Taekwondo's Unknown History

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10 ай бұрын

Have you ever wondered where the techniques of Taekwondo come from? Does it seem strange that the techniques of Karate look the same as the techniques from Taekwondo?
In this video, I explore the origins of Taekwondo, along with how you can apply the movements of the forms or poomsae. Check out this exciting guide into the history of Taekwondo!
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@slademassie6305 10 ай бұрын

In before all the ATA guys come in here crying that TKD is over a 1000 of years old and uniquely Korean... while totally ignoring the factual history of the art they reference as TKD's ancestor hwarng-do was actually a grappling style like jiujitsu. Not to mention all ancient statues/glaydon vase's/texts depicting hwarang-do (actual museum artifacts), show it as a grappling style only, hence it is nothing like TKD and more a long forgotten Korean jiujitsu system.

@tkdguide 10 ай бұрын

Interesting, I didn’t know ATA made that claim.

@slademassie6305 10 ай бұрын

Per the official ATA website: historians believe it originated from a Korean martial arts form known as t'aekyon practiced over 1,300 years ago. Just google full ATA international History because it seems when I link to it the reply gets removed.

@MaharlikaAWA 3 ай бұрын

The first part of your comment is correct about the ATA and their nonsense, but when you then mention the name Hwa Rang Do as if it was a real martial art that actually existed that is where you go wrong. No such martial art was ever a real thing and the hwa rang do were flower boys and effeminate artsy boys who dressed like women sometimes. This is a historic fact. Subak was known as a wrestling style in ancient Korea and was most likely based on Chinese martial arts with Japanese martial arts since Korea fought both enemies and a similar history of shaolin temple martial arts making their way to Korea as they did Okinawa occurred. Korea also has a traditional wrestling style called Ssiruem. Look it up. It looks like sumo wrestling but has different rules. In the Muye Dobo Tongji the martial arts that the Korean military at the time were practicing were based off of China and Japan. Subak is mentioned as being empty hand fighting but a wrestling style. Kwan Bap is mentioned as a fist fighting method. It is similar to kung fu.

@galletas67 3 ай бұрын

I just fractured my ankle from taekwondo n i always liked researching taekwondo history during downtime

@mackenziemcgrath1534 10 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for this video. You killed it. I didnt know about the whole swordsmanship kendo thing, that makes alot of sense.

@tkdguide 10 ай бұрын

I’m glad you enjoyed it!

@LoganBruneau 4 ай бұрын

This is one of the best martial arts history videos I’ve seen. Very funny but also accurate

@dannyoppo 10 ай бұрын

I recommend reading “A Killing Art” by Alex Gillis. Which goes into great detail about TKD’s origins and tug of war history.

@tkdguide 10 ай бұрын

I’ve read it, it’s very propaganda heavy so I’m cautious to take it at face value, but yes, I think it’s a good one to at least be aware of.

@HariPrasad-nk5mz 8 ай бұрын

Any other books you would recommend for those of us interested in learning the history of tae kwon do (and karate?)

@tkdguide 8 ай бұрын

@@HariPrasad-nk5mz one of the best: www.google.com/shopping/product/1330857352281724731?q=don+drager+budo&client=safari&sca_esv=575801097&hl=en-us&biw=430&bih=737&tbs=vw:g&sxsrf=AM9HkKmzKWSB4zUfIFjjUmoCvLzm3BYBDg:1698071361250&prds=eto:15106201952492320811_0,cdl:1,prmr:1,cs:1

@WinserEspinal 5 ай бұрын

@@tkdguide Interesting, I just read it, but I was not aware of the propaganda part. Could you please elaborate on that?

@tkdguide 5 ай бұрын

@@WinserEspinal a lot of people like to ascribe super human powers to historical martial arts figures. For example, do you think someone can stab their hand through the flesh of another human?

@randybobandy9702 10 ай бұрын

Awesome video!

@tkdguide 10 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@WayneWillmon Ай бұрын

This was a condensed, factual, and insightful synopsis on the history of Taekwondo. Well presented. Especially the ranges of combat as time went on. Karate/Taekwondo has to evolved to meet the needs of the people practicing it.... all roads are worth the journey. I started in the 80's and it's been interesting to see it change over time.

@demonnite57 10 ай бұрын

Thats a nice abridged version of TKD!

@tkdguide 10 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@NMIBUBBLE 2 ай бұрын

Shotokan is the orgin of Tae Kwon Do.

@jvkanufan8115 10 ай бұрын

Really like the long range, close range analysis. So many moves have potential as defence and offence. I'm only a TKD yellow belt, but have some experience with Wing Chun. I prefer the close range in sparring, which my TKD clubmates often find frustrating. Will check out the course!

@tkdguide 10 ай бұрын

I’m glad you enjoyed! Good luck on your Taekwondo training.

@moudhaffarsaidi9457 10 ай бұрын

Politics had a hand in the creation of modern Karate, it had a hand in the creation of Taekwondo, it has a hand in the ITF-WTF split and probably other things related to the general martial arts world

@tkdguide 10 ай бұрын

Indeed it did.

@zacmich6472 10 ай бұрын

Hahaha, I like how you imitate Jesse Encamp's accent!

@tkdguide 10 ай бұрын

He is such an excellent KZfaqr.

@lunaryune 9 ай бұрын

those spanking sounds 😆

@MaharlikaAWA 3 ай бұрын

The history is only unknown to the average taekwondo mom or kids who don't really care. The whole thousands of years is still propagated by mcdojangs worldwide, but the Kukkiwon has recently relaxed on that and has taken a more neutral stance so it's a bit of progress. But this video was kind of a juvenile take on the issue with comedy and stuff. Also Jiujitsu did have striking in it, but it did not focus on it like a kickboxer would, but they had strikes. Japan was focused more on military conquest than street fighting so weapons made more sense to focus on. Japan actually did adopt wrestling from the West as well as Boxing. If they did not like "smelly foreigners" they wouldn't have adopted all of the western things they did to become a serious world power. Funakoshi did not "cash in" on his Karate. His success simply just came about and he always was humble and was asked by the government to promote Karate to Japan. He didn't come up with the idea to do that. The emperor of Japan before he took the throne even saw a demo and was fascinated by it. Japan is the one who made the propaganda about Karate. Also, Karate was a political tool along with Kendo, Judo etc. to influence Korea with Japanese culture to try to get more Koreans to accept becoming Japanese. Original Taekwondo masters before it was turn into Taekwondo did not even attempt to hide the fact it was Japanese or a Chinese hand way via Okinawa and Japan. It was actually something they were proud of and used to give their kwans legitimacy. Only later with General Choi and his buddying up to Syngman Rhee the president of Korea who was also a corrupt politician and small dictator did the whole Taekwondo is an ancient Korean martial art thing come about. General Choi had political weight since he was a general and all. And yes Koreans eventually used it to promote Korean cultural exports around the world with Taekwondo. in Korea with a few grandmasters there is a lot of "bunkai" being promoted and self defense. Seperate Taekwondo from the WTF and focus on Kukki-Taekwondo as the martial art.

@tkdguide 3 ай бұрын

I’m sorry you didn’t like it. Obviously this is a highly abridged history couched in humor. When you make something like that you can’t go into a lot of detail on every piece of the story and some elements get simplified to fit into a narrative package. I can see how it’s not everyone’s cup of tea.

@MaharlikaAWA 3 ай бұрын

@@tkdguide I didn't say I didn't like it. It was okay.

@tkdguide 3 ай бұрын

@@MaharlikaAWA sorry, I didn’t mean to mind read you. I see you have a channel with a lot of good content. Do you have a less abridged version of TKD history you would like to link for people to check out?

@MaharlikaAWA 3 ай бұрын

@@tkdguide No. I did write one but I am planning on writing a simple Taekwondo book about a lot of topics and one chapter is on history. 49 pages. but I pretty much agree that Taekwondo comes from Karate and the bunkai could be found by reading a shotokan book and various karate books showing stuff on bunkai. Also the one strike one kill concept is a goal people should have, but not 100% rely on it. At least one strike one incapacitated enemy oor just a few strikes. Or set it up with previous strikes first then do the power strike to finish. But sport karate is BS and while I think WTF sparring is BS as well it wasn't in the 80's and 90's.

@808frontline 10 ай бұрын

Japan was and still til today is one of the pettiest places in the world

@tkdguide 10 ай бұрын

I hope to visit someday.

@808frontline 10 ай бұрын

@@tkdguide I’d love to visit Japan but the thought of going is becoming more and more unrealistic for me. I have tattoos all over the place. And Japan is so petty that I wouldn’t be allowed in many hotels, restaurants, martial arts schools, theme parks etc… Also japan has a law that the police there can stop and search you for no reason and they have a 99% conviction rate. They have the right to hold you for 28 days or some stupid shit if they feel you are breaking their laws. Japan has some of the dumbest laws in the worlds and it makes me never want to step foot there.

@johnorille8318 9 ай бұрын

TANG SOO!!! I wonder if the Japanese have a peculiar sense of smell… they apparently don’t like combat arts that are smelly. 🤔

@tkdguide 9 ай бұрын

So it would seem.

@zino4118 5 ай бұрын

This is wrong you didn't do your home work. Even if you just checked on wikipedia you have better understanding. If I am rude sorry but this video is offence to me as Korean. If you think about the time frame what you have in here and relationship between Korean and Japan you may want to change something on this.

@tkdguide 5 ай бұрын

If you could find this on Wikipedia the video wouldn’t be called “the unknown history”. I’m sorry if the information in the video is hurtful to you, but the fact is there is a lot of fake propaganda history surrounding Taekwondo. If there is a particular point in the video you find false I am happy to discuss it and correct myself if I am proven to be wrong.

@WinserEspinal 5 ай бұрын

@@tkdguide I just wanted to thank you for not even addressing the Taekkyon connection BS that General Choi and Nam Tae Hi came up with in order to sell Taekwondo to the Korean government as a "truly korean" martial art. I love Taekwondo and I am glad it is still a thing today, but knowing the truth about its origin is, imo, a step in the right direction for every Taekwondo practicioner.

@MaharlikaAWA 3 ай бұрын

@@WinserEspinal Nam Tae Hi followed Choi. Choi made up the Tekkyeon connection and lied about training under some secret master. Hwang Kee of Moo Duk Kwan (Tang Soo Do/ Subahk Do,) also lied and claimed he learned Taekkyeon. Or maybe he did learn something of it, but it is doubtful. Taekkyeon was a real thing though and some men did train in it when they were young. It was a sport/game that peasants did and more of a social activity than actual self defense fighting. But the spirit of the concept of Taekkyeon did in fact influence the desire for Taekwondo to be the name of a unified Korean Karate for all of the kwans.