Taekwondo "street" appliance?

Question

Hi there, I was practicing Tae-Kwon-Do for two years, and I am going to hopefully continue it. I am as good as I should be for a green belt, and a little more, as my uncle has some experience in martial arts and shows me some more stuff. Also, I have began learning Parkour (some simple stuff though). I was wondering if there is any martial art website, video etc. that gives some modifications of TKD moves that could be used for self defence (no point doing poomses when attacked!).out on the dangerous streets.

Also -a bit irrelevant- in Tekken Tag from Baek and in TC: New York City I have seen a TKD kick where you step on the opponents knee and kick him on the face. Is that a real TKD move?

Answer 1

It's a real move if you want it to be. More commonly what you see is when someone kicks you lift up one leg (say your left) like a normal block. Then you jump off of your other leg and bring it around to kick while pushing down their blocked leg. It's hard to describe. Jet Li did it in "the one".

For street applications using TKD, I can't help you there. Just keep in mind you don't want to do anything that is going to take one of your legs off of the ground unless you're sure it will land solid.

Answer 2

Doesnt your TKD school have a separate self defense and punching defense curriculum?

You can punch and kick in the street, I just don't reccommend the fancy stuff.  Kick low, kick hard and punch and try to get away.  A jump spinning hook kick is not a good street technique.

James

Answer 3

all I can say is I have defended my self a couple of times using tea kwon do in a street fight situation before starting mma. so it works there but did my first mma fight with out mma training and got beat up. tkd is just fine for self defence

Answer 4

By doing a movement a couple of hundred times you should react without thinking about it. If your teacher makes you do 10 minutes of high blocks and low blocks every lesson then he/she is trying to drill the movements in to your reflexes so that you use without thinking if attacked.

For your second question it could be a move if you want it to be, but I would never do it if I had to depend my life on it, short, sharp and dirty wins the battle.

Answer 5

its not so much about the art as it is about u. if u train hard and have a muscle memory which will block or dodge a hit then it is affective. but if u freeze up and get bashed its not the art freezing. the art will only give u the oppurtunity to develope the capability to defend urself. and to be honest tkd gives a student a lot of potential to develope the capability to defend urself. doin an endless amount of blocks in class goes a long way wen someone throws an unexpected punch