Taekwondo ?

Question

Why do people look for taekwondo for self defence ?
It has nothing to offer that includes REAL self defence techniques or applications.
When you see them do there "defence techniques" they just fall over and make it soooooooo unrealistic i see alot punching and holding their fist in the air and leaving it for 10 seconds while they think of what to do (what a joke) and Yes i do my research and look all over to "you tube" i have gone to alot of "schools" (Mc dojo's) and even my brother is a black belt in taekwondo and couldn't fight his way out of a paper bag.
When will people realise it is a SPORT not a self defence REAL criminals dont care about points and all the fancy footwork and unpractical high kicks will just get you killed !
Why do people in the "Sport" who love it and train it cant even spell it properly ?

Mate that "example" on you tube was pathetic not only is it unrealistic, where is the reaction and follow up of the attacker no one just punch's once and waits why doesnt he keep going and why doesn't the defender actually hit ? so he knows how it really feels to hit someone ? he will get a shock when the real thing happens its bad training you should always train how you would really fight ! and come on enough with the Ki-ai crap its a waste of energy and does not create more power keep spending ya $

Answer 1

one step sparring is similar to the beggining stages of Muay Thai.... where you learn different counters to say a right cross, or a left hook... two step sparring is similar to parrying a jab and slipping a right cross to execute a combo with focus mits and bag gloves... I was not trained in "sport TKD".. and if i dropped my hands i had to do push ups haha.... but as you progress through the ranks and see all of the kicking combinations you get very good at understanding distance and timing, and everyone tends to be lazy and drop their hands when they are against an opponent of lesser skill (roy jones jr?)... this stuff about no punches to the head, and 1 point for a body shot and two points for a head kick is terrible... it promotes very bad habits... that being said a good TKD guy doesnt have to worry about the average guy on the street hurting them... but if they find themselves in a fight against another trained opponent... their dropping the hands and staying narrow to their opponent will get them hurt "when, not if" the trained fighter gets inside their kicking range... TKD is great my friend, and it takes many years of hard training to get that kind of flexibility and power in high kicks (and most styles just dont want to dedicate that much time to train the legs like that, and say it is complete ineffective) but do not think for one minute that a guy that can kick 8 feet in the air, that he couldnt kick your 6 ft head off of your shoulders... but every TKD practioner should got to a boxing gym or Muay Thia gym for 6 months to get a better understanding of what fighting in close is all about... good luck

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

Apparently you don't know about full contact taekwondo. Keiji Ozaki seems to be doing well in k-1 with it. Lurkasz Jurkowski does it for standup in his fighting as well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x__kKOyb2Ow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0ETJ71sPuw
Oh.... The kicks are so ineffective.

There's a way of training Tae Kwon Do in a way aligned to self-defense, sport, competition, and a combination of those. Just because you have experiences with McDojos doesn't mean it doesn't work. If you want to see how it's done, take your *** to either of those guys, or even better: Head to Yong In university, and have matches with their fighters, and record it. We'll see how long you last. If you can fight your way out of a paper bag, then you should be fine. Just don't get hit by one of those ineffective kicks, or the guys that can break marble with their fist: It might sting a little. Maybe you can pay one of them to record, while you fight another in the streets of Seoul.

There's usually a difference between the way an art is taught normally in one country (Especially its home), than another. You might want to research that.

Reality? I think idiocy is more accurate.

Answer 4

well MMA and boxing are Sport and people still say it can be used for self defense
and TKD can work for self defence I'm sure your not going to do a fancy kick to take the guy out (why dose every one think all TKD fighter are going to used some fancy kick in real life were not dumb) a good front kick in the gut or balls and then punch to the face most likely take the guy out and EVERY self defence class will tell you that

Answer 5

since you have gone to all Mcdojos you do not see the real expirience on a real TKD fighter

you obviously havn't looked very well on youtube i found this on the first page
i admit he is slow but there is always room for improve ment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhUujDroTnk


no u listen"mate" the other guy doesnt react because its a demonstration retard in a real situation he would of done it much faster and the attacker wouldnt have time to react, retard

Go fight a tae kwon do black belt i DARE you but u would be too much of a puss/y to even try

Answer 6

you should go up to tkd master and tell you think he is joke and u should fight him infront of his students. there is a sport part but there a lot of self defense techniques that u have to demonstrate to get your black belt.

Answer 7

I think u have a wrong idea about taekwondo
i jave been playing this game for more than 5 years and it helped me a lot on defending myself no matter what te situation is
and it is based on the sabonib(coach) if he is good or not
he could be one who just gives u the show movement(stupid things) and he could be the opposite who gives u the real useful movement either in the competition or in any bad situation
by the way the built never point out the real level

Answer 8

Well it gave me confidence in sparring. There was no 10 seconds thinking involved.