Nice to look at. But has nothing to do with a real fight. Doesn‘t work as self defense. Wrong timing, wrong distance. I lost much time, training this nonsense.
It's that stupid TKD again. Surely a black belt grading sparring session should be padded up with a level of realistic contact? When I was in the TAGB in the late 90s... it was nothing like this. They're just throwing g their legs around... no hand techniques and shouting out ridiculous ki ups...
Excellent example of true Tae Kwon Do technique and free sparring, compared to the watered down sport version you see today. I especially like the 4 on 1 sparring, using hand and blocking techniques used in the various hyungs that were taught. Tae Kwon Do utilizes many kicking techniques, but you have two hands and arms for a reason also!!
The unconfortable truth is : Myay thai is much more effective than taekwondo in sparring. What's the point of all the forms and one step sparring when the style doesn't offer any tools to really fight ?
Very acrobatic and dramatic. All martial arts strive to the same end from different approaches. This is very good for loosening joints and keeping things flowing. Great fir ladies given their him anatomy. Great for the begginers and children who cannot really concentrate on dynamic and in depth detailed training.
1. The Patterns are Tuls from the Chan Hon System - Not poomsae. (Which does not mean they are performed to a correct standard.) 2. There is no 10th Dan in the Chang Hon system.
OK for all the haters out there. I'm very sorry to say this but absolutely nothing that that they did in this video would ever work on the were in any self defense way. It's truly a shame. I actually know people who went Overseas to study taekwondo And it looks nothing like this.
First off tk-d Is a sport The other Korean martial arts such as Hondo Mu du quan.... Please excuse me if I don't have the correct spelling. Those arts are or for self defenso. I don't understand your answer. There are separate Parts of taikwondo again it is a sport.
And to answer your question Fighting Is for fools If someone tries to attack me on the street I will defend myself and I will defend myself very well. I've had enough training. Maybe you should get some training and learn that taekwondo is a sport.
Bizarre. When I was with the UKTA in the UK during the mid to late 80s, the grading sparring was performed with pads, gum shield etc... and a bit of contact was expected. This looks very weird, yet it does look like an ITF style TKD. No Ho Sin Sul either, so anyone fighting these guys with low kicks or take downs will basically wipe the floor with them.
Kwon character is funny. However his students are not bad. For that I bow to you. To me I am at a stage of my life that I have no fear of anything or anyone. That my friends is from martial art. Not to many can achieved that. Actually, he’s very similar to my master.
@serioja03 I did traditional ITF for 15 years. This isn't it. UKTA then TAGB in the UK. The sparring looks like some delusional imagination of what would work in a fight or self defence situation. We all know that high kicks are a TKD 'thing', but training in other styles back in the 80s and 90s illuminated the short comings for me. Sparring without protective equipment is an absolute idiots dream... there's no such thing as 'non contact'.... semi contact in itself was nonsense, and i saw far more silly injuries at TKD tournaments than i ever did at kick boxing or Muay Thai. The pattern execution looks rushed too.
Unfortuneately once a school leavels the Original ITF TKD they soon create their own system of TKD and pass it onto their students and it just ripples down the yrs and NEW Students wouldn't know any better.
