The "New" TKD

    I just tried watching the WTF TKD world championships but couldn't finish it. When they can call the participants "players" and no one disputes it, it says all you can about the direction being taken as a MA. While I understand the WTF is merely an organization and does not represent the whole of the art: more and more it seems to be acting as a watermark. Contrasted against ikken hisatsu, and simply as personal opinion, I can't seem to get behind point fighting that sacrifices defense, form and power, just to tap an opponent. I'm all for diversification, but it's sad to me to see traditional arts with applicable self-defense techniques, pushed aside for the sake of a gym class exercise. Forgoing usefulness in self-defense or even combat sports, points fighting, in my opinion, takes both the form and function, out of martial arts. When you have neither aspect, what do you have, besides a game?