What's the difference between Taekwondo And Karate?

I am in taekwondo and just wondering what the difference is.|||TKD uses many aerial kicking techniques as compared to Karate which dos not emphasize kicking techniques as much although it does have many.|||Ok, I shall give it a whirl. I am certain someone else is going to come in and give a better answer, I hope.





Firstly, there are many forms of Karate. That is a general umbrella term that incorporates a number of styles.





I trained briefly in Shotokan Karate and it was 50/50 hand and foot techniques. I have a First Dan in Tae Kwon Do (not my first or main art) and it was 30/70 hands versus foot techniques. Tae Kwon Do emphasized jumping techniques more than Shotokan. The origins of Tae Kwon Do (Hwarang Do? I fear my memory is not good) were developed to take armed soldiers off of horses in Korea so these high kicks and jumping techniques had much purpose. I cannot tell you of the development of Shotokan because I was not in it long.





Both are %26quot;hard%26quot; arts. The techniques were similar but not exactly the same. I would have to be face to face to demonstrate the differences.





I can only answer for Shotokan because I have not practiced any other Karate style.





Karate is Japanese and/or Okinawan, Tae Kwon Do is Korean.|||Not much really, especially since TKD was influenced by the Japanese during the late 40%26#039;s and 50%26#039;s when Japan occupied Korea. and as Japan%26#039;s military advanced further South, the more that the techniques of Karate crept into TKD to influence it more and more.





If you were to look at the techniques and forms of TKD and the katas of Karate, there%26#039;s only small, subtle differences.





but this is true for Most ANY Martial Art, except for the fact that the techniques have been tweaked or modified by the different founders of the disciplines.|||taekwondo is a koren style, so I would think no difference...|||Tae Kwon Do is Korean %26amp; uses mostly foot techniques.


Karate can be either


Japanese, which is about 50-50 hand %26amp; foot or


Okinawan which uses mostly hand techniques.|||it depends on the ryu%26#039;s there r a few (aucually more than a few) types of karate so it could be higher stances.. rounder blocks... broader coriculum...|||Taekwondo and karate have a lot of similarities in that they are both hard arts. Yes, tkd has more of an emphasis on kicks and karate on hand techniques, but they are still both hard arts that require physical endurance and physical fitness. The biggest difference between the 2 arts comes in the later belt levels where karate really starts to focus on internalness and relaxation of the art whereas tkd stays hard forever.|||Tkd emphasises kicks, since Koreans are taller


And Karate emphasises on Punches, since japanese are shorter|||karate will actually help you in a real situation tkd wont.tkd is a semi sports system designed to make money for bogus instructors to teach anyone from 1 to 100.karates real tkd is fake.


karate is from OKINOWA!DUH!NOT JAPAN!DUH!


tkd is from korea.