should i take up a second Martial art?

[cid]

ok iv been doing TKD for six months and obviously i have a lot more to learn but i was just wondereing wheather or not it was worth me starting a second martial art as well as TKD or should i concentrate on TKD only until iv been doing it a couple of years. i just want the opinion of anyone with experience in multiple martial arts.
my instructor says i should wait, let myself improve in TKD then if i want to take up a second martial art. But my mate who has done TKD for over 4 years and tae jitsu for a year and a half says he wishes he had started tae jitsu sooner rather than waiting.

-is this in the wrong place?... if it is sorry-

[Thai Bri]

To be honest mate I'd ditch the TKD if you want to learn to fight. Its a fun sport and has great fitness benefits, but only the believers give it any credence in the streets.

[cid]

i wanna keep doing TKD, im interested in learning as much about martial arts as possible i want to do another martial art but im not sure if i should...

[Thai Bri]

If you want to go with TKD, I'd get a couple of years under my belt before taking on something different.

[Nothingness]

You should train yourself into the reflex level. That is, when one attacks you, or you attack someone, you can react properly according to the MA you learn.

Let's say that someone hits you in the face. In TKD, you should not be wasting time trying to block it if possible. Instead you take a half away and execute a kick to counter ASAP.

Let's say that he punches you in a face, you take a half step back and execute a dolyo cheugi at the abdomen level. If he is trained enough and be able to block you and kick you back, you should be able to take another step to counter the counter kick. If he take a step back when you do your counter kick, you should be able to do a follow up kick immediately.

I think at 6 month, they just started to teach you the basic front kick (ap cheugi) and the basic roundhous kick (dolyo cheugi) from a basic kicking stand (ap geubi).

[Ikken Hisatsu]

If you do take up another MA, I suggest it be something that compliments your tkd, rather than fighting against it. for example, doing thai boxing or karate would not be a great idea. whereas wrestling, sambo, judo, or bjj would concentrate on all the things that you dont do in TKD.

[cid]

I think at 6 month, they just started to teach you the basic front kick (ap cheugi) and the basic roundhous kick (dolyo cheugi) from a basic kicking stand (ap geubi).

i think officially were supposed to be introduced to them after 3 or 4 months but weve been practicing them since about 3 or 4 week after we started training, our instructor is big on sparring ever since we started she's been preparing us for sparring as well as passing gradings.

If you do take up another MA, I suggest it be something that compliments your tkd, rather than fighting against it. for example, doing thai boxing or karate would not be a great idea. whereas wrestling, sambo, judo, or bjj would concentrate on all the things that you dont do in TKD.

yeah theres judo club nearby

[Nothingness]

Couple things I'd like to suggest:

Learning kicks at such early stage could be good. However, please also remember that one needs to learn proper blockings. One major draw back of TKD, especially WTF, is they have such powerful kicks without teaching how to block kicks properly. That's very dangerous.

I don't think TKD and Judo are good completments to learn together for a beginner. In TKD, your feet need to be in a light spring-like movement for the footwork. In Judo, nothing but flat solid to the tatami.

Best wishes.

[sirmattu]

ok iv been doing TKD for six months and obviously i have a lot more to learn but i was just wondereing wheather or not it was worth me starting a second martial art as well as TKD or should i concentrate on TKD only until iv been doing it a couple of years. i just want the opinion of anyone with experience in multiple martial arts.
my instructor says i should wait, let myself improve in TKD then if i want to take up a second martial art. But my mate who has done TKD for over 4 years and tae jitsu for a year and a half says he wishes he had started tae jitsu sooner rather than waiting.

-is this in the wrong place?... if it is sorry-

The first martial art that first starting taking was tae kwon do. After about 8 weeks i started taking another martial art (kick boxing), and i havent had any trouble. If you want to take a second martial art after only taking tkd for only 6 months i suggest looking for a martial art that is closely related to tkd.

[kid-do]

I think that u should stick with TKD for another year or 2 and then when ur expierienced enough to know how to kick right and have good technique then u can join a second martial art for self defence benifits so u can be a good fighter in both stand up and grappling styles.