One of my instructors was invited this week to attend a seminar where the instructor was going to teach "the real applications" for tae kwon do pattern movements and he asked me what I thought about this and should he attend, I told him that I had personally trained with the founder of tae kwon do General Choi and all of the original tae kwon do pioneers on many occassions, including Grandmaster C.K. Choi who trained under Major Woo Jong Lim, director of tae kwon do for the Korean 1st army, he then went on to teach tae kwon do at the largest Korean army training centre, their opinion was always that its all smoke and mirrors and that blood, sweat and tears are the real alternative techniques, I also told him that none of the TAGB committee supported this view of alternative techniques. I then said so make your own mind up!
