Where I came from, that sort of lack of control was met with an equal amount of “incentive” to get your shit together, asap. He however was unaware that I had 15 years of karate in my resume and as such when the ref gave the green light to continue I decided to give a Shotokan style ass-whoopping to the “black belt” and see if he could take what he liked dishing out. A black belt is expected to have control, especially when dealing with junior belts. Once I had a sparing match where I got nailed fairly hard by a black belt in what was either an act of incompetence or an attempt at teaching me “discipline”. That’s why the day you begin sparring is also the day to you purchase expensive padding which is intended to insulate you somewhat from the inept flailing of your fellow students. There is almost universally no foundation taught because that stuff is repetitious, boring and tends to send the little moneybags away. To say TaeKwondo is somewhat random in its delivery is an understatement. So if it sounds like I’m being too harsh on any WTF readers, relax. However, you could also go all the way and discuss the ATA ( American TaeKwondo Association ) which is the poster child for McDojo’s. While ITF ( International TKD Federation ) is also useless, it is a much more respectable style in contrast. For the purposes of this article I’m talking about WTF TaeKwonDo ( World TaeKwodo Federation ) since that is my experience. In fact, TaeKwondo is so dreadful it makes karate look like magic. However, since my soul is fueled by the rage of others I thought it wise to explain why another martial art I am also very much familiar with, TaeKwondo, is also just as useless. And for months on end they came at me like a stubborn Plantar Wart attempting to defend their honor or some weird crap like that by throwing an endless volley of MMA artists who apparently rubbed up against a karate dojo once. For starters, it united in a single monolithic force to inform me what a complete traitor I was. Some time ago I wrote an article called 5 Reasons Karate is Useless and since then the martial arts world has never been the same. Please accept this in the spirit that was intended. I never regret taking TKD, but I also have no fun poking fun at it. Before anyone freaks out…again…about this article, know that I only hurt the ones I love.

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