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I don't think it has any real meaning anymore. I've seen Taekwondo schools that look nothing alike both market themselves as "traditional." I think the word "traditional" is about as ambiguous as the term "mcdojo." It means whatever someone wants it to mean.What does this mean? Our school markets itself externally and internally as a traditional school? What makes a school traditional versus non-traditional? I have seen a school market themselves as Non-traditional Tae Kwon Do.
I don't think it has any real meaning anymore. I've seen Taekwondo schools that look nothing alike both market themselves as "traditional." I think the word "traditional" is about as ambiguous as the term "mcdojo." It means whatever someone wants it to mean.
I would like input from other instructors out there, on this issue: Other than people who have a background in your specific org. or system, how many people (or percentage) looking for training have ever walked in your door and said I came here because you teach "X" system or style of TKD?
"Traditional TKD" has no meaning. I also can't help but wonder if it has any value whatsoever as a marketing tool since the public at large is not likely to impute any value to this term. Perhaps if it gets people in the door (Which I Highly doubt) to ask what that is all about, it has value.
I would like input from other instructors out there, on this issue: Other than people who have a background in your specific org. or system, how many people (or percentage) looking for training have ever walked in your door and said I came here because you teach "X" system or style of TKD?
What does this mean? Our school markets itself externally and internally as a traditional school? What makes a school traditional versus non-traditional? I have seen a school market themselves as Non-traditional Tae Kwon Do.
"Traditional TKD" has no meaning. I also can't help but wonder if it has any value whatsoever as a marketing tool since the public at large is not likely to impute any value to this term. Perhaps if it gets people in the door (Which I Highly doubt) to ask what that is all about, it has value.
I would like input from other instructors out there, on this issue: Other than people who have a background in your specific org. or system, how many people (or percentage) looking for training have ever walked in your door and said I came here because you teach "X" system or style of TKD?
"Traditional TKD" has no meaning. I also can't help but wonder if it has any value whatsoever as a marketing tool since the public at large is not likely to impute any value to this term. Perhaps if it gets people in the door (Which I Highly doubt) to ask what that is all about, it has value.
I would like input from other instructors out there, on this issue: Other than people who have a background in your specific org. or system, how many people (or percentage) looking for training have ever walked in your door and said I came here because you teach "X" system or style of TKD?
Im sorry but it does have a meaning. As I have posted earlier it means the old way of training. ......
I would like input from other instructors out there, on this issue: Other than people who have a background in your specific org. or system, how many people (or percentage) looking for training have ever walked in your door and said I came here because you teach "X" system or style of TKD?
Ok....if you say so.No need to be sorry. It has a meaning to you. It has no universal meaning to the public at large. (Or most everyone else as I will illustrate below)
We all operate in a very small universe. If my universe calls a tail a leg does that mean for everyone out there a dog has 5 legs?
For instance in your post #5 you say: " My predecessors told me to explain that I do Classical TKD. And basically its just the Korean masters that came from Tang Soo Do but didnt switch their style or curriculum over to KKW or ITF. Thats what traditional TKD is.
When I was in Korea (Busan) I was asked to teach a class. When I did the instructor came up to me and said "you're old school. No one teaches like that any more." LOL! There's a guy named Master Sharma in MD that I use to work for and when asked me to teach a class so he can see if I can teach he said "OMG....man you're old school for REAL."
So, it seems your predecessors referred to it as "Classical" as opposed to traditional, and someone else used the term "Old School" , so apparently to them "Traditional" was not the moniker.
Further, a logical argument could be made that "Korean masters that came from Tang Soo Do but didnt switch their style or curriculum over to KKW or ITF." if they practiced a style that existed before any system called TKD, or even the name TKD existed, that they could not be doing TKD of any sort because it did not exist.
Then you get into the whole issue of defining what is or is not TKD.
So, as is typical, there can be no meaningful discussion unless participants agree on how terms are defined. I expect that get an agreement on what is or is not Traditional TKD will be just as impossible as getting an agreement on what is or is not TKD.
LOL!Can't think of any, honestly. Let's face it, unless you're already fairly familiar with TKD, you're not going to know the Moo Duk Kwan from Moo Goo Gai Pan.
To me, traditional martial arts of any kind means a martial art that concentrates on training the student to be the best person they can be, and not just the best fighter they can be.What does this mean? Our school markets itself externally and internally as a traditional school? What makes a school traditional versus non-traditional? I have seen a school market themselves as Non-traditional Tae Kwon Do.
One of our seniors said something once that resonated with me: we teach life skills and we use Taekwondo as the teaching medium.
Tradition comes from the Latin verb "tradere" which means "to transmit/to pass on, to give for safe keeping." In effect, "traditional" Taekwon-Do is that Taekwon-Do which you have learned from your instructor. He's handed it on to you for safe keeping.