What's the deal with Korean Martial Arts?

I'm seeing all these Korean Martial Arts like Moo Gong Do and Yun Jung Do and Oom Yung Doe being advertised. Then I look them up on Wikipedia and can't find any mention of them.





It seems to me that any Korean guy can just create his own Martial Arts and declare himself a Grandmaster.





Why are Korean Martial Arts so easy to fabricate?

What's the deal with Korean Martial Arts?
You are right about Korean martial arts, they seem to have more fabrication than other martial arts. I can't believe how many Tae Kwon Do/Karate "dojo's" there are in our town. I have to wonder if the guy that owns these TKD/karate schools drives a Ford Jetta? And they all teach tournament fighting, not street techniques. The funny thing is that the only tourney's the students are allowed to fight in are inter-school tournaments (no outside schools allowed). They are garbage schools.





From what I understand Korean men are very under-handed business people. I hate to stereo type like this but I keep running into this across the board ( not just martial arts) at work. I feel these unscrupulous individuals have soiled he Korean martial arts for me. Sorry, it is rare that I am negative like this but what you are stating in your question is accurate.
Reply:Martial Arts is a warriors art. And warriors embrace change


and progress.


Many martial arts didn't even let one have contact until they


spent a year toughening up their body, to avoid breaking things.


And "never" taught the secrets of domination to those who didn't display the temprement for knowing those things.


Today, with our violent society. Many teach advanced tactics right away. But training can also hurt you. One police officer, who was used to his training. Took a gun from a criminal, and handed it back to him. Then the officer got shot and was in a fight for


his life. Luckily he got the gun from him again.


Just because an art is knew, doesn't mean it doesn't have


valuable teachings. You need to see what the teacher is all about.
Reply:It's just speculation on my part, but TKD brought in a number of different styles under one "brand" after the Korean war. Therefore the schools you are referring to may be using the pre TKD name of what they are teaching.
Reply:you're basing this on friggin wickipedia? way to research.
Reply:rofl..man you need to do some better researching :P
Reply:You need to go and visit these Dojangs before you knock them. True, there are alot of bad training halls out there selling a bunch of lies. It's usually the "American Karate" or Ninjitsu schools that tick me off.


Do some more research on the arts, go and watch them. Who knows, you may be interested enough to join.