WT vs ITF Decision Guide
Mat Manual companion guide to "WT and ITF: The Two Taekwondos." The working comparison of the two houses, with a decision worksheet and a switching section. Print it before you visit schools.
| Art | Taekwondo |
|---|---|
| Family | Korean Arts |
| Level | all-levels |
| Format | decision |
| Topics | history, forms, sparring, rules, competition |
Mat Manual companion guide to "WT and ITF: The Two Taekwondos." The working comparison of the two houses, with a decision worksheet and a switching section. Print it before you visit schools.
Name: ______________________________ Date: ______________ Schools being compared: ______________________________
How to Use This Guide
Taekwondo is one name over two systems. This guide compares them as systems, then gives you a worksheet for comparing the actual schools near you, because the system you join is always a specific school with a specific instructor. Organizational facts are date-stamped October 2026. Where the ITF bodies differ among themselves, the guide says so rather than printing one body's rule as the ITF rule.
WT vs ITF Decision Guide
Mat Manual companion guide to "WT and ITF: The Two Taekwondos." The working comparison of the two houses, with a decision worksheet and a switching section. Print it before you visit schools.
What's Inside
- How to Use This Guide
- The Timeline: How One Art Became Two Houses
- The Master Side-by-Side
- The Forms Libraries in Full
- Scoring, Side by Side
- A Training Week in Each House
- …and 9 more sections
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Free companion article: WT and ITF: The Two Taekwondos — the full article, free in full.