Friday, December 01, 2023

gettin' her kicks

Here's a YouTube Short of a lady kicking a dummy. Her kicks show great form (and power), and I'm pretty sure we're looking at taekwondo.

However, one of the complaints about taekwondo is that, despite its powerful kicks (you can find any number of TKD knockout-by-kick videos on YouTube), the martial art is predictable. I've heard from practitioners of various other martial arts who say they love fighting TKD exponents because it's easy to read what they're going to do. This isn't because the TKDers are sloppy and telegraphing their moves: it's the nature of the martial art itself that makes TKDers easy to anticipate. You can kind of see this predictability as the woman goes through her sequence of kicks. I myself have seen similar sequences before. Keep your guard up.



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