Arizona Taekwondo Sparring Session

Yep. Olympics version of combat sports suck so badly.

For sure

TKD is shitty nowadays. TKD comittee should bring back the glory days of REAL tkd, nt the shitty ones we see today.

It depends on how tall you are cuz weigth more🤓

yeah, im not sure why Master Chris never told him that 🤔

Lol

Old school > new school

@@n8taing612 fr

this is wt tkd and hands arent utilized as much because theyre shorter and score less points.

@@helloeverynyanz basically the sport is not real defence and only based on tournaments and scoring points

It's doesn't hurt to get hit in the hogu, unless it's a powerful kick like a back kick or a good tornado kick, but that's pretty rare. Just make sure your opponent only kicks the hogu and nowhere else because low kicks do hurt (especially groin). Don't worry about head kicks since you're only a yellow belt and it's most likely both u and your opponent are going to have controlled contact because u don't wanna kill eachother at a non tournament event lol. Have fun and good luck!

@@n8taing612 ok cool thank you, I don’t plan on doing sparring tournaments for awhile, and my studio does it based on height and belt level so I’ll probably be with someone my skill lvl plus for a lil while I’m sure they’ll do light contact

and leave your self more open.

@@diddlenfiddle7311 r u high? you dont want to be opened dude

@@davichestudios.3646 R Exactly, easiest person to hit is someone who's attacking

@@davichestudios.3646 depends whos opening

This is a sparring training session, even though we fight at full speed, we still wanna keep it safe cause we don't wanna be injured before an actual tournament

@@n8taing612 I understand going light to prevent injury before a tournament. I'm commenting on the lack of kicking combinations using both legs to perform switch kicks, back kicks, ax kicks, etc. All I see are one or two front round kicks sometimes followed up by a rear round kick. It's mostly all one legged fighting

@@deanalvarado9751 I mean Juneau did hit that back kick on Alex, and there were many crescent head kicks that were thrown

@@deanalvarado9751 theyre kids bro

@@n8taing612 Dean is right though....When I competed and trained back in the 90s TKD was faster and more dynamic with lots of quick power kicks, axe kicks, back kicks 360 kicks 720 kicks double and triple jumping round houses......nowadays its looks like foot fencing.....mostly front leg slapping kicks and taps but back in the day even kicks that land flush DID NOT score unless it was hard and landed with a thud. and touching the head didnt score unless you really smack that head. anybody can look up 90s WT sparring highlights to see what we mean. The electronic hogu really dumbed down WT matches where light soft kicks can score hence all this weird flamingo kicking bs... And we know these are kids sparring but were refering to offical WT tournament sparring you can see on youtube.........its weak af...very soft looking

Yea we're a WT style school

We do kiyup, idk y they decided to be quiet during sparring that day

unfortunately olympic taekwondo does not allow punching to the head, and punches to the body are only scored if u do them in a very specific way

Because this Taekwondo and not Boxing?🙄

@KukkiwonWT as someone who does WTF taekwondo which u might know has 0 punches to the head. If i was in a street fight. Id definitely be like a boxwondo type shit