I want to learn serious, authentic,taekwando, not from a community center. Where can I become a master!?

Question

Community centers just have classes to take for you to take up your time. I want a serious class with authentic, rituals and training passed down from generations through generations. I mean seriously, someone who knows what they are talking about, from thier sensei/master, and not just teaching out of a do-it-your-self book or magazine.

Answer 1

hey! Im in tae kwon do, and its a wonderful art to practice. I had the same problem as you, and then I found classes with the US West Coast Tae Kwon Do Assosiation. Its very difficult to find an authentic place or person who learned by the origin. Instead, look for a nationally recognized organization. They have very good trainers, and you end up going to other countries for tournaments if you become good. The 'real' stuff is mostly in asia, and even so, its hard to find an authentic person. And did you know that it was made for males only? I know a guy that learned martial arts from a student of Bruse Willis! Either way, you cant go wrong with a nationally recognized association.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Most Tae-Kwon-Do schools are set up to make money and nothing more. They do hard sells to parents and teach mostly kids. They overcharge for teaching very little. Be very careful when finding a school near you. Anyone can call himself a Master and tell you that he has 20 years of experience. That doesn't mean he's any good.
Look at the students (not the teachers) and see if they are any good. If you can't find anything you like, look into Karate.

Answer 4

heres a list of places, Korea, New Jersey, New York, and Los Angelas, as stupid as it sounds most intelligent masters left asia and went to capitalise on their skills in america. So koreas great but check out los angelas, new jersey, and new york, ide recomend go on a tour of gyms and find one taht is serious in training, not just one evening a week inquisit further ask for 3-5 nights a week. You can't fully study an art by practicing it once a week. You need full instruction as much as possible and training for at least 2-4 hours a day not jsut hey lets do sit ups and get ripped lets condition and exercise and practice soft touch form(doing form slowly so your body gets used to it. ) you must remember to be serious not only does the school have to be serious abotu techign you have to be serious about learning it. hope i helped!

Answer 5

Alohas

These 3 links should help you find yourself.

Personally I would seriously recommend you go study for at least 2 years in Korea After you make your first Black Belt, and Study the language at least 2 years before you go.. Don’t go there only too Shame yourself, Have some understanding of the Culture first and foremost..


http://taekwondo.gungfu.com/


http://www.itatkd.com/


http://www.taekwondodirectory.info

Aloha Oi

Thoughtfuls

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Answer 6

If you tell me what area of the world you live in I can probably point you to someone in your area. There are a lot of good TKD teachers out there.

But heck, I know a legitimate master who teaches in a community center.

- Cai

Answer 7

look up a guy from South Texas named Albert Luzio. (Maybe Lucio) He is a great man who helped work with my inlaws who are all great blackbelts. I think he is the one they said trained in asia with the masters. He can point you in the right direction.

Answer 8

You must seek out TRUE Korean instructors who immigrated from Korea. NO other races will do! Very important. Good Luck!

Answer 9

I willl explain some history about TKD.
Most of korean claim thier TKD is 5000 old martial art.
It's not really true.

Korea was under control of Japan in 1900~1950.
So, Many korean learned about Japanes Martial Art Karate.
But There were some real traditional Korean Martial art too.
They are "Tekken" and "Su-Park".

After Korea got thier freedom and sovereignty back from Japan with help from USA, there were many Martail art gym created around korea.

Why?
Many people were looking for Self-depense.
Even though Gun and weapon were restriced by thier Goverment,
Korea's public security was poor right because they did not have good police system.

There were Hap-ki-do, Dang-su-do, Gong-su-do(it's korean pronounce of karate, In direct translation, it's how to empty hand).
and many other martial arts that based on Japanase Martial art.

In Korean military, they were some complicts between different martial art, such as duel.
Militarty General Choi Hong Hee unioned all the martial art community in the military to solve the problem.
He built a Gym and called that gym as "Song-Do-Gwan".

Few years later, General Choi perfomed demonstration of that gym in front of the Korean President at that time, Park Jung Hee.

And after President Park watshed the demonstration,
He said "It's Tekken". Even though It was completely differ from Tekken.

ANd General Choi named thier Martial art as "Tea Kwan do", using President Park's commentary.

There are many similar aspects in TKD and Karate.
Their Belt System is similar to Karate.
And Karate's belt system came from Judo..
(In Judo, Only 10th degree dan wears black belt, there was only
one person got black belt in JuDo in history.. so generaly ,red is the best belt in Judo)
Thier Form is simiar to Karate.

One thing different is TKD contains Sparring.

Actualy, Before Koshinryu Karate was found by Ohyama,
Sparring in Karate was not full contact fight.

But, In TKD, they did the FUll contact Sparring.
ANd their sparring did not include punching just like traditional Tekken sparring.
(Goal of Tekken sparring is make opponent lose balance
It contains some grappling and a lot of kickings.)

So, If you want some that has rituals and training passed down from generations through generations, TKD is not the what you want. I think.

Also, Olympic level TKD and recreation TKD are very different.
Some parence sends thier kid to TKD. And Kid learn some kicks and sparring in recreation TKD. In USA, most of TKD is recreational style.

While in korea, they are concentrated on sparring. Atheletic are dividied according to thier wight, just as WBA boxing.
(I was walter and Feather weight TKD atheltic in my 15~20 in korea).(Now I am in Heavy weight in AAU(Amature Athelic Union) in USA.)

In korea, they trained like boxer, they kicks the same kick like 100 times to correct thier form like golf pratice. study sparring tech. and sparring.. They don't really study thier demonstration forms (such as Go-ryu, Il-ryu, Gun-kangand so on).

Answer 10

if you want to learn the traditional art, then you should consider training in Korea