The following points should be observed when practicing patterns:

• Patterns should begin and end on the same spot. This indicates the performers accuracy.
• Correct posture and facing must be maintained at all times.
• Muscles of the body should be tensed or relaxed at the proper critical moments in the exercise.
• The exercise should be performed in a rhythmic movement with the absence of stiffness.
• Each pattern should be accelerated or decelerated according to instructions.
• Each pattern should be perfected before moving to the next.
• Students should know the purpose of each movement.
• Students should perform each movement with realism.

Grandmaster Choi created twenty-four patterns for the student of TaeKwonDo.
Click on any of the patterns below for more details.

Here I leave TaeKwonDo for mankind as a trace of man of the late 20th century.
The 24 patterns represent 24 hours, one day, or all of my life.

Grandmaster Choi Hong Hi
(November 9 1918 - June 15 2002)

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* In the 1980s Grandmaster Choi removed Ko-Dang and replaced it with Juche. This pattern was introduced as a bid by Choi to help introduce TaeKwonDo to North Korea, Juche means 'self-reliance' and is the name for the ideology employed by Kim Il-sung and since by Kim Jong-il to 'assert the state's independence'.
Some clubs follow Choi's later decision to remove Ko-Dang, as there are some techniques in Juche not covered in the other patterns that Choi felt important enough to include. Others, namely the TAGB, choose not to as they thought the choice was made for political reasons, contrary to the original ideals of TaeKwonDo's creation.

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