Helpful TKD Resource Links

[KickChick]

Please post links that you have personally found helpful in your study of Tae Kwon do.... whether it be ITF-style or WTF-style, etc.
.... for the benefit of our new TKD students ... (... and for the older ones too that want to learn more!)

Please add your links only and avoid discussion on this thread.


Here are some of mine....

Dictionary of Korean Martial Art Terms (http://pages.prodigy.net/david_wolfe/pmaa/)

Toward a Broader Taekwondo Curriculum : A Structured Incorporation of Basic Falls, Joint Locks, and Throws (http://www.dctkd.org/library/papers/broader-curriculum.cfm) ... *newly added


History of Tae Kwon Do * new!

http://www.tkdm.com/bbs.php?table=TKDMHistory


Philosophy of Tae Kwon Do

http://www.taekwondobible.com/tkdbi...o/preface1.html

http://www.itf-information.com/information18.htm (ITF)

http://www.wtf.org/site/about_taekwondo/philosophy.htm (WTF)

Various TKD Information Here ****
http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Pressbox/7045/taekwondo/tkdlinks.htm

TKD Terminology/Glossary (direct excerpts from General Choi's encycopedia)
http://www.taekwondo.edu.sg/korean_terminology.htm
(You may be redirected, if so click on "Encyclopedia" and then scroll down to "Terminology" )

TKD Theory
http://www.stch.btinternet.co.uk/linux/tkd.html
http://www.turtletaekwondo.com/Taekwon-do%20web1.htm

Korean Language/Terminology/Counting with audio clips
http://www.barrel.net/language.php

http://www.blackbeltworld.com/features/korea/index.htm

Organizations
Differences of ITF & WTF http://itfnz.org.nz/news/assets/ITF%20-%20WTF%20Comparison.pdf

The World Tae Kwon Do Federation (WTF) http://www.wtf.org

The International Tae Kwon Do Federation (ITF) http://www.tkd-itf.org/

United States Taekwon-Do Federation - (USTF/ITF of USA) http://www.ustf-itf.com

OTF - Oceania Taekwon-Do Federation http://www.otkd.com/

INTERNATIONAL ITF ORGANIZATIONS
ITF Headquarters, President Master Trân Triêu Quân: http://www.tkd-itf.org/index.htm

ITF Headquarters, President Mr. Chang Ung: http://www.internationaltaekwon-dofederation.com/

ITF Headquarters, President Master Choi Jung Hwa: http://www.itf-online.com/

All Europe Taekwon-Do Federation AETF: http://www.itfeurope.org/

ITF Australia http://www.itfaustralia.com/
ITF New Zealand http://itfnz.org.nz/
Sonkal Praha Czech ITF http://sonkal.taekwondo.cz/index-en.html
ITF England (*new site) http://www.itfengland.com

ICTF - International Ch'ang Hon Taekwon-Do Federation http://www.ictf-web.com

GTF http://www.saskgtf.com/patterns.html http://www.gtftaekwondo.com

ITA(alliance) http://www.tkd.org/index.html

ITA(association) http://www.itatkd.com/

ATA http://www.ataonline.com/

UTI - Unified TaeKwon-Do International http://www.unifiedtkd.com/

USTU - The United States Tae Kwon Do Union (USTU) http://www.ustu.org

KATU - The KoreAmerica Taekwon-Do Union (KATU)

TAGB- Tae Kwon Do Association of Great Britain http://www.tagb.biz/

TaeKwonDo America http://www.taekwondoamerica.org/

TTA Traditional Taekwondo Association http://www.tta-taekwondo.co.uk/

KTA http://www.koreataekwondo.org/eng/etc/sitemap.htm

UTA - United Tae Kwon Do Association http://www.utataekwondo.com/

China International Federation http://www.taekwondo-web.com./eng/index.htm

The World TKD League http://www.thewtl.com/

A More Detailed Listing of Various TKD Organizations/Federations/Organizations in the World http://winstonstableford.com/organiz.html

TAE KWON DO FORMS/HYUNGS/POOMSES

Basic Martial Arts Forms Cross Reference (http://www.geocities.com/david_a_hacker/MartialArts/matab.html) *newly added


The (Shamelessly) Unofficial Taekwondo Resource http://paperwindow.com/tkd/

Taranaki ITF Taekwon-Do Pattern Workout (http://www.taranakitaekwondo.homestead.com/patternworkout.html) *newly added

All 24 Diagrams of ITF-style Forms http://www.karate-kids.com/lesson3.htm

http://www.jenningscc.com/TaeKwonDo/Forms.htm
http://www.geocities.com/sweetguy_tx/TaeKwonDo/TKDhome.html#GIF

ITF Patterns: Essential Information and Patterns Menu (contains excerpts from Gen. Choi's Encyclopedia) ... http://www.itf-online.com/articles/information-philosophy.htm

TKD Hyungs http://www.mindspring.com/~kmai/kmai_students_3.html - from the Korean Martial Arts Institute of Lapeer, Michigan

Master Mac's Korean Martial Arts Forms Resource http://mchenry.homeip.net/TangSooDo/forms/

ITF Tuls shown with Step-By-Step Pics *newly added
http://sonkal.taekwondo.cz/reindex.php?url=http://sonkal.taekwondo.cz/tuly.php


VIDEOS of Patterns/Hyungs

http://www.hyong.net/
http://www.natkd.com/tkd_forms.htm
http://www.taekwondo.edu.sg/

http://www.kick-t.com/filmer2.htm *new

International Taekwondo Federation (ITF) Team Pattern
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfi9duuUuY8

Sparring

Links to Tae Kwon Do Sparring videos

http://www.martialartsplanet.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19572

North Korea Amazing Knockout ITF
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAQhaE5wvlQ

WTF-Taekwondo Sparring Rules
http://www.wtf.org/site/rules/competition.htm

ITF-TaeKwon do Sparring Rules
http://www.itf-information.com/information10a.htm


Kicking Tips *newly added
http://tkdtutor.com/09Techniques/Kicks/KickTips/KickTipsI.htm



Board Breaking & Destruction Links

Specifics of Breaking
http://www.aibudo.com/break/specific/specific.html

Breaking
http://jenningscc.com/TaeKwonDo/Breaking.htm

http://www.tkdtutor.com/12Breaking/Breaking.htm


Break Video Clips
http://www.cwtkd.com/videos.html

Breaking (with video clips)
http://www.ironcrane.com/html/breaking.htm

http://www.mntaekwondocenter.com/gallery/gallery_movies-breaking.html

http://www.farrellsusma.com/videoclips.htm

http://www.adnantarsha.com/video_clips2.htm



Mike Reeves did it! He broke his Guinness World Record by breaking 415 boards in 60 seconds at the US Open on July 6th!
http://www.mikereevesonline.com/media.html


... and other World Records for Board Breaking (http://www.recordholders.org/en/list/karate.html)

Master F. Camareno in his first World Record of breaking 310 bricks in 60 seconds with one hand. This was on August 2004. Next March 12 2007 he is going to attempt break his own record in Puerto Rico.
You can see others videos at:
http://www.mastercamarenovideos.cjb.net/ *new!

Various Interesting TKD videos posted on YouTube:

What is Taekwondo? by ITF
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMlz52lG1qk

The Way - TKD by WTF
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKROCTGSd7Y

Taekwondo Promotion Video from Korea (WTF)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bED6HrsFoU

ITF World Championship Part 1 & 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd-1YF2lo3U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E5_ed_OwYU

WTF Demo Clips
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84391qGT0eg

*revised Oct. 4th 2006

[Senior Moment]

Oh great! Now I will be up all night again. :)

Chet

[cjw314]

http://tkdtutor.com/ and then click on 'patterns' and find the right ones for you

Has some vids; most are small and low qual, but free. ;)

Real Player ITF Pattern Videos (traditional ITF patterns)

QuickTime ITF Pattern Movies (traditional ITF patterns)

Videos of Different Pattern Sets (Taegeuk)

==

And then there's

http://www.natkd.com/chang_hon.htm

if you're looking for . . .

Chang Hon Forms
Jhoon Rhee Forms
NATKD Forum
Palgwe Forms
Pyung An Forms
Songahm Forms
Taegeuk Forms

:D

[Nightstrike]

any wtf forms?

[KickChick]

Palgue/Taegeuk & the WTF BB patterns
They appear here on link above http://paperwindow.com/tkd/ and on the WTF site as well.

[Artikon]

For the WTFers out there

Poomse Resource Page (site is currently "Under Construction" to be advised when up and running again! )

Page at this time is incomplete but will contain all Taegeuk, Palgwae, and Yudanja poomse that I currently know. Feel free to PM or email me if you find any bugs in the pages, or with comments. Thanks

Taegeuk 1 (added)
Taegeuk 2 (added)
Taegeuk 3 (added)
Taegeuk 4 (added)
Taegeuk 5
Taegeuk 6
Taegeuk 7
Taegeuk 8

Palgwae 1
Palgwae 2
Palgwae 3
Palgwae 4
Palgwae 5
Palgwae 6
Palgwae 7
Palgwae 8

Poomse Koryo
Poomse Keumgang
Poomse Taebek
Poomse Pyongwon

[98765]

Chang Hun Taekwon-Do Webpage:
http://home.no.net/changhun

ITF-information.com

http://www.ivarsoyfoto.no/projects.html
Many TKD photos

[cjw314]

http://jenningscc.com/TaeKwonDo/Default.htm

Excellent TKD info, imwbo. (white belt opinion. ; )

[UKscrapper]

Here is the palgwe forms website:
http://www.natkd.com/palgawe.htm

My Dojang website:
http://www.kanghan.co.uk/

[KickChick]

I've added a few new TKD resources with links to my original thread.

Check them out and please add a helpful TKD resource link of your own!

[seikido]

http://www.hyong.net has videos of ITF patterns in two angles. It's in German, but you don't need to speak German to get some use out of the site, or find/watch the videos.

[Visage]

http://www.ir.isas.ac.jp/~cpp/TKD

This site has downloadable videos of the Taeguek patterns, as well as still images of each technique. Also has photo shots of the basic techniques found in TKD.

(WTF)

[Slimfast]

Great, Thanks!!!!!!!

[Lefty]

http://www.hollenders.com/resource/resourcetkd.html
Nice PDFs for the ATA patterns.

[Mr. Anderson]

Thanks all for all the wonderful links and especially to KC for starting this thread. Plenty to read over lunch today.

[StuartA]

Hmm, not doing no self promotion (ahem), but i would like to offer our site:
Rayners Lane Taekwon-do Academy (http://www.raynerslanetkd.com)
Much to see, read & do:

Great articles, photos, loads of videos, terminology etc etc.

Stuart

[itfengland.com]

here a few more links

Official ITF website www.tkd-itf.org

polish taekwondo federation www.pztkd.lublin.pl

czech taekwondo federation www.taekwondo.cz

now in the movies, formerly a mamber of ITF England team www.silviosimac.com

erm cant think of the others - i have loads of links but i think these are prob the most interesting to look at

[neryo_tkd]

ITF Patterns: Essential Information and Patterns Menu http://www.itf-taekwondo.com/sub04.htm

does this link work at all?

I can't open it :confused:

[glo_in_da_dark]

whoooah! cool! thanks for all of those cool links for those of you who contributed all of them!!!! :D sigh~ there goes my weekend... :p now... where to begin.... :cool:

[KickChick]

does this link work at all?

I can't open it :confused:


True, links do need to be updated ocassionally.

If you find a "dead" link ... please point it out and I will locate the update for you!

Thanks neryo ... all fixed --- and to you too glo_in_da_dark (.. hope you had a nice weekend! ;) )

[Jayar]

The site http://www.aztaekwondo.com/breaks.htm is weird. They appear to be wearing ITF uniforms and the picture on the wall is General Choi Hong Hi, the founder of the ITF. At first I thought the man demonstratging the spear finger break was the General's son, Grandmaster Choi Jung Hwa but its not. Its Grand Master Sun Duk Choi. Plus from watching their form videos they use broken rythem (an older form of sine wave), instead of modern sine wave. I had also thought that Master Nunez was the highest ranking ITF master in Arizona. I would be interested to hear about the affiliation of that school and its history, or to discover that I am completely mistaken in various areas.

[KickChick]

The site http://www.aztaekwondo.com/breaks.htm is weird. They appear to be wearing ITF uniforms and the picture on the wall is General Choi Hong Hi, the founder of the ITF. At first I thought the man demonstratging the spear finger break was the General's son, Grandmaster Choi Jung Hwa but its not. Its Grand Master Sun Duk Choi. Plus from watching their form videos they use broken rythem (an older form of sine wave), instead of modern sine wave. I had also thought that Master Nunez was the highest ranking ITF master in Arizona. I would be interested to hear about the affiliation of that school and its history, or to discover that I am completely mistaken in various areas.



It is is fact GM Sun Duk Choi.. (I can see where you could be mistaken)

I don't believe he is an ITF master but has created his own association ..... Arizona Tae Kwon Do Association
Go to main page http://www.aztaekwondo.com/ to learn more!

Here is a list of ITF Masters where you will indeed find Master Nunez listed
http://www.itf-online.com/mastersbody.htm

[Jayar]

Hahaha
Kickchick, I think you repeated most of what I said. Interestingly GM Choi (a very common Korean name. I have heard of up to 5 Grandmasters with that name) toured with General Choi for a time. The picture in the background of the breaking videos is definately General Choi thogh. My bet is that GM Choi founded the school before organizations were big on assimilation (like when the General encouraged Grandmaster Jhoon Rhee to call his style TKD without forcing him to join ITF) but he stayed loyal to General Choi. That, or perhaps it was an ITF school until political strife caused it to break away. If anyone knows the actual story I would love to hear it.

[Melanie]

http://www.martialartsplanet.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28088
Guide to Kicking by knightcommander - extremely useful - recommended!

[KickChick]

.... Also note that I have added some new links to the original thread (highlighted in red) :)

[TKD=FUN]

International TaeKwonDo Allience links for forms

Picture

http://www.mindspring.com/~kmai/kmai_students_3.html


Texts

http://www.hanstkd.com/hyung/

[cavallin]

hello! i haven't seen this one yet, it is brilliant for philosophy of tae kwon do and much much more!!!

www.taekwondobible.com

[jedi_eowyn]

heres a really good site with a huge video and photo gallary and itf forms
http://sonkal.taekwondo.cz/index-en.html

[neryo_tkd]

http://www.martialartsplanet.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2677

let's not forget our main thread about 'WTF vs ITF' which has a lot of good info.

as of today it's a sticky.

[huytek]

Hi all, this is my frist time using this site. I just want to say that it is great that you all are so dedicated to TKD. I train in WTF TKD, and love the sparring and demonstration part of it. If you tkd lovers out there are interested in breaking, self-defense, and other demonstration aspects, check out my team (Team-M Taekwondo) at www.mteam.net . There are lots of video clips on the site so I hope you all will enjoy, and for new tkd students I hope these videos will provide you more knowlege and interest in tkd. -TKD RULES!!!-

San Jose, CA-USA

[Another Muay Thai Guy]

NZ ITF school website with photos and explanations of loads of techniques, as well as forms and theory: http://taranakitaekwondo.homestead.com/

[neryo_tkd]

here another interesting video of breaking performed by the korean tigers

http://www.indiana.edu/~iutkd/scripts/board/board.cgi?id=movie&action=download&gul=126

[jcurtis]

KC, this link doenst work for me

http://www.all-about-olympic-games.com/go.php?id=55521

[KickChick]

As I had mentioned.... since this thread is over a year old, you may find an ocassional dead link.

Tks.... I removed that one from the original post :)

[neryo_tkd]

good job :) thanx :)

[neryo_tkd]

a link provided by Kickchick. a really great web site with games and drills that can be used with little kids: http://www.4kicks.com/?tabid=28&view=listing&Cat=3,%204,%205%20Year%20Olds&CatId=19

[Another Muay Thai Guy]

More patterns here, but they also have a kind of mini-encyclopaedia which is quite useful: http://www.taekwondo.edu.sg/

[Alexander]

Does anyone know a site with a video demonstration of the ITF pattern So-Sin? I've recently taken to studying all the forms whenever I'm bored in a lecture, and as the forms progress throughout the ranks the applications I come up with get more and more painful. So I think I can make So-Sin pretty evil - but I can only get my hands on (for free) written descriptions, which tend to be a bit vague.

It seems like all the sites I've been through so far have all the patterns apart from So-Sin on them!

[KickChick]

Correct.

Very difficult to locate vids online for advanced rank hyungs including 5th dan "So-San" ;)

Suggest you purchase the ITF video collection of BB patterns if you're serious about studying those forms ahead of time

[Alexander]

Correct.

Very difficult to locate vids online for advanced rank hyungs including 5th dan "So-San" ;)

Suggest you purchase the ITF video collection of BB patterns if you're serious about studying those forms ahead of time
Yeah, I guess I'm slightly ahead of time :D

Cheers for the advice KC, I'll think about purchasing some ITF stuff.

[miles]

Here's a link to the Kukkiwon's (English) website:

http://www.kukkiwon.or.kr/eng/main.asp

On the left side there are links for poomsae, kibon, and kyorugi. In the Poomsae portion are videos of all the official poomsae from Taeguek 1 to Ilyo performed by GM LEE, Chong Kwan who teaches the physical portion of the Kukkiwon's Foreign Instructor's Course.

Miles

[neryo_tkd]

http://rapidshare.de/files/10372681/MteamDVDtrailer.wmv.html

Mteam, demo

[cavallin]

this is a brilliant website full of information about application of patterns. I've had 2 seminars with this guy and he will open up your views on patterns. make sure you check it out thouroughly!!

http://www.classicaldimension.com/about.htm

[maise]

Sometimes different countries are using alternatives terms for kicking ... e.g Roundhouse versus Turning kicks. So mabye posting the standard Korean names might help such as:

Ahp-cha-gi Front kick
Dolryo-cha-gi Round (house)/turning kick
Naeryo-cha-gi Axe kick/Downward kick
Yop-cha-gi Side kick
Dwi-cha-gi Backward kick
Hooryo-cha-gi Hook kick
Bandae-dolryo-cha-gi Spinning hook kick
Dwi-dolryo-cha-gi Spinning hook kick

Wish I could format a better layout.

[Illonos]

great links everyone, i'd submit some myself if all the links i knew were not in norwegian... :bang:

[neryo_tkd]

korean tigers, demonstration 2003

http://rapidshare.de/files/17893401/Taekwondo-Korean_Tigers_Demonstration_Paris_2003.mpeg.html

[neryo_tkd]

taegeuk

http://tkd.tomcatuk.net/

[kwang gae]

That's a cool website! I like the mouse-over thing to enlarge the images. Very well done. :Angel:

[neryo_tkd]

yeah, that's why i added the link. i like it too.

[neryo_tkd]

does anybody have a link to the commercial demo of the korean tigers? i had one, but it does not work anymore.

[tomcatuk]

Hey neryo_tkd, thanks for mentioning my site. I'd better hurry up & get it finished! The pages take quite a long time to create as the stances are rendered in a 3D package, then I have to write the script for the rollovers line by line to get the cool "bigger view" rollover to work.

Very pleased to hear some people thinking it's worth the effort ;)

[angacam]

Very nice, Can you do the chang hons and palgwe's as well? LOL, I am a little rusty on some of the higher ones and would like to brush up.

[kwang gae]

Hey neryo_tkd, thanks for mentioning my site. I'd better hurry up & get it finished! The pages take quite a long time to create as the stances are rendered in a 3D package, then I have to write the script for the rollovers line by line to get the cool "bigger view" rollover to work.

Very pleased to hear some people thinking it's worth the effort ;)
Tomcat your site rocks! I do some rudimentary web work, and I've got to tell you that's pretty impressive what you're doing. :D

[Artikon]

Don't know if this has been posted yet, but Ima gonna post it anyways :D

Yet another flexibility webpage (http://www.cmcrossroads.com/bradapp/docs/rec/stretching/stretching_1.html)

A fairly well researched webpage dealing with the physiology of flexibility, and other areas related to flexibility. Non-sport specific so the views expressed are unbiased. Please note the disclaimer at the beginning of the article as everything should be taken with a grain of salt; however in my opinion this individual has done a fairly concise job of presenting the research.

[KickChick]

"The Brad Appleton Stretching Guide" ... it's very famous on internet :)

... yes it is A VERY good synthesis about the most known stretching theories and metodologies and we have included that in our Stretching Links in the H & F Resource Library ;)

[removal]

I'm keeping track of all taekwondo and hapkido events in Korea here:

http://taekwondodiaries.blogspot.com

I will upload more pix of events as I get them and add updated news as I have time to do so. The overall aim of the site is to give a picture of what it's like to train in Korea.

[KickChick]

There are some rather good and informative links on your blog removal.

Neryo has been looking for some Korean Tiger vid links ... perhaps she can find them there.

FYI .... I've updated some of the links on the original post. A few were dead links and I've added a few here and there.

[removal]

For KTigers' demos, you can find some here:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22korean+tigers%22&search=Search

[neryo_tkd]

thanx for the links, i've already seen them :)

[neryo_tkd]

I just noticed that the WTF has put up videos from the 1st World Poomsae Championships on their site:
1st World Poomsae Championship vids (http://www.wtf.org/site/community/wtf_video.htm)


:)

[AllieB]

All of these sites have helped me a great deal in recent months


Tkdtutor.com
Lots of basics, weapons, breaking tournaments etc

http://paperwindow.com/tkd/
Taegeuk Patterns 1 ? 8 Palgue Patterns 1 ? 8 W.T.F. Black Belt Patterns,I.T.F. Patterns (Chon-Ji Patterns) Shotokan Patterns Other Patterns

http://mchenry.homeip.net/TangSooDo/forms/
TANGSOODO TAEKWONDO (Hyung)
TAEKWONDO ITF Tul Kukkiwon (WTF) Poomse HAPKIDO
(Includes supplemental forms)
(*) Not standard TangSooDo forms. These were created by Master McHenry as advanced basic forms with added kicks to supplement the standard basic (Kee-Cho) forms.

http://www.nsmataekwondo.com/terminology.htm#Sparring%20&%20Weapons
Basic Commands, Phrases and Terms
Stances, Schools & Styles
Salutations, Names & Titles
Blocks & Strikes
Directions & Body
Kicks & Techniques
Sparring & Weapons
Korean Language Overview

[neryo_tkd]

1 - 2- 3- steps

http://www.gt-uk.net/tkd_info/set_sparring/default.asp


defence

http://www.taekwondoaustralia.org.au/abouttkd/spar_tips.html

[neryo_tkd]

http://www.centrum-omega.civ.pl/movies/kytu_koryo.avi

KORYO performed by European champion Master Kytu Dang (7th Dan, Denmark)

[shift]

www.martialartsjamaica.com

Has tournament clips

[Alexander]

Robert Dohrenwend's History of the Chung Do Kwan (http://husky.students.mtu.edu/cdk.shtml) - a very interesting read...

[a_dash]

hi everyone, can anyone tell me where i can get full korean tiger demos? not from youtube, i cant find it anywhere, including torrent file, also cant find the dvd/cd version at my place & since i dont have credit card, i cant buy it online, poor me..

if anyone already have it, hope u can upload it to rapidshare/sendspace,etc tq very much..

[Smokemare]

I started making a free list of facts about the ITF Chang Hon Pattern Set. The link is in my signature. It might be helpful to anyone revising for gradings.