TKD In Awesome Mode

[@hypnoticskull6342]

I hope this thing gets more popular. As a Taekwondo guy, I love this thing. Been incorporating more Taekwondo into my kickboxing for a year and a half

[@travesty-studios]

@@hypnoticskull6342 there's a few TKD people in Karate Combat and I've been seeing a few newer MMA fighters coming up that have a TKD background.

[@raze44smr]

I trained TKD as a child in the 90s and it was more like that compared to what you see in the olympics

[@michaelmartinez3893]

Same here

[@T-Ball-o]

Olympics ruin every sport

[@cookie_space]

Literally every fight I watched in this years olympic had more power and energy than the things shown here

[@maxbd2618]

It's weird that even though the Olympic style is WTF, it seems ITF was also degraded by the sportifying as well.

[@maxbd2618]

@@cookie_space No one mentioned power

[@DreanPetruza]

This is beautiful, it's just ITF rules but full contact, so no low kicks, uppercuts or hooks.

[@victortorres7851]

@DreanPetruza aww but those are some of my favorite parts😅

[@maxbd2618]

My studio is ITF but it's a little unorthodox, we do low kicks, uppercuts and hooks in sparring. We aren't allowed knees, elbows or take-downs in sparring but we review them in self defense exercises.

[@Brykk]

Thanks jerry. Great video compilation.

[@chikken_soup]

_those of you who don't know what redheads are..._ 😅

[@bw5020]

This kind of TKD would horrify me. I love this win footage for TKD. I feel they don't get enough credit

[@koffikoffi8777]

💪💪💪 Looks like Kick-boxing inna dobok style. Awesom !!!

[@M_K-Bomb]

2:19 It was funny to see the lady in the crowd give the visual example of Jerry reacting to seeing the guy get knocked out by that first strike the tornado kick.

[@madeinargentina9214]

2:15 360° dollyo chagui

[@clapdrix72]

As a combat sports entertainment product, it looks very very similar to Glory/K1 kickboxing in a different skin and more amateurish boxing. Their kicks are clean and fast AF though.

[@richardschafer7858]

Red-haired girl is a good tactician. I really enjoyed this video. I've sparred old school TKD guys who came up in the 70s and 80s. Those guys could punch as well as kick. Great scrappers!

[@ChristosGkoutzounis]

I like the outfits they're wearing.

[@Artahe]

The single clap lady at 2:19 always cracks me up

[@HybridMMAExtreme]

This looks like a hybrid of taekwondo and kickboxing mixed I actually like this match interesting match.

[@settingsunmedia]

If I'm not mistaken, the first clip is a now defunct professional ITF TKD promotion. The rules are the same as regular ITF tournaments, except full contact is allowed rather than semi-conduct, and no helmets. Regular ITF rules are generally semi-contact and allow both punches and kicks to the head and body, but nothing allowed below the belt and no elbows/knees in competition.

[@carlosbarreto4695]

2:38 - That kick is called _Rejon Bandal Tchagui_ or just _Rejon Bandal._ In this case, he made a forward step, moving the foot that was behind to the front in an advancing movement, than he performed the _Rejon Bandal._ This is a common movement in TKD matches when there's a big distance between to your target.

[@karu5101]

sooooo a tornado kick?

[@carlosbarreto4695]

@@karu5101 You can call that, if you want. _Rejon Bandal Tchagui_ is how it's called in Taekwondo.

[@mysticramen4104]

Hey Jerry, raymond daniels fought in this same tournament and was beatrn by Andrei krylov, an itf world champion, please search and comment that fight

[@TimothyAdams-ln2jr]

More like the old PKA style we used for full-contact back in my own ITF days. There are ITF style schools in the Philippines that use a Kyokushin style full-contact rules. TKD used to be traditional karate, not the sports the WT and other push now.

[@mysticramen4104]

@@TimothyAdams-ln2jr meh, even for full contact fighting, itf should still have face punches.

[@clanterminaition3257]

I finally finished the highlights for Qi la la

[@Skaxarrat]

B...but according to reddit, TKD doesn't work!

[@PazCristo]

Both are Counter Strikers? I cannot see a single gun there.

[@FightCommentary]

Hahahahahah 😜

[@silentmind34]

You should check out Kombat Taekwondo. Its like Karate Combat. But....well.... taekwondo. Lol.

[@fifthlevelbard9541]

I watch my wife and kid do Tae Kwon Do and they do those tornado kicks and they look cool as hell but I'm always like "how is that effective in a fight though?" Then I see the second match and I'm like "Okay, _that's_ how. :| " Dude was like an anime character. *"Spinning Tornado Kick of Brain Damage!"*

[@majaimay]

Itslike TKD's veraion of sanda

[@randomimprovise1918]

Can you do a clip of some siranmen, liu he ba fa, or mizongyi

[@bennyaruba3449]

Exchange the current Olympic TKD with this!

[@jamesfrankiewicz5768]

For the second fight, I'm not sure what TKD calls it, but back in my kung fu days, we called it a "butterfly kick".

[@christianrodriguez7749]

Buenísima pelea la de estos dos del inicio

[@AlexanderAlex-y3g]

Hey, could you please link the rest of the videos?

[@FightCommentary]

They are always in the description.

[@davidmoore5231]

I got my BB in the WTF style when I was younger, I was always asking why we couldn't punch to the face, to set up the kicks, and asked aobut knees and elbows, I was just told they don't do that...I didn't understand why we only kicked. I got into Muay Thai later, then eventually went to BJJ, because of hip and back issues.

[@moominpic]

In my 50s and tore my hamstring a beaut doing TKD. Never felt confident after that so also went into BJJ.

[@James-wd9ib]

2:43 What league is this? I haven't seen belt loops in pants since Karate Combat came out with their gi

[@amazed2341]

Protkd was great, they got rid of the jackets at one point iirc

[@luderzuckerfan6990]

You can tell it's TKD cos the kicks are crisp and the hands seen really underdeveloped in comparision

[@rylie8989]

I'm not a fan of how they put the corner color as the swoosh on the pants. Unlike a stripe around the glove wrists it's really only visible from a single angle. Using it in addition to other markers would be fine but using it alone is just dumb

[@coconuthead4923]

What's a rat hat? Do all Taekwondoka's have rat hats?

[@AnimalManDC]

Hitmonchan>>>Hitmonlee

[@Rotaks]

In my younger ages I was training this version of TKD (ITF). There's no kicks in legs. And basically it looks like old (80's or 90's) kickboxing for me :/

[@antoniostrina82]

Nice fights but they look like TKD with no kicks. Only the second match was ended with a kick, the others were just punches.

[@jamesfrankiewicz5768]

That first fight was reminiscent of pre-2000 era TKD, when TKD was known for kicking ability, but was not dependent on kicks. The kick-focused game originated from the WTF faction trying to create a distinct sport that the International Olympic Committee didn't just shoot down as "karate with a Korean name, and we already have karate".

[@antoniostrina82]

@@jamesfrankiewicz5768 I agree with you, but it demonstrates that kicks are useless during a fight. The only good and effective kicks seem to be the savate ones.

[@MatthewNguyen-zx3de]

@@antoniostrina82 You can see UFC guys spam kicks TKD style. The truth is that TKD doesn't really need proving- they just need to cross train other arts.

[@blkspade23]

@@antoniostrina82 Kicks work, the issue is the practitioner. Something like a jump back kick only works when you've timed your opponents closure for the gap you've left them. The guy in the 1st fight threw it hoping to get lucky, as opposed to having set him up to step into it. Instead the red fighter picked up blues over zealous kicks and waited just outside of range. He picked up on blue just being less comfortable with punches and capitalized.

[@DouglasBuenoGomes]

​​​@@jamesfrankiewicz5768ironic because Okinawa-te the Original name of Karate are originally focused in punchs and Grappling there's no kicks but Karate learned kicks from Savate after a French guys go to Okinawa.

[@Arlojmikk]

very baffled as to why you started explaining what a redhead is...........

[@FightCommentary]

I'm still under the weather. I usually don't get sick this long, but because I have my ankle injury, my body is just not in best physique right now. So it's been a rough week for me health wise.

[@SonnyCrocket-p6h]

if a strike does not HURT him, (badly) it was not waf. throwing stuff that would not bruise a banana, or from too far away, is a stupid risk to be taking. Especially high kicks. they are easily blocked and then you're off balance, in big trouble and he hits you the leg, nuts, etc