Comparing kicks

[Bianca]

I guess very few people here have seen or fought a pro-TKD kicker.

[B.Y.O.B.]

What about them?

[JkD187]

There's a time and a place for everything. Kicks are tools. You use the proper tool for the job at hand.

With shoes/boots on, a savate fouette to the solar plexus can be devastating. You can compare a Muay Thai kick to a baseball bat. The fouette is more like a jab from the tip of a police baton.

Other great kicks:
Oblique kicks and stomps (from a variety of arts, but specifically FMAs). These are low-line, hard to block, and relatively safe for the street.

Muay Thai's teep (front push-kick). Used kind of like a boxer's jab - to unbalance the opponent, and as a range-finder. In one fight I saw in Thailand a Thai fighter was able to completely nullify a French fighter who had superior boxing skills by keeping him out of punching range with his teep.

Couldn't of said it any beter myself.

[danfaggella]

Yeah its all got its place, and generally speaking anything flashy is pretty useless.

I love teeps as well.

[B.Y.O.B.]

Yeah its all got its place, and generally speaking anything flashy is pretty useless.

I love teeps as well.

If you see a art that is flashy doesnt mean its useless. Plus person will know when to get serious in a fight and they wont use does flashy moves of theirs to win. Unless they know how to use it in a fight though.