Based on the many comments that we get on our social media plat forms, we do notice that thousands of people are missing the old days Taekwondo, including the era training style and also the kyorugi style.
We all know that Taekwondo has changed a lot, The training in dojangs is not the same as it was before, even though some schools are sticking to the tradition but they are becoming less and less, because those who are training the old fashioned way are specifically the ones that do not compete in WT events nowadays.
The old style training focused more on making strong and powerful fighters, who would use effective techniques in sparring, and we barely see in fancy moves, and we have written an article about a one time use of 540 degree kick in world championships history.
Kyorugi is becoming a front leg sparring and almost no fighter start their sparring by a back leg. In other hand, the kicks are softer than before, and head kicks are not causing any knock downs or knock outs, in one hand it means that Taekwondo sparring is safer for kids and adults, but the question we should answer is if this is the martial art we practice for self defense?
We came across this video made over 20 years ago , and that shows n example of the old style training in Korea, and this would give an idea to the new Taekwondo generation about how it was like before.
Enjoy!
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