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TheHumanSensation
Canada1210 Posts
On May 25 2015 03:57 Scip wrote: Youtube comment warriors often shit on Taekwondo, but one thing is for certain, as far as contact sports go, taekwondo looks the coolest by far Lucha libre though | ||
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Numy
South Africa35471 Posts
On May 25 2015 03:58 onlywonderboy wrote: Yeah, I was getting kind of bored with it but maybe I'll get back to it. I also want to start running on my off days now that it's nice outside but don't want to wear my legs down for the squats since they are every day. I'm kind of bad at progressing on my own so the fact that it has built in progression really appealed to me lol. There are quite a lot of variants and modifications you can do if you getting bored or want more I think. I'm pretty weak too. Went from squatting 30kgs to 65kg in 2 months which I think is pretty good for someone that's never done weight training so seems like it works. Bench press is pretty similar, went from struggling on like 25 to doing 50kg. | ||
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thejuju
United States413 Posts
On May 25 2015 03:19 JonGalt wrote: How Much a Dollar Cost probably my favorite. Pushups and situps seem like a good idea. I need a reason to get out of bed anyway. Also, I did find a local taekwondo here, maybe I will look into that. Taekwondo should be really good for you if you keep doing that. I did karate for 13+ years and would still be going if I didn't have a fall out with the way instruction was going. Unfortunately I'm not pro enough to start my own school, that would be another 10+ years of training before they'd even consider me a candidate zzzzzzz | ||
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wei2coolman
United States60033 Posts
On May 25 2015 03:57 Scip wrote: Youtube comment warriors often shit on Taekwondo, but one thing is for certain, as far as contact sports go, taekwondo looks the coolest by far Have you seen olympic TKD? it's a fucking joke of a sport. Foot tag + dad bod armor is a joke. Sport TKD has killed TKD as a martial arts. Also McDojo's have also killed TKD as well. If you wanna see sick kicks that are effective, watch Kyokoushin Karate, they do the exact shit as TKD, except in actual fights, and in much closer distances. There are only a handful of TKD guys that can apply their stuff the same way Kyo guys can. | ||
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Scip
Czech Republic11293 Posts
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Dandel Ion
Austria17960 Posts
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Eppa!
Sweden4641 Posts
On May 25 2015 04:09 wei2coolman wrote: Have you seen olympic TKD? it's a fucking joke of a sport. Foot tag + dad bod armor is a joke. Sport TKD has killed TKD as a martial arts. Also McDojo's have also killed TKD as well. If you wanna see sick kicks that are effective, watch Kyokoushin Karate, they do the exact shit as TKD, except in actual fights, and in much closer distances. There are only a handful of TKD guys that can apply their stuff the same way Kyo guys can. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wOIzDxzwcI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NGNwi3ppQY If you want to see kicks that are effective watch MMA. Also best contact sport is pair figure skating. | ||
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Doctorbeat
Netherlands13241 Posts
On May 25 2015 04:15 Dandel Ion wrote: being olympic makes a lot of things silly Race walking is definitely the silliest. | ||
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wei2coolman
United States60033 Posts
On May 25 2015 04:15 Dandel Ion wrote: being olympic makes a lot of things silly Not really, olympic freestyle, greco roman wrestling, and judo have been pumping out top tier fighters, and championship level fighters. Meanwhile there hasn't been any top tier sport TKD guys that have shown up in octagon or the ring to put up a convincing display of skills... That's not to say there aren't mid-tier TKD guys who use some TKD kick mechanics (like Pettis) in the octagon, but TKD as an art has not been a very successful martial art in it's ability to create fighters. Also, olympic boxing has created some decent fighters, but most of the top-tier olympic boxer go Pro Boxing, since there tends to be bigger money there if you're remotely good (Mayweather, etc etc.). On May 25 2015 04:19 Eppa! wrote: If you want to see kicks that are effective watch MMA. Also best contact sport is pair figure skating. MMA is slowly evolving to include a lot more kickers. There are very few in the top tier I would say have "good" kicking skills, most fighters tend to have really shitty kicks. Cerrone's MT is top notch, Pettis's kick accuracy is insane, Cro Cop pioneer'd Sprawl and Brawl with kicks, but overall level of kicking in the UFC is pretty much a joke. Cruikshank has sick TKD though, if he keeps rising up to the ranks, we'll have a convincing TKD guy in the UFC. We're even seeing a ton of guys from the old Pride FC days start incorporating more kicks in their game (even though their kicks are pretty trash), like Rampage Jackson. http://gfycat.com/ImpeccablePolishedAldabratortoise Cerrone's MT for ya, if anyone is interested. | ||
TheEmulator
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wei2coolman
United States60033 Posts
On May 25 2015 04:37 TheEmulator wrote: Wait did he just give up, lol. He must have bee completely out of it and feared another kick ending his life or something. The kick broke his jaw. It was a good tap out. | ||
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Numy
South Africa35471 Posts
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TheEmulator
28103 Posts
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Fusilero
United Kingdom50293 Posts
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wei2coolman
United States60033 Posts
On May 25 2015 04:45 TheEmulator wrote: Yeah I'm not saying it wasn't a good tap out I just wasn't sure if he was out of it or not. But his jaw being broken explains that. Yeah, that fight was Makdessi being completely outclassed by Cerrone. Makdessi took the fight on relatively short notice because of Cerrone's original opponent getting injured. Was a decent fight, Makdessi tagged Cerrone a couple times, but fight was overwhelmingly Cerrone outstriking Makdessi. | ||
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Eppa!
Sweden4641 Posts
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Requizen
United States33802 Posts
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wei2coolman
United States60033 Posts
On May 25 2015 05:23 Requizen wrote: Unless you're joining MMA professionally, I don't think it matters what martial arts you learn, any of them will help you get in shape and learn the basic tenents of self defense. you'd be surprised at how false this is with the # of mcdojos that exists. of course that's more a complaint at bad gyms/dojos than it is specific martial arts. | ||
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TheEmulator
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Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21248 Posts
On May 25 2015 05:49 TheEmulator wrote: Anyone here black belts in anything? ![[image loading]](http://abstrusegoose.com/strips/enter_the_mathematician.png) http://abstrusegoose.com/143 | ||
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