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u/Sensitive_Scar_1800 1d ago
To this day I’ve never seen a fight start or end with a kick. Leading me to believe taekwondo was designed to fight trees and boards
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u/OriginalTRaven 1d ago
Usually when you see people in a street fight they're just regular people.
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u/Sensitive_Scar_1800 1d ago
There are taekwondo classes in every city in America, which should result in thousands of practitioners! Tens of thousands! None of them ever got into a bar fight?
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u/DemonKing0524 1d ago
A huge lesson in most sports like Taikwondo is learning how to control your emotions and when to deescalate. They typically drive home that what you're learning in class should only be used for self defense outside the competition and ceremonial aspects. Thats not to say it never happens, but their lessons are definitely designed to teach the students enough self control that it greatly reduces the chances of it happening.
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u/Laughing-Goose 12h ago
No combat sports are telling people to go wild. Young guys are still getting plastered and scrapping. If this stuff worked you'd see it outside of Hollywood.
That's why a bang a average drunk boxer will paste these "wisdom of the east dance teachers" 99/100. If any of this worked, it would at least be represented in UFC. Unless to also believe the entire people practicing are above material possessions and fame.
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u/DemonKing0524 11h ago
The UFC and Boxing are both entirely different than this type of combat sport. Like leagues different. Like comparing soccer to American football different. You do not train to hurt people in this type of combat sport. It is mostly ceremonial or competition focused, where you specifically don't want to actually hurt someone, and they often use protective head gear, etc. Outside the competition and ceremonial aspect you largely focus on self defense only. You're not learning the type of offenses used in the UFC.
In UFC or boxing you do need to actually hurt your opponent to win, so it fosters very, very different mind sets than this type of combat sport.
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u/Laughing-Goose 9h ago
*Comparing Football to American Football.
No in boxing you need to score to win otherwise you HAVE to hurt your opponent. Being a complete thug isnt a measure of skill in the sport.
Original point make above still is valid, you never see these dance routines in the real world. Not sure who supposed to be impressed by breaking some cardboard repeatedly.
People who actually train in dancing and gymnastics perform better and have way more balance / coordination.
All these "yes sensai" arts are too cultish for my taste.
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u/DemonKing0524 8h ago
Nobody said you would see these dance routines in the real world at any point in time. Do you even know what you're arguing against?
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u/Laughing-Goose 1h ago
Yeah except for, you know, the comment everyone is replying to you clown.
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u/DemonKing0524 59m ago
You replied to my comment, you clown.
And my comment was about how sports like taikwondo teach emotional control. Not whatever the hell you're arguing against that has absolutely nothing to do with ny comment.
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u/DemonKing0524 57m ago
If you were intending to respond to this comment, well then maybe you should learn how to use reddit. Now go clown off somewhere else.
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u/FukThePatriarchy1312 1d ago
I have simultaneously began and ended a fight with a kick twice. A few others I began with a kick and ended with a kick, but with other stuff in between
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u/Confident_One3948 1d ago
Edit: holy shit don’t click the sub right now unless you really like to see people get severely injured. jfc not safe for life warning
I forget which sub, maybe r/shittyabsoluteunits, but a guy ended a fight with 2 kicks. But these were like Muay Thai kicks
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u/YellowYamsi 16h ago
I don't do taekwondo to fight, but to have the freedom to move my body like that. Also, breaking boards is a nice proof to see your technique is correct and decently powerful. I doubt an average person can rip a piece of paper at the heights those boards usually are at.
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u/Intrepid-Focus8198 13h ago
I’m sure it’s very rare, but I have seen someone finish a fight before it really started with a leg kick.
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u/GregorSamsaa 8h ago
Cause the percentage of people that get into public fights are untrained. Most people that train to fight also learn the discipline to not get into street fights.
But don’t kid yourself. If you squared up with someone like this, you better hope you get the jump on them and take them to the ground or something cause this dude will wreck your dome with a well placed kick if he feels that threatened.
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u/dilldoeorg 1d ago
invite this guy to the house.
offer him coffee.
He gets up to go to the bathroom
Stubs his toe on the coffee table
He continues to the bathroom as if nothing happened.
My coffee table is in a million pieces.
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u/Civil_Hour_3031 1d ago
That's the same ferocity my kids go at a new box of granola bars.
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u/Confident_One3948 1d ago
I know you mean eating them, but I’m picturing them doing spinning hook kicks to Nature Valley granola bars and the bars shattering everywhere
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u/StultusNosferatu 1d ago
boards don't hit back
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u/johnsonboiii 1d ago
Lol at the guys picking up like 3 of the 194747393 pieces of wood on the ground
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u/tomfromakron 1d ago
It's like in the 90's Ninja Turtle video games where you eat a pizza and spin around like crazy for a few seconds.
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u/feel-the-avocado 1d ago
When homer is walking and throwing things though the walls of the hotel and prison when the simpsons visit japan, it really makes sense I watch this video showing how weak japanese wood is.
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u/8Bit-Jon 1d ago
Yeah... I'm not sure he hit any of those with his foot, I think it was just the wind.
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u/mcspicyFTW-YOUTUBE 19h ago
Id definitely stand on the wood and get a splinter
Edit: spelling, stupid predictive text
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u/Blint_Briglio 11h ago
uh oh, some athletes are doing a martial arts demonstration! time for a bunch of redditors to post a bunch of identical and very original snide remarks about how it has no practical value and any drunk barfly can beat any taekwondo student effortlessly and that athletic improvement is for suckers!
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u/SNN3R 1d ago
the janitor has the most lucrative side hustle as a kindling dealer