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One of my al time favorite single techniques would have to be the 'knee clip'. common in kickboxing and savat......

Its basically anywhere from a light to heavy side kick to the side or back of the knee joint which causes it to collapes depending on balance or stance..... A heavy blow in this manner is often times devasting...

Ouch, I take it its particularly effective on the standing leg if they r trying to kick you?

but why would you want to intimidate the junior ranks. Your not there to scare them. Your probably there to encourage them on sparring, get them interested and think they can do it. Be nice and easy on them at first, and u can teach them anything, and get a hell of alot better. Slowly become intimidating, and they get used to it. Only reason u should intimidate the jrs. is if your sparring soemone else, more your rank and size. Showing how well u can handle that, or how well they can kick ur a**. Then they will strive to be better than you to show u up.
Intimidating them won't help them.

Sorry I have to disagree. I dont condone it for everybody, or even most people. But you always get those people (especially the young guys) when they first start to spar that get wound up about the fact they cant hit you, so start hittin harder and swingin more wildly. Infact I dislike sparrin newbs more than someone whose been doin it a while because they are more unpredictable and have less control. The only options in that situation is either hit them back hard or scare them. I prefer to go for the second option, slip past everything they throw, get in real close and give them a manic grin from about 6 inches away, tends to do wonders for attitude. I get this a lot, its not something I'd do to someone who is obviously nervous of sparrin, in that situation you fall back on chuckin nice slow single techniques that aren't even on target. But I quite often get people (lads or older blokes mainly) who fancy themselves as a bit of a hard man (or did in their youth) wantin to test themselves on the senior grade. They'll never learn anything if you just let them beat you, and they wont learn much if you fold em around your foot an dump em on the floor

I see what you are saying. The thing is when people dont have much experience, they might say they want it light an then they go and lamp you because they dont know better. As a senior fighting a junior if you get caught with a hard blow its considered your fault because as you say you should know better. But I've found in that situation where the junior is going really hard and not realising they are (thats the important point), a quick scare works better than upping the force of your blows. Because if it degenerates into a brawl, again its the seniors fault because they should know better

hrm. that's an interesting combination. you get the locks and what not from MMA, but you got the leg strikes from TKD....

have you noticed any hindrances training both at once? I ask because they're very dissimilar styles.. like your stance.. is it mainly the stand up style that TKDers use or the lower styles I've seen MMAers prefer? or do you switch between the two?

ya. I totally agree with the whole using what works/using what you're good at ideaology...you know..the whol adaptation thing.. I was just wonder if you've ever found your styles conflict with eachother cause they're so dissimilar...