[quote]shadowbobo8028 wrote:
[quote]Sentoguy wrote:
[quote]Loftearmen wrote:
[quote]shadowbobo8028 wrote:
[quote]Facepalm_Death wrote:
Doing any high kicks you run a risk of getting countered hard in many many ways, especially if someone knows you do TKD from the beginning[/quote]
Body kicks are super effective. I personally see low kicks as useless[/quote]
I am pretty new to martial arts but I guarantee you if I caught you in the thigh with a round kick it would change your mind about leg kicks’ effectiveness. There are plenty if guys out there who can throw them faster, harder and more effectively than I can too. It really sounds like you just haven’t fought anyone who was very good.
Also, Where the hell do you get a black belt in Muay Thai?[/quote]
You don’t; Muay Thai doesn’t have a colored belt system.
I’m pretty sure that anyone here is any kind of experience would change the OP’s mind (Pidgeon, Myself, Big Boss, You, Robert, any of us). Also, it’s not just about how hard you can throw them, but also your accuracy in throwing them (hit the right spot and you’ll feel it even if the kick isn’t that hard), especially if you haven’t spent years deadening the nerves in your leg from conditioning them.
It’s pretty obvious the OP was just trolling, or incredibly naive.
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I AM incredibly naive. This is the one and only Muay Thai fighter I ever fought and I won with flying colors so I lost a little bit of respect for it (though I prob shouldn’t have)
I fought the Muay Thai fighter and he kicked me in the legs so many times. I was just like “Wtf…” cause none of them hurt and they ended up being distractions from his main attack: face punches. I soon figured that out and that’s how I countered and beat him. Hell I even managed to land a HIGH kick (hence his black eye).
Btw the kid did MMA if that makes more sense. His friends told me he was a black belt. He does Muay Thai, boxing (or so it seems), and jujitsu.
Also you guy realize that taekwondo cannot be effectively done by weak people out of shape right? TKD is a very “hard” art (as opposed to soft art) and is 90% power driven. A REAL TKD practitioner should not be out of shape with poor cardio & lack of strength. Years of TKD + squats helped build my legs so none of his low kicks hurt[/quote]
Your last comment is 100% correct, but that goes for any real Martial Art (even armed ones IMO). Like I said in an earlier post, you take any “art” (and really they are all just variations on the same theme, as there are only so many ways that the human body can be effectively used to damage another human being), train it realistically, and put it in the hands of a tough, athletic, well conditioned person and it can be effective (whether it’s TKD, JKD, Wing Chun, Savate, Muay Thai, BJJ, Judo, Wrestling, Sambo, Krav Maga, etc…etc…etc…).
Regarding leg kicks, the guy obviously lacked in accuracy, because a correctly placed and executed low kick attacks the nerves or joints of the lower limbs. That doesn’t mean that you might not be tough enough to take a few, but they will eventually shut your legs down and render you unable to stand or walk (and that’s just the ones directed at the muscles/nerves, in the old Siamese kickboxing they used to actually aim for the knee joint itself and try to cripple the opponent), no matter how muscular your legs are. Yes, it’s possible to check them and therefore absorb or deflect some of the force as well as making it more difficult to access the nerves (at least to the outside of the thigh), or shin block them (and, if you have conditioned your shins for this and they have not, potentially hurt them more than you yourself are hurt), or knee block them (which can break the opponent’s lower leg, see Anderson Silva vs Chris Weidman). None of this changes their effectiveness though if targeted, timed, and executed properly. Clearly this individual simply wasn’t as good as them as he or his buddies thought.