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The Tae Kwon Do billion dollar Smokescreen
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The Tae Kwon Do billion dollar Smokescreen
1. Tae Kwon Do is a Martial Art - FALSE it is The Korean National Sport. It was founded officially in 1965 - documented in the Korean Government as the national Korean sport. The point is, Tae Kwon Do came from no large or ancient art. It was developed from Japanese Karate styles such as Shotokan and also Judo. Now in America, since you can market anything whether it's the truth or not. They market strongly as a "Martial art" and when they see fit then it's a "Sport" , "self defense", "Kickboxing" , "inner development", "Tai Chi", "Kung Fu" or even "Yoga". The issue here is that Tae kwon Do leaders continue to purposefully fabricate the history of this sport and also claim it is a Martial art, ignoring the government documents on it's creation as the national sport and based solely on the fabricated history. The public needs to be aware that Tae Kwon Do IS NOT a Martial art and NEVER was. Tae Kwon Do practioners are referred to as Tae Kwon Doist, never Martial artist. Please read on as to why this is so important. Understanding that Martial art and Martial sport are 100% different.
2. Tae Kwon Do is an ancient art from 50BC - FALSE - It was formed by "unifying" the Kwans (mini-styles) that originated from 1945 to 1960 (the Kwan instructors studied Shotokan Karate or Judo in Japan and then formed their kwan) in Korea. Between 1945 to 1960 there were 40 different kwan that had sprung up all over korea. All the kwan were competing with one another and this was preventing the idea of Tae Kwon Do becoming a unified national sport. It was more or less forced on the Kwan heads to unify to form one National sport. Unifying all the kwans and developing Tae kwon Do into a National sport became the agreed objective for the "leaders & pioneers " in this movement. It was not developed from the Ancient lost Martial art called Taek Kyon. Alhough the name Tae Kwon Do is similiar. The leaders used this name purposefully because it resembled the name Taek kyon.
The name Tae kwon Do was being used by alot of the kwans,but many arguments about what to call the standardized sport was the delay in the process. In 1960, it was agreed to call it Tae Soo Do - that was what a majority of the "leaders" decided upon and put the name into existence. Then in 1965, after much argument, the name again changed from Tae Soo Do totally to Tae kwon Do.
There's more... I suggest clicking the link and reading the entire page before commenting. I'm still thinking about some of it.