Basic knowledge of taekwondo

Taekwondo is one of the official events of the modern Olympic Games, and it is a sport that mainly fights or confronts with hands and feet.

Taekwondo originated in the Korean peninsula, evolved from Taekwondo and Hualang Road in the Three Kingdoms period in South Korea, and is a popular martial art in South Korea.

The word "Taekwondo" was named by South Korean General Cui Hongxi in 1955. When General Cui Hongxi was studying in Japan in his early years, he studied karate at Songtao Hall in Japan and integrated it with traditional Korean martial arts such as kicking and fighting into Taekwondo.

The World Taekwondo Organization is mainly divided into two systems, namely the International Taekwondo Federation (ITF) and the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF). WTF system was adopted in the Olympic Games.

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Technical characteristics of Taekwondo:

1, the leg method is the main method, and the fist method is used together:

Due to the need of competition, the restriction of rules and the characteristics of taekwondo's attack methods, taekwondo techniques mainly focus on leg attack, supplemented by fist attack.

According to statistics, the leg technique of Taekwondo accounts for about 70% of the whole technical system. Therefore, both the attack range and the attack intensity of leg attack far exceed that of fist attack, and fist attack is generally based on prevention and blocking.

2, emphasize breathing, sound:

In the practice of Taekwondo, it is required to give people a sense of majesty in momentum, and practitioners often show their strength with a loud and deterrent voice.

According to Japanese research data, when people work without load, 10% muscles will increase their contraction speed by 9% due to sound, and when they work with load, they can increase 14%.

3. Pursuing speed, strength and effect, and testing skills by breaking;

Taekwondo does not pay attention to ostentation and extravagance, and all actions are centered on martial arts. It requires fast speed, great strength and good hitting effect, and breaking force is used as a test means in the detection of skills. It is to break the board with fists and feet respectively, and judge the skills by the thickness of the broken board.

4, with rigid system, simple method:

Influenced by the spirit of Taekwondo, athletes are mostly direct in the competition; Contact defense and dodge techniques are rarely used, and the attack adopts straight-line continuous attack, hitting the opponent with a coherent and fast foot combination. Defense mostly adopts blocking technology or attacking instead of defending technology.

5, the ceremony began and ended, inside and outside:

Taekwondo practitioners always treat each other with courtesy on any occasion. Practice activities should start with ceremony and end with ceremony, cultivate a style of modesty, friendliness and patience, and constantly improve themselves in moral cultivation.