no way i would do that... gets a hold of you it´s over. drag you in the water and roll. no chance... the most i see here is wild pigs and Deer. However in the last few years wolves are coming back over from Eastern Europe.
Where did you get the idea I assume the opponent cannot do it? All I said is I don't think it's wise to do it. I would like you to point out where I said I assume people won't do it just because I don't think it's wise.
Of cause, people do flying kicks, high kicks in real fights. Is it wise? That's a completely different question. Can you do flying kicks in the bar cold, without warmup?
You keep trying to personalize this. And that's silly. There are, absolutely, people who can do high kicks and flying kicks cold, without warmup.
We train that Kick (assuming you mean kung fu flying kick to knee) in Jow Ga but that kick is more difficult than the flying side kick that you see most people do. I haven't done one in a long time and I just tried and lets just say that I look like a beginner. lol. This kick is more of a jump kick than a flying side kick. But you jump up and towards the person and as you fall towards the person you extend your leg and the full weight of your jump lands on the knee. Not sure if that's what you were thinking of.
Schools don't discourage in a street fight. They discourage training it because you run the risk of a student blowing out another student's knee. Now as the owner of the school, you may have lost students because of this because no one wants to learn martial arts by getting their knee kicked in. Then you place yourself in legal risk for negligence.
So you can't doing it.
That's why I think not doing the flying side kick is the progressive thing. I think after a certain age and weight, the flying side kick becomes more of a liability. That's how most things are in life. Skate board tricks as a teen and in your 20's are fine. But as you get older, the skate board tricks that you were once good at become a liability. People tend to lose flexibility and endurance as they get older so Older people are more likely to train things that make the fight end quicker, because they know that the longer the fight goes, the bigger the disadvantage will get.
Yes, they don't exactly say no, they don't allow you to do it is sparring and don't practice much. At least this is true in my school. So student don't get use to kicking low. I never even thought much until I see it in UFC and see the effectiveness.
I'm pretty sure that in that bar most people can barely kick above their waist let alone do a flying side kick lol
I started TKD when I was 31, that's OLD already. I knew my limits, that I have to stretch to do high side and round kicks, these are not going to help in street fight, you cannot tell the guy......WAIT!!! Let me warm up first before we fight!!!
Where do you personalize it? Every time you ask if I can do something. For the record, I can. But that is irrelevant. It doesn't matter if I can do it, or if you can do it. What matters is the incontrovertible fact that there are absolutely, positively, 100% people who can do it.
So when you insist that I cannot do it, that's why I discount it is NOT personalizing? Maybe I should stop, you can ban me.
Starting to learn at 31 is old. Of cause you practice when you were young, at 31 or even 51 is ok. Not if you just start at 31 from white belt.
31 is old for TKD. Most do start as Teens. Tried it at 27. Hated it. Was fit enough but all that kicking was not me.
I'm not insisting that you cannot do it. YOU said you cannot do it.
I've had a student start when she was 67. My wife started when she was in her 50's. 31 is nothing.
Yeah good for her but c'mon the Quality? Good for some fitness but not much more.
