Everyone says that taekwondo sucks do to its lack of close range ablities and how it is more of a busniess now. Well i dont take WTF (world taekwondo Federation) style for that very reason. The other less known type is ITF. Its so much more street savy. Not only do we have more advanced kicks that WTF but we use a ton of closed and open hand techniques too. Another thing is that the reason many in WTF lack skills is that you can get a black belt at most schools within a year or two. Thats dumb, the belt means nothing…it doesnt make you better. A black belt is someone who can control and handle themselves at a very high level. Within two years at most ITF schools you would’ve been lucky to get up to a high green belt. If you dont agree tell me why?? Every martial art has good and bad points.
i do itf taekwondo and we are tought the basics upward block ect
but how would you defend yourself from a flurry of punches because when i was in sparring no one could block my punches as it was coming at speed
i use to do boxing so i had a slight advantage
do i just have to keep practsiong my blocking
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.
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.
