# Taekwondo lessons

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taekwondo-lessons/608521>\
**Category:** Marketplace\
**Created:** [January 5, 2012, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taekwondo-lessons/608521 "2012-01-05T17:24:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 2

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![TommyTutone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@TommyTutone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TommyTutone)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2013, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taekwondo-lessons/608521/22 "2013-05-28T20:56:11Z")

</div>

> [@Clothahump](#):
>
> A bump.
> 
> World Championships will be held July 8 - 14 this year in Little Rock. I am going to be inducted as a Master at the ceremony on the 13th. Unfortunately, their efforts in the past at streaming the event live haven’t worked out well, so they will be posting downloadable video shortly afterwards.

Congratulations! We will be there on Thursday as the boy will be competing for World Champ in the XMA and Creative weapon and open hand competitions.

The streaming worked well last year when we watched the demo team competitions on ESPN 3 from our hotel room (on our iPad), so hopefully it will work this year as well.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2013, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taekwondo-lessons/608521/24 "2013-06-08T18:55:15Z")

</div>

… creative weapon?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2013, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taekwondo-lessons/608521/25 "2013-06-08T20:34:39Z")

</div>

> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#):
>
> … creative weapon?

The use of [weapons](http://www.ataonline.com/pdf/CreativeFormsWeaponsRules.pdf) to perform Tae Kwon Do which are not normally (traditionally) associated with it: [sai, jitte, nunchaku, escrima](http://ataonline.com/ishop/main/index.asp?cat_code=&code1=&group=071). This seems to be the Taekwondo equivalent of Rhythmic Gymnastics, just probably a lot more violent (also why they have to use safety weapons rather than the real thing, apparently; let a real sai loose during a competition and somebody could get hurt pretty bad).

[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taekwondo-lessons/608521.md?page=1)