Quote Originally Posted by Heavy D
Any martial art can be deadly effective, as long as you have a teacher who knows what he's doing, and teaches it the way it was meant to be taught.
yeah i think that's a good point. i used to spar with a tkd kid and he explaned it to me that a lot of the techniques in tkd are long range to keep people at a distance. since he understood that he used it to avoid a clinch because he aparently had an instructor who taught him the appropriate strategy. that was also his argument for tkd as a self defense. hahaha he said they learned to use tkd's long range stuff to create seperation and then....... run! lol.
but like missy said the "street effective" debate is kinda weak no matter where you're comming from. and from competition, i guess it's ineffective because you don't see it in mma events. but then again, mma doesn't mean mma anymore. it means that kickboxer/grappler style. which i'm not knocking because that's what i practice.
contrary to popular belief though, he didn't spin that much. and i only saw him jump if he was messing around.
i do know what people are talking about though when they say it has weaknesses, but heavy d made a good point about the instructor