# Taekwondo

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Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/taekwondo

Taekwondo is a Korean martial art distinguished by its emphasis on high, fast kicks, jumping and spinning kicking techniques, and structured patterns called poomsae. It's practiced both as a self-defense system and as an Olympic sport, with practitioners progressing through a belt ranking system from white to black belt. Millions of people worldwide study it for fitness, discipline, competition, and self-defense.

Related skills: [Self-Defense](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/self-defense), [Karate](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/karate), [Kickboxing](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/kickboxing), [Kung Fu](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/kung-fu)

## Open roles requiring Taekwondo (0)

None of the roles we have read name this skill yet. A large share of the visible corpus has not been parsed for skills, so this is at least as likely to be our backlog as the market's verdict.