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Question 077: Sport TKD

Mostly good content, but fails when saying that WTF Taekwondo is purely a sport (it's called "sport taekwondo" many times throughout the site). It's pretty much the same martial art, only the patterns and competition rules change. WTF was chosen for the Olympics because WTF competition rules are generally considered to be safer for the practitioner. There's sport and competition in ITF as well. Also, it's funny how the site is biased towards ITF ("traditional") Taekwondo, but doesn't use Korean terminology (i.e. "outside crescent kick" instead of "bakkat chagi"). My WTF school is more traditional than that..."