One of the hardest part of training in a Korean Art is the identity problem. It often seems as if "Korean Culture" is a hodge podge of memes, quickly assembled, and the explanations of the memes are incomplete. It is very hard to find anything distinctly Korean.
In martial arts, this translates to multitudes of different things. One of them being the fact that if one trains in a KMA, there is always an analogue of that art that exists in China and Japan and it seems as if the quality of the same technique is better. Yudo vs Judo. Hapkido vs Aikijutsu. Tae Kwan Do vs. Shotokan. Tang Soo Do vs Okinawan Te...
More specifically, Tang Soo Do traces most of its forms to Okinawa. In order to learn the most I can from these forms, I am forced to go to the source...Okinawa. It makes one wonder at why someone would train in a Korean art...especially when one faces these difficulties at the higher ranks.
Does anyone else feel this way?
upnorthkyosa
In martial arts, this translates to multitudes of different things. One of them being the fact that if one trains in a KMA, there is always an analogue of that art that exists in China and Japan and it seems as if the quality of the same technique is better. Yudo vs Judo. Hapkido vs Aikijutsu. Tae Kwan Do vs. Shotokan. Tang Soo Do vs Okinawan Te...
More specifically, Tang Soo Do traces most of its forms to Okinawa. In order to learn the most I can from these forms, I am forced to go to the source...Okinawa. It makes one wonder at why someone would train in a Korean art...especially when one faces these difficulties at the higher ranks.
Does anyone else feel this way?
upnorthkyosa