I'm sick of Tae kwon do.

[Sasori_Te]

By all means do what you need to do to keep from becoming burnt out. Good luck.

[The Saint]

Definately, get as much knowledge as you can in any art you want to take.It will make you a better fighter and give you more challenges to acconplish

[Natural]

Karate - the claaseese is the sam but in karate you lern how to use your attacks more powerful (Its Extream easy to get into if you are a 4th Dan) taekwondo lacks power but have alot of flexiblity and various kicks, karate oncertrate their enerny from the abdominent area.

 

Muay thai - the claasese cost a bit more than taekwondo, but its a very effective style using knees, round kick etc, this is surely the arts to defend yourself on the streets. They use various of knee strike enough to make you bleed heavily in a matters of a seconds. with moves can easily knock people out.

 

Kungfu - If you have felt a full Karate punch from a black belt master you will feel a dasvastating power enough force to push you backwards and leave a purple bruce in you (hurt like a stick) But if you felt a kungfu punch from a grandmaster black sash its felt that you have been whip hard and its stuns and stings you.

 

Sanda - began in 1997, it was recently copied from Muay Thai boxing, most kunfus,karate,taekwondo have been defaeted by muay thais in the ring so they created a style fro san sho then merge them with sanda and create a style that is now very succesful with mutiples strike and poweful technicl blows.

 

[TKD Chosen One]

Natural, I must say all your posts are amusing. I wake up every morning looking foward to what you have to say. I think everyone has learned something from your never-ending spring of knowledge. I'm surprised you're not an instructor yet. I think I speak for everyone when I say you've made my day. Thanks for the warning, I'll make sure not to get punched by black-sashed kung fu masters.

[tommarker]

Koreantiger81,

 

It sounds like you need a challenge of some sort, something to keep you interested.

 

I disagree though that once you hit black belt you stop learning new techniques. Sure, you've been taught just about every kick possible, etc. After all, the body only moves in so many ways. But the applications of these movements is almost infinite.

 

Rather than starting another art or crosstraining, why not look deeper at a specific aspect of TKD and improve your understanding (and your students) along the way?

 

For example, TKD is stereotypically a "long range" art. How would you train differently to fight at much much closer range? Sure there might be some grappling involved, and you may want to start learning some hapkido or shuai chiao to supplement what you are working on, but I think TKD has a lot of potential in this area.

 

Have you ever experimented with flexible weapons? Learning to use the bullwhip can be an eye opening experience when you see just how versatile it really is.

 

I'm not against crosstraining or learning other arts, but I am against it just for the sake of "learning new techniques." You're a 4th Dan, and with that level of training, you have seen a lot of different things, and should be able to integrate new ideas into your own system, make it your own, and pass it on to others.

 

Look beyond the rank requirements listed and find something that you can really be an EXPERT on. Something that when people in your association talk about it they say "if you really want to learn more about X, you should talk to KoreanTiger81."

 

On the flip side, maybe you just need a vacation. Go out to the mountains, travel out west, see the world from another perspective.

 

Good luck, friend.

 

Tom

[superfighter]

if u wanna try something new, have a go with something like BJJ or Judo.

 

i started judo and found it completely different than anything ive ever done in tae kwon do.

 

So maybe try some grappling, it cant hurt

[Toast]

Ju- Jitsu is a great compliment to TKD