Thanks for watching! 🥋 This video showcases a sparring session between me and two dedicated taekwondo fighters. Feel free to leave any questions or comments below, and don't forget to like and subscribe for more martial arts content! 💥👊.
*Do you go to their gym and ask them if they want to spar and let you record or do you have friends who train in these arts? I'm curious because I would like to do something similar here in Europe and I'm thinking to start against Shotokan cause it's easier to find those gyms.*
@@MartialArtsMoves The Taekwondo black belt was my neighbour 2 years ago, and now he runs a dojang of his own, so I just reached out to him to spar. The karate black belt in the other video is my friend. I never went to a martial arts gym to spar where I don't have a connection because, most of the time, when an outsider goes to spar, it ends up like wars due to ego getting involved.
@@IdkMyname-d2h Sparring a Kyokushin guy is next on my list. I’ve been searching for them in my city for a while but haven’t found anyone yet, but I’ll definitely spar them once I get the opportunity!
This is my problem with the new style of taekwondo and is that it no longer leans into the power/full contact era and now leans morely into the point system making it useless in fights that requires one to actually hit with power, Im saying this as a taekwondo player and yes I do agree that the new style is indeed bad with its new style that some call "foot tag" and has been so watered down to the point that its nothing but a shadow of its former self(Mostly the power and combo era, the one that I was trained under). Good video overall! I recommend you to go find an ITF TKD gym since theyre mostly taught about practicality and how to throw punches, its like kickboxing.
*Hahahahaha, man, **4:11** was the funniest! The black belt looked like he was controlling the match till you countered him and he fell. That's the problem with these long telegraphic kicks, they're strong if they connect, but you can easily counter them if you move in fast and then they're in trouble. Kicking only is not working out for them.*
@@LCokun - I re-watched it a few times and it looks like he did fall but tried to kick while he was falling because his legs are up. Sorry, I'm not a TKD guy so not sure if that's an actual move or not, but at first glance he seemed like he tripped over as he got overwhelmed with punches.
@@MartialArtsMoves it used to be more common before the foot-fencing oriented rulesets. The main reason it is not as common nowadays is because they penalize TKD athletes for falls. The technique itself does not require them to fall, but I guess a lot of people thought that aid them with momentum, and also looks cooler (like the kyokushin wheel kick). You can see some people connecting that kick in the video below. And again, not all of the ones using it let themselves fall to the ground. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5-xHBIEVyVU.htmlsi=G5m8FekoJZQNs3V0
@@Dakshhpathak the way he fell down after those kicks was funny. I found this to be a big problem in general when sparring if you throw too many kicks or take too long doing them, cause you get countered fast by someone with good footwork. I find they work better when faking a punch and then to follow with a kick.
Rushing in the way you did worked well against the green belt but The black belt used a good strategy of kicking you when you were at kicking range and when you came close he clinched you every time before pushing you back to kicking range, id suggest if you spar him or somekne else with that stretgy again you should try to utilize your jab more in that scenerio so you create and mintain a long boxing range, try to be just in the right range where you're close enough to make it inconvenient to kick but far enough to be at the end of your punches so if your opponent can also punch or box you dont make his life easy and if he is using this stretgy than he'll have a really hard time clinching you since he will need to close the distance a little more and a kicker likely doesnt know how to close the distance for a clinch from boxing range
@@IdkMyname-d2h Thank you so much for the detailed advice! I really appreciate it and will definitely keep all of this in mind next time I spar someone using that strategy. The tip about using the jab to maintain the right range is especially helpful. I’m grateful for your insight.
Great video, it’s really insightful and shows us how tkd fighters perform against fighters with hands but why didn’t the tkd guys wear gloves? Taekwondo has punching after all and it seems like they weren’t able to use it because they didn’t have gloves
@@RealDanaBrown Thanks for watching! I'm glad you found the video insightful. Regarding the gloves, you're right-Taekwondo does include punching techniques. I actually asked them to wear gloves because I knew they have punches, but the black belt was denying, so I didn’t push them on it. I think this choice might have influenced the outcome, but it was ultimately their decision.
