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your joking right? :| lol @ 'metric time' comment!
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most powerful kick
mattyj replied to brawler1245's topic in TKD, TSD, Hapkido, and Korean Martial Arts
yea sam's right. cross step in a 'hopping' motion... next most powerful for me is without the hop, just cross step... -
Top 10 Self Defense Martial Arts
mattyj replied to aznkarateboi's topic in General Martial Arts Discussion
mmm... nah why is sport taekwondo so popular? its sure not because of its effectiveness -
Top 10 Self Defense Martial Arts
mattyj replied to aznkarateboi's topic in General Martial Arts Discussion
I dont think you can really make a definitive 'top 10' of most effective because there is too much variance between instructors/method of training/individual student/application. Ones that i have seen work or seen that they would work (by sparring against/training with/watching a practitioner) ive listed... no particular order... 1. Muay Thai 2. BJJ 3. Kyokyoshin Karate 4. Seido Karate 5. Hapkido/Daito Ryu Aiki Jutsu 6. Boxing 7. Kickboxing 8. Judo 9. Kempo 10. TRADITIONAL korean kwan arts, TRADITIONAL taekwondo. (emphasis on traditional - this depends on instructor/student, i have no faith in any kind of high/flying kicks in street application) -
most powerful kick
mattyj replied to brawler1245's topic in TKD, TSD, Hapkido, and Korean Martial Arts
skipping side kick for me -
i would hardly say itf is sport orientated? being the original tkd and rooting from the 'traditional' arts of shotokan and taekyon itd be one of the most traditional... atleast at the school i go to.. anyway, on topic, tkd (sport tkd) has become so commercial thats its all about flashy kicks that are ineffective in a street situation
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Tae Kwon Do Exhibition
mattyj replied to frightmaster's topic in TKD, TSD, Hapkido, and Korean Martial Arts
one year from 6th to 7th dan? -
tournaments: both. legs have better distance and more power potential... hands are quicker (whatever anyone says) and you dont have to be on one leg to perform them... combinations! street: mainly hands... becos of the close up nature... hands are more versatile and quick... legs for leg kicks/knees/occasionally stomach/groin kicks... IMO
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Jake the Mus may be a fictional charactor but I have met, known and hung out with many guys just like him. In fact I can think on 3 just like him in the street where I grew up. That movie was filmed 2 miles away from where my parents live and where I grew up in a suburb called Otara. The warrior spirit lives on in many Maori and when mixed with alcohol has disastrous effects. However I have found that when they get over age 30 or so, they tend to calm down and live differently. It can be quite frightening for people that are not used to people like that, but I grew up with them and its kinda normal for me. In the end they have self image problems and express their frustrations in life through crime and violence. someone else from nz! yea the maori people have somewhat of a 'warrior' culture.. unfortunately as you said this comes out in bad ways all too often with crime etc... did you see that thing on 60 minutes (i think) on the 'anger' culture of the maori anonymous? interesting... just two weeks ago a freind of mine was walking through albert park at night (stupid thing to do... but still this is no excuse) and said 'hows your night?' to a group of around 12 maori people, they didnt say anything, and as he moved on, they followed him, caught up, starting kicking him in the face etc, he woke up in a&e with a few of his mates that were there and saw 2 of the people that had attacked him that were also in a&e (his mates fought back), and has permanent damage to his vision in one eye (for a week they thought hed need a titanium plate somewhere around his eye socket). Senseless? I think so... but anyone trying to adress such problems is labelled 'racist' here in nz...
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yea but dont u think camo is getting there?
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well they arent the be all and end of all of the quality of instruction etc... but a club using pink and christmas coloured belts is more likely to be of a mcdojo nature...
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agreed.
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Ours has the camo belt (ATA). Our belt ranks progress White, orange, yellow, camo (First point at which they can free spar with pads), green, purple, blue, brown, red, red/black (Which is 1st degree recommended), and black (1st degree decided.) Aodhan camo? geez... we just use a basic system (which is universal in itf) White Yellow Green Blue Red Black with one stripe in between each belt that is the colour of the next one eg white belt - yellow stripe.
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well tkd was invented by a man trained in shotokan karate (general choi), and this is where is draws most of its roots from... so it kinda makes sense? in itf we call jumping 'flying' i dont see how its a 'basic' technique... someone that trains for 6 months will seldom be able to apply a jumping front kick in a way that is advantageous... theyd get screwed up... infact only very gifted students/black belts can apply jumping kicks in an effective way in a real situation... in itf we are invited to try (dependant on club) jumping kicks at a green belt level, but they dont appear in forms until chongmoo (the black stripe (pre black belt) pattern) IMO only at this stage you can have a firm grasp on how to apply this kick in a real situation (and even then... only really in sparring) im not trying to attack the ATA system i just dont think at 6 months training someone is ready to learn 'flashy' stuff like a jumping kick...
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yea dont the ata forms have flying kicks really early on? imo most students of earlier levels arent ready for that...
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you say the ata forms are the best and use the word 'showcase'. i dont think this is what forms are for? i am of the beleive (perhaps biased because i practice them) that the chang hon form set are the best because they 'feel' strong, it trains the mind to do certain things after certain things, not just flipping around. if forms are meant to be flashy, then things like xma would be the best, but they arent practical are they?
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i love how gen. choi is ignored in most tkd history discussions... (sarcasm) tkd is based on shotokan karate (which gen. choi learnt as a student) and taekyon (which he learnt when he was younger) as well as other influences from the kwans etc. so its wrong to say "TKD came from a style of tsd". 100% true.
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ITF TKD Questions.
mattyj replied to Superfoot's topic in TKD, TSD, Hapkido, and Korean Martial Arts
yea patterns definitely train you in a 'after this do this' kind of way as well... so its not like its completely removed from sparring... it just has a different look to it. -
as already stated it depends on the style of tkd... ull find a traditional style (like ITF) mabye more effective in a self defence situation than a sport one (i wont mention any names ) however, if you want to do ma purely for self defence (v.fun too), id do hapkido, it mixes the korean derivative of Daito-Ryu Aiki-Jutsu (v.effective), yool sool, with the striking that is quite similar to traditional taekwondo, so you get the striking aspect and the grappling aspect, which is cool. having said this shotokan is awesome as well. it would pay to go visit the schools and see what you like
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yea i suppose so.. in my tkd (more traditional/karate like than sport style tkd), we dont 'learn' tricks, but they are quite popular as something we do before classes/at tournaments (as in outside of the ring), because of the athleticism alot of the students have gained. more of a fun thing
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depends on their level of athleticism (sp?) +agility... such kicks are not applicable to fighting or even sparring really tho...
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well yea your right arguably... traditional=front leg emphasised, ball of foot, bring knee back and swing. modern=back leg used more often than traditional, instep (because of tournament sparring focus), much more 'snappy'
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id say you have a good mix of 'no nonsense' arts there... karate- mabye do it if you want some 'traditional' stuff thrown in bjj- would complement weight training well, very physical hapkido- mix between aikido+tkd, id do this because its a mix between striking and 'real-life' grappling (thats just me tho) hope this helps
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ITF TKD Questions.
mattyj replied to Superfoot's topic in TKD, TSD, Hapkido, and Korean Martial Arts
ahh ok. your right in patterns the punches are performed in a kind of "overtraining" way, more like traditional karate, where the off-hand is brought back to the hip for reaction force.. we also accentuate the 'sine-wave' (bouncy) motion more in patterns so it becomes more natural. there is no 'boxing' like handwork in patterns, though there is some quick combos, they just arent so 'sparring' like. um well the jumping punch is just executed because it can catch the opposition of guard/scores higher/covers distance.. its quite dangerous and depending on the practitioner is use sparingly because you can counter it by forming a close guard and pushing into the person doing the jumping punch. hope this helps