TKD is ineffective" “You can’t use TKD in a real fight” “TKD would lose to muay thai or grapplers” --------------> BS!!
ALL ANTI-TKD AND TKD BASHERS ARE IGNORANT. PEOPLE WHO SAY TKD IS WORSE THAN OTHER STYLES AND THAT MT IS SO MUCH BETTER ARE IGNORANT. TKD BASHERS HAVE NEVER TAKEN TKD FOR MORE THAN A COULE YEARS, DIDN’T WORK HARD, OR GOT THEIR ASS KICKED AND ARE SORE ABOUT IT. STOP THE DAMN WHINING.
Tae Kwon Do- an unarmed Korean MARTIAL ART to train the mind and body; means “The way of the HANDS AND FEET”
Notice how I emphasized certain things with bold letters… Yeah.
I’ll discuss things in order to put TKD bashing to a rest because it just isn’t right. I have plenty of respect for other martial arts and I would lvoe to cross train. I believe all MA’s have strong points and weaknesses but they are all Martial arts nonetheless.
People complain about hand techniques in TKD. Well, TKD can be and is a very effective hand fighting art if done right. TKD has just as many hand strikes, punches, and effective blocks as Karate. A good dojang and sabumnim will require practicing of these hand techniques often. The practicing of these hand techniques will internalize them and can be used in combat. And what about forms (poomsae)? They weren’t created for nothing. Poomsae helps to apply hand techn. for real situations.
People constantly whine and moan about WTF. The problem does not lie in WTF. The problem lies with the many McDojangs, ESPECIALLY in the United States. A good dojang and instructor will ask practicioners to practice full contact free sparring.
People whine about McDojangs. Trust me. I hate them as much as the next guy. But whining doesn’t fix anything and a good school can be found with little difficulty, as McDojangs are easy to pick out (it’s pretty obvious). Just a find a good school and quit whinig already.
People have a problem with Olympic TKD. I GUARANTEE you that those guys are COMPLETELY adept at punchign tenchiques as well. To suggest olympic tkd practicioners cannot find success in “real life” is big BULL because - and trust me - they know about the hand techniques. It’s there. Olympic TKD teaches swift, light footed-ness with powerful kicks. The kicks used by the guys in the Olympics are powerful and enough to keep anyone at bay. To fight EXACTLY in real life as they do in the Olympics would be MOST UNWISE. But there is no problem in Olympic KICKS. Walk up to Steven Lopez (USA) or Moon Dae Sung (ROK) and tell them TKD sucks. See what they have to say. Most people have the common sense to mix kicks in with hand tech. in real applications.
“Oh BUT TKD has too many high kicks” or so peopel claim. Even in Olympic TKD - if you’ve ever taken the time to watch a competition - high kicks are rarely used. High kicks are only used when the opponent becomes vulnerable and there is a high chance of success. The claim that TKD practicioners only use unbalanced high kicks is a ridiculous claim. I DO NOT PRACTICE Olympic TKD and I DO FEEL that it should be more MARTIAL… but the essence of olympic tkd and its powerful, fast, effective kicks with light footed stance is dangerous. On the streets, even olympic proponents would whip out their hand tech. High kicks are the minority. Watch a tkd comp. most kicks are chest or stomach level.
This thread, is so awesomley pointless that just to make sure its pointlesness does not waste Phorsts bandwith we should all print it off and use it as toilet paper.
Dude, I study TKD and have taken some time to spar olympic style…
…And what about forms (poomsae)? They weren’t created for nothing. Poomsae helps to apply hand techn. for real situations.
No, poosmsae help refine body mechanics, much like how a baseball pitchers practices his throws alone to work on technique. They do not help you apply them for real situations directly.
People constantly whine and moan about WTF. The problem does not lie in WTF. The problem lies with the many McDojangs, ESPECIALLY in the United States. A good dojang and instructor will ask practicioners to practice full contact free sparring.
Most WTF schools who compete practice full contact free sparring and many TKDists still suck. The problem isn’t the full contact sparring.
People have a problem with Olympic TKD. I GUARANTEE you that those guys are COMPLETELY adept at punchign tenchiques as well. To suggest olympic tkd practicioners cannot find success in “real life” is big BULL because - and trust me - they know about the hand techniques.
Bullshit. I out punch WTF and olympic rule sparring people and I’m ATA TKD. At least we keep our hands up.
The kicks used by the guys in the Olympics are powerful and enough to keep anyone at bay.
Again, bullshit. If they were, then I wouldn’t have been able to find out that I punch better.
And because you walk on a board, spout some shit, act like an ass, we should respect and believe you?
Dumbass.
There are actually multiple TKD stylist sitting on this board from a variety of TKD schools. I personally have a green in ITF, but I know there are some blacks hanging out around here. The use of TKD and what it is good for/not good for has been beaten to death. As has the concept of individual>method>style.
If you hade used the search function or read the FAQ, you would know this.
As you are obviously semi-literate, that means you chose to ignore these, making you a dumbass, dumbass.
no one has said a damn thing about TKD sucking on this thread dumbass. We’re saying quit being a douche and use the search function before making a thread. This exact fucking thread has been made by 1908509280592 other people since the inception of this site.
Maybe if people like you don’t act like asses i wouldn’t act like an ass.
Fucking noob. I’m new here so I wasn’t aware of a search function you shitface. And i viewed other TKD related topics here at this website. They didnt have what i was looking for. I wanted to have some new opinions… shitface…