What are the weaknesses?

1.) Primarily WTF TKD, but when I have extra time in the summer, I train in MMA.

2.) The main weakness is the perception others have of this martial art. Many groups and people have been working to discredit TKD as a legitimate fighting style. Even other versions of TKD try to discredit WTF TKD. There is alot of false info out there.

From a technical standpoint, WTF TKD stylist typically fight with their hands down.

Also, while we can combine many kicks, we rarely combine multiple hand techniques.

The sport of TKD lacks any ground fighting and head contact with hand techniques.

Contrary to popular belief, non sport WTF TKD self defense and poomse (kata) techniques include throws, sweeps, elbows, knees and even a few joint locks.

3.) My bad habit is relying too much on my kicks and using distance. Also, I struggle to maintain a healthy diet.

4.) Similar to 3, use of kicks. In particular, using my front leg disproportionately to my back leg. My personal weakness is that in sparring, I tend to be a head hunter, even when other easier options are available to me. Also I'm sometimes too aggressive and walk into counters.

5.) I do teach and I try to pass on as much knowledge as I can. After sparring someone that shows some talent, I tell them what I do and how to beat me, and this forces me to come up with new and creative tactics to change and enlarge my own tool box. I have studied many styles and I teach the useful things from those other styles when appropriate (not to everyone). I also teach the full curriculum from my current master.

6.) I'm not sure I'm comfortable answering this on an open public forum. It's not too hard to find out who I am and who my instructor is based on stuff I've posted. I can say that my current master is the best I've ever had from a technical viewpoint. I don't agree with all of his business practices, but I do think he has a good heart, but occasionally forgets about it.

James

1) Five Animal style Kung Fu, Wing Chun, Karate, Aikido, Muay Thai, Filipino Kali, JKD Concepts/Jun Fan Kung Fu

2) There are weaknesses per style namely in terms of rigidity of technique, flow and effective range. Some more than others. Like above answer for example, Muay Thai suffers from mass attack situations, weapons defense (except military Muay Thai), extensive groundfighting, etc. Aikido, excels in medium to close range handling of attacks, but lacks extensive ground components and requires a longer learning curve for some people. JKD philosophy is nice in that it attempts to answer the riddle of combat by drawing together universal training methods and concepts, yet it takes a while to develop proper flow and attributes.

3) Walking away lazily or somewhat sloppy recovery, stiffness, breathing, flexibility

4) Conditioning is always a challenge for me. I'll always manage to hit some sort of threshold and start feeling the effects of exhaustion. But if I keep pushing, that exhaustion wears off and I feel a little better again. Nevertheless, that gassed out feeling always sucks in the beginning. Vision is also a problem initially, slight nearsightedness. Bad habits include eating junk food, not taking in enough water, etc.

5) Yes, I would incorporate skills found inside the art and enhance it with what I know or feel works best. Techniques beyond the style are always welcome. I will however make it point to students to know and understand where the technique came from.

6) Instructors have said I do work hard and always give it my all no matter how tired I am. They have said I take the training very seriously and have a knack for understanding techniques and seeing their practical use. I've come across some instructors who are quite fixated on their style's effectiveness and are a little less than amused at the mention of other competing styles. Egos. One instructor seemed just a bit too money hungry for my taste. They keep the student in a perpetual time warp just to milk them for extra cash.

1) I study Isshin-Ryu karate.

2) The main disadvantage or weakness is very little ground work. We do work throws and take downs, and resisting the same, but generally we do not follow our opponents down after the throw or take down.

3) My main weakness is that being bigger and stringer then most in class, sometimes I muscle stuff too much instead of relying on good technique. I am also working to overcome being so tense in everything I do.

4) I have to work around fairly tight hips, and have never been able to get much flexability in them. Good thing our style kicks low lol. I also find as I get older that injuries become mor enagging and take longer to heal. As a result I cannot work out the way I used to and have put a little weight on. My main mental problem is that I think too much sometimes, rather then letting my body do what it knows how to do.

5) I pretty much focus on teaching what I was taught, however my instructor has matured a lot since I have been there and he, and I, have a much better understanding of what lies behind a technique, and also how to do them more effectivly. Other then ground work our style is fairly complete, and I am not qualified to teach a lot on the ground, however a guy at our church does submission grappling and has agreed to start working with me.

6) I think my instructor would say he was proud of me. I think he would say that when it came to teaching/applying bunkai from kata that no one else in our school is in my league except for him. I alos think he would say that I lack confidence in myself many times, and sometimes do not push myself physicly as hard as I should.

I think my instructors main fault is that he has a very domanint personality and feels the need to be in charge no matter where he is at. I also feel sometimes because he has been doing it so long, he sometimes teaches above the heads of most students. Not often but some. He is definetly human and has weaknesses, however I do at least see him working on overcoming them.

No problem being honest here bud.

1.I study Muay Thai.

2.The weaknesses in this art are probably the obvious ones of ground grappling not existing in my opinion.

3.When training I have a tendency to look downwards a lot, but when sparring or any other type of competition I actually do look at eye level. Gotta change this habit. Another one is my left kick. I am working on perfecting it at every training but I have a tendency not pivit as much leading to and upward kick instead of a sideways going kick.

4. My weakness is probably my conditioning. Don't get me wrong I can go long but when I've reached that certain point of exhaustion I tend to talk myself into quitting which I hate and have to overcome ALL the time. I'm working on not having this habit at all.

5. I'm not planning teaching but if I ever am at that point in my life where I would want to teach muay thai, I would like to teach it the way it was taught to me and possibly perfect certain techniques from pure muay thai techniques.

6. I honestly would think my instructors would describe me as a fast learner. The rest I wouldn't dare to say because of fear of jinxing myself. Only flaw I would think my ''trainers'' have is that there might be a little too many of them. Probably means that I'm learning too many different things to keep track of, or it means that learning from different trainers is to my advantage.

Hope you find honesty in what I'm saying.

1 Shorin Ryu and Jujitsu

2 I don't see weakness in the styles that I train. I thin every style has good things to offer. I also believe that different styles do things differently not better. We learn to fight standing, We grapple. We fight from the ground, but we also teach not to stay on the ground. But if we go to the ground on purpose or not we must know how to defend from this position. But if I have to teach a weakness I would say in a couple of the Shorin Ryu kata I don't like how the end. Since kata is simulating fighting I don't understand why we would end a kata with a block.

3 My stance took me a long time to correct

4 shuto strikes. I have some physical limitation right now. I am recovering from a car accident It has been more than a year since I could really train. I though I was getting closer to fully coming back, but I had to have more surgery.

Since my injury is my tib/fib I don't know if I will be able to fully demonstrate the things I need to teach my students. I haven't been able to gain my strength back or flexibility especially in my ankle.

5 I do teach. I'm second to our head instructor. We currently include things from other arts in our self defense. For promotion we use the standard curriculum.

6 I believe he thinks highly of me. I say this for a couple of reasons. He and the other instructor that used to train me some years ago asked me to continue the school after he retires and it was my instructor that recommended me to His instructor and our founder for the hall of fame. I didn't think I deserved that honor. I don't think I have influenced the martial arts community enough for that. I know he used to say that I didn't know how much power I have. I would caution me about using too much power in class with my training partners. I thought I was holding back, but he said it was too much still too much for most people.

His biggest weakness is that he may not make a good first impression. He has a lot to offer and teach, but he runs potential students away when the first inquire about training. He doesn't like wasting his time with people that aren't committed to learning martial arts.

1)Traditional and Modern Tae kwon do and Jun Fan Gung Fu/ JKD concepts, BJJ

2)In Tae kwon do(in most areas) there are many punches taught and the few that are taught are easily blocked. Also grappling isn't taught, so if I got taken to the ground I would easily submitted. That's why I turned to JKD and BJJ. Also, in tae kwon do, contact is limited, so many peiple when they actually punch a solid object, they hurt their hands.

3)I wasn't flexible at first and my side kick and round kick took me a while to get the technique down. Still working on getting it higher.

4)I am impatient and I am slightly skinny. For my impatience my dad has we wait and earn gifts. And for the skinny part, I started working out two months ago.

5)I don't plan on teaching but if I did, I would incorporate a variety of techniques. I will also focus on keeping traditional though as my dad taught me that way.

6)My instructors find me to be a honest and responsible person( I hope). I also try to persevere in my studies and in martial arts, and I think they have noticed that.

For their weaknesses, I think they are over-confident and they teach the curriculum incorrectly(trust me, you are not supposed to use your shin to hit the target in a round kick).

Thanks for the question, we need more like these.

1. Life and the mind.

2. Only systems have disadvantages.

3. I work to correct the belief that I am using a system when fighting and using a system to learn.

4. I am injured and can't really train (I do what I can for the time being)

5. There is nothing outside of no system. I was not taught from a curriculum.

6. He would ask me why I bother training, and why I bother teaching. His weaknesses would have to be found on a day to day basis.

1. I study alot of styles leisurely (I attend classes at the discretion of the master to see how other styles work). I have formal training in Tang Soo Do, Judo and Hung Gar. Im also self taught Jianshu

2. Tang Soo Do leaves little room for grappling, Judo focuses alot on grappling but I find that it is difficult to master wholey and therefore leads some students moving too slow for an actual fight, Hung Gar is by far my favorite, but it is very short ranged and is susceptible to the more nimble opponents.

3. My worst habit is I don't guard myself as well as I should and tend to leave myself open to the most observant opponents.

4. This is really the same thing as 3.

5. Most certainly, I encourage them to take from all styles and combine them to what suits them best. I also have them take time from training to teach them basic mechanics, anatomy and energy so that they may implement that knowledge in their fighting.

6. My instructors say I pay to little attention to detail. I disagree, naturally. I believe I pay enough attention to detail.

1)I currently study Judo, Jujitsu, Escrema and boxing with a background in Isshenryu, American and Danshen-ryu Karate and Tae-kwon-do/ Hap-ki-do.

2) I have discovered that where each style's weaknesses begin, another one coveres for (provided you are not rigid in your fighting philosophy) but as they are.... Judo does not permit striking; traditional jujitsu (not bjj) does not lend itself to full contact sparring as well as Hap-ki-do because of the leathal techniques. so you don't really know if they will work or if you have spent hundreds of hours practicing a technique that will work as you have been told and expect them to work. Escrema does not provide for advanced grappling nor does boxing.

3) forms.... i don't practice them often enough and sometimes i get stuck when i do them on my own. and i forget the traditional japanese name for techniques when i should know them like the back of my hand...(te) lol.

4) like a lot of other people here, my weakness is conditioning. most of the time I don't have the time to devote to total contitioning which makes me vulnerable to "getting gassed".

5) when i teach i make sure to give respect to the other styles but tend to teach core techniques in a traditional manner and then after the student "gets it" I try to broaden their horizons.

6) my sensei would say that i learn quickly, but I over explain things and go too far to make a point at times. he would say that i have a good heart and a fertile mind, but i don't do enough follow up on students that may have issues i can fix. he would say that he wouldn't want to fight me and that (or maybe because that) he is my friend.

his weakness would be that he sometimes pontificates when he should be kick'n my a$$.

1) Chen Style taijiquan

2) The use of distance and movement to control and intimidate your opponent. In Taijiquan we employ a 'counter-attacking' approach where we move forward and cut through the attack, or move with it, whereas in kickboxing styles one tries to make distance and cover-up as an initial reaction to an attack. This means there's a distinct lack of footwork in Taijiquan. I only know how to defend myself at really close range.

3) I'm waaay to indecisive. It's part of my personality. This has made it hard for me to get use to the idea of moving into your opponents attack. Takes more courage than just pulling back methinks.

4) Eating habits. Due to my particular culture, I don't have the physical fitness I would like to have.

5) Naaah. People need masters that spend their whole life increasing their skill in just one area, so they can pass on more skill to pupils that want to mix it up a bit. Think about it. The quality of mixed martial arts would decrease if the quality of martial arts decreased.

6) I honestly don't know what he'd say about me. I doubt I could compare to the students he's taught in China, but I'm sure he considers me hardworking and really into it. My particular instructor also knows Yiquan and Sanda kickboxing so he doesn't any gaps, or atleast as far as i'm aware of. But he admited to me that he came to the same conclusion about Tajiquan, I did.