I’m sure people would notice its striking similarity to Muay Thai, haha.
Hey, so I think I’ve finally found a way to reconcile chambered punches, as seen here
The way I’m teaching them is that you’re grabbing your opponent with your non-punching hand and them pulling them into your punch: dirty boxing kinda stuff. This means we train both the punching AND the pulling hand to move as hard, fast and strong as possible. Under that paradigm, it makes sense as to why it’s so different from boxing style punches, and also allows for BOTH to exist in a curriculum. With TKD being about self-defense vs combat sports (not counting Olympic stuff), the punching style contained within it is less about how to set-up a knockout combo and more “how do I create some space so I can run the f**k away”, and grabbing a dude and popping him square in the nose is a good way to get in the element of surprise and then beat feat. That said, when your one hand is occupied with shirt/hair/whatever, it’s not going to be great at throwing punches OR being up to guard your face.
I can at least make peace with this, because not having a hand up drives me crazy when it comes to punches, but saying that we’re training a “grab, pull, punch”, NOW we’re training an ok habit.
And maybe one day my kid can aspire to this level of mastery