This will come off rude...sorry everybody
So you quit tae-kwondo because of teh "stupid" belt system and that is all? well you obviously have not lost their point of view..if you are looking for tae-kwondo without the belts and trying to find it in another system..you will be dissapointed. Furthermore, you will miss out on the true lessons which will lead you to see why tae-kwondo is such a poor combat/street system.
Yes i know, before everyone rants and raves...jimmy woo of such and such a place in incredible...that is because he is a master and has taken hapkido as well or hwrang do...niot just tae-kwondo alone. TKD remains the most unrealistic system there is out there. The hands are forgotten and flashy snap kicks and showmanship becomes reality. Do you know how easy a kick from most people is to catch? You get guys in there for 4-5 years and they are still too slow to kick with power. TKD is a joke, if you get an elbow or a fist on an incoming leg, i guarantee you they will think twice about trying it again.
You are far better off where you are..you will actually learn to fight. TKD cannot be dragged through the mud enough in both Canada and the United States..it is pure and utter crap. Why anyone would buy into the hype and competitions is beyond me. Even watching the Olympic matches...i could see them getting thir heads knowcked off trying some of those kicks...the part you don't see is where the fight goes to the ground and the TKD guy gets fed elbows....thank god for the wistles and the poomsie
Michael Panzerotti
Taijutsu Nobody from the Great White North..
Kicking in Northern Shaolin
Generally you can kick as high as you want because not everyone is built the same. Beginners attempt to kick high but can't because of their tight leg muscles. In demonstration and for stretching purposes, intermidiate and advance students will kick high but for fighting the high kicks are not recommonded unless their skill level and their abilities are at a very high level.
You should do your kicks according to the way the set dictates because the sets that you will learn later on will contain higher kicks.
I always thought high kicks were useless until...
I'm not arguing for one or the other, first of all. Personally, I have no use for high kicks because I'm short and broad, and not built for effectively delivering them (thanks to the short legs, though, I can deliver some mean abdomenal kicks even at very close range). Anyway, I was watching a UFC fight where this guy was getting beat six ways from sunday by a dude about 50 pounds heavier than he was. Somehow, he managed to remain standing and the fight went into overtime. He managed to get a good forearm shot to the big guy's face, and suddenly the dude wasn't hitting with the same accuracy. Next (I watched this several times in slow motion it was so good) the smaller guy throws a feint, which was obviously so by the fact he fanned his fingers out at the end (it was just to get the guy's attention and it worked). While he threw the feint he chambered his right leg, and when the guy went for the block he hammered the side of his head with a beautiful roundhouse. The dude fell against the fence with this total spaced-out look. He didn't know what hit him, but he sure as hell wasn't getting up. Anyway, that's just one situation, but it shows a properly delivered high kick can have a place in some situations. Like I said though, I personally don't like 'em. Fortunately, there aren't any high kicks in Bagua.
Just my two cents...
Yes Jigja...that's it, my fear of TKD...moron
How did you guess it Jigja...some pimple faced 13 year old moron with a 3 degree black belt in TKD handed me my ass on a plate...and i have suffered numerous defeats by gangs of TKD yellow belts out to cause trouble in the park on Sunday mornings...
Are you just an idiot, or are your views based on the fact that your voice has not yet cracked? "Roaring Elbow" has seen many blackbelt products from TKD schools. Years of kicking pads and "tap" competitions (point sparring) has decreased their power to 0%..they tap and slap- not hit!
Good okinawan Karate would eat you alive my friend..and ninjutsu, don't make me laugh. Anyone who knows what they are doing in this art would let you throw about two kicks before they took your balance or smashed your limbs. Take off the shin pads,gloves,helmet, and foot pads- this is reality, not the jumping spinning back kick.
If TKD is not meant for punches, kicks, elbows, kness- WHAT THE HELL GOOD IS IT TO ANYBODY MAN? Do you really believe your kicks are faster than my hands? you are not superfoot Bill Wallace or Benny the Jet, and they used their hands too. Is TKD a fighting system or just an intermediate step to teaching you how to kick? Do it on your own..don't come here and complain to people who practice real arts that their art is lacking in unrealistic bull**** flamboyant kicks...do you know how many TKD guys have come off the street and asked to see and spar full contact against our instructors? Many..do you know how many lasted more than 2 minutes? NONE. And this is the best part;
A) You won't punch someone and go into your bow stance..
But you may find your self in a transitory state- going through the bow stance where you are powerful and very much able to take a low shot at someone or cut his target off for a split second.
B) You won't hope for a left hook so you can do your best technique..
I don't have a "best" technique..i have concepts and my entire body to use as a weapon..I don't care what i hit with. It can be my shoulder, my hip, my head, or my elbow...have you ever felt any of these things bare knuckle and without a chest protector?..keep bouncing and dancing on your tippy toes...your legs will be cut down so quickly by you Shaolin training partners that you'll learn the hard way why you should not stay in a style that you do not respect.
If you want to practice kicking..do so on your own time..don't waste your sifu's time with stupid expectations and wishes..you obviously do not want to learn how to fight, you want to learn how to LOOK like you can fight.
If you feel TKD is that superior, why don't you ask your sifu to go one on one so that he can show why it is not. I have seen some real idiots on here..but man, you really take the cake.
:eek
Michael Panzerotti
Taijutsu Nobody from the Great White North..