How do TKD! WTF?

**Hanniballistic** · Posted On: 12/08/2006 10:46am

Originally Posted by MastaChance

it is hard to find good TKD schools, that are going to teach and train you in what is useful, .

Only because they don't exist

**Hanniballistic** · Posted On: 12/08/2006 10:48am

Originally Posted by MastaChance

From my experiance when I was younger,

Dude, you are 20! How much younger could you be before the "Hovis" music starts playing?

Originally Posted by MastaChance

I grew up with traditional TKD though, combined with Muay Thai and Judo, that's what our school was about.

So it wasn't TKD then was it?

Originally Posted by MastaChance

if they just keep there flashy techniques, and apply kickboxing rules basically. It would have a good chance of making into the mainstream of MA.

So in other words if they made it kickboxing right?

There is a reason "flashy" moves have fallen out of favour in mist kickboxing matches - 9/10 they DON'T FUCKING WORK!

**Ronin.74** · Posted On: 12/08/2006 11:06am

The last TKD tournament I fought in I basically did the same thing your attempting to do. I had trained kickboxing so much at that point that I had difficulty switching to a TKD ruleset.

My fight basically went, spinning back to the guys ribs, successfully closing the gap followed by repeated punches to his body, he would step back and I would round kick him, close the gap again and throw punches to the body.

This formula was repeated throughout the round with him slipping in clean kicks to the body on me. At one point I stepped in to throw a back kick anticipating him backing up, instead he tried to throw a wheel kick. Result: I had already closed the distance, since he didn't back up I ended up bulldozing him and knocking him on his ass.

I lost the fight, had it been more of a Kyokushin format I would have won, but it was Olympic TKD so punches don't mean ****, even if your opponent walks away battered and bruised, you still lose.

**maurice** · Posted On: 12/08/2006 11:42am

Also, because of that stupid impenetrable armor, there were people that I were hitting straight into the ribs the way I would hit someone during Kickboxing training that will TKO them with a livershot type of thing, that didn't even feel it.

Quoted for truth.

When I've sparred TKDers in armor under TKD rules, I adjusted my kicking game to include more push-type kicks. I figured, if I'm not allowed to punch effectively and can't drop them with a hard kick, I might as well send them flying. The high center of gravity that makes them vulnerable to takedowns also makes them vulnerable to being push-kicked across the room and sometimes onto their asses, even if they outweigh me by 50+ lbs.

Good for comedy value, if nothing else.

**Dr. Sleepless** · Posted On: 12/08/2006 11:46am

Originally Posted by Camus

I'll skip eloquency on this one:

Why do you choose to do so much gay **** and then bitch about it?

Lol

It's an informative thread. I'm taking one for the team, if you will.

**Dr. Sleepless** · Posted On: 12/08/2006 11:52am

Originally Posted by Hannibal MAP

There is a reason "flashy" moves have fallen out of favour in mist kickboxing matches - 9/10 they DON'T FUCKING WORK!

Not true. They do, in fact, work. In the heat of the moment, you can't plan them out well enough to make them work. They work, some people are very good at using them, most people can't.

Oh Camus, always quick to combine the words "gay", "****" and "bitch" in a single query.

Anyway Sirc, do you usually need to have some sort of registered rank in WTF TKD to compete, or can you just show up and register to fight most of the time? I'd love to try it out, it would give me a pretext to regain my flexibility.

Also, I fractured my friend's ribs once through a hogu with a hook (to be objective, he was standing still at the time, and I got to wind up pretty good) but the ones in the video here look more invincible than the one my friend had on...

You have to have a rank in it. It's easy, go sign up somewhere, pay the $40 for the intro class, take it. Go sign up for a tournament. :)

**Masta** · Posted On: 12/08/2006 12:10pm

I am going to agrre, you can use them, it just takes mad practice.

**Dr. Sleepless** · Posted On: 12/08/2006 2:03pm

How the hell... aren't you banned?

**Hanniballistic** · Posted On: 12/08/2006 2:07pm

Originally Posted by Sirc

Not true. They do, in fact, work. In the heat of the moment, you can't plan them out well enough to make them work. They work, some people are very good at using them, most people can't.

If they don't work in the heat of the moment they don't work. In a fight they are worth approximately piss-all.