Quote Originally Posted by Fragony View Post
@Vukkie, would you ever consider a fancy TKD high kick in a real fight. Barely going to hurt they move at ya to use their fists, you lose balance bye
lol Frags, first of all, you practice high kicks in TKD mainly to better your technique, balance, etc. In a real fight, TKD would mostly be applied below the belt. (rounds and fronts to the knees. Fronts to the groin, etc.) Also, when getting close up, TKD has a powerful arsenal of punches, elbows, grabs, and various other techniques that would make him be able to defeat a much more limited boxer. Also, it is not right to say that high kicks have no place in a real fight. If you shoot forward with a switching (double action, or whatever you prefer to call it) front kick from 10 feet away and plow your full body (concentrated on the ball of your foot) into your opponent's face or throat, do you think that that would have no effect? I garuntee you that a boxer would not even expect you to be able to attack from that distance, and that you would have reached him and defeated him before he even knew what happened.
Also, a good TKDist can generate a lot of power; especially from such techniques as a side (or backspinning side). A lunging side kick is very hard to avoid, nearly impossible to stop, can be performed very quickly, and has devastating power.
I am not saying that TKD would be my prefered method of self-defense (Wing Tsjun would be :)), but I think that you are wrong to discount it as you do, and I think that it is far superior to something like boxing. My guess is that you are basing your judgement on the way that TKD is trained in the average DON'T-SUE-ME-McDojo. Real TKD has a lot more to it than just kicks, and involves heavy conditioning, reflex training, and lot's of live practice.
No offense Frags, but boxing does not hold a feather to real TKD (assuming that both are trained to their full potential).