The Korean national team, with the new technology to their training to improve.Old school new school school false dichotomies paragraph (or whatever) are (for me) just for the focus/focus insufficient or defective across the moat, arise (combat sports martial arts vs. sports). Every sport has its technical principles (proper technique makes design, ability, character), that must be met to be able to play the sport at the highest level. And every martial art has its own basic technical (makes a proper technique, execution, competence, character).

The essentials of each martial art should never be compromised. However, in addition to the aspects of "fight" of martial arts and the mentality of "victory at any cost" modern sports, we found similarities between the practice and focus on martial arts training and Sport (true). Focusing on proper technique, strength, precision, attitude, etc. in the physical dimensions of sport and martial arts are indirectly promoting intellectual/mental equivalents of the athlete.

I would be hard put an instructor called "traditional", Fourier was the kind of training to find the time and intensity of many athletes at any level. If I state Taekwondo was training athletes, trained six days a week, three times a day and few have traveled to visit 30 miles daily for training. Off-days or weekend were either used for recreational activities (such as swimming, futsal, volleyball or just plain ' ol game-catch).Each "master," had in this kind of effort or showed that kind of devotion, I never knew.Some "train" (read: you go through the motions, a few punches here, are a pair of kicks) once a week or hardly move at all, and then complain that the "old ways" were down the drain.

I know that is master to train every day with devotion (I, I only work three times a week and not on the same intensity of the Ahtletes), but did not take it personally (yet).In any case, the prevalence of sports (if fighting or not) make ideal vehicles for writes, the values of Justice (, I think are not so different than the values that attempt to inculcate the traditional martial arts) and the lessons of focus, dedication, etc., etc. In fact, I would say that someone tried to average tennis or hockey players (or a cheerleader, for the love of God), the team is infinitely more disciplined and how the child "traditional Taekwondo self-defense classes" visits once a week.

Ah, Yes, I would much prefer to visit my son for a lesson in taekwondo or karate, where she teaches the sport Taekwondo teacher or sport karate as one, the 5-year-old teaches (or 14-year-old, the case may be) "self-defence". The first is the value of sportsmanship, the focus (hopefully) my son teaching, discipline and even the "ecstasy of victory and the agony of defeat, while the latter makes him kill to get due to false confidence in their abilities of" Self-defense ".Of course, there are many shades of instructors and trainers in the Middle, and I would be the first to admit that what I wrote above is a generalization (or over-generalization) and is not representative of all instructors.

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