wingedMonkey

I kind of like the way this sounds. In my opinion, you can never work too much on the sparring aspect, and two months is more than enough time to dedicate to forms, since there aren't any applications to learn. And the extra two months gives more time to straighten out all the technical aspects of the forms as well. I agree, it is pretty awesome, so far it seems cool. And yeah, I've only known of one Master that tried to do the whole school block system and he failed miserably. He also pretty much ruined his student's experience, his schools closed, no one would judge them in tournaments cuz you'd have green belts not knowing their form and doing white. And then to top it off, we accepted some students and they...were horrible. Out of shape, embarrasing to look at, it pretty much is a bad idea to do whole school block system.

Actually its still two-month but there is a rumor they want to change it to four months to work two months moder exercise and fighting, and two months to work on traditional forms. BUT the block system meant...okay lets say I have ten new students that are white belts, a couple of yellow belts, a green belt, a blue belt, and red belt. I would then teach EVERYONE let's say green belt form just because for two months, then we would move to blue, brown, and red, then start over at white. And the WHOLE school would do this together....yeah..there is no rhyme or reason for it besides an instructor wants to make money while not working hard.

I would agree with most people on here that a ground fighting style is best for addition since with stand-up it will take time for the differences to complement each other but with ground all you do is switch to it when needed. As well as someone else mentioned gun training which I would agree as well with some knife techniques to keep up with the times.

Where some masters decided to teach for instance, yellow belt to everyone during a two month period, then everyone moves on to the next one and so forth, pretty much to make it super easy for them to teach all ranks at once. But this detracts from the student's learning curve...and I promise I'll get that video up sometime this week on the reverse round kick...

Yeah, I'm under ATA with Master Lee. I also do Wushu though. And Sorry about not putting up the video, I'm such a slacker like that. I'll try and get one up soon. Ok, which Lee? There are a few around the ATA, hehe. Soon Ho should be in Little Rock, and I'm not sure who would be out of Arizona.Master Thor used to be out of New Mexico, I think. Is he still around? He was a guest judge for our school once, and I had worked with him in a few seminars. Fun guy, and I could relate, being short like him. That's true about the lees lol, but I have a female teacher Michelle Langdren Lee, she is actually a seven time world champion and pretty much hangs out with the grandmaster and chief masters soon ho lee, g.k. lee and all the others lol. I believe Master Thor should still be around but dunno if he has schools, many masters had schools close down because lots of them were doing the comfortable thing of block systems. I'm glad my master concentrates on health and fighting.

Yeah, I'm under ATA with Master Lee. I also do Wushu though. And Sorry about not putting up the video, I'm such a slacker like that. I'll try and get one up soon.

I think it just depends on who you hear it from. The first experience I had with it was in ATA TKD, and I was told it was called a twist kick. Some call it the twisting kick. If you are picking the verbaige here apart using ATA vernacular, then the "reverse round kick" is actually like a reverse side kick, but you do a round kick after the reverse turning motion. I've messed with it this way before, but other than a goofy point-style technique, it really hasn't a whole lot of application. Doing a round kick after the reverse motion is a completely counter-intuitive motion. In order to do the round kick correctly, you have to get your hips into the kick, and then the reverse motion becomes nothing more than a funky way to get the kick to where you want it to go. Now, if that's not what you are talking about, then I'll just wait for the video. YES! that is exactly what I am talking about! lol It is pretty much done to confuse the opponent, who thinks you are about to do a reverse side kick but continue on and perform a round kick afterwards. I actually almost broke my ankle the first time trying this in sparring because, yes, it is reeeally counter intuitive and you better pick up your heel. The only person I've seen do this correctly is my master but i'll still put up a video tomorrow of myself doing it for the rest of you.

Yeah, for the better shape than kung fu I meant as endurance, they tend to get tired faster. But they are better at weapons and other forms than me. With TKD i'm better at i guess real street fighting or iron body type of stuff.

Depends on the style surely because in ITF it is definitely the "twist kick". That's what its called in all the literature and I've never heard anybody call it anything else. Just a guess but is it the spinning heel kick? (we actually call it the reverse turning) As in this: You are actually right about the twist kick thing, in WTF i remember it being called twist kick but in ATA they don't seem to call it a twist kick... As for your guess on the reverse round, good guess but not it. I'll let you guys know tomorrow and may even post a video of me doing one.

Been a while since a post in here but I must bring up that I had the same complexities due to being a catholic. I found the answer believe it or not in my College Senior level class of Geopolitical history...our professor brought up the fact that Buddhism is actually more of a way of life than belief in a deity. Even though many people around the world worship Buddha as a deity...he was just someone enlightened. So..you can be Buddhist and whatever else other belief as well..

I have trained consistently now my Tae Kwon Do and Kung Fu for over two years now. That doesn't mean I haven't practiced each one individually for a long time though...but anyways, through those two years I was struggling constantly with both styles. But FINALLY my mind kind of realized how they fit together in the bigger picture. Question: What do I do when I notice myself being in better shape than those in Kung Fu yet I find myself a way better fighter than those in Tae Kwon Do? Do I bring it up? or do I continue to practice and concentrate on keeping the art alive through myself... p.s. no, no poll, want to hear opinions, you guys are pretty good martial artists on this site spanning all different types of martial arts.

I once mentioned the word twist kick in front of a senior master, and he said that is what they call it in karate lol...in TKD he said we call it an inverse round kick. Extra Credit: Does anyone know how to do a reverse round kick? I'll give you a hint, it isn't a butterfly/tornado kick or whatever you want to call that jumping fake out kick.

I agree now that both have kind of fed of each other when talking about modern day taekkyun. But the traditional stuff had more of take-downs, locks, and kicks differing from modern day taekkyun. It did exist, just most of it is lost now...probably if you removed all tkd influnces from modern taekkyun, you'd probably find only 10-20% authentic taeekyun...

lol

TKD: 2nd Degree black belt, over four years now nonstop but was on and off most of my life. Traditional Kung Fu: Over 5 years Wushu: 2 years Muay Thai: 6 months