Martial Arts

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Just curious, but I have taken Taekwondo for over 5 years, and have yet to see any benefit to point sparring or one step sparring. But I will concede that perhaps I have been aloof to life as a whole during those 5 years. That in those 5 years of experience at WTF, ITF and yes even ATA schools, somehow I missed the point.

SO I turn to you, ohhh knowledgeable yahoo answers martial arts section. CORRECT my horrid logic of a fantastically brutal self defense art. Show me the error of my ways so as to be able to see how holding your hands down by your waste is effective. Or that kicking men off horse back is still a common occurrence.

For me, even with the bullshit politics of Taekwondo aside, I fail to see how it is ANYTHING but a sport. And as an amazing sport (which it is! and fun to watch on TV) should be regarded as anything but that. ITF makes a futal attempt at saying that because they use less pads for sparring, and allow head contact, that it somehow saves them?
I think if anything, it should be advertised as a fitness supplement, such as aerobics. BUT NOT A SELF DEFENSE ART.

So my question to you is where have I gone wrong? and can you provide some evidence to the contrary. Some video or something to show that TKD is “teh L337 D43th SkiLL!”
Watch this Testing video… this is the MAIN STREAM for TKD. Sorry if you dissagree… but there are thousands of schools that prove OTHERWISE!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcJjLlREsLA

lol Coop… did I hurt a feeling? Your other posts made no sense. All you did was bash me, not my info, but thats fine. Thats what happens to most people when they don’t know how to answer a question.

http://www.bullshido.net/forums/showthread.php?t=47973

and that video was to show how the school is run… If you couldn’t figure that out, you belong someone else Coop boy.
LOL I’m sorry…… Ohhh god….

Saint G… finally… thank god someone gets it. I wasted sooo much time with that sport instead of a real martial art. Kinda makes me sad sometimes but then again I am only 24 and have many years left to train. I find it hard to believe that there are people out there that actually see TKD as anything but a hobby.

What do you think of Kung Fu as a martial art. Note… hundreds of kung fu styles… more specifically… Northern Shaolin… and the style the monks used to train in as their basics. If you have no direct experience? what do you think? if you have had contact? what do you think? if you study other martial arts and trained or havnt trained in KF … what do you think of it?

what do you know about yoga and meditation does these things help if yes then in what sence?

If u had experience in tai chi, did u ever use tai chi and only tai chi to fight someone effectively? If not do you think it would be effective?
for the people thinking tai chi is only an excersise, do some more research because the excersise is applied into fighting super fast
tai chi all depends on intention of health or fighting

Looking back it was the single greatest accomplishment I’ve ever achieved. I went to all the prenatal yoga class.. had a plan to do all these different things but I was in labor for 15 hours before going to the hospital (still had a smile on my face) and after 7 more hours I had a beautiful baby girl. All I did the entire time in the hospital bed was lay there and hyperventilate and wait for it to be all over.

Anyways.. Not trying to brag or anything.. did your experience go according to plan?
Not looking down on anyone who did have an epidural. It hurts like hell and every experience is different. Anyone who got an epidural could have been in more pain than me.
To those of you who had a C-section – you braved something I was more afraid of than anything. I’ll second that needle thing – no way!