Ever used TKD "on the street"?

[Balrog]

Many people talk about sparring in this way:

"Well, if I get attacked on the street . . . "

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How many of you have used skills learned in TKD to AVOID a fight?

Every single day of my life. Martial arts training teaches you to control your environment and to avoid situations where you might need to find, and then gives you the skills for the times when you can't avoid them. As a result, I find myself far more aware of my surroundings that I used to me. I'll walk with kubaton and keys in hand. I'll cross the street to avoid someone that makes me uneasy. Etc.

[ninjanurse]

I agree with Balrog...every day of my life! And I have used physical techniques while arresting suspects and restraining combative patients as well.

[Goju_boi]

i know what a kobotan looks like,but how do u use it?

[karatekid1975]

I have one on my keychain now. You can use it many different ways (pressure point strikes, ect). I learned a few in Jujitsu, but Heidi could explain it better than me. It's hard for me to explain it without showing you, too.

[Goju_boi]

hmm,so you just poke people with it?

[Ryokeen]

I take a hybrid art. It's main influence is TKD, but it also has hints of Shorin-Ryu and Aikido.

IN 2 fights my friend was in,

it took 2 punches.

End of story.

[IcemanSK]

I have one on my keychain now. You can use it many different ways (pressure point strikes, ect). I learned a few in Jujitsu, but Heidi could explain it better than me. It's hard for me to explain it without showing you, too.

Laurie:

Now, you're almost a BB girl. Ya gotta say it right. Ya shoulda said, "It's hard for me to explain it without showing you. So come here & give me your arm."

[karatekid1975]

LOL IcemanSK.

Yes, one does involve "poking" someone in the chest area (in a foreward thrust action). If done right, you can move someone and it hurts like heck (my instructor did it to me ... OUCH).

And the other does involve the arm. You can use it by grapping the arm (in the douple hand on one arm fashion), wrapping the kobotan with your thumbs and applying pressure on the arm with the kobotan on the pressure point on the forearm. That hurts like heck, too. I dropped to the ground when he did it to me!

There's another where you take the "butt" of the kobotan and apply pressure the pressure point on the back of the hand. I haven't got that one down yet.

The last one is "nasty." It's similar to the first one, but you grap them and spin them around with the above technique. And you apply pressure to the same pressure point in the chest (believe me, they won't move. It hurts! LOL), or the neck (where the soft part of the neck is above the breast bone).

[Aodhan]

yep, and if you hold it so a little more of the kubotan is sticking out the end of your fist, you can use it for wrist locks and things as well. Kinda hard to do with the kubotans that have prongs sticking out though.

Interestingly enough, I've had a kuboton on my keychain in my carryon luggage the last 3 times I've flown, and nobody has said a word.

Aodhan

[IcemanSK]

LOL IcemanSK.

It goes right along with teaching MA. "Give me your arm. Grab me here."...etc. And the worst words in the Korean language....Hanna, Tul, Hanna, Tul." Ya know you're gonna be doin' a lotta kicks, punches, or whatever.