Well first of all tae kwon do is a lame martial art. Who do you think would win in a match a world champion muay thai kickboxer or world champion jiu jitsu champion versus a black belt in tae kwon do? I train in muay thai kickboxing and brazilian jiu jitsu, two sports which demands great respect on both sides of the professor and the student. That instructor is lucky that wasnt my kid that he struck. I would ve gone right into that gym and put that instructor in a tight armbar and broken the arm that he struck my kid with. Then for the owner to smart off to the parents like that. Again the owner of this gym is lucky it wasnt me. I would ve gone in there put that instructor in a nasty cross body heel hook and tore is mcl and acl forever ruining his ability to train and teach a ### martial art that doesnt do any striking to the face. What a wussy this guy is. My nephew trains a tae kwon do school in Colorado and I went to watch a class. I didnt like the way the instructor was talking to the kids so I said something to me and he replied let me teach the class and stay out of it. I said hey listen buddy you wanna settle this on the mat I would be more than happy too. He asked me what I trained in and I told him Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Muay thai kickboxing. He said oh ok well it s cool no problem. My advice get your kid out of tae kwon do. If he gets in a street fight and tries tae kwon do he is going to get his ### kicked. Take him out of tae kwon do and put him in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu or take him to a mixed martial arts gym where he will learn how to fight alot better.
I agree with Gbbjj. Although tae kwon do is an olympic sport um soo what the olympics is for two weeks. They wear a body protector on their waist with dots as targets to hit. It looks like a sparring match. Wrestling and Judo are also olympic sports. Although Mixed Martial Arts cagefighting is not an olympic sport is also the biggest martial arts sport in the world even more soo than Olympic tae kwon do. Cagefighitng is a sport just as tae kwon do in the olympics are but the rules are much more lenient and cagefighting is not as dangerous as boxing. Jiu Jitsu and grappling tournaments such as the world championships NAGA (North American Grappling Association) Grapplers Quest and worlwide tournaments, it is the next largest sport martial arts to cagefighting. In all my years of going to cagefights and competing in tournaments I have yet to run into a competitor that claims to be belted in a tae kwon do system. Bushidokan master Jim Harrison teaches a very effective system of martial arts for street and competition. Google Bushidokan grandmaster Jim harrison. I have trained in martial arts including Judo, Jiu Jitsu classical Japanese and Brazilian, Wing Chun, Shotokan Karate (Loyota Machida is a shotokan black belt) muay thai, and kali eskrima fighting. Sifu Phil Romero trained under master hawkins which is direct lineage from bruce lee s first teacher Yip Man. Although this man does not look like he could harm a fly, he is one of the deadliest men I know in the art of Wing Chun. It took him more than 25 Years of his life to master the techniques. Gracie Barra New Mexico ran by head instructor Roberto Tussa Alencar is the most popular gym in New Mexico right now. He has an impressive grappling career including 1st place finishes in the heavyweight blackbelt division at the world grappling championships earning invite only chances to compete in Abu Dabi. A tournament where some of the top competitors in grappling and mixed martial arts go to compete for a serious cash prize. Most of the instructors I trained under have dedicated years of their lives to be masters (more than ten atleast). I know Blackbelts in tae kwon do who have earned their belts in a short four or five years. Yes most martial arts do stem from others, however Wing Chun is a system based on linear defensive reactions. The Israeli army claimed they developed the techniques for krav maga but the techniques for krav maga are the same direct linear actions and reactions as wing chun so to say that they developed krav maga is wrong it shouldnt be listed in the archives as a martial art. Traditional Japanese Jiu Jitsu combined techniques with judo throws to gain control because the armor samurai warriors wore was too heavy for him to fight from his back. Brazilian Jiu Jitsu was brought to Brazil by a Japanese jiu jitsu master that was exiled from Japan. He then came to Brazil to work on the Gracie Farm and taught jiu jitsu to them. They then developed the techniques in the streets of Brazil to fight off multiple attackers and to attack from the back if thrown on the ground. Tae Kwon Do is a korean martial similar to karate that if trained in the traditional korean way can be very devastating and effective, but it is a martial art that has been brought to america and has been watered down extremely. Most martial arts like muay thai wing chun jiu jitsu judo and karate still use traditional training practices. At age 8 in shotokan karate i was hitting and kicking on wooden dowels to develop hard tough bones in my forearms shins and fists. When I went to train with sifu phil romero i had to do iron body training by hitting a mook jung {a wooden post with wooden dowels for arms and a longer dowel for a leg that is used to toughen skin and bones}. My point isnt to disrespect tae kwon do my point is to make sure that people spend money for their kids to learn an effective form of self defense instead of wasting it on a system that hands out blackbelts hand over fist. I have a friend that got a black belt in tae kwon do when he turned 18 after starting the adult black belt program when he turned 14. So it took him only four years to get a black belt in tae kwon do. He recently came to train muay thai with me but has a long way to go because his kicks are weak with no power they are acurate yes but he is afraid to kick with his shin hard because his bones are not tough enough to do the techniques. I know they dont condition shins and forearms knees and elbows in tae kwon do. If you are scared of your child getting hurt training the right way and the hard way to earn a belt then put them in chess football or baseball. If you put your kid in tae kwon do you should be more worried about sending them to school and the shcoolyard bully starting a fight and sending them home with a bloody nose and a black eye rather than taking them to a good traditional school and worry about getting them hurt training the right way. P.S. If Brazilian Jiu Jitsu was easy it would be called baseball.
AGAIN GET YOUR KIDS OUT OF TAE KWON DO, THE INSTRUCTORS AT TAE KWON DO SCHOOLS BEAT UP CHILDREN CAUSE IF THEY WENT TO A REAL MARTIAL ARTS GYM THAT TRAINS IN MUAY THAI KICKBOXING, AMERICAN KICKBOXING, CHINESE KICKBOXING, KARATE OR ANY OTHER MARTIAL ARTS GYM THAT DOESNT TRAIN IN TAE KWON DO, THEN THEY WOULD GET KNOCKED OUT COLD AND NEVER WANT TO GET INVOLVED IN MARTIAL ARTS EVER AGAIN. BRUCE LEE WAS CONSIDERED ONE OF THE BEST FIGHTERS IN THE WORLD AND WAS AHEAD OF HIS TIME IN MARTIAL ARTS TRAINING PROVING HIS METHODS OVER AND OVER AGAIN IN STREET FIGHTS AND IN THE RING AND COMBINED MANY SYSTEMS TO ADAPT HIS OWN STYLE. OF ALL THE STYLES HE STUDIED, WING CHUN, AMERICAN BOXING, WRESTLING, SAVAT, JIU JITSU, KARATE, JUDO, AIKIDO, HABKIDO, ESKRIMA/SILAT MUAY THAI KICKBOXING, AND FENCING, HE NEVER INCORPORATED NOR STUDIED TAE KWON DO. My son trains started Jiu Jitsu a year ago, and an older kid in our neighborhood that had gone to a tae kwon do gym for 3 years, started a fight with my son while the kids played basketball at the park and my son came home and told me he backed down cause he didnt want me to get mad at him, and I said I know you dont want to get in trouble, but if he starts a fight with you again then you shoot a double leg take him down armbar him and try to break his arm. Well the next day sure enough the kid from the tae kwon do gym tried to push my son around and my son did exactly what I told him to do and he said the kid was crying and screaming. My son did not break his arm, however I was told by my son and his friends that the kid came to school with his arm in a sling, He apologized to my son and his parents pulled him out of tae kwon do and have enrolled him at Gracie Barra Brazilian Jiu jitsu where we train. He will begin training in a week or two after his sprained elbow has recovered.
