Post 3: The discrepancy between training, sparring and self-defence in Taekwondo
1. Taekwondo- only well known for its kicks? Taekwondo (TKD) is well known for its advanced, acrobatic and sometimes flashy kicks. One may assume that such a leg centric, acrobatic martial art would be hardly practical in a live self-defence situation and certainly not in another competition format like under UFC MMA rules. And there are a lot of people out there believing that. Despite that I touched on the matter of modern Taekwondo being an effective and practical Martial Art for self-defence in one of my last posts. To rephrase my statement from earlier. I believe it can be an effective self-defence system when taught correctly. The Martial Art of Taekwondo offers the subject of self-defence named hosinsul (literally self-defence in Korean) but the methods are often times developed poorly without an organized system behind it or copied from other martial arts lacking its contexts and therefore taught in a vacuum. Of course this is a generalization and in some pla...