondo form, though it's not one I'm familiar with.
Yeah, that sounds like marketing copy to me. Very few people who aren't martial arts fans have ever heard of Hapkido, but everybody's heard of...
The 2 main Hapkido federations are the IHF (International HKD Federation), and KHF (Korea Hapkido Federation). The IHF does not use poomse/hyung,...
I think hand on the ground would be considered "falling", which is penalized.
Full gear AND no contact? Yeah, at that point, I think the only kind of injury you'd be getting would be self-inflicted accidents, like the guy I...
Yeah, I feel like "we stopped doing sparring because people would get hurt" is generally a bit of a cop-out. The instructor should try to figure...
I know a couple of guys who run this kind of program, and they've closed their programs indefinitely as well. For both of them, it wasn't really...
I read the article you linked to. It said there is absolutely no evidence that that's ever happened in the US, and that even the guy who made the...
Honestly, if a hospital was going to engage in Medicare fraud, that seems like such a... petty and lowball way to go about it anyway. There was a...
I think you can do whatever you want. Certain body types might be better for being a very high-level athlete (like, world-class Taekwondo athletes...
Yeah, this lesson is part of a curriculum that's taught as an ongoing weekly class. I've personally been thinking a bit about training to be...
I think this is one of those "it depends" things. We mostly go to local recreational-type tournaments that aren't WT/USAT-sanctioned. They use WT...
Agreeing with Skribs here. I don't know anything about ITF vs EKF equipment, I do KKW TKD. But at our school, we don't retail the kind of...
I've never engaged with these guys for more than a couple emails. But they seem to want to pay for months of classes up front, so I assume they...
Though there are definitely some kids who do some of the things on this list too. Especially the "at my old martial arts school, we did it...
Yep, this. I really don't know how it's worth it either, but I can't recall how much they want you to pay the "driver". The last one of these we...
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