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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 378367" data-attributes="member: 5171">Yeah, that was one of those "Say and then backpedal" things.  Hadn't thought of using them against a motorcycle.  I'd probably still just step to the side myself, but then, I only do jump kicks every once in awhile as a fitness requirement thing, whereas you guys do them a bit more often and might have better application.You're definitely right in that there are different styles, and I haven't seen many of them.  What's also true is that TKD is hugely popular, and when you have a ton of schools for any one style, you're gonna have some bad schools.  It happened with TKD, it happened with Ninjitsu -- to some extent, it's happening with my art, too.But in terms of pragmatic versus artistic versus sport, is it true that TKD is more sport-oriented?  I have seen some very good, very disciplined schools that teach people not to throw punches at the head, because that's not tournament-legal.  How much time is spent in sport-oriented training compared to "kick the groin, gouge the eyes" training?  Again, I mean no offense.  The "history" of TKD that I had heard was that it was a sport derivation of Tang Soo Do, much like Judo is Jujitsu minus the stuff that's hard to do in tournaments.  I could be completely and totally full of it on this, however.-Tacky</blockquote>