What is the difference between karate and taekwondo

In our daily competitive sports, we often hear about karate and taekwondo. Although the names are different, they look similar to laymen and they don’t understand the specific differences. In fact, the two sports are completely different, but it is particularly difficult for ordinary people to distinguish them. So what is the difference between karate and taekwondo? Let’s take a look at it below, and hope it will be helpful to our friends.

Taekwondo is one of the official events of the modern Olympic Games. It is a sport that mainly uses hands and feet for fighting or confrontation. Karate is a combination of traditional Japanese fighting techniques and Ryukyu martial arts Karate. It originated from Japanese martial arts and Ryukyu Karate.

Since the clothing of both are similar, they look similar, but Taekwondo wears a pullover while Karate wears a cardigan, so there is still a difference in clothing. The founder of Taekwondo is Choi Hong-hi, and it originated on the Korean Peninsula. More than 70% of its techniques are kicking. The founder of Karate is Yama, which is a traditional Japanese sport that mainly uses boxing. The techniques and focus of the two are different and need to be distinguished in detail. In addition, Taekwondo is an Olympic event and is much more internationalized than Karate.

In actual combat, Taekwondo mainly attacks with kicks, which are characterized by being fast, accurate and ruthless, fast advance, fast kicking, and even faster combo. When parrying, most people will not block but dodge. In a skirmish, Taekwondo masters can resolve the battle in a very short time, and usually only a set of continuous kicks is enough to knock down the opponent.

In actual combat, karate has many ways of attacking, punches, kicks, hand strikes, elbow strikes, and knee strikes are all the main ways of attacking. The practice of karate has very high requirements on physical fitness and will strengthen and improve the physical fitness of practitioners in various ways. In terms of techniques, due to the variety of attacking methods, each practitioner not only has a different fighting style, but also a different fighting method. Some rely more on boxing, some rely more on leg techniques, some rely more on blocking, and some even rely more on throwing techniques.

Through the above introduction, we know the difference between Karate and Taekwondo. In normal times, as long as we pay attention to the two sports, we will find that there are obvious differences. In addition, Taekwondo is an Olympic event that originated in South Korea, while Karate is not an Olympic event and originated in Japan.