Recently I had a match in open weight when I a white belt was facing a green belt and with the first punch my nose started bleeding and my match was cancelled and after coming back from cleaning my nose nose I was called on stage and was given a silver medal i still don't know how to feel about it
Prior to my hiatus, I practiced in ITA for 17 years in one area (shout out to Grandmaster Eun Choo Ahn and the late Choi Hong Hi). I am now in a new area and state and the closest dojang to me is of the WT.
Hello dear martial artists I have great respect to you all!
THE QUESTION: Is there any good YouTube videos you’d recommend for a beginner to start practising taekwondo? For example different kicks
About me: I’m 27 yo male, always interested in martial arts but due to my generalized anxiety disorder and depression I havent been able to start learning any martial art style.
Training background: I’ve been exercising 2-12 hours every day for over 5 years both weightlifting + cardio combined
Training is my passion and I’d love to learn as many different martial arts styles as possible and master them all eventually
Good regards, Hopeful guy
Um im a blue belt dude and my kicks are high but my sparring are pretty bad i need tips to land some kicks im so bad at it. Please teach me to counter kick and always land on head,not get tired easily please teach me im so badd at sparring im trash
I was just wondering how people felt about Michelle Khare’s taekwondo journey. In her ‘Challenge Accepted’ series she became a black belt. Recently she added trying to go to Nationals and competed today.
Not for tournaments
Simply for homeostatic purposes
I've noticed a lot of fat instructors at Tae Kwan Do places lately. Isn't discipline the cornerstone of martial arts? If you can't have enough self discipline to be physically fit and not 45 pounds overweight with a big belly, how can you teach your class about discipline?
For this tornado kick specifically.
I know this is a very generic question, but I mean it in a more nuanced way. People say itf is traditional, and wt is more so a sport, yet in ITF hard contact/knockouts are forbidden, and in WT, while not strategic, are allowed and rarely scored. My question is, who's competition sparring is closer to mma/kickboxing? Also, which style tends to practice/prioritize aerial kicks akin to 540 spin hooks moreso, or is that moreso dojo dependant. Finally, what are some of the key differences between the forms in both arts? I have substantial experience with itf, about 6 years, so in which key ways are WT forms different?
For people who have cross-trained TKD with boxing, muay thai, MMA, or similar: Did TKD training feel disconnected from TKD sparring to you?
I find it hard to connect the training with sparring. I feel there is a disconnect, especially around punches, blocks, stances, footwork, and movement patterns. The strongest connection between TKD and sparring seems to be the kicking. I love TKD for the kicks. Sparring often resembles messy schoolyard fighting between two people who can exchange flashy kicks. The training lacks a clear way to apply blocking, punching (TKD punching in particular feels underdeveloped), and footwork.
Training and sparring are extremely well connected in boxing, for example.
How can TKD training be adapted so people can spar properly while still keeping a TKD style, and not mixing it with other martial arts?
Just fought at AAU nationals yesterday and I just have to say that these gloves are sooo terrible I cannot believe these were released to the public. Not only does it keep your hand in a fist for the duration you're fighting, but even when they are open the velcro gets stuck on everything cloth like I touch. Please kpnp, why can you put the technology in a normal glove like daedo did.
On a more positive note, the vests work pretty nice and were quick to tie and the punches I feel are much less finicky than daedo, helmet was a bit heavier than usual but I don't notice it too much when fighting. Footguards are better than k1 but I still prefer daedos gen 3 socks
Hey guys I’ll be staying in Korea for two weeks in suwon and chuncheon for some training and competitions. I was wondering if there was any stores I could buy some training gear (such as doboks, belts, Spobands etc..) and some apparel like training shoes, shirts and other stuff. Last time I was in Korea I went to the mooto store and adidas combat store. Is there anywhere else I should check out I’m struggling to find places online. Any help would be appreciated
many people who I spar with love to counter me with push/cut kicks. I don't blame them - I'm slow, I'm open and i've got terrible reflexes, lol.
i realized that with my arms and hands, I can push these kicks away to the side, protecting myself from the kick and leaving them open.
Is this a legal way to block? is it good etiquette?
I was always pretty weak. I ran out of breath very quickly, struggled to even stand sometimes, etc. I'm not visibly overweight or out of shape (I say visibly because technically by weight i'm overweight but its just my body shape and i'm naturally more muscular etc. blah blah blah not important). constantly dizzy and exhausted.
anyways all of this is to say that whenever I stop training for even a week, like if i have exams or something, I'm immediately completely out of shape and have to start from scratch. my peak was my black belt test, and even then I struggled immensely with the long distance running; I finished last and nearly passed out even though I would train literally just running, walking or sitting until I caught my breath, and then running, for hours and hours straight for the 6 months leading up to it (combined with constant treadmill practice before). But now, I can't even run for 10 minutes no matter how hard I train. i don't understand what i'm doing wrong.
it's already embarrassing enough having to prove myself as a girl in a majority male group. I even led my group during black belt graduation and felt sick after like 30 minutes. In terms of sheer muscular strength in kicks and punches, I'm not nearly as poor as my cardio and stamina. i'm a first degree black belt and feel like a total fraud. no matter what I do i cannot run. any advice?
I'm curious on how different generations of practitioners and instructors view the development of the scoring system from the introduction of the electronic scoring up to now (and for further years to come). I know that this topic can create a big division between everyone but I wanna know everyone's thoughts! I'm not really physically exposed to kyorugi competitions and that's one of the reasons I ended up asking this question.
does itf have a strong presence in md?
Background:
Last year I moved pretty far and had to find a new Dojo because I come from Karate Goju-Ryu which I absolutely loved and I wanted to continue because I just reached first Dan.
Sadly in my range there is no school that is available, 1h drive away. As a family father 4 hours in the week away is hard when 2 hours are just driving.
I looked around, I found a local Taekwondo school with a 4th Degree Master. They do traditional TKD and are not part of a big paid federation in Germany but part of the independent Taekwondo organisation. Learning it was fun. New language, helped me with my hip problems incredibly fast and I just liked it.
Now:
Because I came from Karate, my master was okay with me using the same belt. So I am sitting there with a black belt in a relatively low degree belt school (1 other 3rd dan) and can't even do advanced kicks. This didn't quite fit with my mental image of being a black belt so I took it seriously and trained at home a lot of times. Learning Hyungs is insanely mind-taxing because they are so closely related sometimes that I mix moves in between a lot. Trying to learn the Korean syntax to understand my master better. Just learning and living the martial art and the appreciate the history.
But here also comes the frustrating part.
It seems my school is a fraction of some other school. Using the old teachings from General Choi. But also not really. Well... here's a list.
This just makes it so frustrating to try and learn by yourself because you can't validate any source. Could be another style, other stuff. So I am quite unsure how to pursue my goal faster/better.
Edit: I am amused at how this turned into a "oh no he wears our holy black belt" when this was not even the point. You got a new guy here, who is seriously into learning this art because it's incredibly cool and u insult him because his belt color, which was accepted by a 4th Dan WT master is your problem. Nice.
2 Edit: Maybe I have to tone back a bit. I was getting annoyed by the talk against my school and got defensive because I respect my master and her school. Though that is not a reason to be mean, so sorry for that.
Another thing is I would like to thank you for the feedback I have received. It cleared up my mind a bit.
What you doing guys when your dojang many child students, what your training to make them fun
i have been training tkd since i was 23 which was 4 years ago now age 27 i am currently an green belt in wt taekwondo style but havent participated in any tournaments or championships due to no availability for daily training plus adult tournaments arent available that often unless its a poomsae tournament or championship which i dont like doing however at this moment in time i feel that i am not training for a goal and wasting time and energy due to the fact that i cant participate in kyorugi tournament which was my goal when i had started 4 years ago and now i at 27 years old i find that i have more important things to focus on like career and marriage and a lot of other things like buying my own flat so the question is and i am really sorry for the long post is training once every two weeks and just limiting my calories would be enough to maintain as i really struggle to find time to do anything beside work that can help me get promoted like taking courses as i train consistently in my off days and therefore wasting them both as i am tired after the session and if there is no tournaments to train for then what is the reason for to train in taekwondo without participating or winning any tournaments or championships?
I know it sounds silly but lately I’ve come to terms that on my journey to black belt in taekwondo, I’m losing motivation and interest. Why? The lack of sparring and sparring drills. It’s been nothing but patterns and although I love the conditioning that comes with patterns I want to be able to fight. So current idea is if taekwondo isn’t going to just focus on patterns then maybe to keep motivated I should take up kickboxing,Muay Thai or mma. I’ve been coming up with excuses not to go to class. I originally got into taekwondo (itf) for the combat/sparring aspect. Without it, I feel like I’m just “dancing” then fighting. And yes I know martial arts is about self growth, it’s why I refuse to quit taekwondo has helped me both with my physical and mental health a ton, but I have to accept that doing just patterns isn’t what I signed up for. What’s your take on the situation?