In traditional Tae Kwon Do, they don't put their hands up. You can just go type Tae Kwon Do in youtube and you'll find TKD practitioners sparring with each other and they have their hands rested at their sides. They don't block, and most of the knockouts come from a pop wheel kick. In the martial art I take, the base is Tae Kwon Do, but we keep our hands up, etc. We train a lot of Muay Thai, Boxing, and basic Kickboxing. Our main kicks come from traditional TKD, and we train traditional TKD forms. You don't put your hands up in traditional TKD forms, which kind of confuses me, because my instructors constantly tell us to keep our hands up or we'll get knocked out, which I believe fully. Anyways, back to the purpose of this post. Why don't traditional Tae Kwon Do practitioners keep their hands up?
