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Get a Kick out of Organizing What a great gift for the martial arts lover in your life. These magnets are great for adding a functional, yet decorative touch to your refrigerator, dorm room, bulletin board, office, and much more... |
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Tang Soo Do & Beyond #1 VHS Haines Allen TSD01 List Price: $39.99 Sale Price: $9.99 Used From: $5.00 |
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Volume 1 - Basic Motion Featuring Grandmaster Roger Haines and Master Steve Allen #TSD01 Grandmaster Roger Haines and Master Steve Allen introduce the concepts of proper footwork, timing and rhythm. Time 51 min. |
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THE CUTTING EDGE: Volume II-- Advanced Kicking Techniques The Next Generation of Taekwondo Training! In this ground breaking Volume Two 2000 and 2004 Olympic Gold Medalist and multiple titled World Champion Steven Lopez and his family, including Jean Lopez (United States National Team Coach), Diana Lopez (2004 Olympic alternate) and the youngest brother Mark, expected to be a future Olympian, appear as Americas Number One Taekwondo Family! Also super sexy Steven Lopez was named as one of People Magazines 50 Hotest bachelors! You will learn THE CUTTING EDGE necessary to overwhelm your opponents and catapult your game to the highest level... |
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Volume 3 - How to Beat Your Opponent Off the Line Featuring Grandmaster Roger Haines and Master Steve Allen #TSD03 Develop First Strike capability. Learn how to be the first off the line, and close the gap and strike before your opponent can react... |
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Visit the official web site at:www.KickCoachVideo.comfor new videos, updates, information and the latest free coaching tips for your martial arts practice.Welcome to 'The Kick Coach', Volume 1. Dramatically improve your martial arts with this 1 hour workout video and coaching demonstration... |
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The Way of Traditional Taekwondo ~ Songahm Four Sale Price: $17.90 Used From: $14.00 |
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Volume Four of The Way of Traditional Taekwondo was developed for the beginner student. It covers the stances, basics, and kicks used at the 6th grade camo belt level and is not suggested to be a source of self-defense in itself. |
What are the principle differences between Taekwondo and Karate, other than their origins?
Very interesting question. Without going into the origins of Karate and Tae Kwon Do, it is difficult to delineate between the two in an objective manner. some here will say that Tae Kwon do is all kicks, while Karate uses kicks and punches. Some will defend Tae Kwon Do as a solid Martial Art, while others will degrade it as nothing more than a sport created for competition (are you listening, Sensei?) Those who come here and degrade any specific discipline in general while at the same time crow about "their" particular art are nothing short of hypocritical, and do not truly understand the "DO" (or the "WAY) that is inherent to true understanding and proficiency in Martial Arts study. (again, are you listening, Sensei?)
Truthfully, Tae Kwon Do and Karate are, at the base level, quite similar. In fact, Tae Kwon Do was developed rather recently, being founded in 1955, and is a combination of techniques found in shotokan, which is a Karate form (some would say the ROOT of all true Karate forms), and Taek Kyon, which is an ancient Korean Martial art. General Choi, Hong Hi - who is generally recognized as the founder of Modern Tae Kwon Do - was trained in both art forms as a boy and young man, and combined the two to create a unique style that has gained popularity worldwide. Unfortunately, political and social pressures resulted in a major rift in the Tae Kwon do community, which resulted in the splintering of Tae Kwon Do into two worldwide organizations, one being the World Tae Kwon Do Federation, which is recognized in Korea as its national sport and is an olympic event; and the International Tae Kwon do Federation, which, depending on who you ask, is alternately headquartered in Canada of Austria.
As for differences in Tae Kwon Do disciplines: Tae Kwon Do as a sport (WTF discipline) is highly focused on sparring skills, and does, in fact, predominaately focus on kicking, both in attack and defense. Traditional Tae Kwon Do (ITF discipline) is more rooted in overall techniques, both foot and hand (Tae Kwon Do is loosely transleted as "the way of the foot and the fist"). Depending on your inclination, you can learn Tae Kwon Do as a traditional art or as a sport form, but both have their benefits.
Karate, on the other hand, is one of the base elements in Tae Kwon Do, as mentioned above. the history of Karate is long and sordid, but to put it as simply as possible, it can alterantively be used to descirbe ANY martial art, simply because the loose translation of Karate is "empty hand", i.e. any style of fighting that does not involve the use of weapons of any kind; or to to describe any number of martial arts that has roots in China and Japan. But this is too simplistic of an answer. Karate has roots in Okinawa when it was an indigienous country, but also has both ancient Japanese and Chinese influences. As a result, there is no "ONE" style of Karate; many martial arts forms claim lineage to true "Karate", but all have the commonality of teaching not only fighting skills, but instruction on how to live ones life.
Both Tae Kwon do and Karate (any form) are considered "hard" martial arts, meeting force on force; that is, attacks are direct and forceful, while blocks are direct, meeting the attacking force with an equal force, and countering directly with more force. This is as opposed to "soft" martial arts, which seeks to use an opponents force AGAINST them by redirecting the attack in such a way that the defender is put into a more adventageous position,. this is not to say that "soft" styles do not require much strength; on the contrary, utilizing a soft technique to defend results in the defender being required to use minimal force to effectively defend, because most of the force is coming from the attacker.
Truthfully, the differences are not as important as the similarities. Both have training focused on teaching students how to defend themselves. Both, under competent instruction, attempt to teach students tenets which can be applied to all aspects of their lives. Both actually have sport elements to them. Both have so many similiarites that the only TRUE difference is in the practitioners preference. And any true student of the arts will understand that the only reason he or she studies a particular martial art is because that is what they CHOSE to study, not because it has any superiority, real or perceived, over any other.
