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Hi everybuggy! It's Will. Out of curiosity, does anyone take any form of fighting style out there? Karate, fencing, Judo, Wrestling, MMA, anything? I personally take Tae Kwon Do. It's basically all kicks and punches, no grappling involved. It's a lot of fun. Okay, this is going to sound weird, but for those of you that do take martial arts, what's you're standard move? Like, my standard move would be the side kick or front kick. Just wondering. Adios!

submitted by Will T., age 14, GA
(March 9, 2015 - 8:46 pm)

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Oh ya! I take TKD too. My favorite move is Reverse Side Kick. I'm green belt.

submitted by Somebody, age Who cares, The party/HHSGT
(March 9, 2015 - 10:29 pm)

Awesome! Have you been in any tournaments? There's one coming up in my TKD 'school' that looked cool.

submitted by Will T., age 14, GA
(March 10, 2015 - 8:21 pm)

I don't take any of those kinds of classes, but my piano teacher does TKD too.

submitted by Ellie, age 12, Place of hiii-yaa!!
(March 11, 2015 - 12:37 pm)

I take Rex Kwon do. (Anybody get that? XP)

submitted by Alias
(March 11, 2015 - 3:03 pm)

Yup! I'm an orange belt in Shotokan Karate. I love it - it's so much fun and the moves make sense (no offence, but some of the moves in other formats that I've seen or practices, Tae Kwon Do especially, didn't make sense at the time.). By standard move, do you mean favorite? I like kicks - with the exception of the roundhouse. Our roundhouse lands the kick on the ball of the foot - not the top part, like Tae Kwon Do. And I really struggle with this kick. But the other three are really fun to do, for me. Front snap, side thrust, and side snap.

In Tae Kwon Do, do you guys have katas? 

submitted by True
(March 11, 2015 - 7:19 pm)

Sweet! I've never heard of shutoku karate.

submitted by Will T, age 14, GA
(March 11, 2015 - 9:00 pm)

Oh, and that's a good question. If you mean belt ranks and stripes, yes , but I've never heard of katas.

submitted by Will T, age 14, GA
(March 11, 2015 - 9:03 pm)

I know that you guys have belt ranks and stripes - I have quite a few friends in Tae Kwon Do and managed to gather that much from them - but by kata I mean like a series of movements that you do for each belt. The way I would explain a kata to a new person would be something like "A pretend fight with four to eight invisible people, with set moves that never change." Each kata, in Shotokan, is about 45 seconds, and there's one for each belt. If you want to see a beginner's kata - the first one, that my sisters are working, I think you can google "Hieon Shodan," and can find some demos. Do you have anything like that, by a different name, in Tae Kwon Do?

Yeah, Shotokan isn't that well-known - Tae Kwon Do is practically the most popular "martial art" and as it goes under the name of "karate" sometime, people don't often bother to distinguish Tae Kwon Do and forms of karate. 

submitted by True
(March 12, 2015 - 7:02 pm)

Er, well, not exactly...but I have taken a self-defense class, and I can escape any grip on my mouth, shoulders, arms, hands, or legs. I also know how to kick a person's kneecap in a way that causes them to fall and collapse. Not that I would do this to anyone for no reason. It's just a good thing to learn in case you find yourself in a dangerous situation. 

submitted by Nora the Singer
(March 13, 2015 - 11:47 am)