Friday, December 28, 2007

Human Weapon

The History Channel had on an episode of Human Weapon regarding Tae Kwon Do. I thought it was odd that they included Hwarangdo and Tae Kyon. In my experience and in most of the historical literature, the modernHwarangdo and Tae Kyon have little to no connection to modern TaeKwon Do, and other arts like Tang So Do, Hapkido, JuJitsu andShotokan Karate are much closer to TKD than what they showed on theshow. If they billed it as a Korean martial arts episode rather thanjust TKD, then I wouldn't have much of a problem with it.