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Originally Posted by SirokiFighter  yes i agree. but he said schools that teach elbows and such arnt actuallly teaching tkd. that was the arguement. we said already very few schools train realisticalyy. |
I just havent really seen knees, elbows, headbutts, or clinch fighting overall being taught in TKD. I have seen the occasional knee/elbow but this is very rare. At least here in the US, when TKD schools teach that stuff, it is usually hapkido stuff, not TKD. That is really what I was referring to. But they are calling it TKD and really its more MMA. I think its great for instructors to include things from other arts that work, but they should recognize it as such out of respect for those arts. For example, in my bjj class whenever we learn something from another art, my instructor says, ''today we are going to learn a move from judo which will help you because'' or a move from wrestling etc.
I would love to see actual TKD curriculum from the 70s to see what it included that it does not now. I think someone posting actual curriculum from TMAs would really help clear things up, that way we could see if our school was teaching us the actual art or a watered down version.