I went along to a GKR class in Brisbane. I was met by a short fat bald fifty something instructor wearing a black and white striped belt. The class structure and techniques taught were extremely retarded (much like most of the students involved). I was later told by the instructor that he was not allowed to spar his students as he may harm them. Really? I think I may have witnessed the worst case of watered down martial arts training I have ever seen. The one they call Kancho and all bow down to, also looks like a retarded kiddy fiddler.
Hapkido is AWESOME. It is a complete martial art. It also makes you much more attractive to woman. Make sure you find a good school though, and not some squeezer who’s only technique is performing a jumping foward roll over a pissy little camp fire. Oh yeah, try to avoid “Crapkido” usually found in the last five minutes of a class in most Taekwondo schools. Did I mention chicks dig Hapkidoist?
My Troy Mong Do skills could easily overcome the ferocious, lethal death touch, bent leg kicking, after grading birthday cake eating, belt factory promoting, techniques of the mysteriously effective CHOI KWANG DO!
MMA guys can wear their uniform (Board shorts and Rash t-shirt) to the beach and not get laughed at. I wear my Dobok and belt to work and my boss looks at me like I’m a dickhead. I don’t get it.
Because rolling around on concrete and broken glass while getting kicked in the head by bystanders while trying to perform a gogoplata retard control, triangular arm bar naked heel choke on the ground of a carpark at night, is not my idea of fun. It’s much safer to stay on your feet and wreck dudes with striking and grappling defence skills. Unless of course, you like the idea of a bunch of hairy oil sheiks getting turned on and touching themselves by watching you sweaty man hug on 5000 square metres of nice comfortable futon-like mats.
Hapkido helps how? Depends on your training. Grappling skills are important for sure! But would you try to set up a fancy submission when faced with a serious situation? probably not.
The time it takes to set up a submission is what I’m taking about. Judo may be a little different than BJJ in a self defence situation I guess. Judo guys seem to throw then crank/ break whatever is there to take (Hapkido has similar grappling principals), rather than going through the long process of setting up a submission, hence making it more fight effective when things turn crap. (multiple opponents).
Good example. Point taken Juggernoob. I still think going to the ground is a bad idea if you don’t need to, or if you do end up on the ground, you should employ “dirty grappling” to help get back onto your feet. Please understand I am purely referring to non sport fighting where striking and good knowledge and training in all ranges of combat is critical. Oh yeah Jspeedy if you are there and not squeezing youself right now, I’ve just looked at all my previous posts and can’t seem to find where I claim to know everthing about BJJ?
Another good point Juggernoob. Yeah, I’m 100% sure I would get twisted up like a pretzel if going one on one with a good Judo or BJJ fighter.
No we’re not talking style vs style (although the topic is the relevance of striking vs grappling). I don’t think it’s safe to assume who would, or would not attack you in the street.
Yes, I agree many fights end up on the ground (or someone ends up on the ground) but I’m sure that almost all fights start standing up.
Awesome.
If your opponent’s friends decided to jump in, wouldn’y you have more of a chance on your feet where you can keep moving? I suppose choking or breaking something quicky would also work quite well if you could pull it off.
I like to do naughty things to kangaroos.
The sad thing is, there is often huge difference between Hapkido styles and clubs. Avoid the TKD “add on” type Hapkido styles. Find a club that trains pure combative Hapkido, and you will find what you are after.
Let’s see how fucking clueless you really are. I will give you 3 guesses why I moved your post.
When you say ‘naughty’ are we talking sexual or violent or both?
Incidentally this question is far more interesting than if you do TKD or Hapkido.
Because you let Kangaroos do naughtier things to you…and you touch yourself at night.
Move.
[QUOTE=troyb78;2612814]Because you let Kangaroos do naughtier things to you…and you touch yourself at night.[/QUOTE]No, next guess.
No need thanks. I’m pretty sure I guessed correctly.