Why does this matter, if “continuous sparrers” can use bagwork, drills, etc. AS WELL? I mean, if both types of sparring offer equal levels of condition, why wouldn’t you spar in the way that ALSO teaches you to fight better? You seem to realize that conditioning is just one benefit of sparring, so what does it matter so much? I respect the fact that your school doesn’t just “play tag”, but you are likely not going to convince anyone here that point sparring is as good as continuous sparring.
As the saying goes: Train for what you want to do.
EDIT: Ivan Salavery threw a TKD style axe kick at Nate Marquardt just last week.
Prediction: TKD players will make awesome, awesome MMAists if they work on grappling skills. Imagine an entire range of fighters who can pull acrobatic standing or flying subs. I dream of the day when a spinning hook kick to roundhouse kick transitions into a sweep and sub. It’s like having a Genki Sudo in every major MMA event!
Sure more people might start using tkd-ish roundhouses, front kicks, and side kicks, but I don’t think crescent kicks, hooks kicks, etc. will ever be that common.
Dunno there, the hook kick is a nice one to have in the arsenal.
But, again in a contact arena… well they’re pretty much a ‘heads only’ type kick, so not a regular choice. There’s a reason you see a lot of punches hehe.
yes, but he was throwing tkd style kicks. i don’t know much about capoeria, so those could be capoeria style kicks also.
i really don’t see too many tkd guys becoming major mma fighters. the ability to do a ridiculous 540 roundhouse kick, probably wont help too much in mma fighting.
even if tkd olympic gold medalist steven lopez trained in bjj, he will never have the submission ability of genki sudo.
i don’t think people who train in mma could use some tkd kicks in the ring/cage.
Just all you wait till my DVD comes out, “TAEKWONDO TECHNIQUES FOR THE RING.” I have been trying different stuff with some of my Muay Thai training partners, some of my ideas are working some aren’t but I hope to by next year have it down. Oh yeah Big disclaimer "Actual Kickboxing training is a must to be used successfully.
Capoeira has big swinging kicks. Characteristically, the upper body/torso is dropped as a counter-weight, giving the kick even more power. Although few would even call Capoeira a martial art, it is even more restrictive on hand use that TKD would seem to be. In fact, there is no hand striking in Capoeira, due to slavery laws in the Carribeans, I believe. Capoeira may have its roots in Martial Arts, but its more like a form of dance now… similar to WuShu. Which isn’t to say there aren’t extremely useful parts.
It’s funny, when I did TKD (although I was younger), we hardly even used swing kicks. Mostly spinning back kicks and sidekicks, with the occasional front sole kick and axe.
But anyway, to credit all or any kicks exclusively to TKD is just silly.
I’m not sure if this is accurate or if people tell me these stories to brag, but I’ve been told by many people that TKD is trained much different than in the 60’s and 70’s. I was told that at one time punches to the head was allowed in TKD, but inorder to make it an accepted sport many of their teachers started a new form of sparring which did not allow for punches to the head. IAny ways the people tell me that if people were to look at tkd during that time they wouldn’t thin it was tkd. Thus I think it would be false to say that if TKD had things added to it than it isn’t tkd, because tkd has had things added to it and it is still getting changed by different people. The truth is in my opinion TKD will always be tkd, just because you change a few thing here and there or add thing here and there doesn’t make it a different art it just shows that tkd is still relatively young and will continue to change, which there have been many discussions of incorporating taekkyon into tkd. From what I’ve read i think TKD should add taekkyon and a martial art called pakchiki(game/martial art that utilizes headbutts, only taught in Korea in rural areas for the most part) that . I don’t know from what I’ve read I think thiese martial arts can help taekwondo become a more affective art. I also think they could add ssrim(sorry bout spelling) into tkd and the art still can be called tkd