We all know TKD is an explosive kicking Art, so in your opinion and I stress opinion is the upper body real important to fighters of Olympic style or is speed and agility the best way to go in your training for competition?
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Upper body in TKD
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terryl965 said:
All the top fighters, so I understand, stress the speed and agility.
I did, however, win an Olympic-style sparring match against a much bigger opponent by repeatedly punching him so hard in the hogu that he didn't want to come back for the second round
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zDom said:All the top fighters, so I understand, stress the speed and agility.
I did, however, win an Olympic-style sparring match against a much bigger opponent by repeatedly punching him so hard in the hogu that he didn't want to come back for the second round
That is a good point in most OLympic style fights they cannot handle getting punched repeatingly so if there upper body was more developed would it had made a difference?
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a lot of TKDists that fight Olympic style don't take the time to increase their upper body strength 'cuz points are hard to come by with hand technques.
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fireman00 said:
As I understand it, the judges need to see "trembling shock" / "body displacement" before awarding a point.
One way of doing the latter is to hit them up high on the hogu --- in the chest area --- as this will move them more.
Another thing to consider: you can win by knockout, and knockout can mean "unable to continue the match."
So if you can knock the wind out of them with a nice solid punch right square on the solar plexus....
In any case, hit them hard enough low so they begin to commit to low blocking, it opens up that head.
ajs1976
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From my limited boxing experience.zDom said:
Core strength is necessary for absorbing hooks and straights to the body. Upper body strength (chest, shoulders, and arms) can also help with absorbing punches. While doing some round robin sparring in boxing a few weeks ago, I took a number of shoots to the upper arm. By the end of sparring my right arm was useless. Could barely hold it up, let alone punch with it.
If you punch someone in the stomach that isn't ready for it and doesn't have good ab conditioning, you will see some trembling shock" / "body displacement".
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I personally think that upper body strength is important. But not necessarily for just sparring but for hoshinsul and poomsae as well.
If one had limited time to spend to prepare for a competition though, I would not spend my time lifting weights to increase upper body strength. I'd be working on those aspects of my game which needed the most work-cardio, timing, combinations, ring management, recon of my opponents' games, etc.
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