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This ground-breaking text is the first to offer Taekwondo in its totality, documenting the traditions, philosophy, and techniques of the world's most widely practiced martial art. In more than 8,600 photographs spanning 896 pages, renowned Taekwondo masters and elite competitors demonstrate over 700 core Taekwondo techniques, including stances, footwork, hand strikes, elbow strikes, standing kicks, jump kicks, ground kicks, avoiding and blocking skills, step and self-defense sparring, Olympic-Style sparring, breaking techniques, and solo forms and patterns. Techniques are named in both English and Korean throughout.
Detailed introductory chapters provide an authoritative overview of Taekwondo's history, philosophy, current structure, and contemporary issues, and thoroughly review breathing and meditation, warmups and flexibility exercises, and vital targets. To address the highly specialized and constantly evolving needs of sport competitors, in-depth chapters on Olympic-Style sparring cover basic concepts, current trends, core techniques, tactics and strategies, terminology, competition rules, referee signals, and more than 90 core attacking and counterattacking techniques used by world-class competitors. For forms enthusiasts, 250-plus pages provide a comprehensive overview of 49 forms and patterns embraced by major federations, such as the WTF and ITF.
Inclusive of virtually all Taekwondo styles, this unprecedented work integrates traditional and modern approaches, sport and self-defense, in a single text. Written and designed by the author of the 1,136-page Hapkido—widely acclaimed the most comprehensive book ever written on a single martial art—this indispensable work is the definitive text on Taekwondo, and destined to become a classic of martial arts literature.
Detailed introductory chapters provide an authoritative overview of Taekwondo's history, philosophy, current structure, and contemporary issues, and thoroughly review breathing and meditation, warmups and flexibility exercises, and vital targets. To address the highly specialized and constantly evolving needs of sport competitors, in-depth chapters on Olympic-Style sparring cover basic concepts, current trends, core techniques, tactics and strategies, terminology, competition rules, referee signals, and more than 90 core attacking and counterattacking techniques used by world-class competitors. For forms enthusiasts, 250-plus pages provide a comprehensive overview of 49 forms and patterns embraced by major federations, such as the WTF and ITF.
Inclusive of virtually all Taekwondo styles, this unprecedented work integrates traditional and modern approaches, sport and self-defense, in a single text. Written and designed by the author of the 1,136-page Hapkido—widely acclaimed the most comprehensive book ever written on a single martial art—this indispensable work is the definitive text on Taekwondo, and destined to become a classic of martial arts literature.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
As far as books on the martial arts go, this masterpiece is in a class of it's own. As far as books on specific styles go, in this case the Korean art of Tae Kwon-do, there is nothing like it available on the market today. Nor will there be anything to match it in the coming years, I believe. A fantastic piece of literature that displays vast knowledge of the art's philosophy, traditions, history and techniques. Superbly researched, superbly written, and superbly read!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
If you are interested in Tae Kwon Do, the Martial art, this is a book on your shelf.This is about TKD as a whole, including patterns and names from both ITF and WTF without emphasizing any particular organization.
Good Reference for a lover of TaeKwondo, the martial art.
Good Reference for a lover of TaeKwondo, the martial art.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Mr Tedeschi has written a wonderful follow-up to his 'Hapkido' textbook and it does not disappoint. Contained within it are roughly impartial analysis of Taekwon-Do's history and includes all the patterns recognised by the WTF / Kukkiwon and the official ITF patterns too; this is in addition to a very helpful WTF <-> ITF terminology section which is especially helpful if like me you practice both WTF and ITF TKD. My only real gripe was not having a step through guide of pattern Ko Dang - despite being a member of the ITF I am old enough to have practised it and knowing it I believe is respecting our history.
The analysis of the WTF sparring / competition skills and referring is correct as of 2002 so do check on your NGB website to double check for any amendments. The footwork section and discussion on tactics such as open / closed stances translates well over to ITF sparring too. The breaking section is well handled with the modern evidence that has linked the destruction training-of-old to peripheral nerve damage and arthritis and makes no bones (sorry bad pun lol!)about this COULD very well happen to you. It serves to treat you as an adult, informing you of this so you are under no illusions from the outset; then discusses techniques etc.
The self defence aspect is more derived from the WTF methodology and I must say this being Mr Tedeschi's strong point (from Hapkido) I agree with a previous reviewer in that it was more realistically handled in Mr T's Hapkido textbook but hey for £40 for an ALL-INCLUSIVE TKD textbook without dogma from the ITF or WTF; overall its a rare gem and gives a well balanced appraisal of what unfortunately is a very politically polarised art as anyone who studies TKD will know certainly in time. As we are all family TKD wise lets put the ITF / WTF divide aside and learn from one another making TKD stronger and as successful as it possibly can be. Taekwon
The analysis of the WTF sparring / competition skills and referring is correct as of 2002 so do check on your NGB website to double check for any amendments. The footwork section and discussion on tactics such as open / closed stances translates well over to ITF sparring too. The breaking section is well handled with the modern evidence that has linked the destruction training-of-old to peripheral nerve damage and arthritis and makes no bones (sorry bad pun lol!)about this COULD very well happen to you. It serves to treat you as an adult, informing you of this so you are under no illusions from the outset; then discusses techniques etc.
The self defence aspect is more derived from the WTF methodology and I must say this being Mr Tedeschi's strong point (from Hapkido) I agree with a previous reviewer in that it was more realistically handled in Mr T's Hapkido textbook but hey for £40 for an ALL-INCLUSIVE TKD textbook without dogma from the ITF or WTF; overall its a rare gem and gives a well balanced appraisal of what unfortunately is a very politically polarised art as anyone who studies TKD will know certainly in time. As we are all family TKD wise lets put the ITF / WTF divide aside and learn from one another making TKD stronger and as successful as it possibly can be. Taekwon
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