blah blah blah blah..... TKD sucks because the majority of it's practitioners suck. There are MILLIONS of TKD practitioners world wide. MOST OF THEM CHILDREN AND OLDER MIDDLE AGED FAMILY PEOPLE. So ya, TKD sure looks bad when so many of it's members are not peek athletes. But I assure you, you ignoramasses. That there are a minority of strong hardcore fighters out there that have used strictly TKD effectively on the street many times.
My close friend here in Thailand comes from a small town by an Indian reserve where there was nothing to do but fight and f**k. He was 130 lbs and when he walked into a bar everyone stepped aside due to his reputation. He would cut a persons head open in one swift kick... one guy got scalped and had to have surgery to have tissue replaced into his forehead. I could tell you a crapload of similar stories but what's the point... you would refuse to believe them.
It's not the art, it's the warrior, TKD has a crapload of families training in it and few warriors. So it's rep is bad, if TKD wasn't such a popular activity it wouldn't attract all the families and would have a different rep. I know tons of people in TKD that couldn't fight their way out of a wet paper bag, but I know a few hardocre mofo's that are scary as hell. They take what they do very seriously unlike the family guy that trains 2 hours a week and then brags about his fighting ability. Then you look at another art with an untarnished rep and it attracts almost exclusively hardcore serious people like Muay Thai and submission grappling does... not many fat middle aged moms in those arts! But of course they also have a tiny miniscule number of people training in them compared to the MILLIONS in TKD and are only now becoming more popular (that is not an exageration that is an actual fact)... I'd like to see in 50 years if Muay Thai (yes I love Muay thai) still has the same prestigious rep once it goes more mainstream and soccer moms are doing it.
I don't know why I bother making posts like this heh. This is just comon sense to me but people feel an intense need to try to belittle other peoples arts to try to make themselves feel better about what they are doing.... insecurity I guess. Kind of like a bully. HA!
Damian Mavis
Honour TKD
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