taekwondo?

Question

is it hard to learn taekwondo?

Answer 1

some aspects of tkd, you can pick up fairly easily, basic kicks, punches, blocks are all fairly easy and quick to pick up. more tecnical kicks take more time, patterns and other thigs take more time and practice. for sparring, it depends on your skills and how far you want to take it, basic sparring you leard from the beginning, competition sparring will take a lot more time.

all in all, no matter how long it takes, it's important to stay focused and have fun. if you don't like it, it will take forever.

Answer 2

Too much effort is made by people to try and turn systems into separate styles, like the user 's' is arguing. Many people don't even realize Taekwondo is a blanket term, and think Tang Soo Do is a form of Karate. To understand, ignore every and all organization and 'political' group involved, then completely forget the term Taekwondo entirely and look at each individual style on their own. They all evolved from Taekkyeon and Subak. Now enter all these organizations who want to turn it all into some governmentized ordeal, which is a complete load of crap. Most styles came after all this, under the umbrella term Taekwondo. However, by turning this into a specific umbrella term, Tang Soo Do, by rights, follows along with it. The argument regarding the term "Taekwondo" refers to the kwans, but that's the political BS part of it all. The history of the styles, pre-Taekwondo, puts them all under the same blanket. Subcategories of these styles is a political move. Nothing more. I believe that there are some sub-branches of Tang Soo Do, but as it's not quite the umbrella term Taekwondo is they wouldn't be refered to as styles.

Answer 3

The only people I would recommend TKD to is parents with very young children.

And even then it's kind of weird. On one hand it will keep the kids interested because many TKD schools are kid oriented...but on the other hand you don't want the kid to have his starting foundation in a irrelevant art like TKD.

Brazilian jiu jitsu and Muay Thai kickboxing are what is real and will help a person truly be able to defend themself on the street. This is especially important for women. 99% of all men would kick a TKD black belt woman's *** easily. This is not good.

BJJ and MT for the win.

Answer 4

the 3 arts you should learn are these...

jiu jitsu (any) -or- Sambo
tai kickboxing
any internal art

They all provide excellent fighting benefits.

jiu jitsu and sambo provide real effective grappling skills you can beat almost any street fighter with, tai adds incredible striking, and internal arts offer discipline speed, concentration and education (for example: weak points in the human body, the use of Chi, and other things like rooting ect ect which can help in real fights) Note i said help, internal arts have proven to be feeble in MMA fights as a whole.

Taekwondo is very 1 sided and doesnt offer a lot other than kiciks. if you really want to learn it no, it's not hard, just become a blue belt or until you've felt your kicks become very effective and then move on to another art.

Answer 5

I think taekwondo is very popular because it is easy to learn yet also hard to master. It's a great beginning martial art to learn and you can get interested into the harder ones later such as muay thai and jujitsu.

Answer 6

It's not hard to learn as long as you have good instructors that take the time to train you properly. Obviously, you'll have hard days, but that's part of being challenged. I recommend trying (at least) a few classes, if not a month, before signing a contract.

Answer 7

Nope and a GREAT WAY TO LIVE LONG
Cool Art, Great Teachers everywhere
Love The Stuff
Your Child will become an Athlete
What could be better?

Answer 8

Unless you wanna learn how to fight its easy. You'll learn very quickly how to twirl around like a fairy if you continue or start Tae kwon do.


Believe me, im a black belt in it but now i only practice judo, BJJ,Muay thai, and escrima, the effective martial arts.

Answer 9

not really but its hard to condition yourself to be proficient, and like that guy said tae kown do is very one sided and is basically only kicking and jiu jitsu is a better one and muah thai (thai kickboxing is good) but on top of that kali and karate are also good

Answer 10

Probably. If it was easy everyone would do it.