Over time, Korean Karate was modified into olympic taekwondo and tangsoodo. But in some places, "Korean Taekwondo" stuck.
EDIT: I got a chance to see your link. I can't tell you if the place is legitimate or not. But there are some things that strikes me as odd. They refer to underbelts as "kyu" ranks - that is very Japanese. But the Palgwe forms are very Korean, although, the forms are close derivatives of Shotokan Karate.
I note that they also do the WTF black belt form "Koryo", and also the ITF form "Chung Moo". So the school is very ecclectic. I note that the execution of Koryo is not at all to WTF standards, the man in the video is performing outstanding techniques, but, he will not win any WTF form competitions. He's added techniques inside the form, he's changed direction in several places, he's changed techniques in at least two places, and his stances are much too wide. The form is nice, but not to WTF's liking. I'm sure they know this, it's not hard to watch an official WTF form on Youtube. As long as they can justify their actions and reasons for change, I don't mind the change.
(I'm curious about why they changed the inner block to an outer block at the very beginning of the form; this is a grappling technique, and it would be hard to justify changing these two blocks the way they did. But, I'm open-minded, and if they can justify it, I won't complain).
That said, the more important aspect of the school is how they teach, and what they teach, and what their standards are. They could well be a very, very good school - but that's hard to tell by looking at the website.
By the way, the knife-hand technique in the video that you question.... the man's execution of it is fine. But there is more than one way to execute the double knifehand block, it all depends on the application. Schools tend to adopt exactly one method, and disregard all other methods. I like to teach the different methods, even though the form may not call for it, and practice the applications using the different methods.
dude chill out
i took tkd for a long time and ive seen some odd moves
how to turn a oppenants knife against them and stab them in the kneck with thier own knive
ive used
kamas
swords
staffs
spear
and a lot more
trust me they arent training you to be a korean ninja spy XD
Those are TKD katas. Well executed too.
The guy is probably not certified to instruct by the WTF. So he renamed it Rex Kwon Do or some such nonsense.
Tang so do and tae kwon do.
a type of karate, but with new styles
Ive recently relocated and joined a Korean Karate club as id never heard of it and every one is a bit sketchy about what it is. and they have a few odd practices and moves.
The instructor described it as taekwondo under a different name because of some rule to do with TKD becoming an olympic sport. But it seems very different to all TKD ive seen.
other martial arts that have come up in my searches have been
TANG SOO DO - a korean martial art descended from shotokan
Kyokushin - founded by a korean/japanese guy
This link is to a site that shows pretty much everything they do (not the club i went too but similar) aswell as 1 of the moves that concerns me:-
http://ekkastudent.com/basics/sudo-makki-knife-hand-block/
