Originally Posted by Piston

I beg to differ medic, the two styles are worlds apart in my opinion.

MT focusing on close in fighting through its use of elbow and knee strikes, granted it does use its lengthier kicks to great effect but not in the same way as TKD does.

TKD places emphasis on kicking at an opponent where many others would strike with a fist/elbow or whatever. Tkd does actually have leg kicks, just because in TKD sparring leg kicks are disallowed does not mean that they are not taught, like the knees, elbow strikes and knife hand strikes that are also taught. If one was to look at the historical origins of each style one can see, that they are a comlpetely different animal. Hell completely different species.