Choi Kwang Do???

[seanyseanybean]

Hi

I was just wandering if anyone has any experience in or knows anything about this style? I am wandering as where i train they have just started to teach it.

[aseepish]

Not my cup of tea.

I took three or four months worth of classes ten years ago or so, it was explained to me that the founder of the style noticed that so many TKD practitioners end up with blown joints, and modified the techniques so that they were more circular and kinesthetically more efficient, thus less stress on the joints. The punches and kicks travel in elipses rather than in straight lines.

What bothered me about the style is that the elipses made certain attacks slightly telegraphic, And the punches recover by dropping in a loop to the starting position, leaving one's head open to a counter punch.

They teach a lot of self-defense techniques. The club and knife defenses were laughable, but that's coming from an FMA perspective. The ground fighting they taught was also a joke.

Oh yeah. They don't spar, claiming that their techiniques are too powerful.

[seanyseanybean]

hehe. Thanks for clearing that up, i was almost considering learning it.
The guy who founded it is damn fast though, especially seeing as he's in his sixties check it out.

[seanyseanybean]

heres the link

Click on speed punching.

http://www.choikwangdo.com/