List of Taekwondo techniques

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Because the specific techniques learned to progress to the next rank vary from school to school, this is only a partial listing of techniques in general.

These techniques are all combined into several set self-defense techniques, improvised self-defense techniques, and longer set forms. These vary from school to school, but usually at least one person who knows the "traditional" forms or defenses can be found.

Contents 1 Stances 2 Hand Attacks 3 Kicks 4 Blocks 5 Patterns (ITF)

[edit] Stances

Main article: Stances (tae kwon do)

• Ready Stance
• Middle/Horse/Sitting Stance
• Front/Walking Stance
• Back/L Stance
• Fighting Stance
• Cat Stance
• X Stance
• Vertical Stance

[edit] Hand Attacks

Hand attacks come in two basic forms:

• Punches
• Open hand techniques

[edit] Kicks

Main article: Kicks

All kicks can be executed as jump kicks, spin kicks, jump spin kicks or multi-rotational spin kicks.

[edit] Blocks

Main article: Blocking techniques

[edit] Patterns (ITF)

See the patterns section of the ITF article.