Good to know. Now I can not go to the stupid local YMCA for Aikido. It's stupid because it has far less facilities than the YMCA 20 minutes away by car.
If I can find a good school I'll pick up Tae-kwon-do (I don't give a shit about spelling) again.
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i'm have no clue as to what that is. but i know what ti won do is. any one know what types of wepons traning is? not like archery.
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You had it right, Anonmon. It's Taekwondo (sometimes with or without hyphens)
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figures i'd spell it wrong. never paid attion in class
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taek won do is easy to start at you just need strong legs and good elongation the technique of the kicks aren't that complicated comparing with other martial arts.
but it requieres a lot of practice to use it in fight, gotta practice the speed of the kicks (develope thin fiber muscles) for most of them and develope strength in the legs for direct pushing kicks.
not nice to enter as a newbie if you haven't trained your kicking it's unconfortable.
recommended to do the basic kicks and elongating some time before you enter taekwondo
tip with elongating its not good to elongate strong more than one time a day it's good to drink some water and warm up before enlongating.
there's a good way for elongating to give side kicks its a bit strange thou ^^; , put your knees against the floor on cushions making a 90
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Sorry, I wasn't sure about the spelling. :oops: I know a guy studying Asian war history, and he says that Taekwondo was developed to knock guys off of horses, but that it wasn't meant to be a self-defense martial art.
"I looked up and saw you;
I know that you saw me.
We froze but for a moment
In empathy."-Rise Against
if you ask me it depends on who is teaching the subject, and if you are learning from an old text book or a recent. As for the science/chem./health teacher that i had it was easy enough to understand. but with the recent one that i have for chem./science he is too much of a perfectionist, he wanted everything to be detailed. the reason for the new change was because the old teacher moved away. oh well it was fun while it lasted