sure, i'm not exactly sure how to do that in a post but I will try to do my best.
TKD uses both hands and feet, but it also teaches knees, elbows eye gouges, and weapons defense.
Training is the key to making it effective for self defense. First most schools teach point sparring which is okay to work on technique but does not give the student suffcient information to use it for real.
I'm my school we use all ranges of combat and use all available techniques. Thus in sparring for blackbelt level you may start with a standing position, kicks can be aimed anywhere at the body, This is good for beginners because against an untrained person it is possible to throw a kick that is not even seen by the attacker simply because they do not know what the setup for a kick looks like. You also can throw the full range of boxing style punches, (however most TKD schools do not teach proper punching technique) But you also work throws/takedowns. and then grappling.
The idea is to always try to stay on your feet but that is not always possible.
For use against a stand up fighter, Jeet kun do infighting. If an attacker is untrained. Block the punch to the inside or outside depending on situation.
IF on the outside you have access to the centerline. Eye gouge or strike to the throat is effective from here or simply straight blast, followed by any number of kicks. or headbutt, elbow stikes, Low side kick to outside or back of knee. step behind attacker, choke out.
Against a trained attacker, Kicks must be limited due to skill level of the person being attacked. However since many people have not trained how to avoid kicks, sometimes they will rush into a kick and take suffcient damage to allow further kicking attenpts.
Against boxing only, stop kicks to the legs and kicks to the groin and midsection followed by elbows can keep them from getting into punching range until you decide to close and use the elbows or knees.
Kicks can be used using fluid shock much like thai kicks or you can snap the kick on a bony surface to break bone. Kicks can use shin, ball of foot, instep or heal or knife edge of the foot. Extreme care must be taken when instep or knife edge is used.
Footwork in important since TKD seeks to remain standing and to control distance.
It is therefore important to gaurd against being taken down. This can be done usually with knees in someone shoots for the leg or elbows or punches. Eye gouges can also slow an attacker down from a take down. Usually it is important to get out of the line of attack and vector in for an attack.
basically most Muay Thai is in TKD. Student must learn to hit their targets. Unfortantely most school miss this step. They teach sparring where the kick is "pulled" before hitting the target by slowing the kick down and not using their weight into the kick. Really the kick should be full power and full speed to the target. the difference is in sparring the target should be on the surface of the skin. In combat it should be through the target. Most students are not taught this and most instructors fail to understand why it is so important to teach hitting targets. The target is about the size of a quarter so it take a lot of practice to learn to throw advanced kicks in real life at full speed at such a small target.
Also by faking with the hands many martial arts cover up which usually leaves target areas exposed on the body and limited line of sight buy the person covering up.
Kicks can learn to be blocked by the shins.
I don't know if that helps any. It is what I do and I can show it to students and demonstrate it. But to type it out so that it makes sense is a little more difficult.
The problem that I have had in the past is that we use different name for techniques that are used in other arts. Rear Naked choke is not called a rear naked choke. A hook kick in TKD is very different from a hook kick in TKD. and A side kick in JKD is more like a back kick in TKD.
Even in point competition I have seen many knockouts within a few moments simply because of very good targeting and high speed.
Over emphasis of kicks is a problem of TKD in most schools, But kicks are just one more tool in the arsenal. Just like you wouldn't try to jab into an attacking straight blast, you have to know when to throw kicks and to what targets.
If someone trys to grab up high a kick to the ribs at least knocks the wind out of them, and can break the ribs. That can then make it easier for limb destruction and other techniques.
okay well i'm sure that was all clear as mud, but if you have more specific questions let me know and i'll do what I can to answer them
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