Is Taekwondo Good For Self Defense
Is Taekwondo Good For Self Defense
Is Taekwondo Good For Self Defense
Is the Taekwondo I'm taking any good?
I've been taking Taekwondo for about 2 years now. I take classes tuesday nights, thursday nights, and sometimes saturday mornings. We go over the traditional forms and techniques, some self defense/takedowns, and we spar quite often. I'm a blue belt.
I want a positive martial arts experience that will most importantly get me prepared for situations on the street. And while, sure, I am learning some good stuff with Taekwondo, would I be better off with something else? There are some jiujitsu, karate, krav maga, and MMA schools near me, and i'm just wondering if I would be better off somewhere else?
It's not that I don't like taekwondo. The intructors are usually helpful. I'm just thinking it may not be the best option out there.
Beanpole,
No one on here can judge you dojang. None of us has been to your class. None of us know how great your instructor are. Therefore we can't make an educated statement as to why you should leave or continue in your current school.
No art is better than another. No are is perfect for everyone, however it can be perfect for you as an individual. Even though there in no best art there are better instructors. If you have good instructors you have a good place to train and learn.
I've noticed that someone made a claim that 95% of tkd school are no good. But they didn't include any references or and data to support such claims. In other words that is just one persons opinion. Nothing said was based upon any facts.
The first art that I began to study was judo. I chose it because it was convenient, affordable and it was available in my immediate area. I was offered after school in the high school I was attending. Classes were free. We had to pay for our USJA card. Later we had to $5 per month for dues. That was used by our instructor to cover the price they charged him to use the gym room (our dojo). Later all of our advanced rank judoka had to pay for our lifetime membership. When I began there was only 5 students. We quickly grew to over an hundred.
Later I had to find a different place to train ofter graduation. Personally I didn't choose TKD. I didn't find the perfect instructor and school for me. Looking for a good instructor brought m to my current sensei. Here we learn shorin ryu and for a select few jujitsu. My instructor is highly ranked in TKD and will teach it to those that are interested, but our main style is shorin ryu. From what I know and have seen of TKD you should be more than able to defend yourself and your loved ones if ever attacked on the streets.
In all of the fights that I had before I began training and the fight I got into after I began to learn I have never seen anything the remotely resembles MMA. Now that I have matured I haven't had the need to fight. But I work for public school district. Many students claim to be part of a gang. I have broken up too many fights. Again, I have never seen any one of those fight look anything like a MMA contest. Not one person ever got choked out. Not one has ever been submitted. Not one has had anyone fighting from there back. Not one has ever end on the ground except for the ones that I put one or more of the fighters on the ground. I did this to either protect myself or to protect the one of the fighter from one of the other fighters. For those that don't understand that. I would never grab or hold a fighter in a manner that would allow another person a free shot at the person that I am holding in order to end the conflict. However, there has been occasions when I have separated fighter and placed myself between the fighter. Often this is enough to end the conflict. Sometimes it doesn't. Then I have to restrain one or more of the fighters. If I have to take one to the ground to keep them from hurting me or the other fighter I will. I have have to put them both on the ground, I will.
In all of the fights that I have broken up I have seen multiple attackers. I have seen weapons such as knives, chairs and metal pipes. Thankfully I haven't seen any guns. Of the ones with weapons often those happen in places other than the school district.
My statement is not saying there is anything wrong with mma. I hold fast to a personal view that a person who has some training stands a better chance of survival than a person with no training. It doesn't matter if the training is TKD, BJJ, jujitsu, karate, kung fu or muay thai. What matters most is that you have learned how to apply what you have been taught.
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