52 Year Old Taekwon-Do Master as a Pro MMA Fighter | Interview

[@ryanoldryan9189]

It's so sad that GM Donato Nardizzi no longer uploading any videos/contents in this beautiful channel. I have always find that all videos in this channel helps a lot of Taekwondo practitioners worldwide. Hopefully he will soon one day uploads more fresh contents

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[@ooo8049]

Tae-kwon masters, I have just turned 50, sometimes I think should I call it a day and then I laugh. Ill give it up when it gives me up ), Im hoping to grade for my 3rd degree this year. strengths I love all your videos and have learned so much from you, as covid has stopped our club from training I have taken the time to study Taekwon-do terminology. I bought the book From Creation to Unification. that you mentioned in one of your videos. Very interesting. Thank you for your time and patience.

[@panda59043]

two smart masters - thanks for teaching.

[@mpg3946]

Great video.

[@vaijones2002]

A very interesting video, thanks! Your channel keeps getting better and better. There’s something i’d like to say regarding self defence and martial arts/MMA that some people may find interesting, if perhaps obvious, but just comes from my own thoughts as an ITF instructor. Most self defence situations are not against trained fighters but even worse, against untrained people with a high propensity towards violence who actually wish to cause you harm. So any martial artist has to be highly sensitive to the level of threat they face and must be prepared to match or surpass the level of violence intended upon them, or they will most likely ‘lose’, which may mean your hospitalisation of worse. I use a mnemonic for my students, “RVT” which stands for Realistic Violent Threat / Release Violent Taekwon-do. It’s more a jokey thing I get my students to repeat as a mantra when practising hoisin sul. The first part is about assessing the danger, the second part represents ‘Release’ ie strategies for evading, minimising the danger, defending personal space as well as specific techniques such as releases from grabs; “Violence” ie to be prepared to escalate to the same or higher level of violence, so if you see a blade, you don’t hesitate to inflict maximum damage if escaping is not possible, and “Taekwon-do” represent the skills put in to practice from training, and also to encourage students to see all aspects of their training in some way as preparation for the worst, whilst respecting we are all safe and having fun training. Regarding MMA, as a self defence of course the skills are effective but ultimately the assessment of the danger of a real threat of violence is the main skill. Most of the time any fighter of any style at a high level is preparing to go against another high level athlete, and the challenge is to see who has the edge at that point in their training, where as for self defence is about understand the difference about the psychology of someone who wants to stab you and doesn’t care about the consequences and how you are prepared to solve that problem, god forbid it ever arises. Even if it is argued that MMA represents a more ‘realistic’ combat system, I think Taekwon-do could be seen as contain more elements that help to understand true self defence, but it relies on the student and how to deep they wish to go in to that. From a 3rd degree with only fraction of the knowledge of these two martial arts masters!

[@konstantintop-painting6882]

the point is that some people try to make something like pagration but before many years the first non greek person who mention that was gen Choi Hong -Hi Tae Kwon -Do starts as a military martial art thats is meaning that it is a killing art the chinese military adobe Tae Kwon-Do for his self difense art !fron the third tul you are a kiling maschine .what need somebody more!ask me as an greek I know pagration and Tae kwon -Do!

[@scarred10]

youre totally missing the point,tkd doesnt address self defense at all.Now neither does mma or boxing or any combat sport but all, they require to translate to self protection is a change of strategy,tkd requires a complete overhaul technically,psychologically and strategically to the extent it wouldnt look like tkd at all.

[@chrisjones8912]

I don’t think you can say that self defence is absent from any of those martial arts, which if I am correct is what you just stated. Forgive if I’m wrong. If you take for instance just a stance, walking stance - the self defence application is vital, but it won’t be obvious to a student training just for pleasure and fitness. Practitioners with deeper thought can take the movements and understand how the might apply realistically. You can get a lot of other things from Taekwon-do training for sure, but self defence is in there if you are looking the right way. As a musician, what you are suggesting is a bit like saying there isn’t a live improv gig at the end of a practice session, where as a you could argue that everything is a preparation for that, from scales, technique, ear training, repertoire right through to rehearsals and performance. Surely that the perspective a martial artist should take? Here are the scales and techniques, now how do I put them into practice? My thoughts only, you don’t have to agree.

[@scarred10]

@@chrisjones8912 youre analogy with music is incorrect based not on opinion but how motor skills are acquired.Music practice is entirely specific to a live recital,all skills are transferable due to specificity.In TKD there is no transferability because the techniques are entirely different to application,theres no resistance,different timing,no danger etc.If a tech works you dont have to look deeper because thats exactly how it would be applied in live combat eg shadowboxing and drilling in wrestling.

[@konstantintop-painting6882]

@@scarred10 sometimes it is very nice when somebody answers to spmeone and he has answer to his self

[@jyd1384]

This old TKD fighter is so awesome because I'm 52 as well but If I have his position like this, I couldn't have made this. Take my hat off to you.

[@mikeandlisabanjofiddle8280]

Great interview. 52 and fighting, that’s awesome!

[@NeilOutdoor]

Awesome interview and martial artists !!!

[@abdullahmohan9107]

Really we all ITF Guys are missing out your videos ❤. I started to watch your videos only my sabon shows it. I like your microlevel hint and explanations.... Great job thanks for your efforts to make all the videos. I love you 😊

[@ogureckgreen]

Interesting video, even more interesting for me now - I've watched it before, about 18 months ago, when I started practicing tkd. I binge watched all videos on this channel, but since than I learned a lot and started my sparring fights, so the information from that video hits me differently. Your tutorials are great, I think they were like extra lessons for me apart from my regular trainings - while actual training provided necessary practice your lessons gave me additional insights and reasoning behind each move. Btw it's more than obvious that it would be great if you decided to go back to recording new videos ;)

[@ViralHitHobinYoo]

If you think about it, taekwondo has a very good understanding of self defence. Keep an opponent at bay, try to finish the fight as quickly as possible, evade it as much as you can, and try to get hit as little as you can. Mma is not a very accurate measure of an arts effectiveness in the street. With that being said, mma is extremely proficient, because mma is centered around sparring. Taekwondo promotes other values and physical attributes as well, like athleticism and conditioning (not the same as mma, tkd practitioners condition themselves for other purposes). Im an absolute martial art nerd, and i have practiced everything from itf, to kickboxing, to some boxing, grappling, and even mma. Should taekwondo be practiced as it was intended to, it becomes very deadly, as it includes a plethora of techniques which induce ever lasting damage.

[@taekwondointeligente]

Excellent example! very clear! 👍👍👍

[@malcolmjones3211]

Excellent Sir's, glad I'm not the only TKD Master who thinks 'outside the box'

[@ilikezappa3268]

Howdy Master Malcolm . Me too !

[@emilywillcox6518]

WOOOOOO THIS MY UNCLEEEE!!!!!!!!!!

[@ThanaPhaPloen]

very good job

[@MichaelWilliams-mo1vv]

There are some other good examples of taekwon do in MMA. As l understand it Joe Rogan a presenter and former very successful MMA fighter was also a taekwon do black belt his kicks were extremely powerful and lethal.

[@scarred10]

Joe Rogan never had an mma fight in his entire life,he was a WTF tkd competitor 30 yrs ago and is a bjj black belt now.

[@kejackson]

I'm always rooting for the TKD fighter. My favorite MMA fighter is Anthony Pettis. Raymond Daniels is also very exciting although he has much more kickboxing fights than MMA

[@vanesasaciri5745]

Impressive

[@tjl4688]

It's also very rare that MMA fighters use Taekwon-Do as their base, though; precisely because our sport is so heavily focused on kicking. Boxers are still allowed to clinch and play something of an inside game.

[@teovu5557]

Ben Henderson uses taekwondo as his base stand up(hes half black n korean and a taekwondo blackbelt) Yair Rodiguez a taekwondo blackbelt and former mexican state tkd champion fights in the UFC known for his kicks. Daron Cruickshank Anthony Pettis(3rd dan tkd black belt) and numerious others with tkd blackbelts but they also do other stand up arts as well so I dont include then like anderson silva,cung le and many others...

[@ekerner209]

Hi, thanks for your videos. I can't seem to find your MMA or UFC card. As a pro MMA fighter I would have expected to find your card. Can you please link me?

[@samisouirti3175]

I like your video's.

[@nooreddinalshami1869]

please can you make some videos about poomses applications

[@ffffff7593]

I once had a taekwondo sparring partner that destroyed me, he was 55(green)~ i was 21 (yellow ).

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Just talking

[@scarred10]

well glory be to God!A tkd master with a rational mind,as rare as tits on a bull.When I started crosstraining as an ITF black belt in 1996,I was told by the seniors Id have to choose between tkd and the rest,I chose the rest,it wasnt an option.To be honest though,theres nothing in this interview or video to convince me of any value to TKD in MMA,the guy basically kickboxed and then used bjj to win.You just have to look at the ITF training method ie severely restricted light contact sparring,patterns,fundamental line work and then look at what happens in a cage.I have to call you out on one thing though,the ITF does not have ground work of any type,no grappling escapes v resistance and no elbows or knees outside patterns.If these techs dont exist in sparring then they do not exist in practical terms at all.

[@MichaelWilliams-mo1vv]

scarred10 taking your points in order at high levels of ITF competition it can be virtually full contact. Also in certain countries, regions like East Europe, Russia again they train differently and contact is more extreme. Knee and elbow strikes exist not only in patterns but as stand alone techniques that can be applied in padwork and in self defence training hosinsul. When l started training in Taekwon do many years ago we also practised a lot of low below the waist kicks in shields and pads. We also practised a lot of ground defence. All of these techniques are found in General Choi's encyclopedia of Taekwon do, worth checking out. Good luck on your Martial art journey. Michael Williams III degree.

[@scarred10]

@@MichaelWilliams-mo1vv dude,I got my black belt from the ITF in 1988,I read the 15 vol encyclopedia cover to cover and have been on the Irish national team, I know what is and what isnt in TKD.There are no applied knees or elbows or low kicks or anything resembling effective grappling in the art,meaning that they are never practised against full resistance in sparring ,any hosinsul compliant drills you do are complete nonsense .The self defense in the encyclopedia is completely unusable. As for contact in tkd,its heavier in eastern Europe and many cross train in kickboxing but it's far from the norm in the ITF.

[@enivacsmailliw9654]

@@scarred10 I am an instructor and have been for the last ten years, i am of the opinion that there is a very big difference between training TKD for sports and self defense, i put a lot of emphasis on both, TKD for sports is best applicable in competition against a fellow TKD opponent, whenever a TKD student is fighting against other martial artists there are no restrictions on what can be done, apart from those agreed on before the fight, in which case the knees, elbows, grabbing can be used. The biggest problem is most people concentrate so much on the sport aspect gaining speed and accuracy in sticking the protective gear to earn points but in the long run lacking power. A case in point is the round house kick, both are practiced in TKD and mui Thai, however in TKD 99%of the time its used to kick the chest protector in order to get points, when in mui Thai a round house kick is ment to take an opponent down. When this two opponents meet, a TKD guy uses a kick to get 'points' while the mui Thai guy takes you down. As TKD instructors we must start putting more emphasis on self defense and out of the ring situations coz we have all the necessary techniques.

[@enivacsmailliw9654]

@@scarred10 sir, even if you were to be in the heaven national team and believe that is all TKD is all about then you are lost, as a TKD exponent you must be dynamic, what you use in ITF sparring cannot be used effectively against other martial arts, that's why you must regularly practice the self defense techniques as regularly as possible, practice your other kicks, punches and blocks not just for scoring points on a hogo but to take the opponent down, it's naive to train an axe kick, round house and back kick just for scoring points, then expect to fight and win against another opponent who's aim while training is kick to drop the enemy. And by the way which TKD is this you practiced that has no use of knees elbows and grabbing??????? Or do you mean that when you have to defend yourself in times of danger you can't kick below the belt for fear of being deducted a mark🤣? TKD is progressive add to it what you can for self defense, not complaining

[@scarred10]

@@enivacsmailliw9654 ITF tkd prior the gen chois death there was only 1 type.What part of no knees,elbows,low kicks or grappling in sparring do you not understand?There also are no hooks or uppercuts.Self defense techs are irrelevant because there is no resistance,they do not work.ITF is not progressive,thats the problem,the syllabus was completely and rigidly enforced by gen choi,no diversions.