Totally Tae Kwon Do Magazine

During September & October 2011, we ran the second of our Totally TKD Most Rated Books survey.

The survey asked readers of the magazine to rate books according to their value (in terms of information) and differs from Amazon's top 100 lists, which lists the 'Best Sellers' as opposed to the 'Best Books', as cheaper books often sell more than more expensive ones, but in actuality are a false economy.

The survey was split up into sections and the following Top 30 lists represent those sections, which were ITF/Ch'ang Hon based books, WTF/Kukkiwon based books and others (bokks that either didn't fit one category or covered both).

Overall, readers voted on 137 different Tae Kwon Do books (only rating the ones they actually own).
The following charts feature (we think) every Tae Kwon Do book ever released (up until October 2011), from newish books to rare books.

Books endorsed by the ITF, WTF or TAGB featured their own polls, as these are 'pushed' a lot more for certain organisations students and thus result in an uneven poll.

To view the Top 30 books in each section, please click one of the links below:

Top 30 ITF / Ch'ang based books

Top 30 WTF / KKW based books

Top 30 'Other' TKD books (coming soon)
(Books that either do not really fit into either category or books that transend both categories.)

ITF Endorsed books & books of General Choi, Hong Hi

WTF Endorsed books (coming soon)

TAGB Endorsed books

We have also groups some of the books for easy viewing/comparisons - these are not in the form of a 'Top 30' type list:

ITF / Ch'ang Hon Patterns books

WTF / KKW Pattern books

Pattern/Forms/Poomsae Application Books (coming soon)

Other (non-TKD) martial arts books (coming soon)

New or Unlisted Tae Kwon Do books (coming soon)
(books that either came out after the survey or were missed)

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