"BipolarBEAR" <weneedpro...@YahooFULLDOSE.com> wrote in message

> Andy Upton wrote:
>> Chuck Norris was a Tang Soo Do champion wasn't he ?
>> So it can't be ALL bad !
>> "BipolarBEAR" <weneedpro...@YahooFULLDOSE.com> wrote in message
>> news:emcp6s012lr@enews4.newsguy.com...
>>> Grimm Riffer wrote:
>>>> "BJJ-RULES!!!" <bjjru...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:1166589704.782081.233370@a3g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
>>>>> i always thought Tae kwon Do was bad and things could not get any
>>>>> worse, until I saw a TANG SOO DO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP.

>>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EAjey3hiVI
>>>> Tang Soo Do (Moo Duck Barn?) was the first striking art I ever did,
>>>> about ... 18 yrs ago!!  8oO  The TSD club I went to was big on
>>>> continuous sparring, it got messy and no-one minded but was a little
>>>> formal.  It was not so focused on the big musical numbers as this
>>>> club...
>>> I hate that open ternomant stuff. But, it sells.

>>> I find it hard to believe that Mr. Shin would put up with that kind of
>>> thing at the big event. But a LOT has changed. Its not at all what it
>>> once was. The World Tang Soo Do is now a TSD version in some ways of the
>>> ATA. THe two founders use to be great friends.

>>> Now I know why all the good masters left the WTDA a long time back. Like
>>> I said above, I find it so hard to believe the J.C. Shin is into all
>>> that.

> First of all, I am sorry for not using spell check, it got away from me
> before I could.

> Norris was a cross trainer. He was not a pure TSD man.

>  Trying to prop up the sad state of TSD not by identifying to the legend
> of someone from the past is simply pathetic. Surely you can do batter then
> that.