As many of you may know ITF-Canada (Choi, Jung Hwa ITF) have made a number of changes over the last year or so. The two main ones are:
1. So called re-introducing the ki-haps back into the patterns
2. Renaming pattern Juche and calling it kodang
I have a number of reservations regarding both these changes so was asked to write an article for Combat magazine about them. Not being one to toe the party line, I put on my devils advocate hat and wrote the article. Unfortunatly, some some reason (so far) only the first piece of the article has been published and I keep getting emails asking about the rest, so here it is, for the first time in full.. let me know your thoughts:
1. So called re-introducing the ki-haps back into the patterns
2. Renaming pattern Juche and calling it kodang
I have a number of reservations regarding both these changes so was asked to write an article for Combat magazine about them. Not being one to toe the party line, I put on my devils advocate hat and wrote the article. Unfortunatly, some some reason (so far) only the first piece of the article has been published and I keep getting emails asking about the rest, so here it is, for the first time in full.. let me know your thoughts: