Competiting this weekend
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fireman00
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Good luck! What form are you doing?
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I have the choice between Sa Jang or Won Yho. My school cirriculum dictates both ITF and WTF poomse in Gup and Dan ranks, even though we are a WTF school.
I do believe that I am going to do Won Yho. That particular poomse is asthetically beautiful to me, it also came to me a little quicker than Sa Jang.
I do believe that I am going to do Won Yho. That particular poomse is asthetically beautiful to me, it also came to me a little quicker than Sa Jang.
You got it, Matt---best of luck! Let us know how it goes.
Matt I would wish you luck but skill is always better than luck and we all know you have skills.
Terry
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fireman00
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our school does both styles also, but I'm a big fan of the WTF forms and 4 is one of my favorites. But you are correct, Won yho is a better looking form. Have a blast!
Go get em, Matt!
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Thanks guys,
Poomse is all I have for competition. My goal is to have people try and figure out who is going to come in second behind me.
Thank you for all the encouragement, it is reassuring. By the way, Terry thank you for the wonderful compliment.
Poomse is all I have for competition. My goal is to have people try and figure out who is going to come in second behind me.
Thank you for all the encouragement, it is reassuring. By the way, Terry thank you for the wonderful compliment.
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You are more than welcome to come watch, I'm sure, and I'm pretty sure you would be welcome to join our post-tournament dining.
It would also be a great opportunity to meet Grandmaster Bong Yul Shin, 10th dan yudo, although I doubt you will get to see him do anything but sit and watch in a suit. We can tell you stories about GM Shin between matches
Tuesday I'll find out and confirm the location unless Matt posts it first.
Good luck, Matt!!!! If you get the chance, watch the judges during other rounds/brackets, and see what they're looking for; some boards will look for technical accuracy (my choice), but others will look for flash. If you can get an idea ahead of time, it might help. Either way, have fun!
Good luck at the tournament. Make sure you come back and tell us what happened.
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Sam, the tournament is at Clayton High School. You could come and compete in sparring if you wish, if you are familiar with Olympic style sparring. Go to the back where the big parking lot is. It will be in the BB court area.
Miles
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Good luck Matt!
Enjoy the experience!
Miles
Enjoy the experience!
Miles
I'm not familar with TKD sparring rules - can anyone direct me to a website? If they are too different I will only watch.
When I spar, its two points for a kick, one for a hands technique, two minutes or 5 points. A judge calls break when a clean point is made.
Sam---check out
http://www.academictaekwondo.com/sparring.htm
Take a look at the Wikipedia article on TKD also.
The practical side of it is, it's very common for judges in TKD sparring to ignore hand strikes. In a lot of the WTF sparring I've seen, the contestants don't even bother to keep their hand guards up to protect their centerlines, because of how rarely a punch that lands counts (the WTF has already gone as far as ruling out backfist or hammerfist strikes). Even though TKD has as many hand techniques in its arsenal as Japanese and Okinawan karate---the same ones, in fact, not surprising since that's where TKD came from---many people outside the art seem to judge it as an almost exclusively kick-based system, base on what they see of Olympic TKD.
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