Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

1. Introduction This Blog is about my journey as Martial Artist. I have proclaimed to talk about Taekwondo forms and their practical applications but up to now I only discussed the general state of Taekwondo. To reiterate. My goal is to discuss possible applications of the WT Kukkiwon Taekwondo forms, maybe rediscover forgotten (practical or not) applications and first and foremost getting more people to discuss forms for their applications and not only for their aesthetics.  2. The Case with Taegeuk Sam Jang I have most of the form figured out by now. But today I want to discuss only sequence 6 to 11 as shown in the infographic at the taekwondo wiki here . You can see the isolated moves in the following figure.  Fig. 1: Sequence 6 to 11 of Taegeuk Sam Jang (here numbered 1-3). I assume most of the people reading this know of the form and the sequence but if not I will explain it to you while simultaneously explaining my proposal for the application and further the common (dar...

1. Taekwondo- only well known for its kicks? Taekwondo (TKD) is well known for its advanced, acrobatic and sometimes flashy kicks. One may assume that such a leg centric, acrobatic martial art would be hardly practical in a live self-defence  situation and certainly not in another competition format like under UFC MMA rules. And there are a lot of people out there believing that. Despite that I touched on the matter of modern Taekwondo being an effective and practical Martial Art for self-defence in one of my last posts. To rephrase my statement from earlier.  I believe it can be an effective self-defence system when taught correctly.  The Martial Art of Taekwondo offers the subject of self-defence named hosinsul (literally self-defence in Korean) but the methods are often times developed poorly without an organized system behind it or copied from other martial arts lacking its contexts and therefore taught in a vacuum. Of course this is a generalization and in some pla...