Amusingly enough, I had spent 7 years in TKD, and it seemed to me that tehre were far too many flaws to prove useful outside of a sport enviroment. Thank you captain-fucking-obvious, right? I tried a...

In responce to eastern vs. western, I've always seen it go in favor of western. As a sidenote, Russian styles usually top it though. The difference between fencing and other swordsmanship styles...