Each taekwondo style have their poomse or are the same with differentes names?

Question

Each taekwondo style have their poomse or are the same with differentes names?

Answer 1

WTF (World Tae Kwon Do Federation/Olympic version) Tae Kwon Do has unified poomse requirements based on your gup/dan level.  These are called the "Tae Guk" set of poomse.  Many WTF schools also teach or require the "Palge/Palgwe) set of poomse, but these are no longer recognized by the Kukkiwon.

SPAR was correct when he said the ITF (International Tae Kwon Do Federation) forms are different.

Another major player is the ATA (American Tae Kwon Do Assocation), and they too have a different set of forms (Song Ams).

Check this site for a great matrix with video links of all the styles.  The ATA forms are listed, but copyrighted so no video links on those.

http://www.natkd.com/tkd_forms.htm

James

Answer 2

No, they are NOT all the same. In fact, some styles that claim to be Tae Kwon Do are nothing of the sort; the similiarity stops with the name.

WTF and WTF-affiliated TKD styles perform poomsae, ITF and ITF-affiliated styles perform Tuls. They are vastly different in both form and function. Other offshoot styles call their forms variably poomsae, Tul, Teul, etc. There are some that have similarity to traditional tul od poomsae, but have been modified, seemingly at the whim, of the "founders" of these styles. Many of the nine "original" kwans (schools) of Tae Kwon Do (which, ironically, existed before Tae Kwon Do was the "official" name of the style) still exist today, and their forms vary not only from each other, but from ITF and WTF styles.