Boxing or Kickboxing?

[Fragony]

heh ever been in a fight you don't seem the type. Been in a lot when I was younger, I'm from the countryside fighting with the kids from other villages was all the fun we had. It goes really fast and it starts with pushing and holding, if you can actually lunge a kick in the face or throat in the heat of things I must bow for a master

As for potential, who always win the freestyle contests. Kickboxers do. Almost exclusively

[Strike For The South]

heh ever been in a fight you don't seem the type. Been in a lot when I was younger, I'm from the countryside fighting with the kids from other villages was all the fun we had. It goes really fast and it starts with pushing and holding, if you can actually lunge a kick in the face or throat in the heat of things I must bow for a master

oh geez

[Vuk]

heh ever been in a fight you don't seem the type. Been in a lot when I was younger, I'm from the countryside fighting with the kids from other villages was all the fun we had. It goes really fast and it starts with pushing and holding, if you can actually lunge a kick in the face or throat in the heat of things I must bow for a master

As for potential, who always win the freestyle contests. Kickboxers do. Almost exclusively

Yeah, I have been in fights before. I don't let fights get that close. If someone wants to start something, my preference is to end it before it gets to grappling. Yeah, I understand that that is not always possible (both the fights I have been in have started with someone trying to strike me (one was a boxer)), but like I said, TKD has lots of non-kick ways to deal with close situations. (knees, elbows, punches, grabs, various strikes, etc)
Also, it is really not all that hard to land a high-kick in a fight. (I have only ever been in two real fights, once was too close for a high kick, but the other wasn't) If you have trained well, you should have no problem getting a kick to someone's face in nearly the time it would take them to launch a punch at yours (or faster, depending on who you are fighting). The great thing about forward, lunging kicks is that they are very direct and fast. They are also hard to track, and can be launched from a far range. If it is a switching kick, it is all the more deceptive, as your opponent will raise his knee expecting a kick from the first action, and then the second action will strike him in the face.
The problem with TKD is not TKD, it is all the idiots who practice TKD. And as I said, I would much prefer to use Wing Tsjun.