Why do korean martial arts suck so much?

[Tom Yum]

Damn I love myself.

then why don't you marry yourself.

bring back the half-man, half-woman thing from the 80's where your left hand side is wearing the tuxedo and the right hand side is wearing the gown and holding the bouquet.

I'd like to see you make the man kiss the bride...lol

[Tom Yum]

It's really nice when other people do my work for me.

No need for your own self-depreciation, when others can razz you more efficiently.

[medic06]

I'll agree with the fact that Taekwon-Do does have a great deal of spinning kicks that are performed with 180, 360 and 540 degree spins, but a lot of those kicks were never actually meant to be performed in combat. A lot of the aerial and more dynamic kicks performed in Taekwon-Do are more akin to drills from other arts such as Chi-Sao from Wing Chun or Hubud from the Filipino martial arts. They help to build attributes within a specific range and lay the groundwork for how a practitioner moves.

Think of it like this: If you watch members of the Korean national team or any high level Taekwon-Do competitor for that matter in a sparring match, the techniques he uses is usually limited to three or four separate kicks... usually the roundhouse, side kick, spinning back kick/jump spinning back kick and the axe kick. Yet these people practice those advanced kicking techniques on a daily basis. It never realy occured to me until I was sparring against someone who was a relatively good boxer. I got hit by a hard cross. As I was falling off balance my lead leg lifted off the ground and hit my sparring partner in the side of the neck. It wasn't intentional, it was just the way the my body was trained to react due to the training I had received, a large part of which was aerial and spinning kicks. A large number of which are thrown from precarious or off balance positions.

Whatever happened to common sense people? I've always been amazed at how people put their entire faith in a technique, system, style, teacher, etc without really thinking about it objectively and realistically.

Jumping, spinning, and jump spinning kicks are great. They give u a great workout, they teach important attributes (timing, balance, etc), and they give you something to impress your friends with.

But common sense will tell you that the most effective techniques are those which are simple, fast, accurate, and powerful. Techniques are just tools. But merely picking up a hammer won't make you into a carpenter, and techniques will not mystically transform you into an unstoppable fighting machine. . . .

[ipscshooter]

Common sense, in a TKD bashing thread? I think you expect too much.

[Tom Yum]

I was referring to how you lead the conversation back towards one of my original comments regarding TKD McDojos.

Sure you were.....sure.........................sure

[medic06]

Common sense, in a TKD bashing thread? I think you expect too much.

LOL, I guess that might be asking for a bit much. . . .

The way I see it, if someone believes that their opponent is going to stand there while they come flying out from 10 feet away to kick them, then they deserve to get their ass kicked.

On the other hand, if the opponent stands there and gets hit by a kick that started from across the room, then the opponent definitely deserves to get HIS ass kicked. . . ..