...works and why you are doing it. If you are missing that, you're missing a LOT of your training. The traditional forms of TKD, Karate, Gung Fu, etc. were designed to have the student practice as well as study the application. Forms are beautiful if done in the right way. But you need to know what's under the surface, which will benefit your training and make it more worthwhile. Take care and train hard!
Aero, you are too presumptive. No, I'm not a 4th Dan anymore, just got promoted to 5th Dan. I've had over 20 yrs. experience in Martial Arts. "Hidden" application means that there is more to a move than a simple block, it can be used as a strike, throw, or targeting a specific target not normally considered. Application is vital, otherwise how are you going to know how to effectively use what you've been taught if/when you need to? Just performing a move isn't enough, you need to know how it
Good call, Keslerkaiyu, I hadn't quite picked up on that. Though that's hardly surprising, in my years of competing and watching competitions, a lot of competitors favor one leg over the other. You are definitely correct about training each leg equally. I drill my students in sparring once in a while by picking which leg or type of kick they can use during their match. Helps wean them off of using the same leg/kick every time they spar.:)
Precisely! The heart of any martial art: Karate, Gung Fu, Tae Kwon Do, lie in their kata/forms/poomse, tul, hyong, whatever the Chinese designation is.. It's up to the practitioner to study and apply where those techniques are to be used and how effectively to utilize them. Each technique and sequence has what I call "obvious" and "hidden" applications to them. The obvious are learned as a beginner, and the hidden are learned at advanced/black belt/master levels.
Yes, she has flexibility and good balance, but there's no decent fighting application, just showing off kicking combinations with a few splits thrown in for good measure. Very boring, little to no intensity. I would have given this a low score as a judge.
I'm speaking out of your mum's batty crease and yes I've trained in Kickboxing and Muay Thai and they're both WANKTACULAR martial arts. Kickboxing is cack and so is Muay Thai.
I know what I have written and I also know what you wrote. So you think that question mark justifies being a smartass. Fine with me. I won't change my mind about this "kata aerobics". Patterns are waste of time. If someone likes silly stances and making traditional strikes that's fine with me. Patterns have nothing absolutely nothing to do with reality. That's just my opinion and hell yeah I'm speaking out of experience. I passed my ITF TKD black belt test in 1997. Believe it or not.
If you look at what you've written, I didn't claim that you where being a gigantic potato gaining more and more weight. I was asking. See the question mark at the end of the sentence ? As you said, should never underestimate the human stupidity....
When I was younger I used to think just like you guys think. I strongly encourage to open your eyes and try some other martial arts too. Try muay thai, BJJ, krav maga or something. You could be surprised that maybe TKD isn't the best martial art out there.
Goldenjoker, you're speaking out of experience? Have you trained kickboxing or muay thai? I have and I obviously know things that you don't know. If you haven't seen any fast kickboxers or thaiboxers then you don't have any idea what you're talking about. It's not the SPORT that makes people fast. It's not my fault if you guys are living in a TKD fantasy world. You're the one who is talking about horse semen. What are you? Some kind of pervert?
I quess one should never underestimate the human stupidity. My self-confidence is just fine. It's YOU mister that started talking smack and playing dirty from the beginning. Do you remember this: "because you're just sitting in your couch, being a gigantic potato and just gaining more and more weight?". Did you forget already? I didn't have to quit TKD. I DECIDED to quit TKD because it is a martial art for pussies. YOU poor, poor "Norwegian".
Kickboxing is a pussy version of Taekwondo and Muay Thai fighters are so fucking slow, any decent Taekwondo fighter would floor them before they could even begin to lift their clumsy legs off the floor. Now do us all a favour, put down that jug of horse semen, get the fuck up and go as far away from your computer as possible. The internet has enough crap on it without you coming and adding your worthless, retarded comments too. Thank you, good night. I said put down the horse semen.
It doesn't take much to provoce you, I see... Just that you start making comment about the way I look, shows the lack of your self-confidence :-D You didn't have any other arguments left, so you start playing dirty. No wonder you had to quit tae kwon do, you don't have an ounce of martial arts in you. You poor, poor Finnish.
Nice leg control but really . . . she's just another gymnast doing dumbed-down martial arts. She doesn't even know how to make a fist. Let's see some video of her fighting.
My reaction proved "your point"? Funny as hell mr. sabunim. You know what "sabunim" is, right? I just watched you wedding video. It looks like that you're the one who is so called "gigantic potato". I suggest that you train taekwon-do harder.
