I sent my young kids TKD so they could burn energy and learn discipline. I didnt realise they would spar a lot, and thats been great for the realistic element so I took up it up now too, and the stretching and cardio has been really beneficial for me as Im a regular gym goer and its boosted my physique
I understand your meaning when you say our goals should never to use our skills in real life.but that dosnt give a teacher the right to teach techniques that don’t work.
I know this is an old video but I wanted to know your opinion on starting an art with my son. The chooses I have are limited to BJJ, Muay Thai, and Taekwondo. My son is young under 8-11 and I would like to join never don any of them either.
Many Tae Kwon Do students joined my Hung Gar (tiger/crane) kung fu school, to improve their hands. I assume that others took up boxing. They offered to show their kicking, but old school Hung Gar students, preferred low kicks. The school's head instructor (professor Ho), was formerly a 2nd dan under Kanazawa.
chamber up, then go into your side motion. don't go straight to a side motion chamber. it telegraphs what you're going to do, and also hurts your leggies because they know your jumping in while skipping a crucial step.
This looks rehearsed, the moves just don’t seem like something that would happen in a real fight, & I question these guys ability to defend themselves in a real life situation. 😂
Traditional military (non-competition) style TKD is outstanding but quite hard to find these days. Bouncy, flicky competition style is purely for scoring points, does not compare with traditional military style.
Hmmm.. What I learned from Hap Ki Do was primarily about wrist manipulation. From there, arm locks and takedowns were accomplished. It served me well working as a door man in a few establishments by escorting troublemakers out on their tip toes. I'm also trained in Boxing, Muay Thai, and BJJ and have used it coupled with BJJ to aid in escaping holds, along with getting holds.
can the arm movements be done with very powerful muscle contractions, sort of a dynamic tension strength building exercise? (while still focusing on the breathing)
I have to agree, a lot of Jujitsu/mma guys have a chip on their shoulder; especially considering jujitsu has a pretty high drop out rate...usually due to injuries. Why train and suffer an injury, in order to prevent being injured in a fight? If you Really paranoid about defending yourself, get a gun.
For me as I practitioner of goju Kai karate the problem that I have with teakwando is what I have seen in there sparing as shown in the Olympics, the fact that they apparently don't teach there students to keep up there hands when fighting, I find that's not smart at all for fighting.
I am a Hapkido teacher and practitioner. Do you feel as though every Hapkido technique must have all three principles in the technique, or can a technique simply have one of the principles?
As a Taekwondo practitioner, I hate how the martial art has evolved into a sport. My instructor did allow us to enter into tournaments but I never went to any due to my deep annoyance of point sparring. Martial arts were designed as a self defence mechanism. Something to save your life when you or anyone around you feels like they're in danger. This, modern adaptation of olympic martial arts, is like comparing a sheet of paper to the tree that it came from.
learning to kick very high may look flashy and impractical, but that is not why practitioners do it. It is well known that the higher a kick goes the more effort it takes. This could result in a weak strike. Being able to kick higher than the average person's head means you can drop that kick to head height and deliver it with much more force.
My master was Doug Davis, who was a student of Master Kee after the Korean war. I studied in the late seventies and early eighties. At that time things were pretty basic, there were only four belt ranks, white, yellow, green, brown, and black. You could spend an entire year as a white belt, but, once you perfected the forms, you started teaching newcomers those forms while you learned the next level forms. In other words, you earned your rank. PT was heavy, as well as conditioning, I remember running outside in the winter barefoot, and circling on the front lawn at the reserve center to spar. I remember Master Davis yelling, "keep moving! keep moving! If you can’t breathe, you can’t fight!" At tournaments our opponents would be winded, we would not. We were taught that Tang Soo Do was for combat, not a sport. In its essence, that is what Tang Soo Do is, a selfdefense art. That’s the difference between Tang Soo Do, and Taekwando. BTW.... Tang Soo Do seems to be popular in Mexico, I've seen schools in almost every decent sized town.
Karate is pronounced as Gong Fu in Chinese, and in Korean is Dang Su. They all have common origin from ancient China. Korean version of Gong fu was taught at Korean palace for imperial/royal members.
