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swsurgeon:
Most Korean styles suffer a HUGE credibility gap with me for the reason that they completely FABRICATE the history of their arts.
Many Korean schools do not even admit to the Japanese origin of most of their "native" styles (like Tae Kwon Do, Yudo, Tang Soo Do, Hapkido, Hwa Rang Do, ad naseum, ad infinitum...).
On top of that, many Korean styles altered their systems to make them "less Japanese" resulting in a lot of superfulous and, quite frankly, ridiculous techniques (like running jumping sidekick) being added.
I have no doubt that there are some tough folks in the Korean martial arts scene, but not necessarily because of their systems.
Skorzeny
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