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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.

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Hello. First im going to state that im not out looking for a fight. I m erely want to learn these for self defense and to defend my loved ones if they were ever to be in trouble. which will mostly like be best to learn if you were to get in a fight with someone who has no training in any art of fighting or whatever but may be a good street fighter…thanks guys… i live in a small town and all im limited to is karate,taekwondo,or boxing…which is best? thanks…

Hong Kong has the longest life expectancy of almost all countries in the world? Men at 78.8 and Women at 84.5 in 2005. While children seem to take care of the elderly, and the elderly are active (doing tai chi in public squares), Hong Kong still doesn’t seem to be a very healthy environment with extreme weather, overcrowding, rude pushy people, fatty foods……so what gives?

martial arts,but in real life which one would dominate:Hun gar kung fu, Northern shoalin,bagua,or tai chi and don’t give me an answer saying it would rely on the instructor oh yeah or the southern praying mantis style
If you don’t believe me here’s a video of avatar study closely

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G–7jaKa2g

and pay attention to the martial arts styles from 25 seconds and on……….. Avatar is nothing like gay naruto unlike naurato avatar has a real time martial artist shifu kuzu come in and show the people that animate the show how to animate the styles the show is so great that they’re making a live action movie out of it
sorry it’s shifu kisu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ4NIJrzfds