I Tested the Strangest Self-Defense Techniques From Early Taekwondo!

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  @AugustusRoe · 1 month ago · pinned

  What do you think? Did early Taekwondo achieve what it set out to do, or was it simply trying to do too much? Share your thoughts down below!

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• JO

  @johnpyzer812 · 1 month ago

  The actual context as it was originally for the handshake defence is in fact an arrest escape. The action is supposed to be of the arresting enemy grabbing your hand in order to turn you around and cuff your hands behind you! This is an escape for soldiers or spies who find themselves in a situation where they are to be taken captive. That is the actual original background and if I remember correctly it also appeared with that arrest explanation in the fairbairn manuals and SOE manuals.

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• VA

  @varanid9 · 1 month ago

  I grew up in South Korea,  an army brat,  and not only did we train Yudo techniques,  bu;t,  also American boxing,  and just about everything we could gain access to.

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• RE

  @ReturntoPositiveLives · 1 month ago

  As Jun Rhee said: Wnen we started, we had front kicks, side kicks, round kicks, and turning back kicks--that was it. The spinning, head-hunting kicks were developed by Choi's team during the early 1960s.

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• TB

  @tbishop4961 · 1 month ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAm-eCWYDu0&amp;t=380">6:20</a> you need to place your head closer to his hip and bring your left knee up as you snatch his hand over your head

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• GA

  @Gama_Ken · 3 weeks ago

  Another one worth watching is the &nbsp;Street Fight Analysis | Nick Drossos

• WI

  @wintermute1 · 1 month ago

  Things I recall from mid 70&apos;s training:<br>Handshake was premised on an opponent crushing your hand while attacking with an offhand weapon. &nbsp;So you are theoretically turning in to the offhand and getting inside. &nbsp;That was the theory. &nbsp;<br><br>A lot of those techniques are focused on sorts of attacks that may be encountered in post Korean War South Korea

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• MI

  @MichaelWilliams-mo1vv · 1 month ago (edited)

  You make some good points about the self defence techniques. I&apos;m a 3rd Dan in ITF Taekwon-Do the system General Choi created. It is totally different to the WT Olympic Taekwondo which was created later. After the war General Choi realised that Korea must have it&apos;s own martial art. Taekwon-Do was originally developed for the army and was meant to be a complete fighting system hence the defences against bayonets. During the 1950s and 60s as it was developing and moving away from the original karate on which it was partly based, the experts performed many demonstrations around the world particularly in South East Asia. General Choi quickly realised that there was a lot of civilian interest so sent out instructors to the various countries where the art quickly spread. The original training was quite hard core and it was a respected art. Today there is the WT Olympic style which focuses purely on sport and the style of fighting relies purely on kicking. The ITF style retains more of the traditional elements and our style of fighting includes punches to face and body in addition to kicks.

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• SO

  @sovcast8760 · 1 month ago

  I have experience with pre Olympic and pre point sparing Tae Kwon Do. You block a probe, you punish a committed attack with a block hard enough to leave a bone bruise and redirect the opponent&apos;s force. Giving you a moment to attack while they reposition. That&apos;s why the bayonet block was easy to disengage and repost.

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• DA

  @damodarblanco2998 · 4 weeks ago

  You have fixed a serious bullshido problem my friend.

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• SU

  @Sunil1768 · 1 month ago

  Finally someone said it!<br>We used to train this traditional style in the mid 80&apos;s .<br>It was frustrating to see these popular challenges on the net :<br>&quot; taekwondo vs muay thai&quot;<br>&quot; taekeondo vs Aikido&quot;<br>only to see the taekwondo practitioner throw a lot of kicks..😮 If you re going to use just a third of your arsenal, please dont call it taekwondo any longer.

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• KI

  @killersalmon4359 · 1 month ago

  The belt grab attack shows up a lot in self defense books up until about the sixties - apparently, grabbing someone’s belt with one hand and punching them with the other was a fairly common attack - I guess it fell out of favor when people stopped wearing belts that often

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