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Originally Posted by Filthy_Pagan
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I always felt like tae kwon do (the way it's taught in the US) is more of a show sport than an actual combat art. Sparred a lot of people using tkd and never had a problem. Could have just been that they didnt know how to impliment it and just tried to fight by doing katas. Kenpo is stronk though. I always wanted to give Krav maga a try but the closest school is like 3 hours from me.
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You are correct. Generally, what I found is that TKD schools in the US are mainly something you send your kid to after school so that they aren't sitting on their ass. Mainly the "master" was really a salesman and all they really did was teach the kids how to stretch their muscles and do jumping jacks. I went to a school where the master was pretty legit(at least I thought so). TKD from my experience is highly based off kicks, and your legs, so if you are trying to keep someone away, its pretty easy if you know what you're doing. And yea, if you are trying to spar using kata, you're going to have a bad time. Lol.