Anon10/19/24, 16:46No.213900
Speaking as an ethnic Korean, TKD and TSD are massive copes that post-1945 Koreans did to try and reclaim some ethnic pride after the occupation. Yeah there was a kicking art that historical Koreans did. There's also recorded evidence from Chinese visitors that Koreans engaged in some kind of head-butting, shoulder-rushing martial art too.But it's well documented that all the founders of nine kwans that would later become Taekwondo and Tang Soo Do trained in Japanese/Okinawan martial arts (and Chinese in TSD's case). Even General Choi blatantly copied Funakoshi's Shotokan book and justified it as Japanese copying Korean culture so it was fair game to do it with karate.TKD and TSD were Shotokan, Shito Ryu, and Shudokan that they modified with higher kicks and changes in stances. The only time these arts were improved was when they incorporated Muay Thai like Japan did in the 1950's and 1960's. Kun gek do was MT + TKD.TKD is seen as a "safe" alternative because it doesn't focus on punching as much as karate does so little kiddies having fancy kicks which can only work under certain circumstances. I think it's only in the last 20-30 years that there's TKD books and schools incorporating kicking with the use of the shin and low kicks like Kyokushin and other Japanese knockdown styles do.TKD and TSD is good as a supplement with something like Boxing, Muay Thai, Sanshou, Japanese knockdown karate, Lethwei, Savate, or Dutch Kickboxing. When you already know how to fight properly, some of those high kicks can be a nifty trick to use.