Best of Tae Kwon Do Knockouts

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[GoddeBPM]

Awesome video, I hear a lot of people bash TKD but it is a beautiful style, I'm tempted to take it up but I don't know why but the fact there is no Korean instructors in the local dojos. Which is weird because my Judo instructor is white. To me it just seems like a lack of authenticity, it's stupid but yeaaah.

[WC_Lun]

Fun to watch video. I did chuckle to myslef a bit when I watched it the second time to see how many of the fighters had thier hands at thier waist

[TRIANGLEFROMGAURD]

Good stuff. Seriously though if you do TKD you know thats coming why not keep your hands up? If you held like a high MT gaurd and did TKD kicks and entered a tourney I bet you would clean house, IMO

[JaysonEmo]

Originally Posted by WC_Lun

Fun to watch video. I did chuckle to myslef a bit when I watched it the second time to see how many of the fighters had thier hands at thier waist

I was thinking the same thing...I took gold at the Sooner State games in TKD as a white belt...FACT

[SirokiFighter]

Originally Posted by TRIANGLEFROMGAURD

Good stuff. Seriously though if you do TKD you know thats coming why not keep your hands up? If you held like a high MT gaurd and did TKD kicks and entered a tourney I bet you would clean house, IMO

then when people do that everyone says they are doing muay thai?.....

[Little Dragon 117]

this vid was my second fav in my youtube! ha ha
anyways yeah the whole hands down thing got me thinking, and all

[Shinobi_Kokujin]

most alot of people in TKD depending on the affiliation spar with the hands down cause its in a competition setting. this can be a bad habit concerning outside the ring but thats on the individual.

most TKD people ive known an train with will fight with thier hands up outside the ring.

ive done TKD most of my life and longer than my other MA that i practice and everytime ive gotten into a street fight my hands automatically go up.

[john55]

Originally Posted by TRIANGLEFROMGAURD

Good stuff. Seriously though if you do TKD you know thats coming why not keep your hands up? If you held like a high MT gaurd and did TKD kicks and entered a tourney I bet you would clean house, IMO

The TKD I did, taught us to spar/fight with our hands up in a boxing position. I did a different version of TKD called CTF not the normal federations. The interesting thing though....and I am not trying to take this off topic was that we trained chambering but then all of a sudden for sparring we were supposed to abandon that - it was confusing and didnt make sense.

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Originally Posted by TRIANGLEFROMGAURD

Good stuff. Seriously though if you do TKD you know thats coming why not keep your hands up? If you held like a high MT gaurd and did TKD kicks and entered a tourney I bet you would clean house, IMO

It's easier said than done. You are always told to keep your hands up and cover, but when you are trying to throw high kicks, the arms tend to come down. So, you can't have a high MT guard and do TKD kicks, but still should keep the guard up as much as possible and not get in the bad habit of leaving them down.

[Zaraki Kenpachi]

Originally Posted by john55

The TKD I did, taught us to spar/fight with our hands up in a boxing position. I did a different version of TKD called CTF not the normal federations. The interesting thing though....and I am not trying to take this off topic was that we trained chambering but then all of a sudden for sparring we were supposed to abandon that - it was confusing and didnt make sense.

Yeah I find that funny myself. But at the same time its not like you use all the stances either.

In class if you put your hands down you will get called out. "What do you think you are some kind of cowboy?!?!?"

Its really funny.

I realize that the guys in the vids are putting their hands down to protect points but that still doesnt make sense cuz headshots are 2 points and KOs end fights...go figure.

[WC_Lun]

Originally Posted by Shinobi_Kokujin

most alot of people in TKD depending on the affiliation spar with the hands down cause its in a competition setting. this can be a bad habit concerning outside the ring but thats on the individual.

most TKD people ive known an train with will fight with thier hands up outside the ring.

ive done TKD most of my life and longer than my other MA that i practice and everytime ive gotten into a street fight my hands automatically go up.

Shinobi, most people aren't like this. If they train with thier hands down that's how they will fight on the street. The point of training is to get the body to do specific things. I think this is why many people dismiss TKD on the street, even though I know many TKD guys that actually know wha5t a guard is.

[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

[Joemoplata]

Originally Posted by WC_Lun

Fun to watch video. I did chuckle to myslef a bit when I watched it the second time to see how many of the fighters had thier hands at thier waist

I gotta say, that was exactly what I was thinking.

Very impressive though, there is probably nothing that looks better than a KO from a spinning kick. It's so pretty.

[Shinobi_Kokujin]

Originally Posted by WC_Lun

Shinobi, most people aren't like this. If they train with thier hands down that's how they will fight on the street. The point of training is to get the body to do specific things. I think this is why many people dismiss TKD on the street, even though I know many TKD guys that actually know wha5t a guard is.

ive never seen a person who does TKD or MT or Kickboxing.....get into a street fight an not have hands up in some manner. at least in the circles i train with.

thats like common sense to have your hands up. or at least put up some kind of defense after taking some shots to the face that dont knock you out. if that

doesnt work then thats on them. the hands up thing gets nit picked alot. just cause you got your hands up against someone doesnt mean that you cant still get your tail whooped