Hope wrote:Smooke wrote:and then there's Korean martial arts like Tae-kwon-do (:lol:) don't even make me go there ...tae kwon do sucks!!!
why?
lol why?!
because Tae-kwon-do's theory of defending oneself is kicking
like who would kick in a real fight?!?!
For example, last year a black belt in tae kwon do joined the karate club and one night it was sparring night. Him and I got in the ring because I wanted to test out what his fighting skills were like. I was teaching that night and at the time I was a second degree black belt. Anyways back to the story ...I got in the ring with him and started my thing and he started his thing. He threw a kick, I easily worked the angle on it to avoid. He threw another kick, I worked the angle on him again. I was like "Hmm." ...So I observed his techniques and quickly jotted down his fighting abilities and he was simple, he just threw kicks. So he threw another kick ..haha I captured it and I simply told him, "Don't kick, I could've had you right there." ... I let his leg go and we went at it again. He kicked again, and I captured it and I threw in a "gyakuzuki" or reverse punch into his rib/solar plexus region and I said, "I told you not to throw a kick, see how easily I captured it and threw a counter attack into your region?!?!" ...he was dumb founded and I was like, "Ok, try and kick me again, I'll show you what happens and how I do it" ...so he tries to kick me and I work the angle yet again and capture and take sweep him down to the ground and as I'm taking him down I throw another gyakuzuki into the mid section and I was like, "Don't throw kicks, if you are going to throw a kick make sure your going to get it in before you execute it". Because in Karate it's mostly handwork we use to initiate an attack, followed by a kick after the handwork or the other way around, kick then handwork. ...In tae kwon do it's all foot work which, in my opinion and experience fighting with people in tae-kwon-do, it's dangerous.
Tae Kwon Do is 70 percent kicks and 30 percent punches. In Karate it's 50/50.