TKD schools in General...

[Great Sage]

Despite all the TKD bashing on this site, I agree with many of you for different reasons. I admit that I’ve been to TKD gyms where kids are running around and people are just plain “goofy.” What many of you must understand is that TKD has come to represent family, fun and recreation. Although in certain circles it is still taken seriously.

Personally, I don’t have a problem with people who take TKD. Everyone has their own personal reason whether it be for health, recreation or self-defense. TKD is more or less a mainstream martial art now and so ofcourse it will have a larger number of overrated martial artists. Whatever the case, each individual is responsible for their commitment and training values.

I do have a problem with those who train recklessly in TKD and then think they’re street tough. I have nearly 20 bare fisted street fights under my wing and I still consider myself lacking in the streets, so what are these people thinking? I also have a problem with 5 year old Black Belts and such. A Black Belt should mean something. I would never award a Black Belt to anyone unless they could really fight.

[Rockets]

I applaud you. Well said.

[Kerowyn]

I do TKD, but not for the fighting 'skills', I do it for the exersise, the flexibility benifits, and for the fun of it...and yes, our dojo is full of little kids...and the best instructor--the one who actually made the lil kids do pushups when they misbehaved--just got shipped off to turkey or someplace.... Now we're stuck with the guy who hands kids their belts...we use the stripes system (one stripe for your form, one for your fighting exersises, one for your one-step sparring exersises and then you test for your next belt), and I've seen this guy stand beside the little kid and show them how to do it, and then give them their stripe, and later on, their next belt. It's pretty sad. We just got a new instructor who is a bit better, but still there is not much discipline...oh well you know how MCdojos are...at least I get to exersise some....

[dragonboy]

kicked my ass

I started with TKD, and my instructor was a military man, who believed in contact. he kicked the shit out of my legs, and then kicked my mouth,....so i decided thats enough. when he got close enough i kicked him in the balls, and left. a friend of mine stated he told the rest of his class he pulled a groin muscle stretching. tkd and real fighting......yeah right. and i went there to learn self defence, tkd is sport.....period.

[Cain]

sigh..

tkd CAN be sport.. tkd CAN be selfdefence.. all you "the world is black and white" people out there should get a reality-checking device

[Graciefan]

I got my start in TKD and with the exeption of improved ballance it didn't help my defense skills that much. I can however, say that stuborn closset doors all over the nation fear my name.

[crazyjoe380]

i hit muay thai first cause .. there is a tdk spot everywhere..
i remember in junior high this kid knew tdk and some kids still beat his ass... what a joke..

maybe cains tdk is diffrent, but what i have seen.. is crap..
now if you mix it with thai boxing.. then your talking ..

the stretching that tdk has.. the footwork.. plus the power of muay thai.. kicking the bag over and over... working on technique.. then my friend.. you have something going on.. but just tdk by itself..

blahhh! where is the punches? lol..

thanks you!

[Cain]

see

well, when i see this, i can understand why some people don't like tkd... http://www.trondheim-tkd.no/video/ks...ivsparring.mpg

[Toudiyama]

Re: see

Originally posted by Cain
well, when i see this, i can understand why some people don't like tkd... http://www.trondheim-tkd.no/video/ks...ivsparring.mpg

When god created TKD he had his hands bihind his back
Everytime I see clips of TKD people using their hands in combat I'm ROTFLMAO

I'm still wondering why Karate when done as sport it still considders the back as a good target( will score full point) TKD doesn't allow it as target which results in people fighting sideways and exposing the back, not the best thing todo in a real fight
And it is that what makes people put TKD in the same catagory as tae bo( rmember there were people doing tae bo who were thinking they could defend themselves with it)

[Kingston]

lol tae bo! thats funny.

i liked that clip. you could tell when the student was suposed to attack. each time the older guy would make the same little jerk with his arms lol. I bet they went through what order each attack would come in. heh and the guy would get up slow like he accualy got hurt from that crap lol.

about TKD. Its just to sport orientated now adaysm there are some places that perhaps teach "real self defence". Problem is what makes those places batter then anywhere else?

being one of the most popular arts in the world, there are that much more bogus schools out there, wich produces that much more misguided people, wich lower TKD's reputation.

this mite not be the whole story, but at least partly, TKD's popularity has caused it to become a whipping boy for serious martial artists.

[Cain]

yup

well, I mostly defend old-style tkd.. and say that tkd has a lot of good things.. but when i see things like that *cries*

[Temujin]

word

I trained in a traditional 'old style' school for many years. About the time I was getting good, all the old blackbelts left because the master decided to switch to 100% Olympic style TKD.... which sux ass. He still didn't allow BB's under 16 (except one girl who won at nationals and earned it). He took out all the hapkido stuff and so the style started sucking.

Real TKD is 'kick/hit the guy to set up a wrist lock or throw'. Olympic TKD is bs.