Also, there is a huge emphasis on hip, use of the hip, torquing it in everything we do - although this concept is existent in karate, it is not preached or bashed into the heads of students as much as it is in TSD MDK. Limiting the karate comparison to Shotokan - this is a big difference. ![]() First, like all Korean martial arts, there is an overemphasis on kicking. What makes TSD MDK different are a couple things. The customs of TSD are still very similar to karate - the use of the gi/dobok, belt system, hanging flags and a picture of master/grandmaster at the front of the dojo/dojang, coming to attention, bowing, lining up in order of rank, etc. The forms are similar - Ki Cho Hyung look very similar to Taikyoku, and the Pyung Ahns, Passai, Jin Do, Sip Soo, Kong Sang Koon, all were borrowed from karate. Middle punching, rising blocks, down blocks, inside out blocks, outside in blocks, knife hands, spear hands, double fisted blocks, etc. ![]() The backbone of TSD MDK is still mainly Shotokan karate in terms of techniques. He then learned Okinawan karate forms out of a book (or learned them from somewhere - hot debate), and got the idea from Won Kuk Lee to rename Hwa Soo Do to Tang Soo Do, a more karate-like name. Thus when Founder Hwang Kee started TSD Moo Duk Kwan in 1945, originally calling it "Hwa Soo Do" and lacking more karate in it than the various other kwans that opened up that year - he found himself struggling to get students. Even after the occupation, Koreans were so assimilated into Japanese culture, that they shunned everything else. ![]() First off, you have to come more specific than just "Karate." If you are comparing TSD to Isshin Ryu, there are very noticeable differences, whereas if you compare it to generic Shotokan, there is much more homology between the two.ĭuring the Japanese occupation of Korea, the only arts legal for study were karate (mostly Shotokan was taught in universities, where a majority of the original Korean kwan leaders studied karate), judo, and kendo. Click to expand.At its inception, and to a certain degree nowadays, TSD didn't and doesn't differ from Karate too much.
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