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When looking to tie your TaeKwonDo belt, you will have a couple of options to choose from and a few decisions to make. Where do you start? How do you know you’re tying the belt correctly? How do you learn how to do it? The 2 ways to tie a TaeKwonDo Belt are the Single Wrap and the Double Wrap. …
Although in some TaeKwonDo schools the number of tenets may vary depending on what they want the students to adhere to, there are always these 5 essential tenets: Courtesy Integrity Perseverance Self-Control Indomitable Spirit But before going into detail about what the 5 tenets of Taekwondo are, I think its best to define what a tenet is before I do …
You decided that you want to learn TaeKwonDo and improve your self defense skills as well as your flexibility and your overall health. You imagine how wonderful it would be to put in the time and effort and and eventually get your black belt in TaeKwonDo. Then back in reality, you sit down and spend some time on research only …
When you have decided to start Martial art classes and you have narrowed your choices down to Taekwondo or Karate, you may be asking yourself, how is Taekwondo different then Karate? Which is better to learn? Both Taekwondo and Karate are practical in situations against an untrained attacker, but techniques used in Karate can be more practical. Many combinations …
There are a lot of factors to consider when finding a Tae Kwon Do School that is near you. I remember that on the 2nd time around, when I decided to go back to studying Tae Kwon Do, I had a short list of criteria that I wanted to know such as: Who is the instructor? How close is the …
When I started TawKwonDo I had never really given much consideration to the meaning of the belt colors or even what was the order of the belts in TaeKwonDo and the reason(s) for it. I assume that I am not the only one and so with that in mind, I did some research and found the answers to this question. …
When I started TaeKwonDo I was really young and was put into a TaeKwonDo school by my parents. They way they chose the school that I went to was not because they knew what the difference was between the WTF ATA or ITF schools and styles of Taekwondo, but because they had a friend whose children where taking classes there …
