What is your favorite?

What is your favorite?

  • Sparring

    Votes: 9 24.3%
  • Self defense

    Votes: 14 37.8%
  • Weapons

    Votes: 2 5.4%
  • All 3

    Votes: 11 29.7%
  • None- state what is...

    Votes: 6 16.2%

  • Total voters
    37
  • Poll closed .

bluemtn

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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

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

Martial Tucker

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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.
 

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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

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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.
 

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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.
 

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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.
 

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

IcemanSK

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

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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).
 

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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:)
 

Paul B

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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:
 

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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
 

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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.
 

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

Miles
 

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tkdgirl said:
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...
 

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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.
 

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