What is more effective for kicking butt, Tae Kwon Do or Muay Thai?

Question

Just between these 2

Answer 1

your qestion is like asking somebody "what if i slap with you my right hand or left which one will hurt you more?"

if you are left handed the left hand will hurt or you right then the right will .. we can't categorize any art that how much effective it is .. art is not effective but the one who is doing it makes it work ..

my master says .. the warrior is inside you not in your art .. anyways whatever you like .. the more you practice the more you learn  it .. again before i finish it .. its you not the art who is dangerous .. improve yourself instead of thinking which art is more effective or dangerous .. i know you you won't like my answer but hate it or love it that's the truth so face it.

Answer 2

both are good

if you know how to use it to your advantage

Answer 3

both are good..but it all depend on who you are going to kick butt....be very, very careful!!!!

Answer 4

well tae Kwon D is more of a self defence and Muay Thai is a kick the **** out of you deal.

can you guess which one is better?

Answer 5

Muay Thai is a way better butt kicking.

Answer 6

Muay Thai, Tae Kwon Do is for sissies.

Answer 7

Both Good but Muay Thai would be more effective.

Answer 8

Muay Thai, Tae Kwon Do is for pu$$eys

Answer 9

everyone is wrong, im in tkd and they do tons of elbow and knee stuff, my friend is in mauy thai or whatever, and i can kick his butt

Answer 10

Defiantly Muay Thai. TKD focuses more on kicks and whatnot but Muay Thai focuses on punches,kicks,knees and more. The two are a bit different. I would say TKD is ALOT less intense than Muay Thai. When you encounter someone on the street, I would want to be the person who knows Muay Thai because the guy who does TKD will just get tanked over.

Answer 11

muay thai, tae kwon do is a bunch of flips and such. Muay thai will do the damage.

Answer 12

I see once again ignorance is reighning supreme. Demi- Muay Thai does not have belts, at least not traditionally.

I also agree with James that the people who study TKD are saying "both are effective" but I do not see the same respnse from the Muay Thai people, which quite honestly is no suprise, as most of them have probably never set foot inside any martial arts school, let alone trained seriously, like our Muay Thai Black Belt Demi LMAO.

The fact is that traditional TKD has far more then kicks, properly taught it has knees and elbows also, as well as good hand striking. Traditional TKD also includes locks and throws.

The fact is that when all is said and done, a style will not defend you. It is all up to how you are taught and how hard you train. Period...end of story.

Answer 13

Muay Thai

I might know I ama black belt

Answer 14

People are so ignorant about Tae Kwon Do.  Notice how the TKD practitioners are saying "both are good" and most others are totally one sided.

Why does everyone assume that TKD artist is only going to use a spinning hood kick or some fancy kick in a street fight.  

Do you really think a TKD person won't or can't kick below the waist to the knees?  

Most Tae Kwon Do schools, WTF or ITF,  also have a self defense curriculum that includes grappling, elbows, knees, sweeps,  etc.  As in, what to do if someone grabs you, etc.  

They also have "punching defense", as in, what to do if someone throws a sucker punch and you see it coming.

As you advance, you get into knife defense and gun disarming techniques.  All of this in Tae Kwon Do schools, most of them.

Tae Kwon Do forms (Kata/Poomse) include elbow and knee strikes starting at brown belt.  

I've only been in a couple of Muay Thai schools, and I've also done boxing.  The training is different, the Muay Thai schools definintely try to condition the body to absorb punishment more than Tae Kwon Do.  The kicks are very similar, except the MT uses the shin more and the TKD uses the foot more.  

Neither of the Muay Thai or boxing schools I've trained in had any sort of self defense aspect, i.e. someone grabs you, how to escape, etc.  

Both martial arts are fine, both are sports judged by points.

Bottom line though, is that the individual fighter wins/loses the fight, not the martial art that they learned.  

James

Answer 15

I'm not sure. But from personal experience I would say taekwondo. There is this guy at my taekwondo dojang who did a lot of muay thai before starting taekwondo. Then for fun one time we did some light contact fighting, not sparring.... I can tell you how that went.....

Answer 16

Muay Thai I'd say :)***

Answer 17

Mauy, you use elbow and knees more and its offncive. over all you cause much more damage

Answer 18

both

Answer 19

BOTH R EFFECTIVE.

Answer 20

Krav Maga is probably better than both of these, teaches you how to kick butt without all the filler

Answer 21

TKD's strong points are simplicity, speed, power, accuracy and conditioning.

Answer 22

Both are good, i practice Tae Kwon Do.

Tae Kwon Do does practice knee/elbow usage, well at least in my School, we learn to use everything not just kicks. While we do learn and practice everything, kicks is a major part of how we fight. We combine punch with kicks(that's why Tae Kwon Do means the way of the fist and foot). It depends what school you go to, my school is well rounded and teaches us everything.

Answer 23

White Lotus Kung Fu

Answer 24

Only between these two would be Thai Boxing.

Answer 25

muy thai no question...  Tae Kwon Do is more forms...  Muy Thai is elbows and knees!

Answer 26

I have taken Tae Kwon Do for many years, and am a first degree black belt. My school focused a lot on sparring (fighting with the protective gear), and we also dabbled a bit in self defense. But every school is different. It depends on the instructors at that school. But I am confident that I could "kick butt" given my training.

I don't know about Muay Thai.

I guess the best thing is to call up both schools you are interested in and ask them about their concentration on self defense and sparring. By training in those two areas, you are a force to be reckoned with.

Answer 27

It's the practitioner not the practice, Sir.   I would say that name of the highly effective TKD, much like Karate, was pussified in the U.S. 20 years ago when folks began seeing they could use its name to make a buck.  Muay Thai was not pussified until MMA became a mainstream sport about 10 years ago, and every began claiming they were masters at it.  In fact, both sports are great.  There are master practitioners in both sports that are highly lethal.  The best would depend more on the fighter than the style.

Answer 28

Taekwon do.. duh!

Cuz itz awsome and xena used it lol.