Each Olympic taekwondo match consists of three rounds ... the contestant who has the most points scored for higher-value techniques in the following order: head, trunk, punch, gam-jeom If the high ...

There’s a technological revolution occurring in taekwondo that is changing the ... But with each change, the sport moves further away from the ancient martial art that it is rooted in, one ...

When Ken Krueger began taekwondo 20 years ago, his instructor said he didn’t expect him to advance very far. The problem? He had poor balance. So Krueger set out to show him wrong. “He used ...

Chip McLellan, chief instructor at the school, said forms are a patterned routine of self-defense and traditional tae kwon do moves. Sparring is when two competitors engage in fighting ...

I was practising sprinting at the National Stadium in Abuja when Chika Chukwumerije spotted me. At that time, I didn’t even ...

Poomsae is a memorized series of taekwondo moves performed in a specific order, Sundaram Saravanan said. According to Sundaram Saravanan, poomsae involves a variety of different elements, including ...