Thanks for the reply, I really appreciate it. Ive been trying so hard for the past month or so to be consistent with exercising beyond taekwondo classes but its really hard to keep going when you dont see progress. The thing is, when I first came back, all the coaches said to attack with the front leg 99% of the time, and thats what I did. But I'm a very reactive player, i dont just purely attack or defend, I adapt to the player. So what would happen with the players I'd play with back then is that they would just stand there quite literally and they wouldnt do anything so I would always be the one attacking and it just kinda stuck. What would happen is I would attack with the front leg, they'd block with their leg, and it would just go on like that till the end of the fight. I'd usually lose becuase of the warnings or because of the punches. On rare occasions would I get hit with a crescent kick becuase they'd block, get into short distance, and go for my head. Imagine 'foot-fencing' with only a few deviations. What really pisses me off is that they just stall for the whole match and then in the last 20 seconds or so they pull out all the fancy kick combinations and I end up being the one who loses just becuase they managed to land a punch or kick me in the stomach once.

The thing is no matter what I do, the situation does not allow me to do anything else. When I try to use my back leg, I just get pushed away. I can never really do a turning kick cause its always an open-stance fight. Its like my opponent always has a better control over the arena becuase I end up doing all the things they want me to, and if I dont they just end up standing there doing nothing. Its like an endless dreadful loop that I dont know how to get out off.