That's definitely a change in direction on your martial arts journey.Due to time constraints , i have ditched the plan to join the evening kickboxing classes ... because i am too tired in the evening after my work ...
Instead i am going to join a taekwondo training school ...
They have classes on saturday and sunday morning ....
You will find many people on here who started in TKD then intentionally moved on to other systems. I certainly can respect the offensive power of TKD strikes, the same way I can respect the ballistic path of a .22 rimfire bullet (I don't want to be hit with either one), even though neither is my preferred weapon of choice. But neither of these things are ideal for self-defense. You are unlikely to learn realistic self-defense in a TKD school. Primarily because you learn how to fight other TKD martial artists, and not against realistic attacks from trained or untrained fighters in a self-defense situation.I have been trying to read about taekwondo .... most of the comments on the internet were like taekwondo is about punches and kicks ...
Then i found this website ...
https://ymaa.com/sites/default/files/book/sample/Taekwondo-Defense-Against-Weapons.pdf
So taekwondo training also teaches things like these right ?
Just so you know, even the very best techniques for unarmed defense against a knife wielding attacker are low-percentage and not anything you ever want to be in the position of having to rely on in a real life-or-death situation.I have been trying to read about taekwondo .... most of the comments on the internet were like taekwondo is about punches and kicks ...
Then i found this website ...
https://ymaa.com/sites/default/files/book/sample/Taekwondo-Defense-Against-Weapons.pdf
So taekwondo training also teaches things like these right ?
Honestly, "because you learn how to fight other *insert art here* martial artists, and not against realistic attacks from trained or untrained fighters in a self-defense situation," is a fair criticism of the majority of martial arts schools in most systems. And the arts which do purport to address "realistic attacks" often have other issues worthy of criticism.
Why? I have trained tons of family groups, and can't even count how many I've seen over the years. I trained my wife and some of our kids. Nothing awkward about it.
You don't training in a Martial Art because you're flexible, you get flexible because you train.
Depends on the school. Some schools (especially Kukkiwon schools) are very very focused on Olympic sparring. Because of this narrow focus, these schools often fail to teach the entirety of the Art.
Really???? So, do you know someone who accidentally changed systems?
And yet, somehow, despite this terrible handicap, thousands of TKD practitioners around the world have managed to successfully defend themselves using their training. I've been in literally hundreds of violent confrontations. And somehow, I am still alive.
Nonsense. In ANY martial art, you're going to be learning to fight against other practitioners of that art. Because that's who you're training and sparring with.
Very true. Real life is not at all like Hollywood.
I am not convinced there ARE good approaches to unarmed defense against a weapon. Because a good approach would need to be successful more often than not.
Marc Denny has a video series entitled "Die Less Often," focused on dealing with armed attackers. The idea isn't so much "here are the secrets which will allow you to effortlessly overcome a knife-wielding maniac" and more "in the many parallel universes where you train this way, you will get killed less often than in the universes where you don't." I respect that level of humility.
That's one of the Dog Brothers videos, if I recall. They do some good stuff.
That's the most practical approach. I sort of think that could be in a separate category than actual unarmed vs armed defenses. Avoiding the first strike and drawing your own weapon is vastly different to subduing them without a weapon.
I totally agree, as stated I would not want to be hit by those kicks or punches. I also agree that you typically learn to fight against someone participating in the same rules as your system. Although certainly this isn't always true of other arts.
