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As Chalambok said, the kicking leg appears to be straight when you shadow-box and a bit bent when hitting the pads. This is simply because the leg is supposed to be a bit bent as you actually hit the target, for maximum power. Of course, if the target is not there, you leg will straighten a fraction of a second later, and this is what you see when shadow-boxing.
I haven't done TKD myself, but we sometimes have people coming from TKD in my kickboxing gym. The thing I notice is the biggest problem for those guys when it comes to performing the thai roundhouse is the STANCE. This point has not been made in this thread yet.
TKD guys need to check their stance before each kick (they will more often than not fall back to the TKD stance). If you try to do a thai roundhouse from the TKD stance, it will be very hard to get any power.
So TKD people basically stand too much sideways for the thai roundhouse. I always need to correct their feet the first thing I do, or it will be impossible for them to do the thai round house, and instead they will throw their tkd roundhouse.
I haven't done TKD myself, but we sometimes have people coming from TKD in my kickboxing gym. The thing I notice is the biggest problem for those guys when it comes to performing the thai roundhouse is the STANCE. This point has not been made in this thread yet.
TKD guys need to check their stance before each kick (they will more often than not fall back to the TKD stance). If you try to do a thai roundhouse from the TKD stance, it will be very hard to get any power.
So TKD people basically stand too much sideways for the thai roundhouse. I always need to correct their feet the first thing I do, or it will be impossible for them to do the thai round house, and instead they will throw their tkd roundhouse.
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