Does anyone have opinions regarding the mix of Wing Chun and Taekwondo? Have your say?

Have you ever thought about mixing Wing Chun with Taekwondo to create your own special mix of styles?


Do you have anything to say for those who would mix Wing Chun with Taekwondo?


What do you think about the idea of mixing the nice hand techniques of Wing Chun with the nice foot techniques of Taekwondo?





Have your say! I would be interested to know what you people think!|||This is what Bruce Lee did, largely. If you read his book, his kicks come from Taekwondo, while Wing Chun was his base style. He also took some throws and grappling from Judo, and some additional punching ideas from Boxing. |||I have to agree with sifu_frank, each system is unique and complete. Once you have attained a sufficient understanding in one, feel free to cross train in the other.





I get what you say when you talk about mixing the hand techniques of wing chun with the kicks of TKD, but I also see a small problem with this. Yes knowing both systems would help in different circumstances, but that is because each has their own range for fighting.





TKD is excellent for a slightly further distance because of the kicking. That doesn%26#039;t mean there aren%26#039;t any close fighting techniques, there are many kicks even in TKD that can be executed from less than a foot away. Check out a movie called Billy Jack; the main character (actually a famous Hapkido instructor acting as a stunt man) uses a TKD style crescent kick from just inches away to kick an opponent in the head.





While Wing Chun wouldn%26#039;t hurt to add more hand techniques, it is in itself a full fighting system as well. With proper understanding in either art you shouldn%26#039;t have much need for the other. Which brings us back to the idea of cross training; while it isn%26#039;t strictly speaking necessary, it is very interesting to learn new styles.





Calling a fusion of Wing Chun and TKD a new style would be misleading though. simply picking and choosing techniques from each system to use in your %26quot;own%26quot; really means you are incompletely teaching both styles, at the same time.|||I think it%26#039;s a good mix.





The major weakness would remain a lack of practice in blocking hand strikes to the head.





It%26#039;s not that they don%26#039;t, or won%26#039;t, or can%26#039;t, but it%26#039;s been my experience with both of those that they don%26#039;t often train to defend looping punching to the head. In training Wing Chun, it%26#039;s usually against Wing Chun, etc.





But still, it%26#039;s a good combination.





James|||Regarding pure technique, it%26#039;s not a bad idea. On a more strategic and tactical level, there are some principles which don%26#039;t fit well at first. However I%26#039;m a big proponent of cross-training. I say go for it. Any reasonably intelligent person can make these systems work together. People have been doing it for centuries.|||Good idea. Bruce Lee mixed Wing Chun with other styles to create his unique Jeet Kune Do. However, you have to be proficient in those styles before you can do it. I just wonder if Bruce Lee had master all those styles because he was quite young when he created Jeet Kune Do.|||Our school teaches Traditional Tae Kwan Do and Wing chung Kung Fu. We teach them separately as they should, because each is a complete and full system. Our students are encouraged to cross train after achieving a black belt or black sash. You need to commit to the entire system for enough time to understand the principals. This takes time. For the students that have done this the say it is awesome and has lead to the discovery that each art has a little of the other already.|||All that is good in a controlled sparring environment in the ring or dojo but in a sudden violent street confrontation where there is little time to think just react whatever you train in the most will prevail .|||We call it Taekwing Chun Do.

I need some advice from other Taekwondo students?

I haven%26#039;t been able to go to TKD classes for over a month since I have been really busy with homework. My goal is to go for the Olympic taekwondo team. But I need to be a black belt. I missed the last testing. But I have all of next month to train. I am a low yellow belt. What can I do to get prepared to be on track for testing?|||I don%26#039;t think so maybe if you attend some joke of an academy. I started traing tkd when I was 12 years old and it took me about a year per belt and I trained until I was 23. Iwouldn%26#039;t even consider myself olympic material and I am 26 now. Sun yi%26#039;s academy of tkd. I made it to 3rd degree black belt. I doubt it for you, good luck.|||Just go back to class, practice your material, and keep active physically. But honestly, you have a .01% chance of making the Olypmic TKD team. First, you do have to be a black belt, but that takes roughly 1-1.5 years. And then, the olypmic team doesnt look first degrees, which is what you will be in 2008. Unless you are trying for the 2012 olympics, just get back into TKD and keep practicing. Remember, to be a good black belt as well, you will need to be able to teach, not just learn.|||you still have a LOOOONNNGGG time to wait until your black belt test. just sit tight, and if you can go back to classes then the next testing if you are ready then you will test.


it doesnt necessarily take 6-7 years, the average it takes is about 4-6 years. however, 1-1.5 years is WAAAYY too short for a black belt because you can barely do a crescent kick sheesh i%26#039;m about to take my black belt test and i%26#039;ve been training for 5 years, and i%26#039;m not even close to the best first degree i%26#039;ve seen, let alone heard about. so if you take your black belt test after 1.5 years man, our purple belts (5th belt out of 10) could beat you. it takes about 1.5 years to get HALF WAY THROUGH the belts, and then much longer to finish (depending on the person). only the TRULY EXCEPTIONAL people get their black belts in only a year. and usually, those people already have experience in other martial arts.





oh. also, never let anyone tell you you can%26#039;t be on the olympic team. if it%26#039;s your dream, and if you act on it, then anything is possible. however, since you%26#039;re only a yellow belt (which is what, 2nd or third out of how many?) it%26#039;s probably too early for you to be thinking about that. first you should set smaller goals, such as getting your next belt and getting your black belt. then after that you can start training full time.


however, if you miss classes then there is no way you could possibly be on the olympic team. those people train, im willing to bet, all day almost every day. and it%26#039;s not enough to dream about something or set a goal for it. you also have to act on it.|||If you hve both eyes on the goal,,you will not see the path to get there.|||Before I start on this...


%26quot; First, you do have to be a black belt, but that takes roughly 1-1.5 years%26quot;





In what dream world? Any black belt you %26quot;earn%26quot; in 1.5 years is a joke, and so is the person who %26quot;earned%26quot; it. Black belts take years upon years to earn properly, the faster of which being upwards of 6 - 7 years unless you%26#039;re at some watered down mcdojo in the states. Anyone who%26#039;s been training for 2 years and is given a black belt should be ashamed to wear it - it was not earned.





Now - to the question at hand. If you wanna be on the olympic TKD team, then missing class for a month is not an option ... ever. Train every day, regardless of whether or not you%26#039;re at your dojang, at least as hard as you train there, if not harder. Your goal should be, in this instance, to surpass your peers and eventually your teachers. Work hard, always move forward, and don%26#039;t cave in.|||i dont know|||train daily (twice or thrice a day if possible), train hard. no dilly-dallying. you%26#039;ll be black belt material in at least four years. and then you train even harder. a couple hundred more hours of training, and you%26#039;ll have a bit of chance making it to the olympic team. black belt isn%26#039;t something that can be attained just like that.





i%26#039;d recommend PLENTY of crosstraining and tournaments (invaluable for experience). try to participate in tournaments regularly. and remember, don%26#039;t rush advancing to the next level. always strive to push every one of your limits. your individual skill is what%26#039;s important (can you do ALL the techniques and forms from white to black belt with ease? how many tournaments have you won? out of how many? do you have confidence in yourself and your skills?). concentrate on cultivating your skills, rather than paying attention to superficial belts and titles. once you start not to care about belts (no, i am not saying not to get your promotions), but on your proficiency, you just might have a shot.|||practice even when you miss classes. If you have a manual keep going over the forms and applications. See if someone will train with you. It is great to have a training partner to keep you accountable and motivated.


In our school it take about 3 yr to get a black belt.

Who was the taekwondo champ from the closing ceremony of the 2008 olympics?

He was the korean guy who gave out flowers to the people who had helped out with the olympics this year. Had a white jacket, blue shirt and black pants. Missed his name and I havent been able to find anything about who he was online. Anyone know?|||I believe it was Moon Dae-Sung, the heavyweight gold medallist from the Athens Olympics who knocked out the Greek fighter Alexandros Nicolaidis in the final with a spinning hook kick to the head.





downsouth_houston: This Olympics was a different South Korean heavyweight, who also won gold.|||This olympics South Korea won the gold in Taekwondo in Men%26#039;s for the


Heavyweight


http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing...





Featherweight


http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing...





their names are under the photo


Was he from This olympics?

What is the most common injury in taekwondo?

Pulled muscles, torn ACLs, and K.O.s|||I don%26#039;t do Taekwondo, but I study Exercise Science and do Hapkido, Karate, MMA and grappling.





If by injury you mean something that inhibits your training then I would say tearing of the ACL due to impact and poor foot pivot.|||well, I%26#039;m a green belt, and I would say the most common injury is brusies on your fore arms from blocking kicks and things like that, you can injure your toes if you kick the target wrong, but i would say bruises on your arms|||joint injury especially knee injuries. most people that have been doin it a while tend to have knee injuries i have :P thats actually why i stopped

Would taekwondo knowledge help in aikido?

I might want to do aikido, and i am a 1st poom in taekwondo. Do you think i should try out aikido? if tkd knowledge does help, how??|||Just to be different.. I will say yes.... Only for the fact that you should have a good understanding of balance, and your center of gravity, also you should have understanding of how to learn, not that your flying reverse kicks are going to apply, but that you are already programed to learn something new.... I am transition myself to another art and I would compare it to learning a new language... I am getting a new vocabulary, I may be able to fumble my way through a sentance, but I cannot carry a conversation haha.... but I suggest be humble and do not walk in and say Yes I have studied TKD, instead go in as if you were completely new, because you are..|||Nope. Completely opposite arts. You%26#039;d be better off taking up karate instead, easier transition. But if you really want to learn Aikido, you have to forget everything you ever learned in TKD. Because Aikido doesn%26#039;t use kicks and except for atemis to distract your attacker, no punches either. Footworks are different too.|||If you do TKD and then take Aikido you would have to forget all your TKD stuff because Frankly it isnt going to help you against an Aikidoist.Aikido does sword Jo staff knife gun disarm ment. it has over 200 techniques from white belt to black belt. but the variations of the techniques are almost numberless.When people say that Aikido doesnt have punches, They are meaning punching with closed fist, but they do have alot of strikes with the hand blade, and truthfully they hurt alot worse than the fist.They do on the other hand defend against all types of punches. To make a long story short Aikido is much better than TKD ( how so you ask) because I was a black belt in TKD and went to take up Aikido and there yellow belts or 4th Kyu were stopping every thing that I could throw at them and balling me up in all types of joint locks that I have never seen in TKD nor could I escape from. Aikido is an art of Budo meaning art of killing one strike is capeable of sending a man to death with only one blow/strike. FYI there are several types of Aikido many are not practical. The 3 that I know that are very practical are Shinbu,Tomiki,and Yoshinkan|||Actually, understanding japanese sword techniques would be better in learning aikido. Aikido involves no punching. You will fall a lot in aikido and throw people a lot in a cyclic noncombative training. Knowing judo would help understand falling techniques in aikido. Aikido is more rolling and judo is more taking a hard falls. You may consider learning hapkido which would involved hitting and ties aikido/judo throwing techniques. Hapkido finds its roots in jujitsu. To round off your fighting techniques, if that is what you are looking for, I would suggest jujitsu with strong floor techniques.





Plainly putting the difference between aikido and hapkido, if I throw you in aikido, I try not to break your arm, try not to hurt you when you fall and try to disarm. If I throw you in hapkido, it would not bother me if I break your arm and will hit you after fall.





What do you want to learn?????|||No way, those two are completely different arts. If you decide to cross train, then you will probably find yourself dominate with one art over the other. A good art that is very compatible with TKD is boxing. TKD is good for self defense only if u about a black belt of higher b/c thats when you learn many things other than kicking. Boxing mixed with TKD is awesome, becasue TKD will suppplement the long ranged attacks, and boxing will supplement the short range attacks. Both styles involve great agility and attack power which makes it a great combo. Anyways, aikido and TKD: not a good match, but if u wanna do it for fitness or fun, why not? Other than that, stay away.|||When you have learned one foreign language, learning the next one is easier because you know how to study, what is involved, etc. For similar reasons, knowing one martial art will help you with another, even if they have very little in common. (Learning Spanish then Korean, learning TKD then Aikido.)

What is the qualifying process for the 2012 olympic games in taekwondo?

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