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Originally Posted by JaysonEmo

when the body is spinning having your hands up and genertally out will slow you down..smaller circle the fast it spins..Maybe at this level you just need to be faster..notice alot of the ko's were counters off the first kick

Yeah but you could accomplish the same thing by keeping your hands up stepping in and throwing a cross.

Originally Posted by WC_Lun

I've seen fights with TKD sport fighters (and other arts) start with thier hands up, but most invariably put them down to thier waist. Why? Because they revert to thier training.

I'm sorry, but I don't believe a person can train for years a certain way then when put under the stresser of real life self defense suddenly do something different than what the training has instilled. That is counter the training and it just doesn't work that way.

As far as putting your hands up after you've been hit in the face being common sense...well that's like closing the garage door after the car has been stolen. Why wasn't it closed in the first place?

Yes, a person with thier hands up can get beat. However, a person with thier hands down to thier waist is going to get beat a lot easier. With the hands down to the waist you have less than half your defense/attack ready. Its almost like fighting no handed. That's all good and wonderful if you have no arms, but why on earth would you do it if you have arms?

You will fight how you train.

I agree 100%