Best compliment to TKD

[zug]

There are a few limitations on TKD and would like to start learning another MA along side TKD. I was looking at Thai Boxing as it seems to have the boxing skills and the close combat TKD lacks... Would this be a good choice or would another art be better suited ?

[eXcessiveForce]

From the types of TKD i've studied an observed here are the other styles I feel compliment fairly well.

Boxing
JKD
BJJ


When I worked with Muay Thai there were very few things I found that I could add to what I already knew. I worked a bit more on my Thai kick, and a bit on my elbows and clinch. Other than that the rest of it was conditioning.

Good luck finding something that works for you. Many instructors if they are good will start giving you things that are not generally thought of as traditional TKD. But good instructors give you all their knowledge not just the set curriculum.

[SamuraiGuy]

Long distance running, your gonna need it, haha

im just being stupid, dont take my post seriously

[guy incognito]

A good compliment to Take one's dough is No kan do!

[Tom Yum]

There are a few limitations on TKD and would like to start learning another MA along side TKD. I was looking at Thai Boxing as it seems to have the boxing skills and the close combat TKD lacks... Would this be a good choice or would another art be better suited ?

Thaiboxing - If you are allready a sophisticated kicker with good speed and power, you will be a more rounded fighter taking up muay thai. Learning how to work the clinch and infight with knees & elbows would double your ability to bang up. On top of that, you would probably be able to learn the thai kick really quickly and use it as a baseball bat with your arsenal of snap kicks.

Boxing - I can't say if boxing would be as beneficial as thai boxing but it would be good; reason being is that TKD stance is up and on the back leg, similar to muay thai. Boxing fight stance is crouched and your weight is evenly distributed but spends more time on the front leg. I don't think it would hurt to learn because your hand speed and hitting power would improve.

BJJ - Definitely beneficial. If you like to kick alot, someone somewhere will capitalize on it and try to bring you to the ground.

How about weapon arts?

[Ollis]

It kind of depends what you are looking for. If you currently train at a traditional school and enjoy the formalities of Korean arts, I would recommend hapkido, as it generally fills in the gaps tkd leaves while using the same terminology. The problem is though, like any art that adopts a greater arsenal than purely striking, it has a steep learning curve and takes a good few years before you can hope to be combat effective. However, if you have a good background in tkd, a lot of what is covered in basic hkd will already be second nature to you with a few minor adjustments, and you will be ready to progress to the more technical bits.

However, if you are hoping to compete in mma or the like, I suppose it goes without saying anything that offers intense conditioning, lots of sparring and good ground work would be a better bets for you. Seeing as thats not my bag, I can't really offer any advice but I would think BJJ would be able to offer you more than MT because you should know how to punch & kick already but I doubt your TKD school has covered much in the way of grappling.

[sirmattu]

i went throught the same thing that you are going through. and what i came up with was both kickboxing ( american or mt ) and judo. kickboxing because of the simularities of kicks, and the better hand techniques. and then judo for close-in and groundwork, and also when you start learning the self defense aspect of judo you will see simularities in the blocks of tae kwon do and the way you misdirect an attack for throwing. juwt something to think about

[Ironfist1989]

Brazilian Ju-Jitsu would do for me if you take someone to ground you need to know what to do from there, and some of the skills i've seen practised are very usefull as for muay tai it would improve fitness and physic and better punching and elbowing and knee and shin work more, where as with boxing would improve fitness, foot work, and punching power learning on how to evenly distribute power in your punches and your defences but to do boxing you have to be dedicated and ust to competition, as for grappling in TKD i have done loads of grappling, but as i've said in other posts nearly all the self defense i do is deprived from Ju-Jitsu anyway