Over the last couple of weeks I had some enquiries about martial arts clothing, and although I haven’t produced any designs of my own outside of the Chinese martial arts, I thought I’d try and rustle up some examples for you to take a look at. This time I’ll cover taekwondo t-shirt designs. Why taekwondo t-shirts, you might ask. Don’t taekwondo practitioners wear a gi, like Japanese martial stylists? Yes, indeed they do, but only when they are training in the dojang (training hall). All martial arts foster a culture of comradeship between all the members who train together. It is very natural that taekwondo students will be very proud of their art – like followers of other styles such as karate or kung fu. And since they are not going to walk the streets wearing their gi, an ideal way of demonstrating their belonging to a particular taekwondo club is to wear a club t-shirt. You can get your hands on some nice Taekwondo T-Shirts from places like Amazon.
Of course, wearing a taekwondo t-shirt with your club name is also a great way to publicise your style – and your club – and perhaps to entice new members to join. Most martial arts club t-shirts have the name of the club and perhaps the style name written in oriental calligraphy. If you are part of a large club, perhaps at a university, it is common to have organized social occasions, or competitions and gradings etc. If you are not training or grading, but want to go along and watch, it is more comfortable to wear civvies and a taekwondo t-shirt, rather than getting the gi on. So there are loads of reasons to have westernized clothing that still identify your art, probably another load that I haven’t mentioned! Some taekwondo t-shirt designs might be for girlfriends or boyfriends, or the baby or whoever, saying “My better half is a TKD Ace”, “My TKD daddy will kick your ace”, etc!
Taekwondo T-Shirt Designs On Zazzle
Zazzle is a really good site, where people with a passion for something, and a few design skills can come up with all sorts of products, from t-shirts and hoodies, to coffee mugs and mousepads. There are loads of TKD t-shirts designs on there.
A few tips if you’ve never used Zazzle – if you find yourself on a page with a great design on a lady’s t-shirt, and you are looking for a boy’s, this can be found by clicking on “Men” in the section called “Choose your style and color” – of course, you can also choose your style of t-shirt and color there! You can also click on “Customize” and modify the design to suit yourself. You cannot alter any pictorial design features, but can add, delete or edit any text – you might like the taekwondo Korean design above, for example, but also want to add the name of your club. Best to play around with it and then buy one exactly as YOU want it.
The other thing to consider is that Zazzle is open in several countries (USA, Canada, UK, Germany, Australia, New Zealand) so if you wind up on a page that has a dot com domain name and prices in US dollars, just change the .com for a co.uk or whatever is right for your country, and you will get to the same product, priced for you in your local currency – it is really easy!
So that’s it for those who asked – a way of getting your hands on some taekwondo t-shirt designs. In future I’ll probably rummage around and post up something similar for other martial arts, and maybe group them together by country (eg Chinese for all kung fu designs, Japanese for karate, judo, aikido etc).
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