Taekwondo Forms
is a martial art and fighting sport that was started in Korea. It strives to achieve modesty, perseverance, self control and indomitable spirit.
Through dedicated training the student can hope to gain mental and physical fitness. By practicing and repeating all move to near perfection, we shall become more and more patient. Self-confidence is attained through the power of one'sown body and the understanding of how to use it at any place and in any given situation. Sparring helps us to gain humility, courage, alertness, and accuracy and develops self-control. By doing Taewkondo forms , we also maximise our flexibility, grace, balance and our body co-ordination.
Through the discipline and interaction with other students, we learn co-operation and mutual respect also. As well as developing a healthier, leaner and more flexible body, we also improve staying power through a typical taekwondo training routine. The health-related effects of training are numerous.
Taekwondo has been evolving for many thousands of years. However, it was not until the 1950s that Taekwondo was standardized and organized by General Choi Hong Hi and the sport was taken outside of Koreas borders, at first to Vietnam and the America, and to the rest of the world. At the moment, Taekwondo is organized in to three international federations: the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF), with headquarters in Seoul, Korea; the International Taekwondo Federation (ITF), with headquarters in Austria; and the Global Taekwondo Federation (GTF) with headquarters in Korea. Taekwondo with the first competition held during the Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, in 2000
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