Wtf is TKD?

Also MMA has got to be the most boring thing ever. 2 dudes that just roll on the floor hugging, yeah that's fun

 

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God I wish this MMA fad would die.

 

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In a fight. Against other martial artists.

If you want to bring pistols into it, why not just bring a-bombs in as well?

I just asked "Why train in TKD? Why enroll your kid in it when there are better options available?"

It seems I might as well have asked "Why do you still have a Atari 2600 when a PC is so much better?"

TKD is Tae Kwon Do (spelling varies) - basically punching and kicking technique driven martial art. EXTREMELY effective as self defense against folks not heavily trained as MMA fighters with a variety of techniques in their background.

 

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So, you know lots of MMA guys going around mugging people?

The pistol thing was an analogy to illustrate the absurdity of your argument.

As for availability - you are incorrect. TKD and "Karate" (though both of these terms usually imply various hybrid forms of striking and kicking techniques) are easily the most widely available martial art training outside of scholastic wrestling in the nation. Weng Chun is coming up in popularity from what I've seen too but not near TKD/Karate yet.

 

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I meant in the sense of TKD being better than wen-do, capoeira, kenpo, wing chun, etc. I wouldn't say capoeira is better than taekwando.

 

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Oh I know tae kwan do. it's not a useless martial art at all

MMA still sucks though. I rate it as entertaining as WWF wrestling. Do they even know martial arts? They fight like 5 year old brothers in the back yard

 

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When everyone knows all the kicking/punching techniques, everyone ALSO knows the ways to get around them or through them and is conditioned to be able to do so without taking a catastrophic beating. When you put them in a ring with a cage around it so maneuvering is limited, it's not about endurance or movement, all about the grappling and submission holds.

Yes occasionally matches are decided by striking - but that's usually the scrub level stuff.

Yes, MMA is as boring as it was back in the early 90s when the Gracies were dominating the stupid pay per view Ultimate Fighting matches by just taking the beating dished out by the strikers and getting inside on them and then grappling with their Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and choking or barring everyone out...


*edits* speeellingggg

 

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There is tremendous art in MMA. For example submission grappling is like physical chess, and when you understand it you can see how one position flows into the the next leading to the inevitable checkmate of a submission.

 

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Submission holds are terribly boring to watch though. Nobody thinks it's legit for some 170 lb punk to beat a 220 lb monster with an ankle bar.

FYI, chess isn't a big spectator sport either.

 

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