A Korean Martial Arts Tradition
The name Taekwondo is translated as meaning “the way of the foot and fist” (tae, “foot”; kwon, “fist”; do, “way”). Taekwondo is a Korean Martial Art which has an interesting history spanning about four thousand years.
Taekwondo has been practiced as a Martial Art and as a sport since its beginning. Apart from improving one’s physical fitness and health, it aims to achieve self-confidence, respect and inner peace.
In its earlier form, Taekwondo was probably practiced to ensure protection from wild animals. Since these attacks could have come from any direction, a system of self defence movements was developed to allow one to spontaneously defend.
These movements became utilised into a complex system of blocks, kicks and punches that is the ancestor of today’s modern Taekwondo.
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