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How would you define differences between "classic" and "modern" marital arts? Thinking about it, everything starts modern in a way as a reaction of certain threats using available means to defend against them - the own body or maybe weapons or everyday tools that become weapons trained to use...

Why do we call martial arts like Tae Kwon Do, Karate and Kung Fu “traditional” but not arts like Muay Thai, Jiujitsu, Boxing or Wrestling? The latter arts actually have much earlier roots than the former ones. TKD for example wasn’t invented until 1950. Muay Thai and BJJ were already formalized...

I have watched a lot of Taekwondo sparring on YouTube, and every time I scroll down the comment section I see comments such as - "Ooh old school Taekwondo was better". I tried to look into this and I found this video: From what I saw, and what the narrator was saying, there was something...