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u/NeighborhoodSame9492 5d ago
Straight Kicking It 🤘
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u/Icy-Squirrel6422 4d ago
Karate tap dance
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u/firstdate_ass_eater 4d ago
Taekwondo. Just saying...
See the South Korean flag in the back? Also I made it to 2nd degree black belt for ages 8 to 12 when I was younger. I remember doing very similar forms like this but never anything quite this intense.
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u/bluepinkwhiteflag 4d ago
The only information you need to differentiate Taekwondo from other martial arts is: are you kicking? If you are, it's taekwondo.
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u/pokopura 2d ago
It’s because Koreans take Taekwondo very seriously. A lot of Taekwondo in the West is in the form of cheap dojos. Competitive Taekwondo in the east is more brutal and demanding.
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u/firstdate_ass_eater 2d ago
This is true. You have to pay a lot to go to a true dojo here in America.
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u/PaulitoTuGato 2d ago
I met a kid from South Korea at boarding school 25 years ago. There was a language barrier and he could have been exaggerating, but he made it seem like martial arts(not specific) was taught in school. The schools had different uniforms and it was not uncommon for the boys to fight with other schools like some gang war type thing. I don’t know if any of that was true, but I do know that he could kick higher than anyone else I’ve seen in person. Kick off of walls and hit targets held over the tallest kids head. I guess my point is that I remember being very impressed, and I think that you are right about it being taken very seriously in that culture
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u/pokopura 2d ago
It’s Taekwondo or archery for my family. I have three brothers. They all chose Taekwondo but I chose the archery path of school extracurricular.
Think of it how some American schools might have wrestling or some Japanese schools might have Kendo. It depends on what the school offers
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u/VulcanCookies 4d ago
Why is there no mat for most of the practice?? She lands on her knee or hip against the hard floor multiple times.
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u/yaboi_ahab 23h ago
I think my LCL would still hurt just watching this if there were padding on the floor
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u/algarhythms 5d ago
The fact that she can land this, let alone kick one of the boards, let alone four, is legend material.
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u/BlueProcess 4d ago
Good, better, best, never let it rest. Until good be better and better be best.
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u/pareidoily 4d ago
When my niece was four she got pissed off because she couldn't draw a heart the first time. I made her keep trying until she did it and I can't remember how many times, five or six times I think. But she was so whiny until she did it and then I told her that count and then every time you think you can't do something remember this.
This girl is inspiration right here.
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u/neos_gorgon 4d ago
I hope people understand that even the spin shows how much practice she went through and never gave up!
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u/staying_golden1 5d ago
getting dizzy just looking at all those spins. i doubt i could pull that off without eventually barfing.
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u/Independent-Barber-2 4d ago
I swear, they were pulling them away early on?
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u/Ban_Assault_Ducks 4d ago
Yeah, I think they did, but it was just a natural reaction that they forgot to control. Seeing someone coming at you in a spin kick like that is probably kind of intimidating for a bit. But when they held them straight, they really helped her out a lot
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u/AraAraAlala 4d ago
I wonder why they force people to hold those boards instead of making something to hold them? The kick may land on their hands, or the force from the kick would impact their wrists, it's bad all the way
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u/Familiar_Chalk 3d ago
This trailer for the next generation John Wick movie is epic. ;)
Great work and effort. These type of videos about people struggles and dedication is what is needed. Thank you.
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u/Apart-Lifeguard9812 2d ago
If I tried that, ankles, knees, gone, right away. Just wrecked. First try.
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u/PreciselyWhatever 1d ago
This is really cool, and I appreciate the dedication. I am wondering, though, would this move have any merit in actual hand-hand combat?
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u/Sub-Shannon 1d ago
It looks kinda cool but it's pretty useless and stupid. The first kick is med/low power. The 2nd and 3rd are very low power and only the last kick has any real power
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u/Standard-Fuel548 1d ago
I'm truly amazed by the patience of people holding these boards, they had many excuses but never gave up
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u/BusyBusy2 1d ago
You have to give up whatever that was making you fail after you have learned from it.
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u/Anonymous291987 20h ago
Didn’t read all comments yet, taekwondo - I think - they always did this crazy shit every demo night and we in karate would just sit there going - how the f*** do they manage that - discipline, dedication, perseverance, and patience to follow repeated training - that’s so bloody awesome she accomplished it !
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u/BrowserBowserMauser 5d ago
Very impressive. Both the achievement and the tenacity to see it through. But why though? The boards are brittle and there is no real power to those kicks. So it is only the precision that is a remarkable result here. Why would you spend so much time when you could practice more relevant techniques? It also looks very prone to injuries having to land quite uncontrollably after flailing legs around till the very last second of hitting the ground.
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u/genericusername241 5d ago
So I'm a dancer. I don't know much about martial arts, but the answer to your question is in the name. It's an art.
In ballet, every movement has a placement that's "correct" and the precision of the dancer's placement is what makes the execution impressive. That correct placement even in something that could be considered "useless" to an untrained eye is very fundamental to an athlete's skill progression.
While this athlete was training this skill I can guarantee she learned so much about the way her body moves, and having this skill will absolutely help her in a technical way as she advances through her martial arts career.
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u/Ban_Assault_Ducks 4d ago
Martial ARTS. It's about discipline, control, coordination, tenacity, resilience, facing and overcoming fears and taking on failure until you win. It isn't about the BOARDS. It's about what got her to where she can kick those boards. What got her there? Will power and the unrelenting drive to succeed and do well.
Martial arts isn't about being able to just beat people up. It's about self discipline and self empowerment. If you can kick 4 boards like that after so much practice, and make it look that good, then you are surely going to be able to progress well in other things in the future and you now have more proof that you can do it.
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u/DrJohnIT 5d ago
Why is she kicking cardboard? Is she learning to fight boxes?
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u/Rich-Reason1146 5d ago
This is what happens when you try to do kickboxing without actually finding out what it is
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u/GamingTrend 4d ago
You do realize this isn't Kickboxing, right? This is sport Tae Kwon Do.
(Insert "Congratulations, you owned yourself" gif here)
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u/Rich-Reason1146 4d ago
I was joking that she heard the name kickboxing and thought it consisted of kicking boxes
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u/Slfestmaccnt 4d ago
Flashy but a lot of the bigger flashier kicks of TKD are more for demonstration and refining control and body awareness rather than practical use. The only kick with any real power is the last one. The paddles give but landing an aerial spin kick on something more solid robs you of momentum that is needed to carry you through to the final kick.
So the first, second and third kick make very little impact as a firm placement of the kick on a target that doesn't yield out of the way like a paddle would acts as resistance to your momentum and with aeriel spin kicks momentum is vital for the follow through on final impact.
Things like this and backflip kicks are great demonstrations and exercises of control and acrobatics but they don't really offer any real advantage over more conventional techniques. They also require more distance to set up and execute and thereby easier to see coming and evade or attack into, interrupting and catching them off guard and already fully committed momentum wise making changing direction and responding that much more difficult for them.
There is a common saying that is often extremely applicable to combat arts, "keep it simple stupid".
Its not the flashy fancy stuff that wins the fights, its the basics, the fundamentals, there is a reason they are taught first. Not because they are simpler to learn, but because they are consistently the most effective and require the least set up meaning they are ready to fire off quickly and efficiently with very little to telegraph.
Fancy crazy stuff can definitely catch your opponent off guard and even win you the final point but you can't rely on it for consistency.
I trained at a very high level tkd school back in the late 90s at a school who frequently hosted the Hodori team.
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u/Anonymous291987 20h ago
I don’t know why, but I think you’ll understand this - kumite - i always shied away from in Karate, but I never managed to understand the way taekwondo students could just do everything in a more agile manner and always wondered if their training would translate to real world skills - I guess as per what you’ve explained it’s more about maintaining the agile portion of your physical anatomy. At an older age you really start to realize the importance of continuing training through and through if you wanna maintain that agility factor. You loose it once you interrupt the continuity you require and that decline starts so fast once you hit 20. I agree that achieving the amount of control and muscle ability you would require to target every one of the boards is not easy and that the real useful one would be the last kick. And yeah, that would be hard to land given the circumstances you mentioned about the distance to setup the motion there. Have you trained before ?
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u/alexlmlo 5d ago
Kudos to the people holding those boards!