for those who think tkd is no match for mt...

**AAAhmed46** · Posted On: 1/05/2006 11:50pm

It IS how you train.

But i personally think the muay thai roundhouse is better, it just...does more damage. Especially if you like to kick low.

In my school, we kick using the shin and we dont do any flicky motions, we follow through.

The style is still Uechi-ryu, but we kick very Thai.

So why not do the same with TKD?

Cant thier be a seperate association or TKD group that uses low kicks?

THAT is what i mean how you train.

Why the hell should a karate/tkd guy's fighting style look like all the other guys? Why isnt it more like boxing with karate and tae kwon do?

When you see two boxers fight, they fight differently, thier own personal styles.

I know EVERYONE has thier own personal styles, but i see it more so in MMA and boxing.

So why cant karate guys have such big differences in how they fight? Why do they all have to be UNEVOLVED fuckers? They just DO NOT CHANGE, they refuse to keep with the times.

WHY?

THIS is why Muay thai kills karate/Tae kwon do, because they keep up with the modern world.

You all probably know this already, better then me, but i just had to get that out.

**P-Dub** · Posted On: 1/06/2006 12:13am

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***DerAuslander*** · Posted On: 1/06/2006 12:23am

Originally Posted by AAAhmed46

So why not do the same with TKD?

Cant thier be a seperate association or TKD group that uses low kicks?

There are a couple. Check out Hee Il Cho's schools.

**AAAhmed46** · Posted On: 1/10/2006 3:07pm

DerAuslander108: Thanks! I just learned something new!

***DerAuslander*** · Posted On: 1/10/2006 4:04pm

No problem. Grandmaster Cho and Master Ameris keep it both traditional and real.

**AAAhmed46** · Posted On: 1/10/2006 4:15pm

And thats how it sould be!

Props to them!

**Gezere** · Posted On: 1/10/2006 7:08pm

Originally Posted by DerAuslander108

No problem. Grandmaster Cho and Master Ameris keep it both traditional and real.

Shotokan? That is "Traditional" TKD after all. :happy9:

***DerAuslander*** · Posted On: 1/10/2006 11:12pm

Originally Posted by LORD ASIA

Shotokan? That is "Traditional" TKD after all. :happy9:

One of the major roots of traditional TKD, perhaps...depending on which kwan. Looking at the broad spectrum of the kwans that would eventually form the majority of TKD, the roots would include Shotokan, Shito-ryu, and to a much lesser extent, Northern Shaolin Long Fist and Taiji.

But no, I would not say "traditional TKD" is Shotokan.

Nor would I say "traditional Japanese Karate" is Okinawan Shorin-ryu.

Nor would I say Okinawan Shorin-ryu is southern Chinese boxing.

Each was the root of one. That doesn't make them the same thing.

Like I said in another post, "What Taekwondo can, Shotokan't".

**eyebeams** · Posted On: 1/11/2006 2:58pm

I find this TKD-KSW equivalency claim to be especially wierd because when I moved back to Toronto, my Hapikido teacher reccmended KSW precisely because it doesn't use TKD-style kicks. In my experience, the universal TKD kicks (the ones you find in all schools) aren't much like kicks in other Korean MA, unless they're taught as a supplement to Taekwondo anyway. The TKD guy I train with does the kicks both ways, and is pretty specific bout the differences when working with students. Then again, I hear tha the ITF kicking style has some significant differences from the WTF chambered style.