Renewal Taekwondo

**Renewal Taekwondo** (리뉴얼 태권도, 新式跆拳道, リニューアルテコンドー, "*Rinyueol Taekwondo*"), or **RE Taekwondo**, is a type of martial art developed in modern-day South Korea. It is emphasized in strong, linear kicks like its base ITF Taekwondo. Some skills are directly linked with ITF Taekwondo, skills involving Hwechook for example, and some were created purely by Jin Tae-Jin and other masters. It is one of the strongest martial arts in the world due to the fact that the Renewal Recoilless can damage the Yongpyo, whereas everything else (including Charyeok) cannot.

## Origins

In the 1960s, after the Korean war, 38 North Korean agents were sent to infiltrate and spy on South Korea. However, this mission was unsuccessful as all of them got caught. The South Korean government, interested in the skilled martial arts they possessed (Northern ITF Taekwondo) summoned 50 skilled South Korean martial artist to fight one-on-one with the lone surviving agent. The results were a big surprise as he won every single match with 15 seriously injured, 9 unconscious, and 26 killed. After the devastating results of the battle, one of the South Korean survivors, Jin Tae-Jin, travelled to the Soviet Union in order to develop a counter and with ideas from "Northern ITF", find their weakness, eliminating them and adding stealth skills. In a far-eastern soviet village, Jin Tae-Jin encountered a martial arts master by the name of Lev Orloff. Together they perfected the counter and created Renewal Taekwondo.

## Known Skills

* **Air Pressure**

* **Arang**
	+ **Recoilless Arang**

* **Axe**

* **Baekdu**
	+ **Recoilless Baekdu**

* **Baek Rok**
	+ **Recoilless Baengnok**

* **Bo-Bup**

* **Cheonji (Kor: 천지)**

* **Dongbaek**

* **Fangs**
	+ **Recoilless Fang**

* **Fist Strike**
	+ **Recoilless Fist Strike**

* **Front Kick**

* **Gor Yo**
	+ **Recoilless Goryeo**
* **Guard Breaker**

* **Ground Drawer**
	+ **Recoilless Ground Drawer**

* **Geumgang**

* **Halla**
	+ **Recoilless Halla**

* **Hoe Grab**
	+ **Recoilless Hoe Grab**
	+ **Dragon Catcher**

* **Hwarang (Kor: 화랑)**

* **Hwechook**
	+ **3rd Stance Hwechook**
		- **Recoilless Three Stage Hoechook**
	+ **Dragon Sign Hwechook**
		- **Recoilless Jin Hoechook**
	+ **Lowest Round Kick**
	+ **Front Hwechook**

* **Jin Mo-Ri Original: Blue Dragon's Kick**
	+ **Hui Mo-Ri Original: Kicking Imoogi**
	+ **Jin Mo-Ri Original: Twin-Dragon Kick**

* **Jin Mo-Ri Original: Ice Kick**

* **Jin Tae-Jin Personal Skill: Sonic Punch and Kick**

* **Jinsu**

* **Mach Punch**

* **Hui Mo-Ri Original: Complete Gift Package**

* **Nigawa Kick**

* **Recoilless Kick**

* **Reverse Sweeping Kick**

* **Rising Back Kick**
	+ **Recoilless Rising Back Kick**

* **Roundhouse Kick**
	+ **Recoilless Spin**

* **Scissors**
	+ **Recoilless Scissor Kick**

* **Screw Punch**

* **Silla**

* **Soksa**
	+ **Recoiless Suseonhwa**

* **Spinning Top Kick**
* True Round Kick

* **Taebaek**
	+ **Recoilless Taegeuk**
* **Basic Stance**
* **Slice**
* **Karate Chop**
* **Recoilless Samra**
* **Jin Mo-Ri Original Ver. Ruyi Jingu: Railgun**

## Renewal Recoilless Concept

The Renewal Recoilless is a concept or principle which was developed by Jin Tae-Jin alongside his partner Lev Orloff. It could be obtained once the user has mastered all of the basic Renewal techniques and is able to execute any move perfectly by focusing all their energy into a single point without wasting any movement. Every single Renewal technique could get a Recoilless upgrade. This would amplify the kick's power to the point that it could bend space and is strong enough to damage the Yongpyo, an armor stronger than Barbadium, thus becoming the strongest Martial Art in the world Mastering the Renewal Recoilless concept would allow the user to attack without getting into position and to use Renewal Taekwondo with only one arm to balance. Renewal skills that received or were hinted to get a Recoilless upgrade so far are:

* **Recoilless Kick**
* **Recoilless Scissor Kick**
* **Recoilless Baekdu**
* **Recoilless Baek Rok**
* **Recoilless Roundhouse Kick**
* **Recoilless Goryeo**
* **Recoilless Ground Drawer**
* **Recoiless Suseonhwa**
* **Recoilless Taegeuk**
* **Recoilless Samra**
* **Recoilless Halla**
* **Recoilless Fist Strike**
* **Recoilless Rising Back Kick**
* **Recoilless Arang**
* **Recoilless Hoe Grab**
* **Recoilless Fang**
* **Recoilless Dragon Sign Hwechook**
* **Recoilless 3rd Stance Hwechook**

## Users

* Jin Tae-Jin (creator)
* Lev Orloff (creator)
* Alexandre Durand (current master)
* Jin Mo-Ri
* Hui Mo-Ri
* Park Il-Tae

## Relationships

**Ssam-Su Taekkyeon**: During mission codename 'Gilgamesh', Jin Tae-Jin meets with Park Il-Tae in RE Taekwondo Force. Park Il-Tae uses skills and ideas from RE Taekwondo to strengthen the weaknesses of Old-Way Taekkyeon. Thus, a lot of skills in Ssam-su Taekkyeon resemble skills in RE Taekwondo.

**Northern ITF Taekwondo**: RE Taekwondo was developed as a counter to ITF Taekwondo. Renewal Taekwondo was created by Jin Tae-Jin is seen enraged when Mo-Ri mentions on the phone to have seen a guy (Gang Man-Suk) who uses Northern ITF.

**Full Contact Karate**: One of the seniors of Han Dae-Wi was shown telling Dae-Wi to kill whoever uses RE Taekwondo. However, Han Dae-Wi does not obey and regards him as 'senile old man ordering to kill people in the 21st century'.

## Characteristics

Like real-life Taekwondo, RE Taekwondo owns a wide variety of kicks aimed at the upper parts of the body using the rotation of the body as a source of power. However, the users of this martial art often utilize a full arsenal of punches not seen in real life Taekwondo along with the softness/hardness concept of Chinese martial arts and the "bobbing and weaving" of boxing (whether or not this is just Jin Mo-Ri is not shown). RE Taekwondo also has many takedowns that often start with the "hook" kick snaring the victim with the back of the leg in the limbs or the head making them lose balance.

The 3 weaknesses of Re-Taekwondo were noted by Park Il-Pyo: it is very limited at close quarters combat, has limited attack points, and puts a burden on the human body; the last weakness was noted by Dan Mo-Ri noted that using Renewal Taekwondo without proper training, such as by copying it, will give even greater stress to the body than those who train in the art. The application of other martial arts can help make up for the weakness of the first two weakness, but Jin Mo-Ri noted that the third weakness can only be diminished by training.