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| | UK Martial Arts Online: Encyclopedia Tae Kwon Do (TKD) |
 | | In the Korean language, Tae (Hanja) means "kick or destroy with the foot", kwon (Hanja) means "punch or smash with the hand or fist", and Do (Hanja) means "way or art". |
| | While some forms of Taekwondo have received criticism for not teaching enough street-effective techniques, this has more to do with commercialization, rather than with any inherent flaw in the art itself: One of the reasons Taekwondo is so popular is because of its ease in learning and effectiveness as a form of self-defence. |
| | Students trained in these traditional forms, which emphasise powerful kicks, punches, and blocks, pacing appropriate to the form, fierce concentration upon imaginary opponents, and accurate and stable stances, can do quite well when bringing these skills to their performances of the poomse style forms. |
| www.ukmao.co.uk /enc_taekwondo.asp (1964 words) |
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