my flex for roundhouse kicks is good because when I was 12 and 4'7 (I was short) I had to kick to the heads of 6-footers. I still have that flexibility, but only for roundhouse kicks, seidekicks and crescent-style kicks. My front kick is woeful.
so what do you enjoy more, tkd or wing chun?
they're both very different, hard to say. plus, tkd for me was a long time ago, and wing chun is now.
so you just left tkd behind? :saywhat:
like when you're sparring in wing chun, don't you ever pull a tkd kick to throw off your partner and/or score?
of course i haven't left it completely behind, but i don't formally train in it anymore. training in a buncha diff styles at the same time i think can confuse you, so it's a personal belief that i think u shud get really good in something first, and then move on to something else and get really good in that, and integrate them all into ur own personal style over time.
and yea of course i pull tkd kicks hehehe. one of my fav combos i use to throw ppl off is the low left round kick fake, then into a jumping high right round kick (might not have gotten all the names right lol). it fucks with their heads. lol
I agree completely...master one art before you begin another
yeah I use tkd kicks as well because my dad used to do tkd in the '70s and '80s and tol me that he used to do double roundhouse kicks...which of course piqued my interest because I used to just do head roundhouse kicks...so now I do doubles and it fucks with people so much...even when they get to know me they get caught by it because I'm the only one in the dojo who can do it and it is really fast compared to a normal kick combo...my 2nd flick is faster than their second block unless they jam me up, which happens a fair amount. I also do middle-head double sidekicks and I'm developing a reverse-crescent-crescent double kick which will change heights and directions. I go for that retarded shit...sometimes it works, sometimes it don't :dontknow:
i'm really enjoying wing chun at the moment tho, sicne it's a lot of new stuff i haven't learned before. i know all that kicking shit already, but my hand techniques were limited to boxing and simple locks and grappling. if you actually go to a good wing chun place, and see the kinda shit they teach u... it will really fuck with ur sense of martial arts logic man lol. really opened my eyes.
karate-do isn't as well-developed as wing-chun in that sense but we do have some pretty fucked up shit compared to tkd and stuff...my blocking style is open hand, so I develop a lot of coordination...more so than in closed-hand blocking...but then theres stuff like the chicken head block, which almost nobody uses it because it's almost insanity...you're blocking with the top part of your wrist
I know some throws and holds because my sensei is also a black belt in judo, but my dojo is mainly a hands-feet striking styke, so we get variation...but our grabbing ability, thumb-killing, and open-hand blocking is nowhere near as good as wing chun. My blocks rely on my dodges too much, and alot of people in my dojo block by attacking first or by backing up...why the hell would you back up unless you absolutely have to? Theres one black belt whose open hand blocking is insane though. It's probably as good as the wing chun guys.
