Ok, that sounds legit. Excuse me if I don't buy all straight up what a guy called CIANIggerCuntSlayer saysCIANIggerCuntSlayer wrote: ↑Tue Aug 08, 2017 6:46 pm
How many minutes you have to train to reach that blue in the States? 30? Or do you have to practice a full hour?
Lol. No.
Our instructor was an Olympic hopeful. He injured himself pretty bad and wanted to teach. Good guy.
He was always honest about the fact that his style was for competition, scoring points.
He DID teach self defense and ground work as part of his course, as well as stressing that it's always preferable to get away than fight.
As far as course work, he required at minimum 2 classes a week, I typically did 2-3 since I worked there briefly and wanted a life.
A single class was stretching, cardiovascular etc for about 20-30 minutes. Get your heart pumping.
Then it was form and stances for another 30.
Then sparring for 30 ish.
Then finally self defense/ground work.
Basically getting out of bad situations or learning to try and take control of one or at bare minimum, minimize damage to yourself while you look for an escape.
Then you warm down and stretch to finish.
All in all around 2-2 and a half hours.
And belt advancement tests were at the end of a cycle which were 3 months. Which there were failures and some people moved on.
As I stated, it was a work out. The self defense aspects were minimal, and or common sense anyone can learn if they lift some weights and get some confidence.
I've found most Taekwondo dojangs are like that. It's like karate man.
TKD is an Olympic sport martial art with emphasis on competition and it's based on Shotokan karate. I had very similar experiences with it, except we didn't have much at all self-defense but lots of basic technique, karate-like training. Maybe 20% fitness/stretching, 40% sparring and 40% "karate". Four months from white to yellow, six months to 2nd degree yellow, six months to green, knee injury and that was it for me. Kalyeo.
I believe it's common in the States to graduate to black belt within a few years, not only in TKD but also in most martial arts. Only BJJ is keeping it real. Black belt should mean you have mastered the basics and are ready to teach the art. IMO you don't learn anything that well in just few years you're capable teaching it.
Someone with a notable history in full contact sparring won't have much trouble dealing with untrained guys. I don't know what's that shit in that second video, possibly some Wushu practitioners.Guest wrote: ↑Tue Aug 08, 2017 7:54 pmThat's the point all that stuff is "Theatrics" that looks good on camera. That's what these Art of Fighting without Fighting black belts think they'll be doing in real fights. When mostly real fights end up like the one in the second video.