False Conclusion

[Whispers]

Just to settle the whole tkd issue; why don't some of the best tkd stylist's enroll and participate in Ufc or pride tourneys. That would settle the whole bashing issue.

I don't know and I'm not one of the best yet, so I'm capable of meeting your request.

However, I do know that alot of old school taekwon-do pretitioners used to do well at the international level. For example Sam montgomery succeeded in using his taekwon-do to defeat many japanese kickboxers by k.o. at a time when they were dominating the kickboxing circut. Sam later trained George Tutsui who gave Danny Steele one of his few loses. These are examples of taekwon-do practitioners beating top practioners of what is regarded as one of the great striking arts, under their rule set.
I'm not sure what you're going to conclude from this, but it leads me to believe that taekwon-do it's self is not a terribel art. It's just being taught and trained in the wrong fashion by bad instructors on a large scale. This doesn't mean they're aren't good schools and good fighters, just that they're not the most visible or loudest practitioners.

[HtTKar]

Just to settle the whole tkd issue; why don't some of the best tkd stylist's enroll and participate in Ufc or pride tourneys. That would settle the whole bashing issue.

Would the best UFC fighters win in a TKD tournament?
This idea would not settle anything.

[tkd_person89]

Even participating in sport sparring enhances one's kicking technique.

It's the people that don't use the techniques right and the people that don't add in hand techniques while in a real situation that give our art a bad name.