Joe Rogan teaches GSP TKD spinning back kick

[IcemanSK]

Joe Rogan is often ripped by Taekwondo folks for some of the negative things he's said about TKD. However, he still keeps up his kicking skills enough to teach a great spinning back kick to Georges St. Pierre a few years back. This video is a great teaching piece, but contains STRONG GYM LANGUAGE AND NSFW!!

 

[Tez3]

I don't think that kick is limited to TKD though, we learnt it in karate many moons ago.

 

[Gorilla]

Gsp already had the back side kick from Karate....he is a 2nd Dan in Kuokushin karate...I have always liked that video because it is just two guys sharing technique! GSP has such an open mind!

 

[Tony Dismukes]

Yeah, GSP already knew how to do a spinning back kick and had used it in the UFC years earlier. Joe was just giving him some tips on how to throw it more effectively.

 

[IcemanSK]

Well, judging by GSP's comment, "I learned this kick wrong," he saw it as different version of the kick he had learned. A Kyokushin spinning back kick & a TKD spinning back are not done the same way. They are different kicks.

My purpose in posting this video wasn't to point out which has a more effective kick, but rather to counter what another poster had said about TKD having no value in MMA. That argument is not valid.

 

[Tez3]

Well, judging by GSP's comment, "I learned this kick wrong," he saw it as different version of the kick he had learned. A Kyokushin spinning back kick & a TKD spinning back are not done the same way. They are different kicks.

My purpose in posting this video wasn't to point out which has a more effective kick, but rather to counter what another poster had said about TKD having no value in MMA. That argument is not valid.

If you listen to some people nothing from TMA has any value, quite what they think fighters are doing is a mystery.

 

[drop bear]

Well, judging by GSP's comment, "I learned this kick wrong," he saw it as different version of the kick he had learned. A Kyokushin spinning back kick & a TKD spinning back are not done the same way. They are different kicks.

My purpose in posting this video wasn't to point out which has a more effective kick, but rather to counter what another poster had said about TKD having no value in MMA. That argument is not valid.

Heard somewhere in america especially tkd is pretty much the martial everybody does growing up. So almost everybody has a tkd background.

And tkd elements are used in mma.