Whether at home or abroad, Chinese Kung Fu has a large number of loyal fans and has always been a business card of Chinese culture. The real Chinese kung fu is naturally not as magical as shown in martial arts movies, but the combination of strength and softness between fists and feet contains profound philosophy, which is a valuable Chinese cultural heritage.
However, when we walk down the street, we will find that there are not many traditional martial arts halls, but taekwondo halls are blooming everywhere and are extremely popular. Speaking of which, the combat effectiveness of taekwondo cannot be compared with traditional Chinese martial arts, but it has seized the market, what is the reason?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" > the development of taekwondo</h1>
Taekwondo originated in the Korean Peninsula, is a popular folk martial art, has a history of more than 2,000 years, originally called Hualang Dao, hand fighting, Tang hand, etc., the term "taekwondo", is named in 1955 by Choi Hong-hee of South Korea, he also stipulated the "etiquette and shame, patience and self-denial, indomitable" taekwondo spirit.
Since Choi Hong-hee studied in Japan in his early years and learned karate in the Dongying area, he integrated the skills of karate with traditional Korean martial arts into taekwondo, and the taekwondo that has developed to the present day is actually a martial arts sport that combines various East Asian martial arts.
In 1966, the first taekwondo organization, the International Taekwondo Federation (I· T· F) was established, and Choi Hong-hee was elected as chairman. Later, the headquarters of the Taekwondo Federation moved to Vienna, Austria, and the martial arts program of taekwondo began to take root outside of Asia.
In 1973, Kim Yun-yong founded the World Taekwondo Federation in Seoul, South Korea (W. W. Bush). T· F), later, taekwondo gradually became a competitive competition. For safety reasons, the WTF stipulates that martial arts are restricted until the point is reached.
Therefore, taekwondo is divided into two categories, WTF is competitive taekwondo, and later participated in the Olympic Games is also this kind of taekwondo, the range of movements is larger, the kicks between the legs are elegant and beautiful, but lack of aggression, in actual combat is not very useful. The ITF focuses on actual combat, the action is not fancy, aggressive, and more dangerous.
The development history of taekwondo in China is not long, the establishment of the preparatory group of the China Taekwondo Association in 1992 marked the beginning of the taekwondo sport in China, but taekwondo with ornamental and certain practicality has developed rapidly in China, and in just a dozen years, it has been warmly welcomed by many young people.
In 2000, taekwondo officially became an Olympic event, which made taekwondo more popular in China and around the world. But people who learn taekwondo basically learn the WTF school, which is not dangerous, but easy to master.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="38" > why is it not highly practical? </h1>
Taekwondo has indeed developed rapidly since its inception, but it has also been questioned. Many people think that the popular WTF taekwondo is not a real martial art at all, just a good-looking flower fist embroidered leg, which is useless in a fight, is this really the case?
During the May Day holiday in 2019, a video circulated on the Internet, a group of taekwondo people and another group of people wearing black T-shirts fought, and finally the taekwondo learned taekwondo was crushed by strength, and all the members were beaten to the ground, and finally the group of people dressed in black was confirmed to be martial arts people who taught traditional martial arts.
As soon as the video came out, many people lamented that traditional martial arts are really the strength to crush taekwondo, although the police later issued a statement confirming that the people in taekwondo gym were only slightly injured and lying on the ground was just their posing, but the actual combat of taekwondo is still questionable, because from the video, the people on the taekwondo side are indeed at a disadvantage in the conflict.
In fact, as early as 2016, two secondary school students in Leshan, Sichuan Province, clashed with two college students, and in the end, both college students were slashed, and one of them was practicing WTF taekwondo.
After the video of their fight came out, it was found that the college student who practiced taekwondo kicked the other person down several times, and even kicked the other party's knife away, but one person was kicked down, and the other person would come forward to attack him.
He simply could not resist the attack of two people in a short period of time, and the time between kicks was somewhat empty, causing his leg to be cut. After the surveillance video flowed out at that time, many people pointed out that taekwondo was not too useful in actual combat, far inferior to other martial arts.
Recently, irish taekwondo athletes because they did not get a medal at the Tokyo Olympic Games, after returning to China, they were punched to break the face and frequently appeared on the hot search of major platforms, although this athlete was attacked by someone, but people can't help but ask, a "person who learns martial arts", is it so easy to be put down?
Taekwondo is not a completely useless flower fist embroidery leg, but WTF taekwondo is really not suitable for actual combat. Taekwondo's legs kick high, the movement is large, but the fall is also slow, and the fist is faster than the leg, if it does not kick people, it will be seized by people to fight back.
Secondly, in most cases of street fighting, it is plural combat, which requires people to dodge fast, and after using the high leg method of taekwondo, it is difficult to dodge in time, and the defensive ability is too poor.
Kicking the leg too high, in fact, may not be able to kick people, their center of gravity will be unstable, especially easy to be fallen by the opponent, even if the other party has not carried out professional martial arts training. Therefore, the saying of traditional Chinese martial arts is: "Kicking is not waist, kicking half empty".
Taekwondo has a lot of fancy styles, so it will be considered to be a flower fist embroidered leg, such as the air kick, the air kick, the flying side kick, the 360 kick single foot landing, etc., each move is very beautiful, these actions out of the need for ornamental, will reveal many flaws, so it is easy to be defeated in actual combat.
If you fight with someone who learns sanda and Muay Thai, learning taekwondo is basically the object of beating, and there are few victories. The reason is that because the taekwondo technique is too single, mainly relying on the leg method, if you take the war as an analogy, then taekwondo is like a long-range attack, how can there be an advantage in close combat?
Whether it is sanda or Muay Thai, it is a comprehensive three-dimensional attack, taekwondo, although it looks beautiful, but it suffers from the attack is too single.
All in all, taekwondo is not continuously aggressive, the center of gravity is unstable after starting the leg, it is easy to counterattack, the defensive ability is very poor, and the attack range of the leg is also limited, so it will be limited in actual combat.
In the beginning, taekwondo matches were still scored by the referee, but later became electronic protectors, which improved the objectivity and fairness of the game, but the more sensitive electronic guards also made it possible to score points only when the toes were rubbed in the game.
So now taekwondo competitions are more inclined to quickly tap to hit the dots, and rarely practice how to effectively knock down opponents. This makes taekwondo more aggressive. With taekwondo, you may be able to kick down your opponent, but the opponent can still stand up and continue fighting.
The real taekwondo master attack power is still very strong, but in today's taekwondo blossoms everywhere, people huddled together to learn the situation, the number of taekwondo learners is innumerable, casually a few moves to say that they can taekwondo, in fact, can not fight at all, the real master is in the crowd learning taekwondo, less and less.
Traditional ITF taekwondo is used with both hands and feet, there are not so many beautiful movements, more emphasis on combat, compared to WTF taekwondo is also more aggressive, but now can learn the authentic ITF taekwondo is indeed very few people.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" Why is the > data-track="58" popular? </h1>
If taekwondo is so impractical, why do people still flock to learn taekwondo? First of all, it is because the taekwondo moves are really beautiful and ornamental, some people go to learn just with the idea of playing handsome, at most just want to learn a few moves to defend themselves, and do not really want to "fight" with people.
Most people should also know that the aggression of traditional martial arts is much stronger than taekwondo, but learning traditional martial arts also requires a lot of effort, requires strong perseverance and patience to learn well, even from primary school, will suffer a lot, compared to, taekwondo is still much easier to master, the learning time cycle is not very long, to meet the needs of fast-paced life in modern society.
Therefore, not only do you not want to be beaten to a blue nose and swollen face in exchange for a good martial art, but you also want to learn such a move and a half to play handsome or self-defense, taekwondo is undoubtedly the best choice.
And taekwondo to carry out a lot of training every day, for the body fitness also has a relatively high value, and the difficulty is moderate, adults and children can in their free time, through taekwondo to achieve the effect of fitness.
But the most important market in taekwondo is actually in the children's group, only the difficulty will not be particularly difficult, children have the perseverance to persevere, and taekwondo has white belt, yellow belt, blue belt, red belt, black belt and other divisions, which can also allow children to have a certain clear goal.
Traditional Chinese martial arts generally do not have a division of segments, and it is not known how long they can be practiced to what extent, and children can easily not learn it.
Parents hope that the child will not be too weak, do not be bullied outside, but also hope that the child will not hold the weapon to commit murder, taekwondo exercise is moderate, weak aggression, which is precisely the advantage of it to meet the market demand.
Secondly, as far as the country is concerned, the threshold for opening a taekwondo gym is indeed very low, and a taekwondo instructor can open a course as long as he has a qualification certificate.
And the qualification certificate can even be bought online, so many taekwondo coaches blindly follow the trend in order to make money, resulting in taekwondo halls blooming everywhere, but there are not many coaches who can really fight.
Coaches can't play themselves, so how can they teach students who can play? In addition, the students' promotion of the black belt is also the coach's decision, in order to make a profit, some coaches will casually give people a promotion position, so the moisture of the domestic taekwondo level is also quite large.
Although taekwondo is not so combat-effective, and it is not so practical to say, after all, there are still a large number of taekwondo faithful believers who are willing to dedicate their lives to this sport, we cannot be prejudiced against taekwondo, any sport, there is a time when it shines.