Tae Kwno Do at the Olymlics

panthro · 26 Jul 2021 at 10:53

I did ITF TKD for many years and enjoyed it immensely. It's not a complete system but it's more rounded than WTF. WTF takekwondo is a sport promoted by the South Koreans. There is a lot of training, conditioning and skill involved but as a martial art it's completely ineffective.

Nasher · 26 Jul 2021 at 10:57

The Running Man said:
We needed full contact karate

I think that may have actually been stopped since the 90s. At least the more full-on version of it

Back in the day it used to be no padding and bare fists in some tournaments lol

mid_gen · 27 Jul 2021 at 09:34

Agree with OP. I like pretty much any sport....but this nonsense they are playing at in the Olympic TKD :confused:

Zatoichi.uK · 27 Jul 2021 at 09:51

I'm sure it would have been this film that got me into TKD many years ago. Hella cheesy but the training scenes are good and the ending still makes me cry like a little girl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMQctnLgSWU

Ending
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdgK5d7Y5LQ

fez · 27 Jul 2021 at 11:42

Watched the British girl go out early on and it was just a weird fight. Hard to tell what was really going on and it was very dull. Just lots of holding when the other girl knew she was ahead and both girls bopping around on one foot flicking at each other. I'm surprised they haven't tried to make it a better spectacle by changing the rules.

Nasher · 27 Jul 2021 at 14:12

This, dressage and skateboarding really need to be taken out of the Olympics. They are just to dull to watch.

marc2003 · 27 Jul 2021 at 17:32

fez said:
Hard to tell what was really going on

That's the problem with it. Imagine there were no live scores and they were scored at the end of each round like boxing. No one would have a clue what was going on. It's easy to go "yay" when your "team" is winning but it isn't something you can really get behind as it all seems so random. :/

Nasher said:
This, dressage and skateboarding really need to be taken out of the Olympics. They are just to dull to watch.

Don't you be dissing the donkey dancing. :mad:

But seriously, it's a ****ing mystery as well.

mid_gen · 27 Jul 2021 at 18:48

marc2003 said:
That's the problem with it. Imagine there were no live scores and they were scored at the end of each round like boxing. No one would have a clue what was going on. It's easy to go "yay" when your "team" is winning but it isn't something you can really get behind as it all seems so random. :/

How does it work? Do they have sensors in the helmet/chest protection? It seemed like that British lass got dumped out because she got touched by someone's toe....doesn't look like a martial art at all tbh.