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Brown Belt
Hi folks,
I've been training in Tae Kwon-do for about a month now and my Instructor teaches us that if we miss a punch to follow through with the elbow. We are also taught effective elbow strikes in combination with other strikes.
In addition to this he also teaches the use of knee strikes and I witnessed the higher grades practicing a particularly lethal looking technique where one would grab the head and pull it down for a knee strike in the face.
We are also told to vary the practicing of our basic punches by imagining that the non-punching arm that you generally pull back is grabbing and pulling the opponant towards your punch.
I mention this as being new to this art and enthusiastic to find out lots about it I have visited various forums and sites and many claim that Tae Kwon-do does not incorporate elbow and knee strikes and does not deal with attacking at close range.
I'm aware that there are many different organisations that will teach slightly differently depending on whether their primary focus is sport or self defence but I am just curious to know if what my Sabum is teaching is traditional Tae Kwon-do or adapted? Does traditional Tae Kwon-do have elbow and knee strikes? It's more a curiousity as, what ever the answer is, it would not effect my training as I have a lot of faith in my instructor and what he his teaching.
I suppose I must add that we also spend a lot of time on long range kicking techniques and also practice sparring under TAGB (ITF style) sporting rules. I haven't been there long enough to see or compete in any competitions but a number of his students do and have won medals in sparring and patterns.
I've been training in Tae Kwon-do for about a month now and my Instructor teaches us that if we miss a punch to follow through with the elbow. We are also taught effective elbow strikes in combination with other strikes.
In addition to this he also teaches the use of knee strikes and I witnessed the higher grades practicing a particularly lethal looking technique where one would grab the head and pull it down for a knee strike in the face.
We are also told to vary the practicing of our basic punches by imagining that the non-punching arm that you generally pull back is grabbing and pulling the opponant towards your punch.
I mention this as being new to this art and enthusiastic to find out lots about it I have visited various forums and sites and many claim that Tae Kwon-do does not incorporate elbow and knee strikes and does not deal with attacking at close range.
I'm aware that there are many different organisations that will teach slightly differently depending on whether their primary focus is sport or self defence but I am just curious to know if what my Sabum is teaching is traditional Tae Kwon-do or adapted? Does traditional Tae Kwon-do have elbow and knee strikes? It's more a curiousity as, what ever the answer is, it would not effect my training as I have a lot of faith in my instructor and what he his teaching.
I suppose I must add that we also spend a lot of time on long range kicking techniques and also practice sparring under TAGB (ITF style) sporting rules. I haven't been there long enough to see or compete in any competitions but a number of his students do and have won medals in sparring and patterns.