Taekwondo sport development: The case of Taiwan

Hsiao, Chih‐Tung; Lin, Jie-Shin; Chang, Kuo-Pin

doi:10.1057/ori.2010.7

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“…In 1966, General Choi and several other key members broke off from the mainstream KTA and formed the International Taekwondo Federation (ITF) as a means to keep members practicing the original style that the General designed (Readdy, 2009). In 1973 the KTA became the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) as a strategy to maintain the rights to South Korea's national sport (Hsiao et al, 2010). The WTF style is the part of the sport that one typically sees in the Olympic games and whilst there have been discussions to include the ITF style in the Olympics, these plans have fallen through (Kim et al, 2009).…”

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Coopetition at the sports marketing/entrepreneurship interface

Crick

2016

Marketing Intelligence &Amp; Planning

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to help develop the understanding of the nature of coopetition (collaboration as well as competition) and is set in the context of a Taekwondo organisation. Design/methodology/approach – Interviews were undertaken with 25 instructors in various clubs within New Zealand’s “International Taekwondo” (ITKD) together with 25 students and supplemented with triangulation against secondary data such as websites and media reports. Findings – The findings suggest that coopetition can be seen from various perspectives in order that the organisation as a whole benefits. Specifically, while the ITKD is a not-for-profit firm, individual clubs may compete for revenue from students joining them as opposed to rival clubs. However, clubs collaborate in various way such as once registered, students can train free at rival clubs and resources are to some extent pooled so the ITKD as a whole benefits, e.g. sending competitors overseas and bringing in senior people to undertake a promotion grading. Originality/value – The contribution is to offer insights into the nature of coopetition at the sports marketing/entrepreneurship interface by suggesting that the potential paradox of collaboration and competition can be explained by considering the benefits to an overall organisation as opposed to individual clubs within it.

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Coopetition at the sports marketing/entrepreneurship interface

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2016

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“…Nevertheless, taekwondo continued to gain support in Taiwan as the most successful sport to bring global recognition to Taiwan in the international athletics scene (Hsiao et al, 2010). Taekwondo gave the first gold medal to Taiwan ever at the Olympics in the 2004 Athens Games, and has since brought a total of seven Olympic medals to the country.…”

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Salvaging national pride: The 2010 taekwondo controversy and Taiwan’s quest for global recognition

Kang

Kim

Wang

2013

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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In this article, we analyze Taiwan's grassroots reactions to the disqualification of taekwondo icon Yang Shu-chun in the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games, in order to examine how a technical dispute induced political and popular campaigns that variously blamed the governing party, the People's Republic of China, and South Korea for inflicting shame on both the athlete and on Taiwan. Our research combines a historiography of Taiwan's post-WWII experience, analysis of the nature of the Internet, and an assay of Taiwan's three major newspapers. We find that the Yang incident became a symbolic vehicle for expressing the feeling of the nation's citizens that Taiwan is trapped in international politics, and for restoring their national pride by transforming Yang into a virtuous heroine. We propose an attention to local, contingent narratives on sports, through which even regional games or failures serve to reinforce national identity.

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“…Taekwondo is a martial art that originated in Korea during the twentieth Century from the Taekkyon, an ancient Korean martial art that arose around 37 BCE (Lee & Bairner, 2009;Pieter, 2009). Although both hands and feet may be used for hitting the opponent (Hsiao, Lin, & Chang, 2010), in competition, more kicks are used than punches. Frequently, in combat all the points counted for an athlete are scored through kicks, which have been observed since the 2000 Olympic games competition, when taekwondo was introduced (Bridge, Jones, & Drust, 2011; Kazemi, Casella, & Perri, 2009;Kazemi, Perri, & Soave, 2010;Mohsen, Judith, Christopher, & Anthony, 2006).…”

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The influence of kihap on the impact of Dolio-chagui kicks in taekwondo

Martins¹,

Cantergi²,

Loss³

2014

Motriz: rev. educ. fis.

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The kihapis a technique used in several oriental martial arts. It is a yell used by practitioners with the ex pectation of enhancing the force of a hit. However, the real effect of using the kihapis unknown. Therefore, this study aims to compare the peak of acceleration of the Dolio-chaguikick in taekwondo performed with and without the use of kihap. Twenty two experienced taekwondo practitioners performed 30 kicks each against a punching bag, alternating in random order with and without kihap, while the acceleration of the punching bag was measured. A t-test was used to compare the difference between the mean acceleration in both conditions. Higher values were found with the use of kihap(7.8 ± 2.8 g) than without the use of kihap(7.1 ± 2.4 g), p< 0.01, r= 0.57. The results indicate that kihapenhances the impact of the kick.

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Taekwondo sport development: The case of Taiwan

Cited by 8 publications

References 15 publications

Coopetition at the sports marketing/entrepreneurship interface

Coopetition at the sports marketing/entrepreneurship interface

Salvaging national pride: The 2010 taekwondo controversy and Taiwan’s quest for global recognition

The influence of kihap on the impact of Dolio-chagui kicks in taekwondo

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