Taekwondo styles are fascinating things.
As they are each a slice of the complete discipline, and even resemble the ultimate evolution of all arts. I say this as a fellow who paid his dues at one of the original schools of the art, the Kang Duk Won. For the past few decades I’ve watched as each method of Korea’s most famous discipline has emerged, and there is an evolution of art occurring here that is worthy of study.
First, the original schools, the Song Moo Kwan, Yun Moo Kwan, Jidokwan, and all the others, were mostly Karate. The practitioners who put these arts together studied with Master Funakoshi around the time of the second world war. The rest studied with his students or other Okinawa Karate Senseis.
