Posted by:  Guest  on July 20th, 2006The video and music was great! After reading through all the comments, the debate on the practical use of such kicks in a street fight and the training required to master these skills seems to get heated.

From our part of the world, you don't get street fights. What you get is a brawl with multiple enemies throwing rocks, molotov cocktails and some attackers would be armed with lead pipes, baseball bats, ice picks, fan knives, bladed weapons, 2x2 lumber, and sometimes homemade guns. The fastest kicker could be the fastest runner in life and death situations like that and when you corner this fast kicker, his turning side kick to your solar plexus, just when you're breathing so hard to get air, would leave you dead or hospitalized for three days. The fastest runner won't also get jailed because he can run fast enough before the police comes.

What I can tell you is: I can't kick as fast as these guys or execute such amazing combination kicks although I played half-contact karate, full contact karate (no body armor), kickboxing, taekwondo and boxing. We kick kicking pads, heavy bags, light bags, logs wrapped with abaca fiber and banana tree trunks. I did a one-on-one fight with a judoka varsity player from one of our well known universities. He attacked me with a bolo afterwards. I also fought two Tausogs and got hit with a double bladed kris and parried it away from a distance. I had to fight with multiple attackers (construction workers who work with their hands) armed with spades, knives, lead pipes and stones. I had to fight a 220 pound, 6'2'' opponent when I'm only 5'6" 156 lbs and so on. (But I still have to fight someone armed with a gun and I don't have plans for this.) The point is: if we fight these guys on video, we would certainly lose or get knocked out.

Therefore: Never pick a fight, specially with these guys and more so with Mirko Cro-Cop. 3 rounds of sparring, taekwondo or whatever, will get you all the pain you need and sometimes blood on your face and bruises on your body. You may hurt your opponent, get yourself hurt, win a few fights, lose some, or win a gold medal. But after that, you'll get all the pain you need for two weeks or more.

However, you'll never win in a street fight or a brawl because someone is going to have his revenge some other day. In a martial sports like what this video shows, sparring is usually done daily or every training session, that's why they have such great ability, skill and physical condition. Meanwhile, nobody can live a great life or attain great physical condition with a street fight on a daily basis. My friend, a karate blackbelter and amateur kickboxer, has to nurture his multiple stab wounds for more than a year and never gained back his condition eversince after a brawl with the same Tausogs on a different occassion.

Meanwhile, we martial artists can eat all the good food we want and still maintain a normal blood pressure. Can a 300 pound street fighter with a baseball bat who fights once a month do that? We certainly can outrun such a gorilla, spray sand on his eyes when he gets tired, stab his groin with a ball point pen and give him a neat jumping turning side kick to his throat and run fast enough just before the police comes.

Posted by:  Guest  on February 6th, 2006Hahaha, Awesome Vid, too bad so many guys out there think they can beat thsoe people. Those are Martial artists, MARTIAL ARTISTS. They practice what is now a Sport, so people immediatly assume it is weak. Why would shuch a craft be created, if some geeky 12 year old can beat it. So verys tupid "Duh, Ill grab him from behind and Strangle Him..." You do realise 'He' Proably would be kicking you in the head before you got withing 4 feet. Silly Boys, go to bed now.

Posted by:  Guest  on February 6th, 2006Lowe, Resorting to racism because somebody may have not seen your point or disagrees is pathetic. Also, to all who claim they could even put a scratch on one of those Martial Artists, If those forms of Fighting where not created to defend one self from others, such as one of you, then what was the martial arts Created for?
Night All

Posted by:  Guest  on February 6th, 2006Lowe, Resorting to racism because somebody may have not seen your point or disagrees is pathetic. Also, to all who claim they could even put a scratch on one of those Martial Artists, If those forms of Fighting where not created to defend one self from others, such as one of you, then what was the martial arts Created for?
Night All

Posted by:  Guest  on February 6th, 2006I came back to watch this clip again...cause I actually like it. But jesus youre a f**king idiot man. I mean the kind of idiot that makes a man want to lose faith in humanity and start shooting people. DID YOU EVEN READ THE POSTS you slope browed idiot. My soul hurts and I hope you die childless you genetic failure.

Posted by:  Guest  on February 6th, 2006Div, And Lowe, Good Job, For Recoginition On The TKD And KF,
You Make Me Proud To Be In The UAAA

Posted by:  Guest  on February 6th, 2006Just so you guys know "my kind" (the flipping XMA competing guys) beat the s**t out of most ppl in their street fights not to mention a lot of the ones from a jujitsu/wrestling background. The Tae Kwon Do practicioner kicks extremely fast with power u wouldn't know. One flying knee to the face and its over.

Posted by:  Guest  on February 6th, 2006Some of you are truly stupid. Mad props to these kids for their obvious talent which was never in contention btw.
I’m sure they can handle themselves just fine (also never in contention)…not using sport TKD…which was the whole point. Practical MA’s were developed for street/real/whatever fighting DragonLee, get a clue. And Jennel I don’t recall anyone, other than in jest, claiming to be able to beat these kids up…after all, who the hell really cares. Some of you are just mind boggling stupid…or simply choose not to read correctly.

Posted by:  Guest  on February 6th, 2006Some of you are truly stupid. Mad props to these kids for their obvious talent which was never in contention btw.
I’m sure they can handle themselves just fine (also never in contention)…not using sport TKD…which was the whole point. Practical MA’s were developed for street/real/whatever fighting DragonLee, get a clue. And Jennel I don’t recall anyone, other than in jest, claiming to be able to beat these kids up…after all, who the hell really cares. Some of you are just mind boggling stupid…or simply choose not to read correctly.

Posted by:  Guest  on February 6th, 2006Some of you are truly stupid. Mad props to these kids for their obvious talent which was never in contention btw.
I’m sure they can handle themselves just fine (also never in contention)…not using sport TKD…which was the whole point. Practical MA’s were developed for street/real/whatever fighting DragonLee, get a clue. And Jennel I don’t recall anyone, other than in jest, claiming to be able to beat these kids up…after all, who the hell really cares. Some of you are just mind boggling stupid…or simply choose not to read correctly.