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Originally Posted by Tom Yum
The Korean mercenaries working along with American forces in Vietnam had plenty of opportunities to show how TKD was effective at close quarters. However, any martial art trained at a sport reduces it to just that - still TKD matches can end in knockouts.
I didn't know this until tant0 pointed out but Judo was an art intended to be used for no rules as well (no suprise seeing as it comes from Juijitsu) - its sport version is still effective.
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Also the art called TKD that the R.O.K. soldiers used incorporated punches as well as no kicks higher than they could raise their knees. This meant usually below the waist kicks to the legs. You chop the tree down the cut off the upper branches. I.E. you mess the guys legs up while keeping his head and hands busy with your hands then you kick the shit out of his head when he drops.
The fancy flying stuff wasn't really big to after the 60's and nobody kicked with the top of their feet till after that also it was all done with the ball of the foot.