I can't believe I actually have to explain the differences to someone with supposedly so much experience in those arts.
Well, let's get to it. If you're right and I'm wrong then so be it. I have no problem being corrected so let's see.
First video they have a complete side stance putting their weight mostly on their back leg and using their front foot almost like a jab, ready to throw side kicks from that front leg.
You're right. I see that. But I also see that in the second video. What does that say about you if you somehow (conveniently? ) missed that? The only slight difference (if there is one) is that the TSD fighters use their front foot for the sloppy side kick jab
MORE THAN the Shotokan guys. Notice I said
more than because Shotokan guys do it as well just not as gung ho about it as the TSD guys.
Their front hand tends to be lower than their back hand at hip level.
This is laughable and moot for two reasons:
A) In the TSD video you have ONE GUY who keeps his front hand lower than his rear hand. The rest are keeping their hands at the same level as the Shotokan guys. You honed in on ONE GUY and said THEIR FRONT HAND as if all of them are holding their hands the same as that one guy. C'mon man, you can do better than this.
B). In the second video the guy with the red belt does the same thing switching from front hand to waist level and back down lower than his rear hand. You will see people doing both ways in not only TSD but TKD as well (which I also used to train). It's called PERSONAL FIGHTING STYLE Tay. You're going to see both fighting preferences in all three arts (Shotokan, TSD and TKD). Are you going to deny this?
They're barely using their back leg to throw anything apart from the occasional spinning back kicks.
I re-watched the video and I don't see this as being true. Perhaps a third party can weigh in on that. While I see the TSD guys using their front leg more than the Shotokan guys I don't detect them using their back leg LESS than the Shotokan guys.
They even tend to move forward with their front leg in the air like you see in TKD and American KB.
This is a lie Tay and you know it. They are trying to score with a front leg side kick and you want to try to equate that with the WTF TKD foot hop? Come on man, seriously. You're worse than ridiculous. In a desperate attempt to win an argument and not be wrong about something you are trying to equate thing for another. If you can embed the TSD video at the exact time that they are doing the TKD foot hop I would appreciate it because I must have missed it.
Punches are also barely used.
Now this is TRUE! You are right about that! Regardless of the reasons why fact is it's true.
The second video, the Shotokan one, their weight is more spread equally on both legs and actually there is more weight put on the front leg as opposed to the rear leg like 60% weight on the front leg with the leg slightly bent and 40% on the back leg which is more straight than the front one.
Again, I think you are pinpointing split second instances (like your side kick observation) and trying to make it seem like it is what you will see in 90% or more of the sparring matches. They BOTH are standing 50/50 on their legs. You will notice a shift in the weight distribution of the TSD guys when they are attempting side kicks with their front leg. Outside of those attempts they are 50/50 just like the Shotokan guys AND FOR THE SAME REASON....and that is to be ready for offense or defense JUST LIKE THE SHOTOKAN GUYS. If you are going to try to use a front leg side kick (or roundhouse kick for that matter) OF COURSE you will shift most of your weight to your rear leg a split second before executing it. Just go to 1:22 of the Shotokan video and tell me what the guy in the red belt does before he executes a kick with his front leg.
Their stance is also not completely a side stance and they're more facing the opponent.
Are you freakin' serious??!! What the heck are you looking at? Both sparring styles give points for strikes to the body. As you correctly pointed out the TSD guys use the front leg side kick more than the Shotokan guys whereas the Shotokan guys use their hands more. But BOTH styles stand with the side on stances to protect their midsections and try to avoid getting scored on. The Shotokan guys will shift their hips forward a split second before attempting gyaku tsuki. That's what I see. But even the TSD guys do the same thing for the same reason. Just look at the bigger kid in the second fight of the TSD video. He did it quite often.
Side kicks are barely used, and instead they rely more on circular kicks (mawashi geri), and gyaku tsuki with the occasional mae geri especially used as a faint.
I agree with this. I think you're right. No argument from me.
Their front hand is slightly higher than their back hand and the back hand is chambered ready to counter with a gyaku tsuki.
I see zero difference in their back hands from the TSD guys. Their (the Shotokan guys) hands are not strictly and completely chambered in the gyaku tsuki chamber any more than the TSD guys. Quit making stuff up dude.
Is is really that difficult to see the difference?
Yes it is since I am not attempting to find something that isn't there as you are doing. You're reaching quite hard.
You're trying to make this personal by holding grudges, posting old threads, and trying to discredit everything I'm posting.
I don't even know you, nor do I care to know you, so why on earth would I have a personal grudge against you? THIS IS A FORUM ON THE INTERNET!! I take NOTHING personally over the internet from people I do not know nor mean nothing to me. I have no reason to be
"personal" with you. Again, this is the internet. You should either grow some thick skin or stay off the net dude. I posted that link to remind you that I know the personality type you have and what to expect from you in our
"internet discussions". Like it or don't like it, fact is
I see you but you don't see me. I'll leave it to you to figure that out if you have the maturity to do so.
You're pathetic. The simple fact you can't tell the difference between the 2 videos you posted says enough about your actual knowledge.
So I wonder who's the one that's butthurt now.
And how am I throwing insults? In fact, how is your "butthurt" remark not considered an insult? Who do you think you are? I see the same Tay from our classical kata thread showing his colors once again. 
