People believe it because it makes them feel better abotu themselves and because it's what instructors teach to make more money.
If you want to learn to fight effectively, you need live sparring. This means full contact, minimal rules (allow grappling and at least some ground fighting), next to ne gear sparring( head gear, gloves and mouth guard at most). This will weed out alot of ineffective techniques and high light all of your flaws immedeately. this will allow you to train to make up for those flaws. You don't need to spar this way in class, you could do it out of class with a coupel of dedicated buddies. Also, challange people from other styles, it'll broaden your understanding.
I feel that if more TKD practitioners trained this way, the art would be better as a whole, instead of afew daimonds in a pile of crap.
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