Kings Gambit

Anyone else find the Kings gambit extremely difficult to play (especially the declined) ?

I would never decline a King's Gambit.  I play it fine as Black (I rarely play it as White).

i have a hard time defending the kingside as white, im sticking with it though :P

I've been playing the KG for the past 3 months or so, specifically to get more comfortable with defending my King once the f-pawn has been advanced.  I think where I run into trouble most often is there is often a pin of my Knight on f3 after Black plays ...Bg4 , and sometimes I don't resolve that well.  I sometimes put the Queen on d3 to break the pin while still protecting the Knight, but then I never seem to be able to do much with the Queen from d3 . 

Still, I'm planning on playing it for at least a few more games, and then I'd like to give the Danish Gambit a shot.

i would like to help you since i play the kings gambit but i dont know what position you are talking about:)

Bah!  Play the black side of the Muzio Gambit a few times and you will not fear the King's Gambit anymore.

Be aware, the "King's gambit" is the name of a specific sequence of opening moves.  Specifically, 1.e4 e5 2.f4.

In our recent game, which you referred to as a King's gambit as we played, we opened 1.e4 g6 2.f4 bg7 3.Bc4

The King's Gambit is more than just the moves e4 and f4 being played by white.  f4 can be good against other openings, but if it's not played carefully, it ends up leaving the kingside wide open with very little to show for it.  In particular, it leaves the a7-g2 diagonal dangerously open.  That's what I exploited in our game.

The king's gambit is 1. e4 e5 2. f4.  Calling the second diagram a king's gambit position is like calling 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 the Queen's gambit.

IMPORTANT EDIT:  Thanks to my computer being stupid and instantly going down to the second diagram, I just read your whole post and saw you made the point I already made, haha.  Sorry for the misunderstanding.

but white doesn't have to play Muzio, which is IMO completely wild.

I never play KG as white, and don't like to play it as black, but when faced with KG, I play Fischer defence which is extremely successful at taming the KG.