Korean Tigers - Extreme Kicks Battle

[animal]

man these guys are getting so much better.

i remember some of their older battles and demos form a few years back, and they had some pretty unclean tricks and combos.....but now...farout the contrast is blinding! so good!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4tBi1ToZrQ

though i must admit...the random popping/hiphop bits were pretty random :\

[musasabi]

damn, that standing fulltwist was fucking sick for a MA trickster. :smile:

and yeah, theyve gotten a _lot_ better, haha. :good:

[tracekillz]

haha iono..back in the day i thought they were the shit. that was the first tricking vid i saw i think...back in 02? iono. they're what got me into it haha..back when my kicks were clean *sniffle*

[broertjetim]

damn nice :p

@ animal: damn your jacknife is sexy
how did you get it like that??

[Dai]

wow, jacknives all over, and damn that standing back full was sick!

[BboyAgua]

wow thx for sharing =D! that was just psycho. they get some crazy height and lots of variety. what was with the random popping guy tho lol.

[Alexx]

damn !! hella sick !!! sick standing full, everything else was absolute class as well ! can't wait to see some more from them...

[sesshoumaru]

Whoa...they have come a long way! Makes me wonder if they have different teams (like a KT team that mainly does the board-breaking & a KT team that does the tricking/XMA)? I only say this because this cannot be the same group of guys that were in the Battle of Korea with Rudy Reynon, James Solis, Steve Terada, Marc Canonizado, and Mindy Kelly. Maybe I'm wrong though...that was quite some time ago.

I was mainly suprised at the overall variety of tricks I saw...pretty balanced I might say. I always enjoyed watching them perform. It's even better touring with them...funny group of guys when you get to know them!

[Trel]

Woaw it's nice
It doesn't really look like taekwondo thought

[Shido]

That was sick! Loved their kicks. Best kicks I'v seem from anyone in....sooooooo long.

[Bentinho]

Whoa...they have come a long way! Makes me wonder if they have different teams (like a KT team that mainly does the board-breaking & a KT team that does the tricking/XMA)? I only say this because this cannot be the same group of guys that were in the Battle of Korea with Rudy Reynon, James Solis, Steve Terada, Marc Canonizado, and Mindy Kelly. Maybe I'm wrong though...that was quite some time ago.

It's probably not all the same guys. As far as I know they pull from a pool of TKDists that train specifically for shows as opposed to sparring competition. I know in the past their shows seemed more seriously martial arts, now they're much more entertaining, IMHO.

[hype]

oh man how did i forget to share this video with u guys, i saw it like 2 weeks ago with my friend and i forgot to post it here, korean tigers have come a long way, i hope i can go to their university when i get my ass over to korean next year

[gabbe]

wow. I enjoyed that vid. =P

Love their kicks, and I realy liked that frontflip2aerial2sideflip.
I want to see more of them.

[Starfoot]

Thanks animal!

[Aznjumpkick]

this wuz excellent. that standing full awesome, the hook kicks were so nice, the frontflip-aerial-sideflip wuz sick, and hyper cork kick thing wuz sweet. the dancing not so much but the whole thing wuz so sick

[erufukami]

ehhhh, I'm tired of not knowing where these things are held.

[Tossman]

man, the last korean tiger's battle thing i saw, it was like they never heard about tricking before
but now, everything has a contemporary feel to it. it really is amazing to see how they've changed so much

[FreZko]

great video, animal, thanks for sharing :)
they have an incredible style wich makes it a lot cooler to watch even if they get beaten in tricks by many

[furioushaime]

the cheat 1080 was nice...and his vistory pose was cool too.

Leave it up to the koreans to take it to the next level! (if im correct they just started around the time of that xma demo in like 04'ish)

[maxx]

isnt their another team floating around in korea that does trickz...someone posted a video of them a few months back and they all looked like lil steve terada's in terms of style.

[cepopeye]

I feel like the fact that there are actual trickers in asia validates Shidosei's lifestyle

[shengoikee]

this is sooooo sick!!! love their style

[TreXzar]

they've gotten so good! wow im jealous

[Shido]

PISS!

[Pananaue]

haha check out those guys in the background doing some sort of happy dance at 01:38