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[Asbel]

http://s26.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1IWVNFIR8Y0YR3KNMSBB7GLP4A

All about the spin kicks. I hear TKD gets a lot of smack (even Joe Rogan, a proclaimed TKD blackbelt himself, puts it down) but I've also heard Koren TKD is different than US TKD. There's a lack of a clinch game but I like how some of those kicks come right from your blind side.

 

[Boogie]

My best friend got his black belt in Tae Kwon Do, and he's as hardcore as they come.

At first glance, he's a very typical TKD guy, really fast, flashy kicks, keeps his hands low. He's got crazy guts, he never wears a cup in competitions, despite getting nailed in the balls almost everytime he spars. He just shakes it off. You can't faze him.

He's hasn't trained groundwork formally, but he's got instincts for it, andfrom watching MMA and reading tons of instructionals and stuff can more than hold his own on the ground.

He joined the army reserves, and said that during the summers he'd always have tons of guys challenging him because they hear how he does martial arts (and he's not a big imposing guy, only about 5'11" and 160 pounds), and yet he beats them all.

 

[Asbel]

That's cool, I take it you've got a great sparring partner and perhaps some rolling too. And yeah, knowing how to defend the ground game is always smart for a striker. I'm wondering if the body armor is really necessary since I would have liked to see some body shot KO's.

 

[Aruarian Reflection]

Great vid. I'm also doing taekwondo and will be heading to the US Collegiate Nationals in a few months.

 

[Aruarian Reflection]

BTW do you have more vids/know where to get more of them? Preferably videos of matches. I would love to see the Athens Olympic fights, I had to miss most of them.

 

[karasu]

I've done TKD all of my life, and it gets alot of flack because honestly most people suck. Not to mention that it's most famous style of competition throws people off with it's emphasis on kicks over handwork. But eh, most people from every style out there suck. :/

 

[Shogmaster]

I've done TKD all of my life, and it gets alot of flack because honestly most people suck. Not to mention that it's most famous style of competition throws people off with it's emphasis on kicks over handwork. But eh, most people from every style out there suck. :/

All I gotta say is, if you're not a slim guy, forget TKD. TKD is all about speed kicking, and my fat ass couldn't get good at it, even with my red/black belt. I was was good for was for forms.

 

[Boogie]

I must also admit, outside of my friend, I've been fairly unimpressed with the TKD I've seen. The classes I've been to and observed can't compare to the conditioning and workout that most karate places offer.

I mean, my friends' black belt grading in TKD was scarcely a half hour long. My black belt grading in karate was three grueling hours long.

 

[sprsk]

i took "taekwondo" for 10 years ever since i was a kid, and i never learned anything like that, hahaha.



i guess thats what i get for going to a mcdojo. I didnt know any better though so oh well. Cool vid, i loved the parts where the tkd guy was owning the thai boxer.

 

[Asbel]

Sorry, that's the only TKD vid I got. I think some of those clips are from Athens. Good luck at the the US Collegiate Nationals man. Feel free to share with us any insights you got.

 

[karasu]

i took "taekwondo" for 10 years ever since i was a kid, and i never learned anything like that, hahaha.



i guess thats what i get for going to a mcdojo. I didnt know any better though so oh well. Cool vid, i loved the parts where the tkd guy was owning the thai boxer.

Yeah, double and triple round kicks are TKD's best weapon as far as I'm concerned. Jumping directly from a low kick into a high kick is a powerful powerful thing.

 

[RobotChant]

Most of the moves aren't intimidating from a visual standpoint at all, especially that rockette kick move.

 

[Boogie]

i guess thats what i get for going to a mcdojo. I didnt know any better though so oh well. Cool vid, i loved the parts where the tkd guy was owning the thai boxer.

I've seen clips of that fight before, and some people have said that his opponent wasn't "really" a thai boxer, but merely presented as one as a nationalist Korean event. Not sure if that's true or not though.

 

[sprsk]

I've seen clips of that fight before, and some people have said that his opponent wasn't "really" a thai boxer, but merely presented as one as a nationalist Korean event. Not sure if that's true or not though.

oh, yeah, that wouldnt suprise me.

 

[karasu]

Most of the moves aren't intimidating from a visual standpoint at all, especially that rockette kick move.

Those are feints, in a kicking comp they can be a pretty big deal.

 

[DarkAngelYuna]

Wait until you get him by em.. its not fun =(

 

[Boogie]

Wait until you get him by em.. its not fun =(

I just keep my hands up. Tends to solve that problem ;P

 

[capslock]

I have a brown belt in Shotokan Karate, not really interested in TKD, seems too impractical.

 

[Meier]

That video sucks until the end. Those last 30 or so seconds are BRUTAL though.

 

[karasu]

I have a brown belt in Shotokan Karate, not really interested in TKD, seems too impractical.

Traditional TKD and Shotokan are practically the same thing.

 

[EviLore]

Let's drop the Do here. OMG FEDOR vs TK! MATCH OF THE MILLENNIUM!

 

[Groder Mullet]

Pretty impressive visually. That one guy who does the three kick in midair move is hardcore. The olympics where they chase the guys while throwing all those kicks is pretty funny. They get so off balance that they end up falling down.

Muay Thai for me.

 

[DarkAngelYuna]

Learn karate onlineeee HIYAAAAAAAAAAa

 

[Boogie]

Let's drop the Do here. OMG FEDOR vs TK! MATCH OF THE MILLENNIUM!

That's supposed to get me excited?

Stop teasing me Pride, GIVE ME FEDOR VS. MIRKO NOW!!!!!!!

 

[NLB2]

I have a brown belt in Shotokan Karate, not really interested in TKD, seems too impractical.

:lol :lol :lol

Evilore: Do you want to see TK die?

 

[EviLore]

But TK is the current King of Pancrase! He's fought such greats as Rodrigo Nogueira, Randy Couture, and Bas Rutten! Fedor's just a gatekeeper for TK's big pride debut splash.


Okay, now that I've controlled my laughter a bit...yeah, TK's going down and going down hard. The sky could open up above the stadium and a giant ball of lightning could strike fedor...and he'd wobble for a second, then do whatever he wants to finish TK. Strikes standing, strikes from the top, strikes from the bottom, submission from any position, laser beams from the fucking eyes.