Ever used TKD "on the street"?

[younwhadoug]

when i am confronted by a would be attacker, i act crazy, i mean freakin psycho. screamin how i'm about to bite off his nose and stuff like that. i have done this to a group of gang members in our town, their was probably 5 or 6 of em, they were making sexual comments to my wife in front of my children at the gas station and their car was blocking my mini van from leaving. i went on the psycho thing getting really close to one of em and out of no where i hammered a straight punch to the dudes chest. i imediately got in anothers face and started screamin crazy stuff and i mean screamin loud, by then the clerk was on the phone with police and the punks could do nothing but load their boy in the car and take off as quick as possible. my wife and the clerk and someone else getting gas all thought i was really crazy... maybe i am... i like to let people think what they want of me... my wife knows i am lol

[Jersey Devil]

when i am confronted by a would be attacker, i act crazy, i mean freakin psycho. screamin how i'm about to bite off his nose and stuff like that. i have done this to a group of gang members in our town, their was probably 5 or 6 of em, they were making sexual comments to my wife in front of my children at the gas station and their car was blocking my mini van from leaving. i went on the psycho thing getting really close to one of em and out of no where i hammered a straight punch to the dudes chest. i imediately got in anothers face and started screamin crazy stuff and i mean screamin loud, by then the clerk was on the phone with police and the punks could do nothing but load their boy in the car and take off as quick as possible. my wife and the clerk and someone else getting gas all thought i was really crazy... maybe i am... i like to let people think what they want of me... my wife knows i am lol

Be carefull, that philosophy may backfire on you if you end up in an altercation with someone who genuinely wants to fight (since most people arent looking for a fight but rather a victim).

Acting crazy and going nuts may end up getting you into a fight because you provoked the guy into one when you could have been rational and reasonable and avoided it altogether.

At the same time, there are times when being rationable and reasonable will get you into a fight, as some people will view that as a weakness. You'll end up fighting when you could have simply acted crazy and scared the guy off.

[younwhadoug]

with that particular situation, i wouldn't really have wanted it any other way....

but yeah i get what your saying and agree... i just assume not fight outside of training and would much rather look like the weaker person to avoid it.

[CTTKDKing]

I was attacked by 2 guys who apparently I cut off and didn't realize it. They followed me accross town, and pulled into a parking lot where I was going. I am a brown belt in Kukkiwon TKD, and I had to fight the 2 guys off. When I had stopped the second guy a third guy who only saw me knock down the second guy came and got involved and he was a good 60lbs heavier than me. He swung a big hook punch at me and I ducked under his arm, I threw a jumping back kick and hit him square in the chest. He then stepped back and fell down. I appologised to him and explained to him that if he had let me speak in the first place he would have realized that i was only defending myself. He told me he thought I broke a rib on him and that he was impressed with how I moved. He appologised for getting involved and got in his van and left.

My point for telling this story is that even though tkd may be an imperfect art (just like all of them), it is still a very useful method of self defence. As long as you keep your head and don't lose your cool you can use it (like and MA) to defend yourself effectivly.

[Aodhan]

when i am confronted by a would be attacker, i act crazy, i mean freakin psycho. screamin how i'm about to bite off his nose and stuff like that. i have done this to a group of gang members in our town, their was probably 5 or 6 of em, they were making sexual comments to my wife in front of my children at the gas station and their car was blocking my mini van from leaving. i went on the psycho thing getting really close to one of em and out of no where i hammered a straight punch to the dudes chest. i imediately got in anothers face and started screamin crazy stuff and i mean screamin loud, by then the clerk was on the phone with police and the punks could do nothing but load their boy in the car and take off as quick as possible. my wife and the clerk and someone else getting gas all thought i was really crazy... maybe i am... i like to let people think what they want of me... my wife knows i am lol

Hrm. Especially with gang members, I would think that would normally end one of three ways:

1) You getting shot

2) You getting jumped by all 5

3) You frightening your own kids

Most likely a mix of all three.

Aodhan

[Ace2021]

He told me he thought I broke a rib on him and that he was impressed with how I moved. He appologised for getting involved and got in his van and left.

I saw something like that on the news..except backwards. a guy that was defending himself beat this one guy that was trying to rob him with a toy gun, then a karate or tkd guy came up and beat him..because he thought he was beating a helpless man. pretty ironic.

[shadowfist]

i have studied TKD in the past and ive only had to use it once at school... i was forced to when i was attacked bye a kid with a knife and it was quickly resolved with a kick to the head....