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International
TaeKwonDo Academy
The martial arts have grown out of a human need for self-defense. While Westerners
tend to think of martial arts as Eastern, there are paintings on the tombs in Egypt
dating back to 3000 B.C. demonstrating hand-and-foot fighting. From another Western
cultural center of the ancient world, the Greek philosopher Plato mentions skiamachia,
fighting without an opponent (analogous to our TaeKwonDo forms), combining skills
from boxing and wrestling so that the whole body is used as a weapon.
We in the International TaeKwonDo Alliance (chartered in 1983 and first allied in
1970) recognize TaeKwonDo, Korean in origin, as the preeminent martial art, an unequaled
method of unarmed self-defense that is also highly artistic in its execution. TaeKwonDo
techniques have evolved over thousands of years to achieve the greatest speed, power,
and artistic beauty.
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