Anonymous at Mon, 9 Dec 2024 14:28:42 UTC No. 217285

>>217284
Personally, I'm a 4th Kyu in Kyokushin, I've been training for more than three years now, and I buy my gis from Kyokushinworldshop but I recently went to Japan and got one from Budoshop in Ikebukuro and it's really nice.

Anonymous at Mon, 9 Dec 2024 14:45:55 UTC No. 217286

>>217285
is it worth it? How old are you?

Anonymous at Mon, 9 Dec 2024 14:50:14 UTC No. 217287

>>217286
I'm 26 years old, for reference I live in the UK so shipping etc from KWS to England isn't expensive. If you're asking about Budoshop in Japan.... I got it in Japan because the domestic prices in Japan are really cheap, plus the Yen was at an all time low when I was there, and as far as souvenirs from Japan go, a karategi is the ideal one for me. However ordering from Budoshop from abroad can be quite expensive, and their english website is very clunky, which is quite odd as the owner is almost fluent in English.

Anonymous at Mon, 9 Dec 2024 16:24:52 UTC No. 217292

>>217284
Kata should be treated like shadow boxing. It's used to perfect technique and muscle memory AFTER you learned kihon (fundamentals) and engage in kumite to actually know how to take a hit as well as engage against a partner trying do the same to you.

I'm sorta karate through my instructor's lineage. He was a former World Oyama (a Kyokushin offshoot) adherent who cross-trained in Muay Thai and Savate. So what I learn is a blend of 3 disciplines with traces of the karate like before and after class we do seiza while in-between it's pad drills, bag work, sparring, clinching/neck-wrestling practice, etc.

Anonymous at Tue, 10 Dec 2024 04:37:55 UTC No. 217332

>>217292
why do people who don't do karate always have these groundbreaking opinions on what karate "should" be

Anonymous at Tue, 10 Dec 2024 11:05:36 UTC No. 217340

I wish there was any Kyokushin within a hundred miles. My Uechi-Ryu school has okay people but pretty much no kumite.

Anonymous at Tue, 10 Dec 2024 19:10:31 UTC No. 217351

I don't do Karate but in my MMA gym our sensei is a second dan of Shito-Ryu and he forces us to follow Karate etiquette and discipline with all the senpai, seiza, onegaishimasu, oss, obi and all that minus the Karategi even if we don't actually do any of the karate techniques

Anonymous at Tue, 10 Dec 2024 21:38:00 UTC No. 217361

>>217351
if you go to another gym, you'll find the karate etiquette really weeds people out who just go to class because they want to hurt people

Anonymous at Wed, 11 Dec 2024 01:55:05 UTC No. 217384

>>217284
>brown belt (two stripes before black to go)
>I love kata. I do shito ryu and we do so many kata but only 1/3 of class is dedicated to it. We do a mix of 1/3 bag work/drills and 1/3 sparring
>Amazon, sewing my own pants, and Century
>McDojos are real and it's worth knowing what to look for to find a quality dojo that promotes based on merit

Anonymous at Wed, 11 Dec 2024 07:34:55 UTC No. 217393

>>217340
Hey, you from the last thread. I'm the Shotokan guy.
I hope the Uechi-Ryu works out for you. I'm also in the same boat with my dojo, its mostly kihon and kata which is good training, but, I would like for a bit more kumite and also not just ippon kumite. I see that the free sparring, jiyu kumite, is for the brown belts and up only. Granted I am only green belt (6th kyu) and I have skipped some gradings which falls on me as I hindered my own progress.
At judo we do some randori often which I feel is good.

Anonymous at Wed, 11 Dec 2024 11:12:50 UTC No. 217396

>>217393
What's interesting is I'm the youngest in the school at 39. There's also one other white belt and then everyone else is black belt.
It makes for interesting training when the whole class is trying to help me and show me stuff. That part is kind of cool, actually. The other white belt is two stripes ahead of me, about 4 months of classes ahead of more.

Anonymous at Wed, 11 Dec 2024 14:54:19 UTC No. 217401

>>217340
>>217393
Y'all know there is nothing stopping & and a partner from getting together and doing your own sparring right? I hear this conplaint all the time, even from students in the same school together. Lol its so silly. Take some initiative.

Anonymous at Wed, 11 Dec 2024 15:06:51 UTC No. 217402

>>217396
Thats cool. A lot of the black belts are always willing to help from what I have experienced. I'm just over 10 years younger and started 2 years ago.
>>217401
Fair enough, it is up to me. The guys at the dojo that are really good with kumite will get together and spar, I should ask to join. Outside of the dojo I mostly just do some kihon on my own and hit the boxing bag and then do uchikomi with a stretch cord for judo in addition to cardio and weights

Anonymous at Wed, 11 Dec 2024 15:50:47 UTC No. 217404

>>217401
It depends where you're located. We've changed locations a few times, at the old place we were allowed to lock up so sometimes I would spar with the other students at the end of class, as well as doing conditioning and other aspects. But now we're at a new location and we're not allowed to lock up so we can't stay for very long after class which sucks as sometimes there's just not enough time in the lesson to do everything you want, especially in regards to sparring and prepping for tournaments.

Anonymous at Thu, 12 Dec 2024 05:07:41 UTC No. 217434

Anonymous at Thu, 12 Dec 2024 10:44:02 UTC No. 217443

>>217284
>What's everyones grades?
Green
>Do you like kata?
Yes. Mostly for history and how to actually use it.
>Where do you buy your gi's from?
Some rough part of town where for some reason they sell a lot of sports martial arts supplies. Cost about 10 dollars.
>McDojos
There's few dojos here in the first place and most of them are ran by former police officers.
>>217393
>I see that the free sparring, jiyu kumite, is for the brown belts and up only.
That's weird. The only kumite we do is free sparring. I'm usually pitted against brown belts.

Anonymous at Thu, 12 Dec 2024 22:32:22 UTC No. 217476

>>217284
> What's everyones grades?
Green
> Do you like kata?
Yes. I quiet like heian nidan and sandan
> Where do you buy your gi's from?
Decathlon and a local store here in South Africa
> Does anyone else find the obsession with finding "mcdojos" annoying and counter productive?
I can't say I have seen any. I don't go around looking for them. I do like laughing at the videos I see of them online

Anonymous at Fri, 13 Dec 2024 19:21:52 UTC No. 217526

>>217284
>What's everyones grades?
I'am Yellow belt in Shito-Ryu which is the minimum requirement to participate in Kumite
>Do you like kata?
No, the reason why I didn't advanced more in Shito-ryu is because that
>Where do you buy your gi's from?
It was a gift so idk
>Does anyone else find the obsession with finding "mcdojos" annoying and counter productive?
What is a McDojo to begin with? In my city most Dojos focus in sport part of the Karate and that isn't inherently wrong, my Dojo focus in both self-defence and Sport Karate and the Sensei is very clear in ask why is your objective when you roll-up since the classes of Self-Defense include obligatory Boxing plus some Judo and Wrestling which are two days extra of training. But I didn't see nothing wrong with Dojos that only teach the more spiritual or sporting side of Karate.

Anonymous at Sun, 15 Dec 2024 21:10:37 UTC No. 217653

Over four hours of testing for my 3rd kyu today, will only find out if I passed on Tuesday, wish me luck anons

Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 06:17:13 UTC No. 217684

>>217653
Four hours? Wtf bro did they even see you do the punch thing

Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 06:59:56 UTC No. 217687

Why is karate like this?

Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 09:11:58 UTC No. 217693

>>217292
>Kata should be treated like shadow boxing.
Wrong. They are not and never will be. In boxing, you learn punches and movements in a way you do them in sparring first and THEN combine all this is shadow boxing. With kata, you learn some cringe dance first and THEN trying to find use for movements, so you go other way around which is cringe. All the shit black belt 9th grade masters do is inventing another cringe decryption of some static hand rise in kata. "Oh, now this is a block, no, now this is a throw, oh no, now this is a choke" fucking faggot, learn propper throws and chokes first and stop inventing shit!
>It's used to perfect technique
Wrong, since technique is the best way to APPLY FORCE. If you are not applying force you are not practicing technique. It is impossible to perfect a technique of a throw to an air. What you can learn is SEQUENCE OF BODY PART MOVEMENTS which is not technique and which can be learnt very quickly and you don't need to spent 30 min of your practice every week on some strange dance where this technique occurs one or two times.

Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 14:36:13 UTC No. 217700

>>217526
>What is a McDojo to begin with?
"McDojo" is a school that prioritizes profit over quality instruction, often using questionable teaching methods, unqualified instructors, and a focus on earning belts or ranks quickly rather than developing genuine skills.
>https://www.reddragonkarate.com/
If you really want to know what a McDojo is, go to that website, scroll all the way down and click on "License Opportunity." This is a particularly famous one in my area. The guy that played scorpion in the firsg mortal kombat runs it. They're not the worst offenders, they're at least good enough to build children's confidence & teach basic self-defense skills. But if you go where I said, you'll see that you can just buy your way into the business. Not anywhere in their licensure packet does it mention that you need to be a black belt & they do in house instructor training. At least they do sparring so its not total garbage but none of their instructors are truly qualified.

Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 14:42:35 UTC No. 217702

>>217700
Against my wishes & because it's the only one in the area, my son goes to one of these schools, like that exact one. The instructor just opened the school, before this he was a truck driver. His only martial arts instruction has been from Red Dragon. My son is 6 has only been going a few months and has already been promoted once. I don't think they do traditional promotions either, they just put two pieces of yellow duct tape on the end of his belt lol.

Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 18:46:10 UTC No. 217722

>>217684
what did he mean by this

Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 19:24:36 UTC No. 217725

I don't understand this idea of "grading" and "tests" going on for hours and hours, how much time does it take to see if someone is punching the air in front of the mirror properly or not?
and why is there even a "testing" day, why isn't the teacher watching all the time

Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 21:19:06 UTC No. 217730

>>217725
Depends a lot in the dojo but in my Dojo which is Shito-Ryu the tests involves this(in order):
1- Physical exam, is basically push ups, jogging, abs, planks, etc to see if you're fit
2- Goshindo: they must perform all the Bunkais of the Goshindo with all the way to their belt
3- Karate: Kihon, Katas and Bunkai in group were all the students taking the exam do the movements from the White Belt to his current belt. For example, a Blue Belt must do all the katas, kihon and bunkai all the way to their own Kyu. After that they must do individually a Kata and Bunkai of their current Kyu.
4- Kumite
5- Kobudo in this one the student chooses a weapon and must choose and perform the Kata and Bunkai of their current level (individually)
6- Theory and Vocabulary: basically the sensei or a instructor performs a technique and must answer asks name of the technique, if was performed in Gedan, Chudan, Jodan in what position (Moto Dachi, Zenkutsu dachi, Shiko Dachi etc)
One can fail the test by:
-Having overall poor performance
or by one of the circumstances of immediately failure:
-forgetting to bring your own weapon (isn't allowed to borrow or use one of the Dojo)
-Injuring the partner in the Bunkai
-Being three times in a row hit in the Bunkai of Karate, being hit once in the Bunkai of Kobudo
-Dropping the weapon in the Kobudo Kata or Bunkai
-Poor Performance in the Kumite (losing the match for a difference of 10 point of more)

Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 21:30:54 UTC No. 217733

>>217725
It would surprise you the amount of people that performs incredible in the trainings but crumbles to pressure in the tests, if they can't handle the pressure of test they can't handle the pressure of competition or worst case scenario a real fight.

Anonymous at Tue, 17 Dec 2024 00:23:21 UTC No. 217748

>>217725
You are supposed to demonstrate that you know and can perform effective techniques under pressure. Hope this helps.

Anonymous at Tue, 17 Dec 2024 02:20:23 UTC No. 217753

>>217730
Very nice breakdown, nta, but thank you.

Anonymous at Tue, 17 Dec 2024 02:27:36 UTC No. 217754

>>217730
So, I'm this guy>>217702
Does your dojo do kids as young as 6? Whats the promotion like for them if they do? I just don't want my kid growing up with this garbage, then jumping into a real dojo and having his world rocked & clock cleaned so if I can supplement his instruction I will. If its bad enough I'll bite the bullet, pull him out and travel further if need be.

Anonymous at Tue, 17 Dec 2024 03:55:25 UTC No. 217757

>>217733
>>217748
if they're getting nervous under pressure then it means they haven't been stress inoculated, which means they aren't sparring in class

Anonymous at Tue, 17 Dec 2024 04:43:00 UTC No. 217759

>>217757
Not quite, sparring in a normal training class doesn't has the same vibe of a test or competitive kumite since there is no stakes

Anonymous at Tue, 17 Dec 2024 06:40:29 UTC No. 217762

>>217730
Is there an alternative test where you can just beat the shit out of a higher ranker

Anonymous at Tue, 17 Dec 2024 11:48:43 UTC No. 217777

>>217757
r u retarded?

Anonymous at Tue, 17 Dec 2024 15:00:39 UTC No. 217778

>>217340
Uechi-Ryu here as well, a lack of Kumite is really unfortunate. Kumite is like the most important part of Karate I feel.

Anonymous at Wed, 18 Dec 2024 20:19:06 UTC No. 217845

>>217284
Which Grappling martial art should I learn to complement my Karate? because so far as I understand most of the techniques of Karate are thought to try to execute a grapple, joint-lock or submission.
No BJJ is too expensive in my country (even more than fucking fencing, I mean WTF?)

Anonymous at Wed, 18 Dec 2024 21:47:52 UTC No. 217849

>>217845
Judo or wrestling.

Anonymous at Wed, 18 Dec 2024 22:37:25 UTC No. 217850

>>217845
sumo

Anonymous at Thu, 19 Dec 2024 05:06:14 UTC No. 217874

>>217284
>Does anyone else find the obsession with finding "mcdojos" annoying and counter productive?
The only thing that would change this is if there was a full-contact competitive format that karateka mostly agreed on, like Karate Combat or the old American Kickboxing rules. Without that, you won't have a large enough stable of competent fighters to reign in the bullshit. But until then, people that are fundamentally incompetent coaches will continue to operate because there's nothing to hold them against.

Either the WKF gets its shit together and writes better rules, or there's another competitive ruleset that everyone agrees is "karate" and trains for.

Anonymous at Thu, 19 Dec 2024 05:08:53 UTC No. 217875

anybody see the video where the girl tries to get a taekwondo black belt in 90 days?

and it sorta is a grim reminder that in order to get a black belt in karate all you pretty much need is a background in dance, and as long as you learn the routines punching and kicking at the air you can do it

really gay

Anonymous at Thu, 19 Dec 2024 14:09:41 UTC No. 217886

>>217875
i call karate my dance class at this point. I don't think there's kumite until brown belt. Really considering kickboxing.

Anonymous at Thu, 19 Dec 2024 14:48:09 UTC No. 217887

>>217875
>>217886
If true, sucks for you, but not all dojos are like that & honestly you come off as blackpill fags.
>>217874
>there was a full-contact competitive format that karateka mostly agreed on, like Karate Combat or the old American Kickboxing rules
>Karate Combat
>WKF(kumite)
>USAIKF(full-contact)
>WKA(full-contact)
There are, you even listed one, the fuck are you on about? There are good dojos & bad ones. This applies to every type of gym/martial arts. There are MMA gyms that are glorifies aerobics studios that never compete or ones being run by total fucking failures with shit practices. This doesn't need to & can't be fixed with a set of rules. It is a result of consumers looking for that experience on purpose. Mcdojos exist because there are people who pay for them. Believe it or not martial arts, karate include, exists on a spectrum & some people want everything except full contact. IMO a mcdojo is only the ones that lie about the level of competency they're teaching.

Anonymous at Thu, 19 Dec 2024 15:03:29 UTC No. 217889

>>217887
For me, uniforms are the first red flag I need to see to know it'll be shit
Impractical silly costumes with no function
>muh tradition
Wrong.

Anonymous at Thu, 19 Dec 2024 17:08:19 UTC No. 217896

>>217875
Average ballet dancer is fitter than average karateka

Anonymous at Thu, 19 Dec 2024 18:02:46 UTC No. 217901

Which is the difference between Kickboxing and Full-Contact Karate? I mean in the end a Full-Contact Karate ends ups using the close range Tsukis and Uchis that the equivalent of a Jab, Hook, Cross and Uppercut but are not typically seem in tournaments since the mid-long distance of the Kumite

Anonymous at Thu, 19 Dec 2024 18:43:53 UTC No. 217905

Are Maegeri Jodan still banned? I dropped Karate and went to KickBoxing but I getting old and I can't handle the punishment of Full Contact anymore so I was thinking return to Kumite

Anonymous at Thu, 19 Dec 2024 18:50:12 UTC No. 217907

>>217875
I regularly get beaten up in kumite (Shotokan) and my sensei flat out told me 2 weeks ago "You're not getting promoted until you start doing better and winning in kumite". And I'm almost always pitted against brown belts in our dojo. I just train more, try to do better in kumite (comparing old kumite videos to now seems like I am) against the senpais (and still end up getting my ass kicked). Honestly it's scary and exciting as fuck at the same time.

Anonymous at Thu, 19 Dec 2024 20:10:25 UTC No. 217914

>>217887
Case in point, a bunch of tiny and fractured federations.

>There are MMA gyms that are glorifies aerobics studios that never compete or ones being run by total fucking failures with shit practices
There are BJJ clubs that are borderline aikido, but the acceptance of IBJJF and NAGA puts an upper limit on the grappling bullshido you can get away with.

>can't be fixed with a set of rules
It's about, as a culture, agreeing on a competitive format because ultimately people train for the sport. The fractured karate federations and the point-full contact divide make this hard.

K-1 (yes, I know started with karateka) and Thai rules don't have this problem, and are much healthier for it. Karate's decline is in no small part due to its own politics and culture.

Anonymous at Fri, 20 Dec 2024 00:18:44 UTC No. 217923

>>217914
>IBJJF
>puts an upper limit on the grappling bullshido

It is directly responsible for it

Anonymous at Fri, 20 Dec 2024 08:25:01 UTC No. 217944

>>217907
Sounds cool. Are you part of JKA?
Is anyone here part of JKA

Anonymous at Fri, 20 Dec 2024 11:10:03 UTC No. 217945

How did TKD become more legitimate? I live in the worst possible timeline. We were making fun of TKD as kids.

Anonymous at Fri, 20 Dec 2024 23:22:55 UTC No. 217960

>>217945
Because at least they care about it as a cultural heritage, there's a master Lees and a master Kim's in every town
Karate has been abandoned and left to white boomers to just make shit up as they go

Anonymous at Sat, 21 Dec 2024 02:36:06 UTC No. 217963

>>217889
>uniforms are the first red flag
You're a fag in case you didn't know.

Anonymous at Sat, 21 Dec 2024 02:52:23 UTC No. 217964

>>217963
It serves no purpose

Anonymous at Sat, 21 Dec 2024 17:34:09 UTC No. 217992

>>217905
Most people I know don't do maegeri jodan's whilst sparring, they will in competitions, but occasionally people with really good control will do them whilst sparring

Anonymous at Sat, 21 Dec 2024 17:36:17 UTC No. 217993

>>217653
I did it 'Nons....

>>217875
>This girl got a black belt in TKD
>karatebros is it over
anon.........

Anonymous at Sat, 21 Dec 2024 17:36:48 UTC No. 217995

>>217874
Anon you know Kyokushin exists right?

Anonymous at Sat, 21 Dec 2024 17:53:53 UTC No. 217996

>>217993
Tkd is karate, there's no distinction aside from Korean insecurity making them change the language
Many of the forms are lifted directly 1:1 from shotokan

Anonymous at Sat, 21 Dec 2024 18:01:18 UTC No. 217998

>>217996
Also, this is an extraordinary circumstance, most karate organisations I know require you to be reccomended for your black belt exam, and my organisation requires 6 months between first and second brown belt, and then a year between second brown and shodan. The interesting part about the video to me was the time required for grading. I've done many kyu exams which took over two hours, but in one part of the video she comments that her red belt exam is "long" because it will be almost an hour.

Anonymous at Sat, 21 Dec 2024 20:35:46 UTC No. 218016

>>217996
>Many of the forms are lifted directly 1:1 from shotokan
Total bullshit.

Anonymous at Sat, 21 Dec 2024 20:42:30 UTC No. 218017

>>218016
https://youtu.be/Ot-rBhiIUKs?si=2TN4AVvUMTvX6R3Y

https://youtu.be/SFxfnjBYmv8?si=mnE-9lp3Oz-AZw7A

Anonymous at Sun, 22 Dec 2024 00:06:12 UTC No. 218031

>>218016
https://youtu.be/ZpzJMdcQCBI?si=W0V7i4CUcJ-mIm-g

https://youtu.be/tXPZFarJMh0?si=JdGnaoNWyZW_XGQY

completely different and distinct martial arts right here, see you can tell because the girl aims her kick up and the guy aims his kick down. That's how you know korea invented taekwondo as a totally home grown martial art that coincidentally showed up after the japanese occupation and uses their uniform and ranking system
it's indigenous though, the korean government says so

Anonymous at Sun, 22 Dec 2024 15:08:33 UTC No. 218051

>>218031
Many martial arts share many similarities. You could do that same kind of comparison between half a dozen different styles. If your going to be a faggot with your logic like this you may as well call Karate kung fu. Taekwondo was influenced by Japanese occupation but it didn't come from it retard. The overwhelming majority of Taekwondo was inherited from Taekkyon.
>Taekkyon established by 668 C.E.
>Shotokan eatablished by 1938.
That's a 1,270 year difference you fucking retard. To claim it's a 1:1 transfer from Shoto is fucking next level stupid & ignores how much of Taekwondo massively fucking predates it. If you knew FUCK ALL about japanese martial arts, you would realize they jacked almost everything from other countries.
>tl;dr: you got it backwards dipshit.

Anonymous at Sun, 22 Dec 2024 15:53:03 UTC No. 218055

>>218051
Nah, that's Korean revisionism there

Japan occupied Korea, Korea picked up a Japanese hobby
Simple as

Anonymous at Sun, 22 Dec 2024 16:08:23 UTC No. 218059

>>218055
>>218051
>>218031
>>218017
>>218016
>>217996
Korean-American here, it's true. Reading A Killing Art: The Untold History of Taekwondo.

The 9 kwans (schools) which would later form TKD and Tang Soo Do all have documented evidence that its founders trained in these 3 karate styles:

- Shotokan (General Choi even blatantly plagiarized Funakoshi's book on Shotokan because he felt it was fair game that Japanese copied Korean and Chinese culture for centuries so he decided it was okay for Koreans to do the same)

- Shito Ryu

- Shudokan

And in Tang Soo Do's case, the founder received training in Northern Chinese styles so that was a case of blending Chinese, Japanese/Okinawan, and Korean into 1.

I don't think much of most karate or kenpo either, but there's some nifty stuff they have like toe kicks that Uechi Ryu has or the thumb punch that Okinawan schools practice. Not to mention close-quarters grappling (mainly bone-breaking grabs and throws) that Okinawan styles had called tuite or toide.

And of course Japanese knockdown karate like Kyokushin, World Oyama, Ashihara, World Oyama, Seidokaikan, Shidokan, Daido Juku/Kudo (but they kinda became MMA-esque), etc. are definitely worthy of respect.

But if you're gonna learn an Asian striking style, I'd advocate Muay Thai. I do like Sanda/Sanshou because their kick catches are very nifty to use.

Anonymous at Sun, 22 Dec 2024 16:35:53 UTC No. 218064

>>218055
You're a faggot retard who only knows how to argue using reductive logic. Just stfu dude.
>>218059
This is part of the reason why getting obsessed with a styles lineage or where what came from & using that as a way to put it down is peak fucking retarded. There are hardly any styles that are uninfluenced by others and any style that truly is standalone usually fucking sucks cause it hasn't been tested against anything but itself.
>Muay Thai
I like it but man I hate striking with my joints. I can wear my knuckles and toes bloody & not give a shit but something about joint pain really fucks with me & even with spot on form it can donk you up sometimes. Then again I'm getting on in years. My knees swell just after using them on a heavy bag a few times.

Anonymous at Sun, 22 Dec 2024 16:58:13 UTC No. 218065

>>218064
I'm mainly a boxer who knows how to throw hard low kicks. So I'm almost like a Dutch kickboxer but boxing is my bread-and-butter. I can slip, bob & weave, use footwork, string combinations, etc. But I also can throw cut kicks or foot sweep. The only other kicks I know is the fouette (only when I wear shoes since it's a toe kick to the midsection) because I met a Savateur who taught it to me as well as teeps (from my muay coach) and the Sanda-style side kick stamp (from a Chinese dude I sparred with). I only kick with the shin or heel (never with the ball or instep unless it's a soft area where I won't get injured badly).

I've been meaning to learn how to use knees and elbows but kinda wary of getting injured during practice.

Anonymous at Sun, 22 Dec 2024 17:40:20 UTC No. 218066

>>218051
>Taekkyon
>The reconstructed martial art that had no living practitioners until the 80s
Nonsense, Taekwondo came from Tang Soo Do, which also means Chinese hand. Tang refering to the Tang Dynasty of China. All modern Taekkyon is essentially historical reconstructions of what they believe it MIGHT have been like. If anything modern Taekkyon has more TKD in it than the vice versa.

Anonymous at Sun, 22 Dec 2024 17:47:28 UTC No. 218067

>>218064
I've demonstrated TKD and karate have
The same forms
The same ranking system
The same clothing
The matching timeline
And now we have the admission they just copied it

You're just sticking your fingers in your ears about it
TKD is a karate style and that's all there is to it

I realize it's a running gag on the internet for Koreans to say they invented everything first, but it's just a joke bro

Anonymous at Thu, 26 Dec 2024 10:18:49 UTC No. 218399

>>218059
>General Choi even blatantly plagiarized Funakoshi's book on Shotokan because he felt it was fair game that Japanese copied Korean and Chinese culture for centuries so he decided it was okay for Koreans to do the same
Normally I don't like gooks, but this is kinda based.

Anonymous at Thu, 26 Dec 2024 10:28:53 UTC No. 218401

>>218051
>Using C.E.
Jew

Anonymous at Thu, 26 Dec 2024 18:17:20 UTC No. 218410

>>218401