TKD blackbelt VS Muay Thai

[germanshepherdriley]

Taekwondo is just all fancy kicks ... I take muay thai and i learned a tornado kick but they told me never to use it in a fight cuz its predictable ... just like 90% of all taekwondo kicks

[DensetsuHadouken]

That's why you don't just study one technique, you study a good amount of them and adapt their greatest strengths into your own style...

This is why Bruce Lee was a god among men, because he did just that...

[henrytkd]

Thx 4 ur comment, Under my previous instructors, my alumni used to train without any protector. Generally we just used our bare hands and legs to block and kicks. (fully contact)
Nowadays, If we push to hard on our students, they quit training.
We used to have a full poweful roundhouse.just like how MT does. But since it is slow and ineffective during TKD competition, we modified it more into snap kicks.
Watch, Old tkd videos, fighters put their hands above. Now?? they just put it down
hehe..

[allegedwriter]

Not all of TKD's moves are flashy and telegraphed, but their most powerful moves are. That's why I'm a Muay Thai guy myself. The Thai kick is incredibly powerful, fast and versatile.

[pHinisher]

The first punch was so fast and hit so hard that it made me laugh.

[djveneko]

yeah i gotta agree with you ive been wanting to go back to tkd (i started as a little kid didnt really get far) but i noticed that all the places you go all they really care is about the money and not the art, its really sad and thats whats keeping me away from going back i dont want to waste my money in a place where anybody can get a black belt as long as they pay...

[KarateGuy]

Somebody who actually understands. Thank you. I'm glad to have seen your comment. Only the uneducated believe that one style is greater than another.

[AJweathersby]

Back in the day, they gave you a white belt, and if you asked how to become a black belt, the trainer responded "work until it becomes black". Most Epic answer ever!

[gaspar]

Exactly, a BB is not a sign of your skill, but your knowledge.

Glad to see not everyone is a complete illiterate of martial arts.

I did TKD, and now I'm doing Muay Thai, both are beautiful and full of form.

[AndyMatts]

LOL! As soon as I saw the TKD guy sidestep almost all the way around the dude I was like, "yup..he's gonna be the one to get knocked out."

[akahdrin]

I live in Korea, been in Guemchon, Jeju, and Gwangju over the past few years. I see 6 year olds coming into my classroom running around with black belts. Sure there may be some truly dedicated people to it, but the fact is even in Korea they still hand out black belts like candy. I took Judo for 14 years and I saw the same thing with tons of schools there. I was lucky and my school didn't promote until you were legitimately ready, normally around 1 year for your first promotion from white.

[crashdummy]

thats how tkd works gave you a thumbs up for letting more ppl know

[mycal]

Yes, I thinking the training ethos in the style has a large part to do with it. Because of the emphasis in Kyokushin on full contact, in both competition and gradings, there is a different mind set in their practioners in regards to training/fighting philosophy. Predominately training in semi-contact/non-contact is always going to produce fighters different to those who fight predominately full contact.

[DensetsuHadouken]

Amen to that! :D

This is why I believe comparing martial arts and saying one is better than another is counter-intuitive and how one views a martial art is near-entirely subjective...

It's the same thing with music, someone might like Metal (Muay Thai) and someone may like RnB (Taekwondo) just because one is more popular and the other is more aggressive doesn't make it better than the other...

[cbbellen]

the guy was waiting for him to jump kick....great hit. I'm bookmarking this as "Funniest Video"

[DevilUpComedy]

That ref definitely had no idea what he was doing there.

[dperry]

I agree with that. There is times that with the right person verses the right opponent that the very slight distance and speed that comes from a TKD or a Karate kick can be more useful than the power of a Thai style kick. But more times than not the lack of power will bite you over and over. Giving up the distance isn't a factor when you train in clinch work like the Thai style. It allows you to be all the way in or way out and avoid the middle distance that is punching range.

[Chaos]

That is very true my friend. If you go search about TKD history on the internet, you can see that ITF TKD is established first. ITF TKD is a martial art tkd, if you watch WTF blackbelt sparring and ITF blackbelt sparring, there is a clear difference. ITF TKD has devastating kicks, and I'm an ITF TKD guy. 6th gup green belt :D

[ilikevines]

When it comes to the striking arts like Karate/Muay Thai/Taekwondo it just comes down to the skill of each fighter really.

[improv]

Hey, both of you. A kick is a freaking kick. A jab might be called one thing in japanese, one thing in thai, and another in korean, but it's a jab. He didn't perform some secret technique specific to one style, he threw a well-executed kick up through his opponent's defense (or lack thereof lol) and landed it on the intended target.