every body was TAE KWAN DO fighting (Tae Kwon Do)

Member Name: lemonjim

Product:	Tae Kwon Do
Date:	13/10/09 (15 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: really good fun great for fitness and balance

Disadvantages: quite rough especially when you have to fight

I have done several martial arts before and hands down Tae Kwan Do is the best of all of them.

I started mainly because of my obsession with the martial arts films such as crouching tiger. Other reasons were because I really needed to get fit and that a couple of my friends were doing it also. But mainly, I wanted to move like a ninja.

I started when I was 15 and as far as things go it was a good age to start. Although I always thought Kung Fu was far more interesting with the emphasis on Chi and inner strength being a very intriguing aspect for someone involved with such Western Values.

Tae Kwan Do is a very quick and there is a lot of muscle building as well as a huge emphasis on being flexible. It reminded me a lot of Karate with the shouting and the hard fast kicks. As a whole it is around 70% kicking and 30% punches. There are next to no elbows and knees involved with the fighting.

The kicks were so much fun. There are several you learn and from them on it is all about improving your technique and as a result of this building power speed and endurance. You begin to really bulk and tone up with the intense exercising. It was here that water first tasted sweet to me as you sweat so much.

The things I didn't like was having to fight women. And it is nothing to do with me thinking I was better or stronger but there really is something not right about it as men do not know how a women's body works in terms of were is best to aim you kicks ect. The other thing I found strange was the forms you had to learn they were really boring and not exciting at all.

The punching as fun too but nothing like the kicks where you could really feel your body balancing out and you muscles build in places you never had before.

I started Kung Fu and although the inner strength and chi gong was very interesting, on the whole I found it very boring and not enough kicks or excitement involved.

Summary: can start at any age and really is a heal treat !