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Originally Posted by Heroic Wolf
Hi everyone  I have always wondered how useful the muay thai shin kick is in real life with the added dimension of shoes being worn since the shin kick is my most extensively used kick. My opinion right now is that the taekwondo version of the roundhouse kick (where the foot is used to strike the opponent) is probably more useful with shoes on since the added mass of the shoe makes the foot no less powerful than a shin would be but allows the kicker to strike from a further distance. Also, the taekwondo-roundhouse kick is thrown from a chambered position that minimizes the effect of a shoe weighing the leg down and slowing kick momentum. The muay thai-roundhouse is swung up from the ground, so could the hip rotation required for a solid muay thai-roundhouse kick be limited by the weight of the shoe? |
you sound like a Tae Kwon Do (not so craftily) trolling here.
However, I'll point out that only a guy who has never RECEIVED both a Muay Thai round kick AND a Tae Kwon Do round kick would say something like that.
Getting hit with a well-thrown thai round kick is like getting hit with a baseball bat.
Getting hit with a tae kwon do round kick is like getting hit with a piece of light rattan.
No comparison.
the weight of the shoe? What are you wearing, concrete shoes? Shoes are l i g h t. They don't effect your kicks so much. And they effect thai style kicks MUCH LESS than snappy tae kwon do style kicks.
So I'm kind of lost here.