miguksaram
Master of Arts
Though we do not do Olympic TKD matches, we had a similar incident with our own student last weekend. For some odd reason she decided she wanted to fight, even though her specialty is forms and weapons. She has sparred in the class, but never to a degree that would have prepared her for a tournament. She is a Jr. Black Belt and prior to that day has never fought in a tournament, just done weapons and forms. I tried to tell her and her parents that it is a whole different world in there and I don't recommend this particular tournament to start a "fighting" career because this one brings out some of the better fighters from the Chicago, Wisconsn and Indiana area, but if she was really wanting to do it then she needs to be in the school every day that week prior training 2-3 hours of nothing but sparring if she was going to even be close to surviving in there.
She came in twice and only worked MAYBE 30-45 minutes each time on just fighting. Overall results...she had her @$$ handed to her in the first match. The parents were dumbfounded wondering why she didn't do better since she seemed to excel in other areas in competition. I told them she spends several hours a week in her forms and weapons but only put in just over an hour so what did they expect.
My point, is that sometimes students will do what they want to do no matter how much we caution them not to. All we can do is just pick them up after they fall and hope they learned something out of it.
She came in twice and only worked MAYBE 30-45 minutes each time on just fighting. Overall results...she had her @$$ handed to her in the first match. The parents were dumbfounded wondering why she didn't do better since she seemed to excel in other areas in competition. I told them she spends several hours a week in her forms and weapons but only put in just over an hour so what did they expect.
My point, is that sometimes students will do what they want to do no matter how much we caution them not to. All we can do is just pick them up after they fall and hope they learned something out of it.