My Biggest DisappointmentOften the things we look forward to the most turn out to be a huge let down. As Freddy Woo puts it, "High heels in bed? No fun at all. Porn has a lot to answer for."
Well, Freddy, you are supposed to get someone else to wear them.
What's disappointed you lot?
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chthonic, Thu 26 Jun 2008, 14:15)
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thinking tae kwon do would teach me to be hardlies, spent all the time doing pointless patterns (like kata in karate)
very rarely did we do any sparring and i got beaten every time cos the teacher would never actually tell me where i was going wrong or how i could improve.
95% time spent practicing patterns (i got very good at those)
5% sparring.
should have been the other way round.
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monstrinho do biscoito teeeshurts = www.nogunarmy.com, Wed 2 Jul 2008, 17:41,
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Methinks'tis not TKD that was the problem, but your training.
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The training was obviously a bit crap. Sparring is the best bit.But taekwondo- just like every other martial art- is a sport. A really fun sport which has a few self defence applications.
If you want to learn how to "be hard" join the army. (I assume- as far as I know the army teaches people how to kill other people and that's what being hard is, right?)
(, Wed 2 Jul 2008, 19:56, closed)
@youI would contest your lumping all martial arts under the category of sports. In soprts there are rules. Martial arts, less so. Obviously you don't break your Uke (the person you are practicing the technique on) every time otherwise you would have no-one to train with, but you do learn how far you need to push someone to break them. I do Shorinji-Kan Jui-Jitsu, and it is definatly useful as self defense. Not least because we train with pressure work- multiple attackers and weapons, designed to equip us to defend ourselves in the street, and people in the club have used it in actual self defence.
Wow, that was a bit of a rant there, sorry. But I don't like it when people compare the training I do to a sport like Judo where there are very strict rules that make it of limited use in the real world.
(, Wed 2 Jul 2008, 20:51, closed)
Find a better MA.I used to do Karate which, like you said, is mostly Kata. And I felt that it was letting me down.
I've now joined a Ninja group. Which is 25% Kata, 50% Sparring, 25% Ninja Skills. It's a hell of a lot better. Cho and the other Students, always teach you how to better youself.
(, Wed 2 Jul 2008, 21:00, closed)
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