Taekwondo Compendium
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Taekwondo Compendium

Update: July 23rd, 2024

  • Error fixed in Taegeuk 6

Update: July 16th, 2024

  • More martial arts styles added

  • Jitate sport poomsae 8 counts altered to 5 counts to reflect rule changes

Update: May 14th, 2024

  • Minor odds and ends

  • A few sport poomsae specific additions

Update: April 17th, 2024

  • Minor odds and ends

  • Pronunciation accuracy updates

  • Hangul has been added to the General sheet

Update: April 10th, 2024

  • Minor odds and ends

  • Pronunciation accuracy updates

  • Lots of nerdy charts!

Update: March 13th, 2024

  • Summary Sheet 1 has received a couple of nifty pie charts

  • I’ve added a worksheet specifically for charts as well, it’s not done yet

  • Minor accuracy updates throughout

Update: March 5th, 2024

  • Summary Sheets have been condensed

  • Summary Sheets have had accuracy issues fixed

  • Summary Sheet with Stance/Defense/Offense/Special now has English/Korean/Hangul

  • Recognized Poomsae charts have Kihap total listed in notes

  • Minor accuracy updates throughout

Update: February 28th, 2024

  • Palgwae Poomsae have been given separate sheets

  • General Terminology sheet updated

  • Stance sheet updated

  • Offense sheet updated

  • Defense sheet updated

  • Minor accuracy updates throughout

Update: February 22nd, 2024

  • Palgwae Poomsae have been added (formatting not finished)

  • Taegeuk Poomsae have had their side-to-side segments outlined

  • General Terminology Sheet Added

  • Stance Terminology Sheet Added

  • Offensive Technique Terminology Sheet Added

  • Defensive Technique Terminology Sheet Added

The compendium is a Microsoft Excel file.

Best viewed on a desktop rather than a mobile device.

The above spreadsheet contains all recognized forms as well as the Basic 1 and 2 currently used at my school. Please feel free to distribute, rename techniques, reformat charts, etc. as you please.

This was done partially out of my own personal interest in this kind of thing and partially to make an easy reference material for people who are sharpening (not learning) a form. The charts are not intended to show anyone how to do anything.

Things have been named, counted, classified and spelled to the best of my ability but there will be mistakes here and there as well as things you may disagree with. There are also conflicting names and counts for things depending on the source.

As far as the charts go, the alternating colour scheme is intended to show that “these are the moves you do on the count shown in the left most column”, so row/count 1 will be white, row/count 2 will be blue, if there are two or more things done they are labled 1a, 1b, etc.

Some reference materials used include:

  • Kukkiwon Text Book (2022)

  • Kukkiwon Text Book (2014)

  • Kukkiwon YouTube Videos (2020)

  • The Complete Understanding Of Poomsae (2022)

  • The Explanation Of Official Taekwondo Poomsae 2 (2015)

  • WT Poomsae World Class Poomsae Guide Book (2022)

  • Kukkiwon Textbook of Taekwondo Poomsae (2015)