What is your favorite?

[bluemtn]

What is your favorite thing about your art? is it sparring? Self defense? Weapons? I like all three of the one's I've listed. If you like other things, type it in your reply!

 

[Kacey]

Step sparring and patterns. I chose "other" because I didn't think that step sparring was the sparring you were talking about.

 

[Martial Tucker]

I voted for sparring, because it is so much fun, but I'd also mention teaching.
I get a lot of joy out of finding ways to help someone "get" a concept or technique they had been struggling with.

 

[Tarot]

Weapons! I love learning and doing weapons drills especially knife work. That's my very favorite. I'm also partial to a lot of the empty hand stuff we do, I enjoy that a lot.

 

[Nevada_MO_Guy]

I voted for all 3.

It breaks down for me as getting this old body a moving and keeping up with the young'ens (now where did I put that cane)

I like the sparring for timing and letting me know when I should cover better....man those kicks come from nowhere :btg:

The self defense, has the confidence boost along with flexiblility and balance.

For weapons, the nunchaku kata really makes you respect the back of your head.

 

[fireman00]

I love weapons (nunchuckas especially), sparring is a GREAT workout - I just need to "unfocus" more and go with the flow of the fight, the self defense (one steps/ hapkidos) are very beneficial as they lay the ground work for more spontanious responses to an attack.

 

[matt.m]

I am gimped up. So I am going to say my favorite part of class is working forms. I dig the other stuff, however I found that dumping as much energy into forms is an awesome workout.

 

[terryl965]

I voted all three but for me really it is more of a spiritual thing now a days.
Terry

 

[IcemanSK]

Of the choices, I voted for sparring & SD. I like forms, too! But, I'm not a big weapons guy.

 

[karatekid1975]

For me, it's forms #1, then self defense. I'm a technique geek, and I love practicing a form till I get it right with good technique. If I don't think a tech looks or feels right, I'll keep doing it till it does. And the self defense is fun, too. Specially in Jujitsu (no forms there but lots of SD).

 

[Greg King]

Sparring and self defense is what i like .Can't really comment on the weapons yet as i have not gotten to practice with them

 

[donna]

I love the Katas

 

[Paul B]

I am really hard pressed to pick just one,really..there's *so* much that I love to do in Hapkido. I just don't know.:idunno:

I know that I'll go through cycles of "current favorites",though..which I think is normal *quick glance around*..I'll get caught up in belt technique for a while..then I'll move on to really tearing apart all the wristlocks..move on to throwing. I love it all,ya know?:uhyeah:

 

[painstain]

i love sparring and sd but i think i like arial kicks the most. the are challenging and when you do one correctly it is very self satisfying.

with respect
painstain

 

[bookworm_cn317]

My favorite part is the poomse.

 

[tkd_jen]

I used to be afraid of sparring, now I really like it, I'm really bad at it, but I love getting out there and mixing it up. I like weapons because they are not something we do often.

 

[Miles]

Poomsae is my favorite, so I voted under 'other.' I enjoy all aspects of TKD, including breaking, hogu drills, paddle drills, and philosophy.

Miles

 

[bobster_ice]

What is your favorite thing about your art? is it sparring? Self defense? Weapons? I like all three of the one's I've listed. If you like other things, type it in your reply!

I basically like everything I do in TKD except when it comes to the end of class and I have to go home...

 

[Fluffy]

None.........Forms!

 

[mcmillintkd]

I have to agree. I love the solitude of working on forms. The time it takes to get that one little move that pulls it all together. When I took karate as a kid the instructor told us that each kata needed to be done 500 times before testing. I do not get that many times but I try to keep working on it.