Manny
Senior Master
We have seen alot of complains about how sport/olimpic has damage the image of TKD turning it to a sport full contact martial art but, kyokusin kay or shotokan karate to name a few (also chito ryu, wado ryu, etc) do sport fighthing inside dojos and the tournament arena AND we don't see many bad coments about it!
Some people asked me about how I sparr and told me the way I saprr is the way I will fight in a real confrontation, well the way I sparr is WTF rule set because I can't chop viciusly the troat of my partner indisde the dojang to make clear that this hit can cause death, nor do I poke the eye of my partner to blind him momentarily or permanently to know I can maim a fella, I can not break a knee cap to diasble a partner to make clear to my stdentes a low kick can do such a damage.
All the dojos and dojangs I've been as a student, as a teacher or as a viewer I have never seen such punishment doing free sparring or even doing self defense techs, doing sparring all the studentes must follow the rules inside the dojo/dojang even doing self defense the techs are moderate in some way.
Even UFC for example has a rule set.
So everitime I guy tells me about TKD is not a martial art for self defense because it has went to sporty, neglecting the hand techs to the head, or because we fight with a low guard or because we use high kicks or what ever I feel sick.
TKD firsth of all is a Korean martial Art and not all tkdoings are inside the tourmanet circuit, not aal are inside the olimpics, not all are inside poomsae international chapionships and not all are inside selñf defense in mind, many do tkd because of health for example.
Maybe my TKD is way diferent to the way Gorila for example does or maybe my TKD is not the way Koong So Do does but for example the way mi two Shotokan friends do karate are not entirely the same.
Manny
Some people asked me about how I sparr and told me the way I saprr is the way I will fight in a real confrontation, well the way I sparr is WTF rule set because I can't chop viciusly the troat of my partner indisde the dojang to make clear that this hit can cause death, nor do I poke the eye of my partner to blind him momentarily or permanently to know I can maim a fella, I can not break a knee cap to diasble a partner to make clear to my stdentes a low kick can do such a damage.
All the dojos and dojangs I've been as a student, as a teacher or as a viewer I have never seen such punishment doing free sparring or even doing self defense techs, doing sparring all the studentes must follow the rules inside the dojo/dojang even doing self defense the techs are moderate in some way.
Even UFC for example has a rule set.
So everitime I guy tells me about TKD is not a martial art for self defense because it has went to sporty, neglecting the hand techs to the head, or because we fight with a low guard or because we use high kicks or what ever I feel sick.
TKD firsth of all is a Korean martial Art and not all tkdoings are inside the tourmanet circuit, not aal are inside the olimpics, not all are inside poomsae international chapionships and not all are inside selñf defense in mind, many do tkd because of health for example.
Maybe my TKD is way diferent to the way Gorila for example does or maybe my TKD is not the way Koong So Do does but for example the way mi two Shotokan friends do karate are not entirely the same.
Manny