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Originally Posted by 47MartialMan  Well, you missed my point. Though the above actually supports it.....  |
47MM,
You seem to be of the mind set that all Martial Arts programs should only focus on true self defense, as in lethal or crippling in it's intent. Any sport application is worthless and takes away from the realism. Yet I have shown numerous times where people trained in a given SPORT (BJJ, MMA, Thai Boxing, Wrestling) dominate Traditional Martial Artists in no rules fights. I mean, NO RULES. I have posted at least two videos on here of challenge matches by Kung Fu guys who claimed that with NO RULES they could win against MMA guys. Not one time, let me be very clear on this:
NOT ONE TIME DID THE TMA GUY WIN.
So to say that sport training for a given art has no vailidity for self defense has already been shown to be an invalid statement.
My point was simply that TKD has TOO MANY rules for sport competition, it's not practical for a striking art to only allow punching to the body and stil realize it's self defense capabilities.