Okay so I want a martial art that can make me strong, make me over all flexible, and make me jump higher. I was thinking tkd since it incorporates a lot of kicking? Some martial arts that have a place of learning close to me are karate, tae kwon do, jeet kune do, kung fu, silat, wing chun, tai chi, and muy thai. Its a lot to choose from so i need help. Thank you!
I want to teach Tae Kwon Do to my daughter and possibly some other kids in my family.. I haven’t had any of my old certifications in well over a decade (maybe a decade and a half, don’t want to date myself… lol.) and shortly (within months) after I left the school I practiced and taught juniors in, our main instructors retired from teaching, the school closed. I don’t trust the remaining local schools with my own child’s instruction as the instruction that I recieved was incredible and not remotely focused on profits. It was incredible enough that I still retain everything but my flexibility. lol..
Like I said, I don’t have any of my old certifications and doubt they would still be available. I was active in TKD for over 8 years, as well as a year and a half of Isshin-Ryu during that time, and took Tai Chi instruction. I feel more than confident that I could still provide quality instruction to my daughter and others in our family, but it doesn’t appear that I have a way of certifying our achievements so that she could use it to go further if she chose to. Does anybody have any suggestions?
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I am a low yellow belt. And I should be testing next month for my High yellow belt. I do have a notebook just for my taekwondo stuff.
I also have a tournament next month. What can I do now to be able to be ready for my next belt test and tournament? I do want to try for the US TAEKWONDO team. But I have to be a black belt for that. What can I do to prepare for the US taekwondo team?
taekwondo is the only fighting system proven in modern war times. I always hear from military instructor to train like korean marines in Vietnam and Korea War. Undefeated by arms and hand to hand. Look up operation van buren. They document that firsthand US & UN soldiers found VC with unhinge jaws,crushed skulls,caved chests from encounter with 13 korean marines vs. battalion.David ‘Crow’ Losieu learned and used tkd, Fedor imcorporated into his training to improve his kicking.The place where i used to go taught tkd/hapkido/judo and they mix well together kinda looks like a ufc fight with heavy striking and grapling/ground game when we spar.But we also learn knife and gun disarming techniques.I know there are a lot of schools that might as well be a belt factory but not all are that way.Now i do muay thai (1 week)and the response i got from my first sparing experience was crazy beacause at tournaments most tkd places suck.
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I had done a little bit of tae kwon do when I was little. I liked the basics they taught, but I only advanced to a yellow belt because my family had to move; for this reason, I cant judge the effectiveness of the system. Many say that it is flashy and mainly for competition. Some say that high kicks and spin kicks are not useful in real fights. But I believe that high kicks and the speed of it must have some value.
Then I tried ninjutsu in my college last year. It’s part of Hayes’ system. While everything is useful and devastating, I felt that it was too defensive and hard to master.
Then I checked out Okinawan karate. It seems pretty cool, but I do not know if it’s effective or not.
The question is: which one should I do? Is it possible to do 2 at the same time? (karate and ninjutsu?)
P.S. I’m not very flexible, therefore ninjutsu is the easiest for me. But if my flexibility can improve as I practice, I do not mind doing tkd or karate.
I know Bujinkan is the traditional ninjutsu, but I like my current one because there is less weapons and realistic applications.
