Taekwon-do ITF Pro (Full-contakt)

Taekwon-do ITF Pro (Full-contakt)
Maxim Sidorenko (RUS)
TKD ITF World champion 2003
Kickboxing WPKA European champion 2004

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[hasan2558]

It's not the martial art its the fighter!

[hazza3]

@scarred10 Competing and fighting are two different things. One, Competition does not represent real fighting. Fighting has no rules or regulations and cannot be mocked in anyway other than demonstrations.

Its not how long you train, its how hard you train that matters the most. Its not how often you compete its what you know and how you use what you know.

There are different sports to Taekwondo, some actually reflect the original Taekwondo styles.

[grozde]

@Restayvien

My bad - I thought that by "boxing" you meant... well, "boxing" ;-p

By the way, almost all TKD schools I've seen practise boxing or kick-boxing "on the side".

As I said, I cannot comment your particular school or instructor. I was sharing a general - and common - observation.

On a side note, if a TKD instructor is teaching - say - swimming, it's not that TKD provides for it. :-)

[ken162008]

@hasan2558 Thank you

[Restayvien]

@grozde

I think you realise that by 'boxing' I mean hand-skills, not traditional boxing. =P

The thing is, compeition is only one part of what we do. I'd say...40%? We do a fair bit of conditioning, self-defense too as well as all the theory and breaking etc. Our Instructor equips us to fight, not just to win the occassional tournament (our club only participates in a few tournaments a year and it's only a handful of us that attend each one).

[grozde]

@Restayvien

If TKD provided hand skills, why would you do boxing? ;-)

I can't talk about your particular club, of course. However, when almost only kicks score, and you train as you compete - you inevitably lack hand skills.

[Restayvien]

@grozde We do plenty of boxing at my Taekwondo club...I think it's the WTF and the 'public face' of Taekwondo which generally scores kicks much higher than punches that makes people think Taekwondo practitioners can't fight with their fists.

[grozde]

@hasan2558

Nope, it's the martial art.

They still don't know what to do with their hands.

[jdela87]

This stuff isnt a martial art at all, it is no art. It is plain, chaotic brawling where both opponents happened to know how to kick

[SuperMyoki]

I've read The Killing Martial Art ( Untold Taekwondo story)

wow, U all should buy that Book only available at korea Taekwondo centre 

[draciel37]

@proprec so TKD shouldn't be used for a full contact fight? thanks for the info! but for real though knowing techniques and showing them off in point competitions is nice and all. But can you pull off spinning kicks in a real fight where there is constant pressure and being backed up disallowing you to get full extension of your legs? I respect TKD because i spar with my training partner who is based in it but his hands are crap!

[fullmetal891]

@proprec Thats only WTF Taekwondo, which isnt real TKD, its a sport version of it. The real Tkd is a MARTIAL ART, martial arts were made for killing people. You dont know what your talking about