I gotcha. I'm not trying to start anything, back kick. I'm just curious as to why it is that the most prolific martial art on the planet has nothing available in terms of video. Meanwhile, I can find obscure material on iron penis training if I look for it, but the martial art that's an Olympic sport and has millions of black-belt level practitioners worldwide? No good video there...
My critique of your post was that you said, in effect, "Here Matt. This is some video my instructor thought was crap. Hope it helps."
Matt has been doing tae kwon do for a long time now, and he asked for supplemental material that might help him out. You can see by his signature line that he's ben in the same belt rank for over a year. It might be that he feels a little additional out-of-class material might be of some benefit to him. Further (Brace yourself. This may be a tremendous shock) you are reading this on an internet forum based on martial arts. That means it's a place outside our regular classes where people share ideas on training and such. If you have a problem with that, why are you here? It's the entire purpose of this site! Like I said, in every other area, if someone asks for help, they get it. Here, when someone asks for help, they get people who are so worried about organizational politics that they don't even have the cajones to post a YouTube video under a false name! Isn't there something in those tenets of yours that talks about integrity and indomitable spirit? Since when are those things compromised by "organizational politics?"
I can see why you'd be offended at my replies to you, but with all due respect, I just don't care. I am offended that you'd presume to preach to a guy who was just looking for some honest help about how he ought to go about pursuing the martial art he's chosen. I don't understand why you tae kwon do people have decided that it's better not only to insult literally every person who's put material on video on the web (there are no good vids out there, right? So everyone who has vids out there must suck?), nor why you'd be so reluctant to offer up something constructive. The bland assertion that it's not a good idea to learn from videos is a load of upchuck. He's not
learning from videos, back kick. He's learning in class and
supplementing class time with videos. There's a huge, mammoth difference in the two.
So what we're left with is a mound of bullshit so high it's hard to see over the top. I found thousands of results for videos on Tae Kwon Do forms online.
Thousands of them. In your post, you're claiming that none of them are any good? So you and your school do things that much better than anyone else out there, huh? Pardon me, but that just reeks of dim mak death touch nonsense. "We have the way, and it's a lot better than any of these thousands of example you have available. But I'm not going to tell you anything about that. These vids are unimpressive at best. Good luck." What a bunch of shit!
Matt, buddy, it was a good run. You asked an honest question and you wanted honest feedback. I'm sorry all you got was a bunch of guys telling you there's no help for you anywhere. Apparently, while Integrity and Indomitable Spirit were being destroyed by Organizational Ego and Politics, Courtesy and Self-Control got neglected as well.
If you find any good videos, please post them here. If not, tell me what school you go to and I'll look some up for you. Keep posting good questions like this. If you run into more of the same here, go ask around the JKD forum and the MMA forum. Lots of those guys have tae kwon do backgrounds and they'd probably be a lot more willing to help. Apparently, people in your own system are reluctant because they know what's best for you, and they know it better than you do.