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If I started kungfu, would I get some moves mixed up with tkd or would my experience of tkd help in someways?
Does anyone recommend I start kungfu as well as carry on teaching/training in tkd?
well as simple as i can put it is that its a good idea to take more than one style. it helps make you more well rounded, and also you can switch off if the situation arises. I say no you probably wont get them mixed up but then again different people have different things
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Thanks for the advice. I see what you mean. I may just look into that when I return from Canada. Thanks for the help.
no problem. I think its becoming the new thing with martial artists! ah ha
a trend in us that we now take more than one style to adapt with the times lol
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Originally Posted by sawhit0
If I started kungfu, would I get some moves mixed up with tkd or would my experience of tkd help in someways?
Does anyone recommend I start kungfu as well as carry on teaching/training in tkd?
If you are already instructing TKD there's not real reason why you would confuse you're TKD with your Kung Fu moves. I find many movements and strategies carry through between martial arts styles. Just ensure that you are taking up Kung Fu for the right reasons (ie to expand your technique base and knowledge).
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the only difficulty I found when doing what you're talking about is:
kicking
from my own training and experience, you throw a kick VERY differently in TKD than in most styles of kung fu. I ran into some problems with the kicking style carrying over between the arts (in the end I just started kicking kung fu style)
the only difficulty I found when doing what you're talking about is:
kicking
from my own training and experience, you throw a kick VERY differently in TKD than in most styles of kung fu. I ran into some problems with the kicking style carrying over between the arts (in the end I just started kicking kung fu style)
I had problems switching my kicking style from karate to TKD. You're right. The chambering for many TKD kicks is way different from most styles. Also, the striking surfaces of the foot can differ.
However, I think since you are advanced enough in TKD to be teaching it, you shouldn't have a problem keeping the two styles seperated in your mind.
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The kicking is difinitely different in kung fu than TKD. At first it'll be a challenge for you. If your willing to let go of the TKD technique long enough to learn the kung fu then it won't be too hard. The problem will come if you aren't willing to let go of the technique you learned long enough to learn something new.
I think in time you should also try to incorporate a ground-based martial art, not for the whole MMA experience, but just to be more well rounded. You can kick arse standing up, and you can break arms lying down.
I can learn both TKD and a lot of kung fu, currently have about 4 and a half months kung fu training (but fail to practice as much as I should on my own) and no TKD training. However I can get more easily to the TKD classes than my old Kung Fu classes. Now to make matters worse the kung fu is cheaper per month than the TKD. Maybe I can learn both. My uncl learned TKD and it seems to work well for him, he still talks about it and holds his training in high regard.
The real problem is the TKD is almost exactly twice the cost of the Kung Fu training, but easier to get to, on a monthly basis.
The TKD class has I think three locations to train in so the owner is pretty successful and a recognized practitioner, where as the Kung Fu teacher spread out to learn so much that he hasn't been ranked by one association to a high degree, but I see he knwos what he is talking about from practical experience.
Should I try the TKD and just save up and maybe go every other month? (That is how much I can afford to do right now, where as the Kung Fu I can do every month)
I am not a tall man being just barely 5 foot 8 inches tall (not sure hown many centimeters or whatever for those of foreign birth)
and my left leg needs a lot of extra stretching to kick properly for all those high kicks in TKD if I train left side and right.
Some help would be appreciated. I read the whole thread and figured it would be good to post my question here as opposed to oppening a new thread.
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What do you want out of your training? Which school would provide that? For instance, if you want to go to tournamants and point fight, then TKD would probably be better for you.
What do you want out of your training? Which school would provide that? For instance, if you want to go to tournamants and point fight, then TKD would probably be better for you.
I think some point and tourney fighting would be nice, but there is so much more depth in this style of Kung Fu I am learning. I always considered myself a deep person, and this style feels deeper than I claim I am. So from a self defence point it is a well rounded style that I already know. It takes about 5 years on either to get a black belt (sash for the kung fu) and maybe open a school of my own and make a living at it.
It can be difficult because a friend of mine puts down my training because he can beat me, but he was trained by some black belt friends of his for years, and I have only 4 months and sometimes procrastinate on my training.
So as I look at it now, I would like to excel at what I already know and teach one day.
tkd and kungfu?
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